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This week, we talk about OWASP and their list of top 10 application security risks. What they are, infamous examples, and what you can do about it.
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This episode is all about source control etiquette.
It’s a bit different from the last two podcasts we released and we’d love to hear how you liked it!
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This episode is all about boxing and unboxing. We discuss memory management, the pros (yes, there are a few!) and cons of boxing/unboxing, some of the weird side effects and how to you can avoid it with generics and ToString methods.
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Unlike Java, C# has a unified type system. Both reference types AND values inherit from system.object which means that you can have a method that takes in both value and reference types by their common parent, System.Object.
This is used to great effect in the String class, where you have methods like CompareTo(Object), String.Concat(Object,Object) and my personal favorite: Format(String, Object[]).
These methods are really convenient, but unfortunately boxing occurs when you pass in value types.
However, we’ve come across a nice trick for skipping those operations. [Read more…]
You might have had the anti boxing and unboxing rhetoric pounded into your head.
In the .NET world they’re often mentioned as an unfortunate side-effect of backwards compatibility. A reminder of life before generics…
…before Linq. *shudder*
Let’s take a look at 7 of the reasons why programmers beat up on boxing. [Read more…]
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The good, the bad, and the ugly side of interfaces. We list some minor gripes, their limitations, and some strange gotchas as well as some tips for how we like to (mis|ab)use them.
There used to have a wonderful series of “What If?” comics that pondered a few of the important hypothetical questions in the Marvel universe.
We talked about a few of the limitations of interfaces in C# on episode 1, and I wanted to provide a few examples of what we were on about with this fun little twist.
Let’s see what it could look if interfaces, static classes, and anonymous classes supported constructors and some theoretical workarounds for these limitations. [Read more…]
We programmers tend to have a few OCD qualities and there are a few things about C# interface naming conventions that we talked during episode 1 of the podcast about I’d like to whine about discuss.
