Monthly Archives: April 2008

A hidden benefit of health insurance

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Jim

When I went the self-employment route three years ago, Debra took on the job of finding us some private health insurance. We finally settled on a plan that costs us about $300 per month and has a pretty high annual … Continue reading →

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Calling static methods as instance methods

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Jim

I was half asleep yesterday when I fired off an email to my co-workers about the String.IsNullOrEmpty method in the .NET runtime. One thing I said in the mail was: I find it curious that IsNullOrEmpty is a static method … Continue reading →

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Debugging a stalled engine

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Jim

You’re looking at the front end of my riding lawn mower. After 12 seasons of use and my own maintenance, I finally had some problems with it that were better handled by a repair shop. I got the machine back … Continue reading →

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HashSet Limitations

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Jim

Version 3.5 of the .NET runtime class library introduced the HashSet generic collection type. HashSet represents a set of values that you can quickly query to determine if a value exists in the set, or enumerate to list all of … Continue reading →

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