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Mechsonomy: Machine Assisted Folksonomy

Yesterday, in front of the staff and students at my college, I presented my final project for my C.S. B.Sc.. Once I complete it and it gets reviewed this September, I will have completed my duties for the degree…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.

Quick Blurb: Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio and Useless Icons

Let’s play a little game. To the left of this text are the five central icons from the Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio. Their commands are, in an unordered manner: Test List Editor, Test Runs, Test View, Code Coverage Results and Test Results. Connect the icon to the appropriate command, without checking Visual Studio…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

LINQ Performance Pitfall – Deferred Execution

When using LINQ, queries may bloat up to dozens of lines. My personal style is to take these queries and break them apart to smaller units of logic. To each unit of logic, I append a call to ToArray. @yosit asked me why I did it and I answered I was avoiding a possible pitfall. Here’s what I meant…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.