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Spam Overload

Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 9:28 AM by RickM
I’ve been hit pretty hard by the spam bots over this past weekend.  It’s been getting worse at an exponential rate over the last few weeks.  If this keeps up I’ll be spending all my time weeding out spam and will have no time to continue maintaining Read More...
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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 11:10 AM by RickM
When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't. Read More...
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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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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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IS - The Meta-Meta Language-Language (and parametric compiler)

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 3:48 PM by RickM
Ian Piumarta and some very smart folks over at the Viewpoints Research Institute have been working on a meta programming language named IS which is specifically designed for implementing other languages. The project actually has several names (IS, idst, Read More...
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