This is a little odd thing for people who don't want to touch toilet seats. via [Boing Boing]

"Design the data structures first" is a practice that has dramatically faded over the past decade. Today, when structural design is done at all, it is done in an object-oriented manner, which has different goals than traditional data-structure design. In C++ code, you'll still see complex data structures, but most …

Dan Bricklin posts about the "Programmers at Work Reunion" that happened at SD. "Programmers at Work" is a classic book from the mid-80s that interviewed several of the most influential PC programmers of the time, from Bill Gates to Gary Kildall. Many of the profilees were on a panel the …

Of course, it's big news that Tim Bray has taken a job with a major software company. But it's bigger news because he chose to join Sun and not Microsoft (I'm not saying Bray chose between competing offers, just that Microsoft has hired a lot of luminaries recently). I wonder …

C# SMTP SendMail Code.

It's not a very good mnemonic but it's not every day we get a new planet.

In an anachronistic bit of dot-commery, a Bay Area America's Cup syndicate is auctioning it's sponsorship rights on Ebay. Starting bid is \$30,000,000. No word if PayPal will be used for payment.

It's well-known that America remains the leader in captured alien spacecraft technology due to our relatively lax highway signage. In England, by contrast, such things as secret nuclear bunkers are well-marked.

Inspired by Jon Udell's link to a New York Times article on network maps of polarized political books, I wrote a similar program in C# and mapped the polarization between readers of "The C# Programming Language" by Hejlsberg et al. and "The Java Programming Language" by Arnold et al. It's …

Bruce has an interesting discussion entitled "Generics Aren't". It's primarily about the new support for generics in Java, but it has a lot of "generic generic" material as well.  via [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]

The argument applies to C# generics, but dismisses type-safe data structures as only of concern to …