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Archive for July 15th, 2015

Jon Skeet’s speech “Back to basics” is really a good watch – via Jørn Einar Angeltveit G+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/15

Thanks [Wayback] Jørn Einar Angeltveit for sharing this a while ago:

A session by Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony (which has strong teeth) presented during the Polish DevDay 2013 in Kraków, Poland.

[Wayback] +Jon Skeet’s speech [Wayback] “Back to basics” is really a good watch.

In a funny way, he explains why the simplest fundamentals of computer software text, dates and numbers can cause some real headache for the programmer…

In case you didn’t know: Jon Skeet is “Chuck Norris” on [Wayback] stackoverflow.com:

The subtitle is “the mess we’ve made of our fundamental data types”.

Some of the topics covered:

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