December 2003

published: Sat, 17-Jan-2004   |   updated: Fri, 5-Aug-2016

Here are the articles that were published in December 2003.

Using delegates and events in multithreaded apps

If you're using delegates or events in a multithreaded application, be aware of a small subtlety when you invoke a delegate and when you remove a method from a delegate or event. Read more...

What are United Airlines playing at?

I like travelling on United Airlines; after all, I've done enough of it over the past two years. So, when we want to travel anywhere I tend to use them for our flights. But today's experience has left me wondering, what are they trying to do? Read more...

Time for change

It's been both fun and frustrating, and an incredible learning experiece, but it's now time for me to move on from Microsoft. Consequently, I resigned this week, and my final day is December 19. Got a job for me? Read more...

Affirming The Affirmation

I was asked recently about my favorite book of all time. It didn't take much reflection to produce the answer: The Affirmation by Christopher Priest. Read more...

Google Number

What's your Google Number? Read more...

Testing quicksort

Recently I was in an e-mail conversation with a reader of my book. He was trying to implement quicksort in a class of his devising using the implementation from the book. He was running into a problem where it wasn't sorting properly. Read more...