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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.


December 2006 - Posts

C++ preprocessor and template identifiers
A couple of hours of tracking down a compiler error a couple of days ago taught me something about the preprocessor I'd like to pass on so others can avoid the ... learning :). I kept getting confronted by "constant expression must be followed by a ,". Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:59 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Dispose vs Delete
Programs allocate resources for use during execution. The problem with resources is that they are limited and often times need to be recycled. Languages devise constructs and patterns for developers to periodically free up resources so that their programs Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:04 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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LUA + MSI + Luanch program now on Vista
I'm a huge fan of the LUA support in Vista. It has it's quirks but it's a major step forward for Windows programming. As a former *nix guy I've had to run LUA the hard way before Vista. The support in Vista is tons better than it used to be. There are Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:36 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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