Saturday, April 25, 2009

Configuring Sharpdevelop for web projects

I want a small .net IDE installation that is fast. I have for a long time been happy with Sharpdevelop but one big issue is that there is no default webserver provided that you can use to develop web apps on.

Luckily my good friend Kristian Gundry has fixed this for me.


By providing the right parameters you can start a webserver. Either you can start the mono xsp2 webserver or you can use the one that comes with Visual Studio Express.

Happy happy joy joy! :)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Puzzle

Consider the following:
I provide you with a .net 3.5 dll that implements the class SomeClass plus some operations that operate on this class. The Isvalid method has no side effects, will throw no exception and always return true.

You run the following code:
What is output to the screen?
  1. "o is valid"
  2. "o is not valid"
  3. "Exception has been thrown"
  4. impossible to predict
Place your bets please

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Note to self

When building an lightspeed vesel don't make the brake a button on the dash board. At light speed you will only be able to move backwards in the vesel and you will never reach a button in front of you.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Link to the plain project

http://code.google.com/p/plain

Friday, April 03, 2009

Misunderstanding: The path to new ideas

Isn't it frustrating that people misunderstand each other all the time?

At one point I though that all the problems people have communicating were holding us back. Even though a person has a brilliant idea, he might be the only one who truly understands it. A lot is lost in translation. Wouldn't the world just be magnificent if you just had to tell people things once and they would understand. There is just one little problem with this illusion. If we all just understood each other there would be little reason to interpret what you hear and come up with new ideas. Perception has a big role here.

So, the next time you are annoyed with somebody because they just don't get what you are saying to them or by people that can't explain anything in an easy manner, remember it is for a better cause. EVOLUTION! Even the simplest things can be misunderstood and will likely be. It is the reason we have come so far.

I have many times wished that I instantly could grasp the ideas of some of the great thinkers. Instead I have to read a lot of books and spend a lot of time interpreting what is written. My main source of inspiration comes from information that I don't understand.
My theory is that most ideas spring from existing ones that were misunderstood.