Turning the table So here I am, the guy often in charge of assisting new developers get up to speed with my designs and code, facing the diametrically opposite situation. Like many other developers, I have changed jobs more times than I'd like to. I love the chance to learn from a new industry or...

Right after I mildly complained about the lack of thoughtful orientation on a new job, I was pleasantly surpirsed with this lovely schedule for my first week at the new place. Just wanted to share that with you. There's hope for our world.

Nothing like a long 3-day weekend to help forgetting about the old problems from your previous job. This should help making room for the upcoming avalanche of new information and ramping up on the new gig. Show me where the North is I'm also taking this short interval to revisit my previous experiences...

Consulting engagements are supposed to end, even after 4.5 years. So, yes, my current assignment with the client is scheduled to end this week (is this job change season?). I didn't honestly expect it to last that long when I started but I guess the balance is positive. With the end of the assignment...

My previous posts in this series revolved around using lambdas to encapsulate logic. In this post I'll show a different side of the lambdas, the expressions. Lambda Expressions We have already seen that lambdas can be used to create anonymous methods to be passed wherever a delegate is expected....

In the previous two installments of the series we discussed how we can use lambdas to encapsulate more processing logic and to create contextual APIs . In this post I will show another example of the latter. Navigating directory structures This time around we will try to create a safe way to browse and...

In my last post I went through a very simple example of applying lambdas to achieve more DRY . In this installment I'll cheat a little and rehash a previous article I wrote before this blog existed. The article fits rather nicely in this series. Creating XML with .Net In .Net two of the most popular...

When our programming language of choice gets a new feature, it's usually not that hard to start using that feature right away from a consumer's point of view. I could use the introduction of generics in .Net 2.0 as an example. When I wrote my first C# 2.0 piece of code, it already made use of...