September 2005
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Here are the articles that were published in September 2005.
Delphi or C#?
published: Tue, 20-Sep-2005
I've been asked this kind of question before: "I have a Win32
application written in Delphi. I now need to move it to .NET. Should I
try and use Delphi for .NET? Or should I rewrite it in C#?" I got such
a question this morning from one of my Norwegian readers. I generally
tell them the same thing, there's no clear answer, but embellish it
according to the amount of time I have at that moment.
(Updated: 23-Sep-2005) Read more...
Elegance in programming
published: Sun, 25-Sep-2005
Over the next couple of weeks, a small team of us will be going
through a subsystem in our product to clean it up and to harden it
against exceptional situations. It currently works, but when something
goes wrong, it can fail in mysterious ways. We're also going to take
the opportunity to do some much-needed profiling for speed and memory.
The original subsystem was written in C# back in the day when the
company hadn't much experience in all things .NET and I'm afraid it
shows.
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