21 February 2003

AOP fans take note - eXtensible C#. Fellow DM Instructor Pierre Nallet has been working on a compiler project for quite awhile now.  Whenever I would ask him what it was he mumbled something about "adding some stuff to C#" and wouldn't say much more.  Today I got an email that "eXtensible C#" shipped.  Wow! XC# lets you say things like this: [Requires ("o != null")] void SomeMethod (object o) {   ... } I'm too busy making the donuts this week to really sit down with it but it looks like a pretty slick product.  Perhaps the most amazing thing of all is that it's free.  Very nice stuff... [Managed Space] I'll have to look at this, looks like design by contract might be covered by it. I wonder if post function events are covered? What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:18:54 AM    comment []  trackback []

What temperature is your monitor at?. Our local color expert was explaining to me why televisions always have the brightness so cranked up (and why 9700?)... If you are a videophile at all, the first thing you do with a monitor, tv, or other display technology is adjust the brightness and color to the correct levels. Televisions in stores are always insanely over driven. It turns out that in the '50s (or somewhere around there) the cheap flourescent bulbs used in japan were creating a yellow effect on the televisions. So the TV manufacturers over there started running at 9700 to compensate for the cheap bulbs, and the rest of the world just ended up getting it. Question of the day: What would you give to have a correctly calibrated monitor, printer, and digital camera? [simplegeek] My right arm. Or the right arm of the guy sitting next to me. Actually I prefer the second option. What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:08:41 AM    comment []  trackback []

Canon D60 replacement? D60 Replacement. From the canon-digital-rumor-sales-rep-knows-nothing dept: My Canon sales rep and the local tech rep stopped by.  The official unofficial word is that there is indeed a replacement for the canon D60 digital SLR.  It will most likely be announced around the 27th. The sales rep isn't saying much, claims not to know much, but Canon is flying all the sales reps into Vegas two days before PMA starts.  This is significant because Canon usually sends their sales reps to PMA one day before the big show starts. We'll see what happens. [Matt Croydon::postneo] I really, really want this to be a camera with at least the same performance as the D60, but at the £/$1000 mark (have companies never heard of exchange rates?). It's not going to be though. What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:03:48 AM    comment []  trackback []

New look for MSDN New look for MSDN. http://msdn.microsoft.com/labs/homepages/default.aspx I voted for #1.  What can I say - I hate change? :-) [ShowUsYour-Blog!] I like #3 better, it looks a lot cleaner. One thing I notice is that they seem to want to get rid of the more advanced UI elements. Those funny collapsible bits on the right for a start. Does anybody ever actually move/collapse them? Does everybody know you can? What other blogs are saying about this post. 9:47:37 AM    comment []  trackback []

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