Code, code and more code.

Prompted by a tweet earlier , I thought I’d share some thoughts on optimization. In code, there are diverging views here, varying between th...

Sorting data… I don’t mean complex bespoke types that you’ve written – I mean inbuilt types like “string”. You probably wouldn’t think too l...

UPDATE : better tools for this now exist; see precompile Now’s my chance to demonstrate the (pre-alpha) “v2” protobuf-net API, while at th...

I mentioned previously how protobuf-net “v2” works on iPhone ; well, I guess we’re all still waiting to see how §3.3.1 plays out there… ...

I spent a merry lunchtime looking at the new CTP of Phone 7 . It is looking very promising, but interestingly it doesn’t (yet?) include opti...

As I’ve noted in the past; reflection and generics don’t mix very well. The story isn’t quite as bad in .NET 4 though; here’s an example of ...

My current bugbear: the C# 4.0 spec. Obviously, with a new toy like VS2010 the first thing you do is read all the documentation, yes? yes? a...