I switched on my Mac for the first time in about three months this evening. I had a hankering to do some Objective-C. This is a language I've tried to master before but without huge amounts of success. However, with my renewed interest in late binding...

So I thought long and hard about my initial stab at a multimethod implementation for C#. It was a reasonable proof of concept. However, I read some more on the subject of multiple dispatch and the visitor pattern and came up with a few additional ideas...

I read a couple of interesting articles on the subject of multiple dispatch last night. The first, entitled Visitor Pattern Considered Useless , starts by describing the visitor design pattern with particular emphasis on how it can enable the definition...

Windows Installer APIs tamed in managed code: use this to dump out a list of all installed product codes and component IDs. Quick and easy. Good night everybody!

Firstly, it's election day so get out there and vote! Secondly, I went to bed last night and dreamt about functors! Last Friday I code-reviewed some changes made by one of my colleagues and his code just happened to use some STL containers and all sorts...