> date +%s
1111142015

Oh well.

Great post by Matthew Baldwin, via KC Lemson’s post. Like Matthew says: If you don’t get this joke, consider yourself lucky that you’re not as big a nerd as the people who do.

Ryan Byington describes a very interesting feature in the .NET implementation of regular expressions. Definitely worth a read!

Alright, consider the following situation: There’s a data class with two properties, Index and Content. There’s a specialised collection typed to contain instances of the data class. Something like this:

public class DataClass {
  public DataClass(string index, string content) {
    this.index = index;
    this.content = content;
  }

  string index;
  public string Index { get { return index; } }

  string content;
  public string Content { get { return content; } }
}

public cl ...

In a previous article, I showed how nullable types, as implemented in version 2 of the .NET framework, can be persisted using XPO. But what if .NET 2.0 is not yet an option? .NET 1.1 doesn’t have support for nullable types and there’s no such feature in XPO, either. If somebody comes from the database world, it’s certainly understandable that types that can also be null are something he’s accustomed to. On the other hand, XPO is about persisting objects, and in that world, no ordinary value t …

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