Read this, it's an interest overview of what Microsoft should've done in Longhorn.

Shorthorn.

Sanctuary by non else but Mercedes Lackey

The first thing to note about this book is that it's short, and it's not as packed with action as I hoped it would. The target audiance are young adults, and for them I think that the book would do very well. I found that I want it to be longer, and with bigger scope.

However, the book is entertaining, and there was more than one point in which I had to point it down to laugh it out*. The book ends much faster than I expected, and the ending was the usual good beating evil, but it was very nicely executed and overall a good read.

* There is a point where the hero says that dragons do not have magical ability to travel through time, a clear reference to Pern.

A few hours ago I thought that I was going crazy, I'd had a form that wouldn't save changes unless I closed it without saving first. I debugged it long and hard, and I couldn't find any reason whatsoever for this. Saving and then closing wouldn't work, but closing and saying yes to the unsaved message would.

The call stack from each was the same, and for the life of me I couldn't find what is wrong. I was ready to get NHibernate's code and start debugging that (I'm pleased to say that so far I didn't get to find any bugs in it :-) ). However, I turned on logging first and realized that NHibernate wasn't issuing an update statement at all. The only case where NHibernate doesn't execute an update statement when you tell it to is when you don't have any updates to your object.

That was the answer, I was using databinding in the form, and the field I was changing wouldn't update the datasource until it lost focus (which is reasonable, I guess), but it cause me no end of grief. When I moved the focus to another control, it worked.

Just goes to say that you really needs to know what you are doing before you do it*.

*This is my first serious attempt of using databinding.

I just discovered that my digital camera was set to taking pictures at the lowest resolution. Argh!

Took me a while to fix it, first time that I'd to actually do something beyond turn it on, point and click.

Yes, it's true, and I've got proof!

The small print: I was on the Ra'anana's bus station, and I couldn't resist taking the photo. 

Well, I improved on my multi threading code, but I was still not satisfied about the way it work, it created threads unnececarily, so I decided to improve it. Again, I'm using Udi Dahan's ThreadSafeQueue for multi threading.

The idea is based on what Udi Dahan had to say on the comments for my post, and is actually very simple, the queue host intellegent commands, and the working thread simply has to pull them out of the queue and execute them, one at a time.

Here is the working thread implementation:

Now the only thing that I need to do when I want to run a job in the working thread is to add a command to the queue. [Currently I've BuildProjectCommand & ExecuteQueryCommand]

The nice thing about this is that I can expand this to more threads without having to do much beyond spun those threads (or better, just use ThreadPool).

Testing this is a little bit tricky, because I'm not really interested in starting threads in my tests, I managed to get around it by using the  DelegatingConstraintWithArgs I'm not sure that this is a good thing, though. Suggestions?

By the way, I really do need to start using NCover again, I've done an extensive modification, and I didn't get nearly enough breaking tests. (It's all because of the UI, I swear :-)).

Apperantly I'm not one, I like Windows :-)

I really like Notepad2, but the post about Replacing notepad with notepad2 wouldn't work on XP SP2, here is one that works, apperantly the only change is from %systemroot%\system32\dllcache to %systemroot%\ServicePackFiles\i386

I just discovered this:

Rhythm Programming

I wonder what this is all about, how do you play a loop using this? :-)