If you haven’t read Steve Yegge, you owe it to yourself to do so. He only writes about once a month, but every single article is worth reading, whether you agree with him on everything or not. His latest is fascinating and incites some interesting pondering about the future of software…I’m going to have to […]
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Always, always, always follow the suggested usage patterns of disposable objects. I had a strange problem recently where e-mail messages with attachments weren’t releasing the lock on the files for a long time. I was using the System.Net.Mail namespace, specifically the Attachment and MailMessage classes.
Disposable objects represent resources not directly under control by the CLR–and […]
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I recently (re?)learned a harsh lesson at work. We migrated a critical application’s e-mail client code to use System.Net.Mail’s classes instead of those in the deprecated System.Web.Mail.
After doing this, we immediately had three problems, mostly with the Attachment class:
Our automated test software could no longer read the attachments
Attachments started having names of Directory_Directory_FileName (they were […]
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I just read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This is the first time I’ve read it, never having come across it in school, like most people seem to. To me, it was the greatest argument against getting a TV. My wife and I decided towards the beginning of our marriage to never subscribe to […]
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