Cyrus' Blather
Difficulties with non-nullable types (part 4)
So far i've discussed two interesting problems that arise when you try to add non-nullable types to...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/27/2005
Difficulties with non-nullable types (part 3)
In the last post on this topic i talked about how it was critical that by the time a non-null type...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/26/2005
Happy Birthday to Me!
Wow! I was born on April 30th, and this year that means i'm going to not only get to celebrate my...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/25/2005
Difficulties with non-nullable types (part 2)
The fundamental difficulty that arises when trying to implement non-nullable types is actually...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/25/2005
Difficulties with non-nullable types (part 1)
For those of you who don't read the comments made on other posts of mine, you might be unaware about...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/25/2005
When is HTML not HTML?
So i was looking at a folder on my disk and i was quite suprised to see the following: Two html...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/25/2005
There's something in the air
So i was planning on going out tonight (to bothell... ick), but i've been hearing some amazing booms...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/23/2005
I stink
That's generally true of me in the morning, especially after a late night of fun and drinking...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/23/2005
Downers and Uppers
Yesterday's post was definitely a downer. But we got today off to give everyone a nice 3 day...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/22/2005
SDR Time
Development has currently come to a complete halt for me. This is partly due to the fact that i'm a...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/19/2005
C# Language chat later this week.
FYI: C# Chat: The C# Language Want to know more about anonymous delegates in C# 2.0, or our design...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/18/2005
When boolean logic breaks down
In a previous post i mentioned a little bit of work i was doing to create a little feature would...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/15/2005
Note to self
Note to self: When an email receipt doesn't come in for some big ticket item you've just purchased...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/11/2005
JavaOne 2005
Last year i got to go to TechEd and had an amazing time. It was a huge eye opener and it really...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/11/2005
I hate tabs in web browsers
Ok, i seriously don't get tabs on Windows. Hell, i don't get tabs on OSX either. In the latter...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/10/2005
Geeeeez!
Why do so few systems get this right? If they're muted and i turn the volume up, then they should...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/05/2005
Outside In
One of the things I love about working here is that I get to see a ton of cool stuff that never ends...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/05/2005
Color schemes
I got a message from a couple of my readers that they were finding it hard to read the new page...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/04/2005
Too many options!!
So i've noticed in quite a few of my blogs that people have complained about the #region's we...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/04/2005
Useful++
It's often the case that i need (or want) to see how something is done inside VB. However, whenever...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/04/2005
New blog system complaint
I received this from one of my readers: --- "It looks like readers are now required to create an...
Author: CyrusN Date: 04/02/2005
Phun photos!
One of my friend's took this shot and put it on on his blog:I liked it a lot because it reminded me...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/27/2005
Can anybody hear me?
There are many people i work with here that i admire immensely. Devs, PMs, QA, UE, Loc, (hell… even...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/27/2005
More reasons i like C++
Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/25/2005
I am a beautiful unique snowflake (and you aren't)
So how many of you can search for your name on google and have it show up as the first hit? I can do...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/24/2005
Crashing in cslangsvc.dll
On a whim i did a search in Google to see what it would find for cslangsvc.dll. I was just trying it...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/24/2005
You've got to be kidding me!
In the spirit of the post on Covariant Return Types, and "Death by a thousand cuts", i thought I'd...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/23/2005
No way!
Could it be? Might we all be so lucky? Is it just some elaborate hoax? Could they ever do it justice...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/23/2005
Death by a thousand cuts
As you might have noticed from my posts in the past I really dislike it when there is a part of the...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/23/2005
Tsk tsk!
Only 70 votes so far for covariant return types in C# (and all .Net languages)!! :-( I thought that...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/21/2005
Irony, thy name is C#
Intro: So i was having a conversation with the team about a small change I'd like to make to C#....
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/20/2005
Eideh Shoma Mobarak!
The weather here is awful, and i did most o fmy celebrating last night since it was more conducive...
Author: CyrusN Date: 03/20/2005