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June 2008 - Posts

A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:32 PM by RickM
Because .NET Streams have state, they are difficult to use in multithreaded environments. In this post I discuss ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams. I explain how this is possible both through traditional Read More...
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Attachment(s): MemoryStream Test.zip

The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:44 PM by RickM
After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk. As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR. Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Read More...
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Comments About Flat Files

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 11:38 AM by RickM
Comments About Flat Files My last blog post got a lot of reddit attention this weekend. I want to thank all of the posters with constructive comments. Open discussion like this is what makes the Internet great. I would also like to take a moment to discuss Read More...
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Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:45 PM by RickM
It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can’t you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Read More...
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