Background
For the past couple of years, I’ve been really impressed with how much content there is out there on the Internet in people’s blogs. To harvest all this content, you really need some kind of aggregating software to help you organize all this content. For no real reason, the first aggregator I used was Bloglines. It worked pretty well but I got tired of days when it was very slow, and other days where this cute plumber would be displayed telling me Bloglines was offline and I should come back later. About 2 months ago, I switched to Google Reader. So far, I’m a happy camper.
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First off, I wasn’t in the market to buy a c# book, but after seeing that Jon published one by Manning I couldn’t stop myself. Jon has been such a great and prolific poster on the internet forums that If felt at a minimum I should support him in his book effort, and Manning, always seems to bring us great books. I have been totally happy with my decision. It’s a great book. I don’t know Jon personally, but after reading the introduction and premise, it’s hard not to just really like this guy.
So, on to the review…
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Article Series
The Problem
For the third year in a row, Silicon Valley’s Code Camp is happening. The way I’ve organized the data is that each year I make a fresh new sql server 2005 database catalog. this means that I have one for 2006, one for 2007 and a new one for 2008. I want to do a mailing to all people who have registered to previous code camps and who have not registered yet for this code camp. This way, I can do multiple mailings without worrying about sending to people that who have registered (which would make me look silly for not knowing they registered already). I do not like when people say things like "Ignore this message if you have registered…". In addition we will maintain an opt out list so that people who do not want additional emails sent can request that and not worry about us sending more emails.
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One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient code. In this post, I’ll show some refactorings that Resharper (from JetBrains) gives us. There are lots more, but the ones listed below seem to come up the most in my own c# code.
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