For a light start to the week, I was amused by
this parody review of Windows XP, written as if it was the successor to Vista. It certainly captures a lot of the reasons why I'm still on XP and have no plans to downgrade. Uh. Upgrade.
If you've asked someone to look for something you left at their house, would you say, "give me a call if
it's true that you found it"? No, you'd say "give me a call if you found it". So why do so many people write things like:
if (found == true)
Instead of the shorter, clearer, equivalent:
if (found)
Yes, I know, I shouldn't let refactoring get me so cranky.
This morning I started working on a new library for a new feature we'll be rolling out in the not too distant future. It is the first production code that we're developing at PH using Visual Studio 2008, which brings us C# 3.0 and Linq.
Just one morning into it, it already feels like a vast improvement. It took all of ten minutes to get the DLinq classes generated in Visual Studio; it would have taken under five if it hadn't been my first time doing it and working it out as I went. Then they were ready to use, which was also trivial. No more writing SQL or stored procedures or calling methods on a data reader to get the data out: just instantiate the DataContext (which represents the database), write the query, and it's done...
