As the .NET platform's Common Language Runtime evolves, it is acquiring quite a toolbox of baked-in features from which language implementors and systems designers can choose to achieve both elegance and efficiency--goals which are ordinarily at odds. Two of those features--delegates and lambdas...

As developers of frameworks, we know all too well that the fine line between adding value and adding overhead is drawn by user perceptions. If we do our job well, and make their task easier without senselessly sacrificing performance, our customers view us as adding value. If not, we are viewed as an...

This quick post is just to announce my new blog, "The Generative Programmer," which will examine generic and generative programming techniques and technologies from a framework developer perspective, with particular focus on how they affect enterprise architecture.