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C# Extension methods

Scott Hanselman has a post about a user who doesn’t get what is cool about Ruby. In the post you can find the below example that compares Java and Ruby in terms of code readability. The Java code: new Date(new Date().getTime() – 20 * 60 * 1000) The Ruby code: 20.minutes.ago The article was interesting […]

Thinking in Code

Bruce Eckel has a podcast with 12 interviews of various software luminaries. All the interviews took place in 2003 but Eckel only recently released them. You can find interviews of Anders Hejlsberg, Guido Van Rossum, Joshua Bloch, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries and others.

Two new C# 3.0 features that Java needs

C# 3.0 is out. You can get the specification, a compiler other goodies from here. I am programming in Java almost exclusively for the last two years. In this post I will discuss two new features of C# 3.0 that I’d like to see in the next versions of Java. Below there is a code […]

Cool demos of mono applications

In this page Nat Friedman (of Gnome and Ximian fame) has created some really nice demos showing Beagle and Mono. Mono is an OSS implmentation of Microsoft’s .Net platform. Nat has created two demos for Monodoc (the Mono documentation browser) and for creating GUIs with Glade and Gtk#. Beagle is a cool OSS application written […]