13 March 2003

Brittish Democracy. I do hafta say that I absolutely love watching the Brittish Parliament in action. The open debate style is brilliant. It's a shame that we've lost those elements in our... [snellspace] It's all well and good for the most part until you get somebody like Blair who ignores everything everybody else says over a subject like Iraq. What other blogs are saying about this post. 4:13:10 PM    comment []  trackback []

System.IO.Path.Combine I often see people using string concatenation to create directory names. Like this: string path = "C:\\data\\" + filename; But there's a much better API: string path = System.IO.Path.Combine("C:\\data", filename); Not only does this take care of the whole, "Do I need a trailing slash?" issue, but if you specify an absolute path for the second parameter, it will just return the second parameter. That means that someone can enter "foo" or "C:\\temp\\foo" for filename, and it'll do what you'd expect. [CraigBlog] I didn't know about that last feature. Very useful. What other blogs are saying about this post. 4:09:46 PM    comment []  trackback []

Any excuse to kill loads of people http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2474171,00.html. Not that it matters at all since the war will happen anyway. What other blogs are saying about this post. 1:09:31 PM    comment []  trackback []

A Rational Rose replacement? Back from the deep.... <snip/>  doing architecture work for a new product we're developping. This means UML with the excellent tool I found called Enterprise Architect. Basically, It's Rose with a much nicer GUI and at a fraction of the price. [Frederic Gos's WebLog] Now that's a much nicer price... I'll take a look at that. What other blogs are saying about this post. 11:19:21 AM    comment []  trackback []

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