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They grow up so fast

So we were taking a look a the C# language service in VS 2002 and 2003 and we were comparing it to...

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/19/2005

Choose a category

Ok Alex, I'll take "Anime movies or series containing 'Blue'" for $200 Alex: This 1997 psychological...

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/18/2005

Bedtime

Ok, the Xine install has been going on for like 30 minutes now and doesn't seem to have any end in...

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/16/2005

Media player

Ok, i desperately need a good media player for linux. Something that plays WMAs and M4As and is...

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/15/2005

The Hoary Hedgehog

It's alive! Only one small glitch and i was able to get into a fully functional Ubuntu desktop....

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/14/2005

It's baloontiful!

Sometimes you see a picture, and it just makes you go "wow". I've never seen a snow sculpture as...

Author: CyrusN Date: 03/08/2005

Priorities

So we’re deep in the drive toward beta2 right now. Lots of pressure and an incredibly high quality...

Author: CyrusN Date: 02/23/2005

ph34r my l33t skillz

You've probably already seen this, but in case you haven't you should check out A parent's primer to...

Author: CyrusN Date: 02/17/2005

A nifty little preprocessor trick for C++

We found out something a little surprising about C++ enums a while back. It turns out that if you...

Author: CyrusN Date: 02/01/2005

Refactoring code that uses the PreProcessor

I got to go to great presentation today about work being done on providing refactorings for C code...

Author: CyrusN Date: 02/01/2005

What to do when the unexpected happens (part 2)

Thanks all for the fantastic feedback on the previous post. Based on your response we've decided to...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/27/2005

What to do when the unexpected happens

Quite recently I made a pretty visible change to the C# language service for Beta2. For many...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/27/2005

Simplifying boolean expressions (part 3)

or "Where we wrap together all that prototype code and get something actually useful" So now we get...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/24/2005

Simplifying boolean expressions (part 2)

So where do go about simplifying a boolean expression? Well, we can go about it through a series of...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/24/2005

Simplifying boolean expressions

i was doing a little fun C# coding on the side and i was running into one of those cases where i had...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/24/2005

You can’t make an omelet…

Sorry about the lack of updates. I haven’t been able to work on the Managed Language Service like I...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/18/2005

Bleagh

I feel kinda weird posting about a topic as trivial as this when there are infinitely more important...

Author: CyrusN Date: 01/04/2005

Out with the old, in with the new

I've had the pleasure of spending a bit of time recently with Don Syme during a visit from Cambridge...

Author: CyrusN Date: 12/15/2004

Code cleanup

I while back i wrote a post concerning what i called Informational Observations. These were snippets...

Author: CyrusN Date: 12/04/2004

It's like Deja-vu

Many months ago I wrote a blog discussing an issue we were having with the Implement-Interface smart...

Author: CyrusN Date: 11/17/2004

Suspenders, a codpiece and me

I need are white suspenders and a codpiece and my costume will be complete. All in all a...

Author: CyrusN Date: 10/17/2004

Gooooooooooooooogle++

So Google Desktop is currently indexing my computer. I'm at home now, but I'm hoping that when i get...

Author: CyrusN Date: 10/15/2004

Big Step/Small step

I’ve been spending the last couple of days responding to a customer bug complaining about the...

Author: CyrusN Date: 10/11/2004

Microsoft Interview Questions

It's quite interesting how suprised people were here when I was talking to them at the engineering...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/25/2004

Legend of Zelda 2

I love coming back to college. After spending a great day with friends I'm not watching one of my...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/25/2004

Cyrus@UPenn

Just checked into my hotel here. I'm going to be here for the rest of the week recruiting the best...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/21/2004

Symphony of the Night

I'm sitting here at the company meeting. Slightly bored. MS MS MS, yadda yadda yadda. So I'm playing...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/14/2004

I love what they've done to blogs.msdn.com

Actually, i really don't. However, if you do like it please let me know. Seriously, if there is...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/12/2004

I hate what they've done to blogs.msdn.com

I have the summaries, the lack of formatting, no pictures, having to visit each page in the browser...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/12/2004

Extract method to class (part 2)

Check out the previous post for some context on this. Let’s start with a simple example and walk...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/11/2004

Extract method to class (part 1)

I've been working on a refactoring i like to call "extract method to class". It's a refactoring I...

Author: CyrusN Date: 09/11/2004

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