Sandy and I – Hate Story
It seems my last post was a bit premature… The hurricane Sandy caused my flights to the US to be cancelled; looking for alternative flights proved difficult (full flights or insane costs), so I’ll be staying home. At lease my CodeValue buddies ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 10-29-2012 11:54
Should I switch to Windows 8?
That’s the question I was asking myself in the past few days. Ever since Windows XP, I’ve installed the latest Microsoft OS in beta form on my main work machine. I’ve installed Windows XP Beta, Windows Vista Beta and Windows 7 Beta. With Windows ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 06-10-2012 5:04
Static vs. Instance (vs. Extension)
Sometimes I teach a basic .NET & C# course. Among many other things, I discuss arrays. I mention that all .NET arrays derive from System.Array , and so get some functionality for free, such as sorting. Here’s a simple array: int [] a = new ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 03-09-2012 1:01
Visual Studio 11 Beta–First Impressions
Visual Studio 11 Beta is out (along with Windows 8 Beta), so naturally, I installed it right away (I did create a restore point just in case…). I wanted to get some first impressions of VS 11, and this is the result. Installation Installing ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 03-02-2012 10:37
The Future of Silverlight
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Silverlight. Will Silverlight 5 (to be released this month) be the last major version of Silverlight? I don’t know, but here are my thoughts on the subject. Silverlight will stay in the context of Windows ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 11-14-2011 18:33
The Cost of Training
A large part of my job is training. I’ve been doing that professionally on and off for the past 13 years. I remember the “good old days” of teaching C and C++, then COM (Component Object Model). These two, C++ and COM (with ATL, no doubt) where ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 07-29-2011 15:38
Technology Radio Show, Part 2
The second part of the technology radio show on 106.4 FM aired on last Thursday. As with the first part , I was the “Microsoft guy”. This time we were missing the iPhone and Ruby guys, but the show was more to the point (somewhat). You can listen ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 03-21-2011 10:03
Technology Radio show that I participated in
Last week I was invited to a radio show called “Technofobia” (origin in Hebrew) in the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Hertzliya (Israel) (106.4 FM). This was a “special” talk about development technologies. There was a Ruby guy, a Python ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 03-02-2011 20:40
ASP.NET MVC: History Repeating?
In the early days of the web, all we had is HTML, and that was fine for a while. Then, we wanted something more “dynamic” or personal, so a bunch of sever side technologies were created (ISAPI, CGI, …) and then (in the Microsoft world) there ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 02-09-2011 10:52
C++ 0x, Will you save C++?
The emerging new standard of C++ (dubbed C++0X, where X was supposed to be a decimal digit, but now can be considered a hexadecimal digit) will probably be finalized and approved this year (probably to become “C++11”), and is supposed to march ... המשך לקרוא>
pavely , 02-05-2011 20:20
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