The String.Split() method in C# is probably something with which any C# developer is familiar. string x = “Erik.Dietrich”; var tokens = x.Split(‘.’); Here, “tokens” will be an array of strings containing “Erik” and “Dietrich”. It’s not exactly earth shattering to tokenize a string in this fashion. And some incarnation or another of this predates…
The Pledge When it comes to US intellectual property law, specifically patents as they pertain to software, I have a very scorched Earth philosophy. Don’t tweak it. Don’t reform it. Don’t debate over it. Don’t worry about it. Just delete it. Yes, to me, it’s like a nasty, tangled mass of bad code where it’s…
My friend Paul pointed something out to me the other day regarding my post about TDD even when you have to discard tests. I believe that this trick was taken from the book Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (though I haven’t yet read this one, so I can’t be positive. I was…
I am going to be switching services for RSS and content update notifications. Up until now, I’ve been using feedburner, which is a free service that has been around since I believe 2004 or so and was bought out by google in 2007. Since that acquisition, its best feature is that it is free. This…
There’s a blogger named Iris Classon that writes a series of posts called “stupid questions”, where she essentially posts a discussion-fueling question once per day. Recently, I noticed one there called “Should I Use Regions in my Code?”, and the discussion that ensued seemed to be one of whether regions were helpful in organizing code…
