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.

Fight Corporate Censorship, Fight SOPA

Fight Corporate Censorship: Fight SOPA!

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.

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.