June 2008 - Posts

• When does FlagsAttribute not mean Flags?

  In the System.Data namespace, there's a ConnectionState enumeration. This has values like Open, Closed, Connecting, Fetching to represent the state of a database connection. I pondered on whether a connection which is "Fetching" is also Read More... Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:26 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: Database, .Net

• The CLR garbage collector is in need of help

  Back in 2000 when the CLR was first shown it's generational garbage collector was fairly cutting edge. But it's weaknesses show it's age - and it desperately needs updating. Here's an example of just one of the ways the current GC (.Net Read More... Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:54 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: dotnet, memory, gc

• Windows Geniune Disadvantage

  --------------------------- Windows Genuine Advantage --------------------------- Code not available. The validation code could not be obtained. This may be due to technical difficulties, or you may be running an unsupported operating system. Please close Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:51 AM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: microsoft, windows

• Refactoring

  I'm doing a lot of porting and refactoring at the moment. I've come to the conclusion that porting from a dynamically typed language to a statically typed language is an order of magnitude more difficult than doing the reverse. Refactoring is Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:25 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, dotnet