Fabulous Adventures In CodingEric Lippert's BlogCustomer Service Is Not Rocket Science, Part Two- June 23, 2008 I find it irritating, but not surprising, when I get absurdly bad customer service from a business whose business model is based on volume and high margins. But I find it quite surprising, and indeed, greatly amusing, to get absurdly bad customer service from a business whose business model is entirely based on quality of service. This was so amusing to me that I thought I would share it with you all. A little fun for the first work day of the summer. I have difficulty keeping up...http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/06/23/customer-service-is-not-rocket-scienc... Method Type Inference Changes, Part One- June 17, 2008 I want to start this by discussing the purpose of method type inference, and clearing up some potential misunderstandings about type inference errors. First off though, a brief note on nomenclature. Throughout this series when I say "type inference" I mean "method type inference", not any of the other forms of type inference we have in C 3.0. (Implicitly typed locals, implicitly typed arrays, and so on.) The purpose of type inference is to allow generic methods to be called without explicitly..http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/06/17/method-type-inference-changes-part-on... An apology- June 10, 2008 I posted an article recently entitled "The Managed Languages Team is Hiring", and the response I received was nigh overwhelming. Dozens of resumes and CVs from industry professionals, researchers and students poured in. It was very gratifying, and I was excited to get so many great leads. I collected up all of those resumes for sorting by our hiring managers, only to be told that it had come down from on high mere hours before that no, actually, we've now met our hiring goals. We've been...http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/06/10/an-apology.aspx |