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:
- people
- numbers and storage formats
- strings and encodings
- dates, times and time zones
- scope things narrowly (YAGNI) in a conscious way, and understand beyond what you implement
He for instance shows that the fundamentals are both very much unknown by many among us, and less universal than we think.
--jeroen
via +Jon Skeet’s speech “Back to basics” is really a good watch. In a funny way,….
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Moritz Beutel said
When Jon Skeet has a question, the C# team apologizes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6256847/curious-null-coalescing-operator-custom-implicit-conversion-behaviour
jpluimers said
Awesome!