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• Concurrency bugs in the CLR JIT

  A recent paper by Microsoft research has discovered a concurrency bug in the .Net JIT. They used the F# theorem prover to analyze the JIT il->x86 transformations which were previously thought to comply with the .Net memory model . These bugs show that Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 9:08 AM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: dotnet, validation, memory, .Net

• JavaScript performance

  Recently, the browser vendors have been making serious gains in JavaScript performance. A week ago, Google launched their web browser called Chrome with much fanfare. Chrome is based on the WebKit rendering engine which underpins Apple's Safari browser Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:27 PM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: Javascript, firefox, sfx, TraceMonkey, chromium, Squirrelfish, Chrome, Sunspider, squirrelfishextreme, v8, webkit

• Fixup candidates for .Net v4

  The C# team has been fairly candid in the features they are considering for C# v4. You just have to look hard enough. We'll know what they decide on soon enough as the PDC is just around the corner. Declarative side-effect free methods , Contra/covariance Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 9:05 AM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: C#, dotnet, .Net, C#.Next, future

• 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

• Code Smells in C#

  A lot of my development is done with Code Smells . Whether I'm working on my own code or refactoring someone elses code, if I see some code and it smells funny, then I investigate further. Recently I've come to realize there's a code smell Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 5:11 PM by rbirkby | 19 Comments Filed under: C#, dotnet, Java

• Caching and SOAP

  If you're making a SOAP request (in this case with the SOAP toolkit ), and you get: "WSDLReader:Loading of the WSDL file failed HRESULT=0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect." during the MSSoapInit() call, check that you haven't added Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:12 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: asp.net, wsdl, IIS, SOAP

• Silverlight Sudoku with LINQ

  A couple of months ago I came across a very clever Sudoku solver written by Peter Norvig . Peter had written the solver using Python. The solver was special as it solved by constraint propagation using list comprehensions and generator expressions making Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:30 AM by rbirkby | 2 Comments Filed under: silverlight dotnet sudoku linq Attachment(s): Solver.cs.txt

• Silverlight crashing

  So I'm sat here watching the Mix07 keynote, 45 minutes after Ray Ozzie first got to the stage. I download the Silverlight Beta for Mac and install it. Firefox has crashed 4 times while trying to view the Silverlight demos on microsoft.com/silverlight. Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 6:14 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight dotnet macos firefox

• Silverlight

  As has been blogged all over the place , WPF/E has been renamed Silverlight (Note: lower case 'L'). Some people say there's more to come at MIX07 . Well, I think I've discovered what the secret is. It's hidden inside of the Silverlight Read More... Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 10:06 PM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: C#, dotnet, WPF, WPF/E, Silverlight, Java, Mix07

• The trouble with dynamic languages

  Javascript is a dynamic language . And that's a problem. On the one hand it allows you virtually unlimited ability to play with data structures and mold them to your own design. On the other, it presents the virtually insurmountable problem of testability. Read More... Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 7:51 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments Filed under: Javascript

• What language was ASP.Net originally written in?

  In this video , Peter Hallam, one of the original C# designers talks about a new C# v3 feature, but also says that WinForms was the original consumer of the C# language. This totally contradicts my understanding. I thought that ASP.Net (XSP) was the original Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:16 AM by rbirkby | 1 Comments Filed under: C#, dotnet, asp.net

• Client-side validation in Firefox

  Recently, I was faced with a problem whereby client-side validation of controls failed to work in Firefox . Only server-side validation was working. Client side validation was working fine in IE. This was puzzling as everything I read said that ASP.Net Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:49 AM by rbirkby | 34 Comments Filed under: dotnet, asp.net, xhtml, expando, html, validation