Archive: February 20, 2006

Monday, February 20, 2006

1. MSDN: C#: Create Elegant Code With Anonymous Methods, Iterators, And Partial Classes. C# has generators! To read.

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2. Aspect Orienting .NET Components, by DR. Viji Sarathy Via Michael. To read.

   Update: To quote Michael, "I would never use that technique. Ever."

   Update: Eric Gunnerson had a post a year and a half ago on Microsoft's "wait and see" attitude towards AOP. Good comments. Having to inherit from ContextBoundObject is unworkable.

     ¶ (2) Tags: [.NET, Aspect Oriented Programming]

3. Snips & Spaces: Managing Microlearning (PDF), by Christian Langreiter and Andreas Bolka (via Vanillasite, the homepage for Chris' "Vanilla" weblog/wiki software). To read.

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4. Simon Willison: Notes from the summit:

   I'm at the Carson Workshops Future of Web Apps Summit today [Feb 8]. It's been a great set of talks, and some frantic SubEthaEdit action to capture the salient points. Here are the notes I've gathered over the course of the day (with help from various contributors; credits at the bottom of each file).

   Some of the notes are interesting.

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5. The Chicken Scheme Compiler (via PLNews):

   CHICKEN is a [BSD-licensed] compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the current Scheme language standard... and includes many enhancements and extensions. CHICKEN runs on MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours.

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6. A Design Rationale for C++/CLI (PDF), by Herb Sutter, via PLNews. Could be an interesting read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [.NET, C++]

7. ShowMeDo - training videos, for anything, online (via Sean McGrath):

   The creation of ShowMeDo was motivated by the observation that many of the web tutorials we have success with are demonstrative, exploiting the audio-visual possibilites that increasing bandwidths provide.
   
   Well-written textual descriptions are often quite adequate but for a wide range of activities there is no substitute for seeing it done.

   They have some Python videos.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Python, Videos]