Matthew ".NET 247" Reynolds

My girlfriend calls the place where I'm in “pencil sharpening”.  It describes a period of time where you're “preparing” to do some work by doing things that don't really need to be done rather than getting stuck in, mainly because I don't really do what I have to do today!  Anyway, it's at times like this I usually fire up Reflector and start prodding around in the BCL.

Wesner Moise has put together a good blurb on Avalon, which promises to be very interesting and, oh yes, you can learn about it at PDC.

Well, I guess I get to join you all at the wonderous and magical Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003!

Joel Spolsky's software company, Fog Creek, has moved offices.  Joel had the good fortune and foresight to spend what looks to me like a ton of money on building a really great office for his team.  He has posted an article about it called Bionic Office.

Brad Abrams, who blogs most excellently about API design stuff  posted today about the whole pickle with COM naming conventions and how it impacts .NET, notably the problem that an evolving object model eventually leads to “grafts” being put on the API.  For example, imagine that first there was IDispatch, then comes IDispatchEx, then comes IDispatchEx2.

You know, I remember I time when it was uncommon to find .NET implementations of useful code.

Lutz Roeder has a weblog?  I never knew that... *Subscribed!*

One of my favourite bloggers, Suzanne Cook, ran an article back in July called Unloading an Assembly.  For some of you, it may be a surprise to know that you can only unload an assembly if you unload the entire appdomain that it is loaded into.