Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh. Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery. It could be just a case of two system...
Greta ( previously ) sends us more updates from her "Ancient Development Environment". An important task an IDE must do is report build errors to its users. Arguably, that's one of the most important ...
Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution. class ConferenceService { /// /// Checks if conference is active /// public bool IsCalling { try { return m_Connectio...
Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong. if (StringUtils.hasLength(dto...
Flat-file style databases were designed to fit the constraints of the systems they were running on. You specify your schema in terms of "how many characters in a file we use to store this data", meani...
Killian Brendel was looking through the.NET source code, and found this comment on the TimeSpan struct. // TimeSpan represents a duration of time. A TimeSpan can be negative // or positive. // // Time...
Today, we look at a "representative comment" from Mark W. This particular comment appears on a function: /// /// Does something wonderful. /// Well, I'm glad it's wonderful, but are we talking "Christ...