The is keyword: Yet another hidden treasure of C#
A while back i blogged about the yield keyword and called it a hidden treasure of C# as I seldom see it used, and many senior developers never use it! Today, I came across a similar one, namely the is-keyword. And frankly, I had actually forgotten about myself, even though I have used it in the past on several occasions.
Daily Stand-Ups in Scrum
I just came across a great summary of the daily stand-ups in scrum, written by Joakim Karlsson. I guess most Scrum teams start out with good intentions and focus in the begging, but as time goes by, we start falling into the old "around the table" reporting habit to the project manager, the Scrum master becomes more and more a project manager, and we gradually drift away from the core principles and ideas behind the daily stand-up!
Dynamic Language Runtime in .Net 4.0
The upcoming .Net 4.0 contains many new and exciting features, in this blog post I will describe some of the new features of the DLR including the dynamic keyword.
To quote MSDN:
The dynamic language runtime (DLR) is a runtime environment that adds a set of services for dynamic languages to the common language runtime (CLR). The DLR makes it easier to develop dynamic languages to run on the .NET Framework and to add dynamic features to statically typed languages.
The architecture of the DLR in combination with the Common Language Runtime CLR and C#, IronPython, IronRuby and Visual Basic is visualized through this illustration:
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As seen from the illustration, the DLR adds three new and important features to the CLR:
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