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CodeDomProviders and Compiler Magic
13 April 08 08:05 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
Before .NET 3.5 was released the choice of whether you should choose Visual Basic or C# as your programming language was more or less a matter of taste. With the first incarnations of these languages, you could do virtually the same things with both. Read More...
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More on generics and Inversion of Control
06 April 08 09:29 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
My last post on Java generics and the Repository pattern got a bit of interest. Judging from the feedback I got, I feel the need to elaborate on the Inversion of Control part of this. As some readers pointed out, Google’s Guice container employes Read More...
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Generics, Inversion of Control and Repository<T>
03 April 08 07:32 AM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
Whenever I stray off the beaten path of Java generics, I instantly miss C#’s generics implementation. Earlier today, Java’s type erasure erased a few good hours of productivity whilst I was doing a spike on bringing the IRepository<T> experience Read More...
A framework for cross platform DSL development
31 March 08 06:42 PM | andersnoras | 6 Comments   
One of the challenges I have experienced when giving talks or blogging about domain specific languages is that developers are a little reluctant to writing code in languages they are unfamiliar with. This holds true even if the DSL in question is an external Read More...
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Videos from Heroes happen {here}
12 March 08 03:57 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
Last week I was awarded the MSDN Guru award at the Heroes happen {here} event in Oslo. The videos from the show have been posted and you can watch me accepting the award, giving the obligatory thank you speech and getting interview below. If you can’t Read More...
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Hero happend {there}
09 March 08 06:26 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
On Thursday I was award the “MSDN Guru” award during the Norwegian Heroes Happen {here} launch event. This was fun, and I just want to thank the people who nominated me for the award. I feel very humble to be the winner among the other nominees, Read More...
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Next Week's Speaking Schedule
22 February 08 04:24 AM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Fredrik Kalseth posted a notice about his talk for the Norwegian .NET User Group’s (NNUG) Vestfold’s chapter, so I thought I’d follow in his footsteps to inform the world about my speaking engagements next week. On Tuesday February 26th Read More...
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Save Java, Dead or Alive!
18 February 08 03:11 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer. Read More...
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A Jerk in the Land of a Hundred Languages
03 February 08 07:00 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
There is an article in this week’s Economist referring to a paper by Dr. Mark Pagel et al published in the latest edition of Science on (spoken) languages evolving in punctuational bursts. The key point in Dr. Pagel’s research is that evolutionary Read More...
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My ¢2 on Java Extension Methods
05 December 07 05:38 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
A while a go Neil Gafter proposed extension methods as a new feature in Java 7. This is an interesting proposal and if it is implemented, it would make Quaere even better. I'll skip the tired list sorting example from the discussions and think out loud Read More...
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Lexical Closures, Deferred Execution and Kicker Methods
06 November 07 05:20 AM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Casper wrote an interesting comment to my screen cast about LINQ and Quaere auto completion which deserves an answer in the form of a blog post. As the title suggests you’re in for a ride through many different concepts in .NET, Java, LINQ and Quaere Read More...
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Bare naked LINQ
18 October 07 06:07 AM | andersnoras | 10 Comments   
Some ever recurring discussions around Quaere are “this isn’t really LINQ for Java” and “cool, but this isn’t truly type-safe”. In this post I’ll dive into these topics by explaining how LINQ works… LINQ Read More...
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Does The Microsoft Reference License Make My Job Easier?
04 October 07 08:45 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
I'm a little late to the party, so I'm not re-announcing that Microsoft will release the BCL source code . This is of course a cool and somewhat unexpected move by the company, but apart from the initial buzz of being able to step into the framework source Read More...
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Ending a Legacy
25 July 07 08:51 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
"Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really Read More...
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DSL Tools: A Complex Solution for a Simple Problem
24 July 07 09:43 PM | andersnoras | 5 Comments   
Last night I was unable to sleep, so I started reading Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools and I was immediately reminded of my rant about software factories . Just like with the software factories provided by the Patterns and Practices Read More...
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