10. July 2007

Code Snippet: PrintObject

Following up on the same idea as the ListEnum code snippet, this is a method I often use to print the properties of an object to the console.

08. June 2007

IComparable and Egocentrism

Today, on the ride home from work on the MAX train (local light-rail here in Portland, OR), I overheard a girl talking to some young Hispanic men. She was babbling on in a typically "White American" way, about cultural differences, and how "We're really more alike than we are different." and that popular media tries to force differences down our cultural throats through advertisements and TV (evil incarnate).

While her stance is in many ways similar to my own thinking, I still felt compelled to consider how I would respond if I were having the conversation with her… It would go something like this…

01. June 2007

Disable Design-Time Support in Visual Studio

I recently wrote a class in C# that inherits from System.Diagnostics.Process. This class abstracts a shelling-to-disk process that I need to do. Something like this:

public class MyShellTask : Process {
  // ...
} 

09. May 2007

Java, NetBeans, and Templates, OH MY!

Well, having recently sparked an interest in moving towards a Open Source, cross platform, but still as cool as C#/VS2005 development platform, I of course landed in the middle of NetBeans 5.5 and Java.

16. February 2007

Code Snippet: ListEnum

Sometimes you want to list an Enum and see what it's actual numeric values are…