Last post about the book (nearly) and a new source of information…
It’s about time I stopped using this blog to mention the book every couple of posts. Fortunately, I now have a new blog of sorts – well, a news page with an RSS feed. It’s part of the book’s web site –...
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“Push” LINQ revisited – next attempt at an explanation
Marc Gravell and I have now implemented a lot of LINQ standard query operators on the “push” model of IDataProducer as opposed to the “pull” model of IEnumerable. My good friend Douglas Leeder (who...
View ArticleLINQ to Objects – not just for in-memory collections
I’ve just seen LINQ to Objects described as the LINQ provider for “in-memory collections” again. It’s a fairly frequent occurrence, and I may have done it myself on occasion. It doesn’t do LINQ to...
View ArticleExtension methods on lamdba expressions don’t work, unfortunately
Over the Christmas holidays, I thought I’d experiment with something I’d been thinking about a little – sorting a generic IList<T>. Now, before anyone gets huffy, I’m well aware of OrderBy in...
View ArticleTypes of Parallelism
When I was at TechEd, Joe Duffy mentioned task parallelism and data parallelism a number of times. It was easy enough to follow what he meant, but I had to keep consciously thinking about the terms...
View ArticleBridging gaps, and finding my role
Warning: this post won’t teach you anything technical. It’s about how I see myself. That may be of interest to you, or it may not. If not, feel free to skip it knowing you’re not missing anything else....
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Immutability and inheritance
In my book, I present an example of a Range<T> class do demonstrate iterator blocks. The range allows you to iterate over each element within it in the obvious fashion. There’s an abstract base...
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