C++ Inline Reaching back into my C++ days, a concept exists called “inline”. “Suggesting inline” is a concept where you tell the C++ compiler that you want to dispense with function call overhead and slam the code in question right into the code stream of the caller. (It’s a matter of suggesting because the compiler…
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…
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…
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…
Last week, I had some specs to create a grid view in ASP that had normal column headers, as one might expect, and then also “super” column headers, where the columns were categorized. So, if, for instance, you had columns for “Dog”, “Cat”, and “Bird”, those three headers might have a “super-header” called “Pet”, in…
