The joy of programming can be a difficult thing to describe. I take a look at some of the bizarre things people have compared it to.
I’ve just noticed a nice little feature in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: pinned DataTips. Values displayed in the debugger as you hover over a variable can now be pinned in place and remain aligned with the source. They can even have annotations added… Tasty!
Lambdas in C++ and F#: compare and contrast.
A FormatException is generated by the WPF DataBinding diagnostics if the original exception text contains curly brackets.
How has Twitter transformed the act of watching TV?
Some comments on the massive response to the “7 signs” blog post, and a couple of snivelling apologies.
Some highlights from the onedotzero wow+flutter digital short film festival.
Programmers are notoriously bad at creating good user interfaces. How can you tell if your app was designed by a programmer? (Hint: it’s easy).
How do you find the unmanaged COM object that’s being referenced by a .NET object?
