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• Sorry about the CAPTCHA

  A quick metablogging note. Those of you who comment on this blog (6700+ comments and counting, thank you all) have probably noticed that it now has a CAPTCHA, that little "please prove you're a human" test before the comment is posted. I understand why. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:28 AM by Eric Lippert | 18 Comments Filed under: Security, Metablogging, CAPTCHA

• Fabulous Adventures In Russian

  I am pleased to announce that a bunch of our Russian MVPs who (1) are awesome people and (2) apparently have some free time on their hands, have started translating this blog into Russian, of all things. So if you want some Фантастичные приключения на Read More... Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 7:18 AM by Eric Lippert | 11 Comments Filed under: Metablogging, translation, Russian

• When Five Hundred Posts You Reach

  … look this good you will not. But man, I tell you, the memory goes. In the July 1985 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Isaac Asimov wrote: Yesterday I sat down to write my 321st essay for Fantasy and Science Fiction . […] It went swimmingly. I was Read More... Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:55 AM by Eric Lippert | 16 Comments Filed under: Metablogging

• Events and Races

  Here’s a question similar to one I saw on stackoverflow (*) the other day. Suppose you have an event: public event Action Foo; The standard pattern for firing this event is: Action temp = Foo; if (temp != null) temp(); What the heck is up with that? Why Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:00 AM by Eric Lippert | 22 Comments Filed under: C#, Code Quality, Threading, Immutability, Metablogging

• Boring Metablogging, Part Two

  I try to not blog about blogging. Metablogging is boring . The last time I blogged about blogging was on the subject of "Can I take your blog post and republish it?" My answer then was "yes... but". That is, yes, but please tell me, please do not maliciously Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:54 AM by Eric Lippert | 8 Comments Filed under: Metablogging

• Aargh! Part Eight, plus Boring Metablogging

  Q: What's a pirate's second favourite mode of transportation? A: A caaaaargh! Preferably a Jaguaaaaargh, but an early Oldsmobile Cutlass will do. Q: Very amusing -- but what's a pirate's favourite mode of transportation? A: A pirate ship, silly. Gripe Read More... Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 11:51 AM by Eric Lippert | 9 Comments Filed under: Security, COM Programming, Performance, Aargh!, Metablogging, bad jokes

• Once More Into The Breach

  This is the new home of Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures In Coding. Eventually the content from http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericli will be moved over here Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:05 PM by Eric Lippert | 1 Comments Filed under: Introduction, Metablogging

• Heads up: Fabulous Adventures will be moving

  A number of people have pointed out to me over the last few months that this blog server is a little flaky.   There are occasionally "out of memory" errors and other failures reported, sometimes my posts fail to actually propagate to the server properly, Read More... Posted Friday, December 05, 2003 1:46 PM by Eric Lippert | 0 Comments Filed under: Metablogging