Avoiding Magic Strings
Saturday, October 06 2018
validation
csharp
Building on the infrastructure defined last time, let’s look at how we can avoid the use of magic strings when working with metadata.
A better approach to reflection
Saturday, October 13 2018
csharp
One of the recurring themes on this blog is the idea of making the computer work harder, not the user or the developer. I discovered recently that there was an easier and faster reflection technique than the one I was using - the technique that I’d been using for most of a decade!
Introducing the Priority Queue
Saturday, October 20 2018
priority-queues
csharp
Recently, while working on a personal project, I needed a priority queue. Instead of slamming all of the items into a sorted list and making do, I decided to do the job properly and write a proper abstraction. To keep things interesting, it was an immutable implementation.
Designing the External API
Saturday, October 27 2018
priority-queues
csharp
As we did previously with our regular immutable queue, we should start by considering the design of our external interface - our API. How do we want our users to create and interact with our priority queue?
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