Knowing .NET

P.J. Plauger was awarded Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award. He richly deserves it. There's his tremendous contribution to the C and C++ standardization projects, but I personally feel that his Programming on Purpose column for Computer Language was simply the best programming column ever written. It's the reason that I fell in love with that magazine, which I went on to join and eventually edit.

So Programming on Purpose is responsible for much of my career. But here's how I stack up to Plauger: a couple of months ago, when I was in Hawaii for the ECMA C# and C++/CLI standards meetings, I mentioned at lunch that there was a chance that my code might have booked the flights of the attendees. Plauger nodded and mentioned another item that was in the news: "Our software just landed on Mars." Point, set, and match to Dr. Plauger.

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I receive a lot of press releases via email. Here's a note to PR people: I'm probably not the only writer/editor in the world who doesn't casually open Word documents sent via email. I know that you write the press releases in Word and it makes them look prettier than plain text, but if I don't open them, they're not doing you any good, are they?
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Argh! I am writing an article for publication and need some eye-candy for the application. I was going to use my Amazon product-similarity graphing tool but I just realized that I use C# 2.0 generics throughout! The thought of bowdlerizing it to use object-based collections is ... just ... repugnant. But I hate the thought of publishing something that requires people to be in a beta to see it running.
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Someone's posted the whole of June, 1938's Action Comics #1 (including the first funnybook appearance of Superman) to the web as a series of medium-resolution scans. Link (Thanks, Eyes Spies and Lies!)) via [Boing Boing]

 

 

 

 

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