I was recently reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition, and came across this piece of example Ruby code: [1,3,5,7].inject(0) {|sum, element| sum+element} -> 16 [1,3,5,7].inject(1) {|product, element| product*element} -> 105 Inject is a method which acts on an array by aggregating or accumulating the values within that array. It loops through the [...]

Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t. A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or [...]

Name Use Automatic Property Summary You have a property in a class which just wraps a field of the same type, and simply returns or sets that field. private string _field1; public string Field1 { get { return _field1; } set { _field1 = value; } } Becomes: public string Field1 { get; set; } [...]

I really like Scott Hanselmann’s idea to write an indefinite series of posts about reading code to be a better developer. I’m going to copy his idea, and write a series of my own. Since its first version, C# has evolved from being a Java clone to something much more dynamic. I’ve noticed that developers [...]