Korner Talk

Happy Cinco De Mayo to all those getting drunk on Patron and Coronas tonight.
In celebration of the Hornet’s kicking some Spur ass like the way the Mexican’s kicked some French Ass, here’s a basketball joke for you to enjoy!
What do you call two mexicans playing basketball?
Juan on Juan.

For the past day and a half, I’ve been swimming in programming misery trying to figure out why I couldn’t cast something. Suppose the following psuedo-classes:
public interface IFoo
{
   public string Foo();
}
public class Derived : IFoo
{
   public Derived()
}
public class MainApp()
{
   public MainApp()
   {
      Derived derived  = new Derived();
      IFoo foo = derived  as IFoo; //this should [...]

Last week was a weak attempt at studying. As I suspected, the new post has been taking away more of my energy than the previous one. There is way too much to soak up at work, not only from a project domain standpoint, but from a programming standpoint as well. If I had the possibility [...]