Cyrus' Blather

One thing i absolutely love about work is being able to debate and exchange ideas with a large number of brilliant and experienced software people. These discussions range from simple watercooler talk to out and out debates involving varied opinions from Read More...

I've had the pleasure of spending a bit of time recently with Don Syme during a visit from Cambridge to MS. For those of you who don't know, he was instrumental in the specification and development of generics in the .net runtime and in C# as well, and Read More...

As I’ve been using the C# language lately I’ve been noticing a few things missing from C++ that I find very aggravating. The first is const safety (but I’m dealing with it), the second is covariant return types. For those who haven’t used them before Read More...

I while back i wrote a post concerning what i called Informational Observations . These were snippets of information that the compiler could give you to help you work in a code focused way. For example, one observation we could make for you would be to Read More...