Sometimes somebody asks a question, but the answer they're looking for is not the answer to the question; it's the answer to the question behind the question. My 3 year old daughter demonstrated this recently in a conversation with my wife. After realizing...

Last night, right before falling asleep, I recall having some great idea for a blog entry. I was too tired to write it down, but I said the 2 word summary aloud and was absolutely sure I'd remember in the morning. Now all I remember was that the 2nd word...

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Here's a silly conversation that demonstrates a problem in resolving cyclical dependency graphs that my wife + I had at the grocery store: Me: [looking for purchases to get in the Christmas mood] "Let's get some walnuts " Wife: [predisposed against the...

The Return statement and finally have competition. Both can are the "last" thing to execute when a function exits, so which of them is really last? I blogged about this before regarding C#'s semantics setting data. Now I'll compare some interesting differences...

Check out TruckWars , a Real-Time-Strategy (RTS) game for Silverlight 1.1 by Tim that builds on the Farseer 2d Physics engine . It's available on the gallery here . Here's a screen shot: You control the green trucks, and your goal is to push all the green...

Dan Mosely recently posted a feature poll on the MSBuild blog . Here are the results . Debuggability topped the list over more traditional features. I found that very interesting. My goal is not to comment on how feasible this is or suggest how to accomplish...