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March 2005 - Posts

Knight in Shining Armor

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:02 AM by CyrusN
So we started watching The Vision of Escaflowne with friends. I haven't seen it in like seven years, so it's practically new to me (although i rapidly remembered how much i hate Merle). I'd looked for an Escaflowne model out there but hadn't found anything Read More...
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Phun photos!

Posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:08 PM by CyrusN
One of my friend's took this shot and put it on on his blog : I liked it a lot because it reminded me of a picture i generated from the ray tracer i wrote: (click on photo for full sized image) And yet even with all my reflections and translucency hullabaloo, Read More...
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Little learning exercise

Posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:35 PM by CyrusN
i had an idea for a little bit of code i wanted to write that would give me an opportunity to learn about a lot of bits of technology that i am currently pretty ignorant about. i wanted to create a little service that would help keep my system defragged, Read More...
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Can anybody hear me?

Posted Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:30 PM by CyrusN
There are many people i work with here that i admire immensely. Devs, PMs, QA, UE, Loc, (hell… even management) all include people who i look up to every day. But of those set of amazing people there’s a special “cream of the crop” area for those who Read More...
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More reasons i like C++

Posted Friday, March 25, 2005 2:42 AM by CyrusN
Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall CNamedItemTable::AddIfNotSet(class ATL::CStringT<unsigned short,class ATL::StrTraitATL<unsigned short,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<unsigned short> > > const &,class Read More...
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Code that's old enough to drink

Posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:55 PM by CyrusN
I heard a great expression today when talking with another team here: "Code that's old enough to drink." In other words, code that's been around for more than 21 years. Now if that were teens, i'd make some joke about it be temperamental and "trying to Read More...
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I am a beautiful unique snowflake (and you aren't)

Posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:11 AM by CyrusN
So how many of you can search for your name on google and have it show up as the first hit? I can do it with my last name, and i'm pretty high up there with my first. Eventually i will become the most important "Cyrus" out there as far as google is concerned Read More...
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Crashing in cslangsvc.dll

Posted Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:06 AM by CyrusN
On a whim i did a search in Google to see what it would find for cslangsvc.dll. I was just trying it out to see how well it did with filename searches since it used to be in the past that Search sites would usually split that into "cslangsvc" and "dll" Read More...
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You've got to be kidding me!

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:22 PM by CyrusN
In the spirit of the post on Covariant Return Types, and "Death by a thousand cuts", i thought I'd mention yet another intensely aggravating part of .Net development. This one isn't about C# per se, but C# is affected by it. I'm going to use a real world Read More...
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No way!

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:49 AM by CyrusN
Could it be? Might we all be so lucky? Is it just some elaborate hoax? Could they ever do it justice in a movie? Can i stop giggling and jumping up and down like a schoolgirl? Will the rhetorical questions ever end? Read More...
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Death by a thousand cuts

Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:48 AM by CyrusN
As you might have noticed from my posts in the past I really dislike it when there is a part of the C# language that seems to be unnecessarily lacking. For example, not being able to take a delegate to a property. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to Read More...
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Guess Who

Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:53 PM by CyrusN
I got a chance to do a little modeling this week. It was a lot of fun and a very relaxing task for the evening. I was also really thrilled with the results and i want to do a lot more of this. You start with a set of pieces as above. They are very rough Read More...
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Tsk tsk!

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 1:22 PM by CyrusN
Only 70 votes so far for covariant return types in C# (and all .Net languages)!! :-( I thought that there was a lot more interest than that. Here's a chance for you to really show what you're interested in seeing. If you haven't voted yet, and you do Read More...
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Irony, thy name is C#

Posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 1:37 PM by CyrusN
Intro: So i was having a conversation with the team about a small change I'd like to make to C#. Right now, C# has the concept of "contextual keywords". I.e. identifiers that can have special meaning when used in special locations, but which are otherwise Read More...
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Teh state of spelling in today's phast paste whirled

Posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 1:02 PM by CyrusN
So i got this message from a friend on the east coast: until ahe skight thunders torm And it was one of the first times that i've ever had to do a double take when reading an IM from a friend. The problem is that it's soooo close to english that my mind Read More...
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Eideh Shoma Mobarak!

Posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 12:51 PM by CyrusN
The weather here is awful, and i did most o fmy celebrating last night since it was more conducive than a Sunday night, but still: Happy New Year to all! Read More...
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Need help

Posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:03 AM by CyrusN
We've been discussing covariant return types again and wanted to present some good numbers as to how many people really want this feature. i.e. is it just crazy old me, or do other developers hit this. If you do want it, please go to http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=FDBK16960 Read More...
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They grow up so fast

Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:58 PM by CyrusN
So we were taking a look a the C# language service in VS 2002 and 2003 and we were comparing it to VS 2005 and we got quite a shock. So in 2002 the language service weighed in at exactly 700k. (well, not exactly, but close enough for the purposes of this Read More...
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Choose a category

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 11:45 PM by CyrusN
Ok Alex, I'll take "Anime movies or series containing 'Blue'" for $200 Alex: This 1997 psychological thriller featured a pop singer turned actress' life turn nightmare when she is haunted by an obsessed fan and the shattered remains of her past Me: What Read More...
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Recall class

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:19 AM by CyrusN
So in our drive to get beta2 out the door we've been continuously raising the bar on what sort of changes are allowed to the codebase. As you can well imagine there is risk with pretty much any change and at a certain point the need to keep the product Read More...
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Guh! - buh!! - wuh!!!

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:38 PM by CyrusN
bool CInclusionCriteriaMatcher::NestedTypesMatch() { CInheritance inheritanceTree; if (SUCCEEDED(inheritanceTree.Initialize(this->type, true /*fInherit*/ ))) { while (inheritanceTree.MoveNext()) { if (NestedTypesMatch(inheritanceTree.Current())) { Read More...
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Bedtime

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:55 AM by CyrusN
Ok, the Xine install has been going on for like 30 minutes now and doesn't seem to have any end in site (it's currently configuring libxine1). I'm also not seeing items saved to my desktop actually showing up on my desktop. (i can see them from inside Read More...
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Hrmm...

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:36 AM by CyrusN
Ok, wanted to install Xine, based on the recommendation of one of the posters. I opened synaptic and got a message saying dpkg had been interrupted and i needed to run: "dpkg --configure -a" Ok, slightly offputting. If i'm a a regular user i'm going to Read More...
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Large update - slow machine

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:18 AM by CyrusN
So i noticed a new icon on my status bar tonight. Nestled between the GAIM status icon and the Network status icon was a completely unidentifiable blob. When i hovered over it i saw "There are 173 Updates available". A-ha! I'd now dicovered the "synaptic Read More...
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Media player

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:58 PM by CyrusN
Ok, i desperately need a good media player for linux. Something that plays WMAs and M4As and is controllable using my media player keys on the keyboard. Read More...
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Mailbox full

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:53 PM by CyrusN
"Mailbox full! Item returned to sender! Please clear up a little space or contact your administrator." Except this time my adminsitrator is the United States Post Office. Yes, that's right, my physical mailbox spam has gotten so bad that now i'm getting Read More...
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The Hoary Hedgehog

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 9:50 PM by CyrusN
It's alive! Only one small glitch and i was able to get into a fully functional Ubuntu desktop. Basically after booting (a 5 minute painless process) i had no network connectivity. This is, of course, about the worst thing to be lacking when you boot Read More...
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Ubuntu - Warty - Hoary

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 1:50 AM by CyrusN
Well, i got a new laptop and i realized it's been about a year since i've given a linux a serious look so i figured it was time to try it out again and see how far things have come in the last year and how it compares to my windows and OSX systems. I Read More...
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It's baloontiful!

Posted Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:07 AM by CyrusN
Sometimes you see a picture, and it just makes you go "wow". I've never seen a snow sculpture as impressive as this and i wanted to share it with you: You can find more amazing pieces here: http://www.themoens.com/Photos/Events/snowSculpture/y2005/main.ht Read More...
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Hungarian Notation

Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 8:21 PM by CyrusN
We've been having an internal discussion recently about coding guidelines and the rules that should be in place to create the "best" code possible. "Best" is, of course, up to interpretation. Readability, maintainability, perf, etc. all play into this. Read More...
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