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Linq Aggregate Empty Sequence

By Josh Perry | Published: April 20, 2010
Linq is great for its compact expressions, and for its — usually efficient — lazy-evaluation. These two virtues seem to be spit upon by the Aggregate function. Say you want to aggregate a list of ints. var s = new int[] {1, 2, 3}; int sum = ints.Aggregate((a,b) => a + b); This works great [...]
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C++/CLI Converting from String to wchar_t and to char*

By Josh Perry | Published: January 24, 2010
I recently started working on a managed wrapper for the Terminal Services API, and as my C++/CLI is a bit rusty I ran into some issues which I’m sure are common when trying to handle the impedance mismatch between the managed and unmanaged worlds. I’m going to take a look at one of those issues [...]
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Jeff Atwood of Borg-StackOverflow Careers Assimilation

By Josh Perry | Published: December 8, 2009
I’ve found StackOverflow to be a fun and vibrant community as well as an almost daily touchstone for programming and tech problems. Because of my enjoyment of the site I’ve started listening to the StackOverflow podcast with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (my opinion of which is another post altogether). I’ve found Jeff to be [...]
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Subclipse for SVN on Eclipse CDT

By Josh Perry | Published: November 1, 2009
Subversion is a great way to work on code in a collaborative fashion. There are a couple subversion plugins that work with Eclipse, one of them is called Subclipse. To install Subclipse in Eclipse goto the Help menu and choose “Software Updates…”. Once the “Software Updates and Add-ons” window displays itself we need to add [...]
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