It's really out! (Image description: photo of C# in Depth 4th edition)
Jon Skeet
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Jon Skeet
@jonskeet
Christian, husband (of @HollyKateWebb), father, feminist, software eng, author, @stackoverflow contributor. He/him. Mostly at @jonskeet.uk on Bluesky now.
- It strikes me that with the appalling way the Twitter layoffs have been conducted, they're likely to find it hard to retain the remaining staff *or* recruit new staff (at least without a huge mea culpa). Who'd want to work for a company run like that?
- I know I shouldn't get worked up about Amazon reviews, but negative reviews of C# in Depth on the grounds that it's not suitable for readers who don't know any C# (and basically wanted a book for beginners) irk me. It's a review of the purchaser's decision instead of the book.
- I've been waiting until the right moment to post this thread. Today feels like the right day, as my daughter Ash came out as trans at her school today.
- A good developer is arrogant enough to try to change the world & humble enough to assume that when things fail, it's probably their fault.
- My first GoFundMe: I'll read (at least an hour of) the C# 6 draft spec aloud, by the stove in my living room if enough people donate in aid of @trans_code. Don't blame me for the weirdness of the medium here; that's all on @blowdart. Donate here:
- Blogged: Stack Overflow Culture - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/sta… - a 1-hour brain dump of my feelings about Stack Overflow. I could write for another 10 hours and not be done...
- I've created four or five new projects in Visual Studio this weekend. *Every single time* I've typed the name of the new project into the textbox in the top right before remembering that's a template filter. Every time.
- Top tip! Tired of C# not having a good inverse of "if (x is null)"? Just add "using notNull = System.Object;" at the start of your file, then you can use "if (x is notNull)" anywhere you want.
- Ooh, time for 15 minutes of fame:
- My video of "reading the C# 6 draft specification by the fire" is now up! youtube.com/watch?v=4_N8TZ… Many thanks again to so many generous donors, and (grudgingly) to @blowdart for the idea. (I believe the higher resolution versions are still processing. It will be 1080p eventually)
- A few years ago, who would have expected Microsoft to join the Linux foundation and Google to join the .NET Foundation on the same day?
- C# in Depth 4th edition is now off to the printers! Release dates should be confirmed soon...
- Blogged: Storing UTC is not a silver bullet -
