Blog Feed: Omer .NETz

Collecting the garbage

Published on 2010-02-13 13:57:37

The following animated presentation demonstrates the behavior of the .NET Framework garbage collection process, for those of you who ever wondered how does the automatic memory management of their .NET application works: http://w2ks.dei.isep.ipp.pt/p > read more

Playing with locals()

Published on 2009-12-11 11:27:28

The locals() function in python is used for a dictionary-based access to local variables. (There is also a global() function for global variables, but we won’t discuss it here…) If, for example, we have a function that receives a variable a a > read more

Cheese or Font?

Published on 2009-11-01 16:19:01

There are many kinds of cheese in the world, most have really weird names. The same can be said about the growing number of computer fonts. But can you separate between those two?   The following web game tests your observation – can you disti > read more

Back On Track!

Published on 2009-11-01 11:43:21

Hi, After a long time (some of it planned, and most unplanned) I haven’t posted anything, I am back! With a new address at WordPress.com.   Now I intend to write about many more issues, and on a higher frequency.   Hope you’ll e > read more

Interesting Issues in C# – Anonymous Delegates

Published on 2009-06-18 16:18:00

This post is about another interesting concept in C# – Anonymous Delegates. This is a prelude for the next post to come – about Lambda Expressions.     Anonymous Delegates, also known as Anonymous Methods, are a way to use a code block > read more

Interesting issues in C# – The using keyword & IDisposable

Published on 2009-04-28 17:20:00

This post is the first in a series of posts I’ll write about interesting ( and less familiar) issues in C#. Enjoy! The using keyword is well known to C# developers. Its main purpose, the using directive, is to create a shortcut to namespaces us > read more

Dependency Injection

Published on 2009-04-10 16:15:00

It seems that not many developers are familiar with Dependency Injection (also known as Inversion of Control).   An Object-Oriented program is built from instances of objects. What happens when the object a depends on the object b (in other word > read more

Internet Explorer 8 is finally out!

Published on 2009-03-20 17:36:00

The new version of Windows Internet Explorer has been released!   I am not going to expand on what’s new – you can find it all here.   I’ll just say that, in my opinion, Internet Explorer 7 was falling behind for some time. Mo > read more

Already Sharp Enough

Published on 2009-02-27 15:41:00

I am pretty sure that most of us, Visual Studio developers, are familiar with the tool called ReSharper. For those of you who don’t know, I’ll just say that ReSharper is a Visual Studio add-in, which integrates with the development enviro > read more