DateTime.Parse Performance Data
The potential performance pitfalls of DateTime.Parse are well discussed. What I don’t see as often: actual performance test data.
So, I’m contributing my own test data to the discussion. Read more…
Meet blaze: C# without cruft!
I’ve officially renamed SharpPad as ‘blaze’. Same scripting core host, but a new icon, new installer URL, and thanks to Brandon Berry, new features!
For a limited time, you can download install directly from http://web.me.com/z.gramana/blaze/.
You can still get the source from https://bitbucket.org/zgramana/sharpscript (although I’ll be moving the repository soon).
NOTE: If you have already installed SharpPad, you’ll need to install blaze from the location above in order to received auto-updates.
In Defense of ‘var’
The var
keywords has unfairly earned a bad reputation. I see a lot of a hating on var, and don’t hear many people sticking up for it. If you don’t like var
, or know someone who does, then this post is for you.
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Forking Github Repos on Win32
I’ll be upfront: I’m a Mercurial guy. But sometimes I have no choice but to use git. That’s often a painful proposition on Win32, especially when using github. Github’s advice on forking a repository flat out does not work for me, so I follow this slightly modified process instead. Read more…