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...

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to create REST clients using WCF and taking advantage of its extensibility to obtain a type safe endpoint. My approach implied create a bunch of WCF behaviors and other extensions that intercepts the messages...

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...