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Ok, so I think I'm going to start using this blog to discuss TopCoder Competitions.  Single Round Match 295, which was on Wednesday, was pretty fun, although I'm a little disappointed that I only got the first problem.  My rating went up nonetheless. So, you can view the first problem here , (you have to be logged in, sorry) basically the idea was that you were trying to build a bridge of D length with cards of L length and you had to return the amount of cards necessary ... [ read more ]
During the early banter-and-have fun part of my recent dotnetrocks interview I dissed TDD (Test Driven Development, not the text translation service for the deaf). Of course this wasn’t the focus of the real interview, and prior to sitting down behind the mic I hadn’t thought about TDD at all, so we were all just having some fun. As such, it was flippant and it was short - meaning I was having fun, and that I surely didn't have the time or opportunity to really express my ... [ read more ]
Often, mostly for designers, I want to get a list of available types. Mostly specific types and from all Assemblies. Had multiple code functions for that and that multiple times, because for different projects I tended to rewrite them (argh? yes argh ). But... now I decided to just storm ahead and create some default functionality. Why, that's easy, I can almost hear you say. Just use Assembly.GetTypes.... Right....Some issues there: I want all referenced assemblies as well and, it shoul ... [ read more ]
  Neil Sedaka was wrong apparently  -  Breaking up isn’t hard to do  :-)   Intro   There are a couple of useful little enhancements to the Split method in VB2005.      I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve suggested the use of this very handy method in VB.NET answers over the years.    You know the kind of thing – you have a string containing words or phrases which are separated by commas, for example, and you want to bre ... [ read more ]
          As VB2005 gathers momentum, so does the output of VB2005 books from the popular technical publishers.            Ged Mead got hold of a copy of "Visual Basic 2005 Programmer’s Reference" By Rod Stephens and found much to recommend it.     Read on for his  review of this book ....  


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