It’s Programmer Day! … (Is that the best you can do?)

Nice way to share same assembly attributes across the entire solution. via Joe’s Blog: Consistent Version Numbers Across All Assemblies.

No more long switch statements! CodeProject article.

One of important characteristics of commercial software is ability to trust the software manufacturer by validating authenticity of the software components. Such functionality can be achieved by digital signing of the released code. Another feature usually implemented at the final stage of the development cycle is code obfuscation which is protecting compiled code from unauthorized [...]

One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in France. I hate French people from the beginning; now I hate them much more. Oh, I’m Italian, if you don’t know… via BBC News – France nuclear: Marcoule site explosion kills one.

Mixins are small bits of functionality that are useful to a wide variety of otherwise unrelated classes. In languages that support multiple inheritance mixins are added as secondary base classes while dynamically typed languages simply merge in the extra functionality. Since C# and VB don’t normally support these options, mixins are normally added using base [...]