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Pragmatic Programmer

Pragmatic programming at it's best. The book is a light read and worth the time

Essential WPF

Thus far the best book I've read on WPF. Gets right down to working with WPF and the goals/history.

Purely Functional Data Structures

Reading this book makes me feel like I'm back in college. It will really get your mind going and is best read with a whiteboard handy.


March 2005 - Posts

File method and property names
Several APIs that I have worked with deal with the file system in some form or fashion. However there does not seem to be any sense of unity with respect to property and method names when it comes to the display form returned or processed. The two most Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:41 PM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

COMException error messages
Quick caveat; I am not a hardcore COM guy. I do work with COM quite a bit but most of it is hobbyist work at home. So if I make any COM errors here please let me know and I will correct them. Now onto the fun stuff. Pure COM uses HRESULTS to indicate Read More...

Posted Friday, March 25, 2005 7:31 PM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

Code snippets in Whidbey
I haven't had a chance to try out code snippets yet but I've found a couple of other people blogging about them http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/archive/2004/06/02/147153.aspx http://jasonkemp.ca/archive/2004/07/18/197.aspx And a good article by O'Reilly Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:19 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Rediscovering Macros with MC++
I've been coding primarily in C# for a couple of years now. Up until recently it had been almost a year since I coded any real C++ code. Now that I am using MC++ at home I am starting to get back in the habbit and last night I rediscovered macros (you'd Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:28 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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