Some of the spam I get turns out to be pretty amusing… I just take a walk now and then through my spambox, just to see what sort of goo is being thrown around lately… Today I stumbled into something that really made me laugh. Here’s a quote from an ‘OEM-priced’ software company’s [...]

So now with the market advent of Microsoft .NET 3.0, the diffusion of the the ‘example videos’ and sample tutorials is rampant. In particular I’ve been reading a little about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The WPF is basically a fusion of concepts from winforms and asp.net (a la XAML) in that the controls [...]

I want everyone to know I haven’t given up on powershell, but I just have been distracted by production projects at the moment… I will continue to report as I learn more, and experiment some more. (Please don’t hate me powershell!)

Some thoughts here. I’m starting with C# as the ‘base’ language here, because mostly I like it. I’d just like to see some changes. Most of these are in Nemerle… some of them are not.
Static methods which take only the type of object to which they belong as a parameter can be called [...]

Ok. I’ve hated, despised, abhored, and feared the XML schema provider and using the XML SOM to generate schema because the thing makes you use separate namespaces for EVERY single thing… right?
WRONG!
There is a tiny little trick, that just about EVERYONE misses that lets you get away with MURDER. Even though in this [...]

Ok, in case you missed it, don’t want to read it, in my last post, I’ve been looking at PowerShell now. Since I’ve had so much use for VBScript in the past, and I really like .NET, it seems like a good match.
PowerShell is .NET Based, which is something I like, because I [...]