Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
New LINQ bits now available...
There's a new download of the LINQ bits available. I haven't had a chance to play around with it,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/11/2006
Retire Shuttle Now
Dave Brody advocates retiring the shuttle now - or at least after servicing Hubble one more time....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/09/2006
Yelling at car drivers...
While bicycles don't have horns, I do have some decent lungs, and every once and a while I'll yell...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/08/2006
C# Trivia Test Answers - Part 11
C# Trivia Test - Part 11 (My initial set of responses vanished into the bit bucket due to the wonder...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/08/2006
In case you were worried, I'm okay...
Zombies attack Seattle hospital
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/08/2006
C# Trivia Test - Part 11
Here we go, with the last installment of the series... Language Details 1) How is decimal different...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/03/2006
My weirdest bugfix
Last week I fixed a bug by adding a splash screen to DVD Maker. Well, I'm not sure you can really...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/27/2006
Of Personas and Men
(with all due apologies to John Steinbeck, and noting that my mother would be happy that I knew the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/27/2006
Sick
I'm sick, and, as a courtesy to my co-workers, I decided to stay at home. A courtesy, I will note,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/24/2006
Nice post on group riding skills...
If you ride in a group, you've probably had the experience of riding with people who don't know the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/21/2006
C# Express pricing announced / Cool C# stuff
When C# Express was announced last fall, it was promotionally discounted as free for a year. The...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/21/2006
C# Trivia Quiz Part B - Answers
Some nice answers in the comments to the quiz . I'll touch on some of them. Probably. I think I'll...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/20/2006
C# Trivia Quiz Part B
Nine more innane and largely irrelevant questions. I'm going to leave comments open so you can put...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/14/2006
Life sized mousetrap game
In San Francisco... Life sized mousetrap game
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/13/2006
A story from my childhood...
I played soccer through much of my childhood, back when children were still allowed to participate...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/12/2006
Fegh Maha
Fegh Maha is: 1) A little know Morocan tennis player. 2) An album from Australian comedy trio Tripod...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/11/2006
VertiSim - Time Waster of the day
When I was a kid in the 1970s, one of my friends had the Vertibird, a tethered helicopter game. It...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/10/2006
New Display Technology
There's a new display technology out there, and I'm confident it's going to be hotter than DLP, LDC,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/10/2006
C# Trivia Quiz Part 1 - Answers
C# Trivia Quiz Part 1 I did warn you that these would be trivial. Here are the answers: Language...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/07/2006
Answer: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio?
Keith gets it right. The answer is the fuel turbopump for the space shuttle main engine. And there's...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/06/2006
Question of the day: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio? (Hint)
First additional hint: This engine produces in excess of 96 hp/lb. That is not a misprint. Take the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/05/2006
Question of the day: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio?
Who makes the engine (ie an engine with an output shaft that you could use to drive a pump or...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/05/2006
Fun fact of the day
The common gasoline engine uses a 4-stroke cycle conceptualized by the German engineer Nikolaus Otto...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/05/2006
Mom and Apple Pie...
A few days ago Rory wrote a post entitled Ten Minutes of Sincerity - Enthusiasthma, in which he...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/04/2006
I'm 28 again...
Two years ago, I was 28. And now, I'm 28 again. 28, using the septendecimal system. I figure I can...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/03/2006
C# Trivia Quiz Part 1
(Thanks to all who sent me email questions for this test. I've elected to do something different...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 04/03/2006
New blog about video, MCE, gadgets, and Movie Maker...
Michael Patten, one of the PMs on the Movie Maker team, has started a new blog.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/24/2006
C# on the XBOX 360
Announced at GDC.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/21/2006
Compu-Promo - computer promotional photography of the 60s and 70s...
Compu-Promo Thankfully, I missed these machines by a few years... From The Institute of Official...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/21/2006
Fact of the day...
... women's standard clown shoe length is normally 13".
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/20/2006
A few notes on the readonly field vs readonly property post...
First, Tom (not Ted) pointed out that I removed his use of [DebuggerStepThrough] on the get...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/19/2006
Public readonly string vs. public readonly property?
I got an email asking me a question, and I thought it would make a good blog post. It has all the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/17/2006
Visual Studio Engineer-to-Engineer feedback.
There's a new program for you to help guide future Visual Studio development. Sounds nice to me.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/16/2006
Alfred made me...
Alfred made me post this.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/15/2006
Weird bug I had yesterday...
I came across a weird bug recently, and I thought the explanation might be interesting. But first, a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/15/2006
The capability immaturity model
I was reading the DailyWTF this morning - a great read, BTW - and came across a link to the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/15/2006
A new investment opportunity...
There's an internal discussion folder at Microsoft named "SOC Weirdness", and a few days ago I came...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/15/2006
C# Trivia Test Format
I've got some good questions for the trivia test, though I am still looking for more. Anything that...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/14/2006
Regex 101 posts - continue or not?
I've been getting bored with the regex 101 exercises that I 've been posting, as lots of them are...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/14/2006
Regex 101 Answer I10 - Extract repeating hex blocks from a string
Regex 101 Exercise I10 - Extract repeating hex blocks from a stringGiven the string:...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/14/2006
Announcing the C# trivia test...
A longggggg time ago - back right after we disclosed C# - I was in San Francisco for one of the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2006
Prevent the heartbreak of torn toast.
Are you a butter user? Have you ever torn your toast trying to spread cold butter onto it, and then...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2006
When is a keyword not a keyword?
Many languages have a very strict definition of what a keyword is. The word "for" has a specific...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/08/2006
Why "yield return" rather than "yield"?
This came up in another context, and I thought I'd share the story. In the first version of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/08/2006
TDD and design methodologies
(something I posted on our internal agile alias, in response to a question about how design works in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/07/2006
Practical Tips For Boosting The Performance Of Windows Forms Apps
Practical Tips For Boosting The Performance Of Windows Forms Apps
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/07/2006
Regex 101 Exercise I10 - Extract repeating hex blocks from a string
Regex 101 Exercise I10 - Extract repeating hex blocks from a stringGiven the string:...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/06/2006