Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Last Month, Novell became the first provider to offer a solution for writing iPhone apps in the C# .NET stack. Being a C# Microsoft .NET developer, I immediately became excited -- but then I started reading about it, and my excitement soon soured; their offering is called monotouch, and it costs $399 for a basic license – yikes! and it requires a mac for development (boooo). Give me something I can use, please. There is an evaluation version, but it’s limited to development on an iPhone simulator though. Not sure on how many days you can “evaulate” the product for
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
This just in: Lambda Expressions are cool. Yes, I'm a tad late, given that this language feature has been around for some time (introduced originally in .net 3.0, and packaged in .net 3.5). But to my defense, I have these reasons: (1) There wasn’t a need for it on my end, (2) I was working in a .net 2.0 shop, (3) There were so many feature enhancements that this particular one flew under the radar. Fast forward to today, I've written my first lambda expression and wish to share it. So what are lambda expressions? In my own words, they