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I really love this new feature of VS2008 that allows you to cleanup the 'usings' section of C# files (and I've been always missing this from Eclipse) but I was a bit disappointed when I found there is no choice to execute automatically before every...

Here are some Java tips for making your code more beautiful, understandable, reliable and maintable. They are in no particular order. Suppose your code will be read by somebody else. Even if you are working on a project on your own, it's worth commenting...

If you have to generate xml in ruby I suggest take a look at builder gems. It has really little overhead to generate xml. Take a look to this example: require 'Builder' xm=Builder::XmlMarkup.new( :target => $stdout , :indent => 2 ) xm.instruct!...

Maybe this example is not impressive as an entire ray tracer in a single line, but it gives an idea of the expressiveness of LINQ. I remember from my high school times, the internal spontaneous competitions looking for the "fastest" prime generators...

In the last weeks I faced a real world example of an ASMX to WCF migration. The existing services has been relying in many of the features available in ASMX, and a complete rewrite would not be an option. Kenny Wolf describes in a post how to reuse...