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Reverse a dictionary
Have you ever wished your dictionary of <K,V> was in fact of <V,K>? I might be the last person to figure this out, but with LINQ (and a couple lambdas) you can do this with one magical line of code:
var newDict = oldDict.ToDictionary(l => l.Value, l => l.Key);
Neat, eh?
I hate Subversion
I really really hate it. Every time I try to do anything USEFUL with it, like try out an idea in a new branch and then merge the bits of that branch that worked out back to my main line, it barfs all over me with totally crap-ass error messages that nobody could ever, EVER [...]
Become a Jedi with Resharper
If you work in C# or VB.net on a regular basis, you really owe it to yourself to try out Resharper. This tool saves me countless hours. James Kovacs put together some fantastic screencasts on “Becoming a Jedi” that show it in action, if you are curious. He hasn’t covered the features that make it [...]
Order of operations
Sometimes I can be such a buffoon. When programming with threads, one must be sure to lock and unlock in the correct order. Also, one must be sure not to do things explicitly marked as no-nos while in a “critical section.”I just lost two hours to this, so I felt the need to whine.
Fictional Writings
And I mean writing that doesn’t exist, not writing about things that don’t exist.
So I’m working on what feels like a novel, perhaps of slightly shorter than what would be considered a big book, but not so short as to not fall into the novel category. It also seems to want to be a young [...]
Posting…
Rab is making me start posting regularly. Rather, he had one of his blog secretaries inform me I would be posting regularly. He has secretaries to do his typing, and he doesn’t even post regularly!
On programming for fun.
I wonder if it is the nature of the beast that when someone does something for a living day in and day out, it stops being fun. I’m starting to worry that may be the case with me.
Why am I bringing this up? One reason is due to watching my friend Rab having fun with [...]
New site!
Isn’t is nifty? After a dozen years, I’ve finally updated my personal site to something more modern. Maybe I’ll even keep this blog up! That would amaze and astonish.
Patch, patch, patch!
Microsoft has released a record number of patches many of which are of the most critical variety. Please, please, please! Update your system(s) now! Don’t get bitten.