Always nice to see C# in Depth on lists of good C# books - even if I feel guilty that there's not a fifth edition yet (and it's not in the works at the moment either). josipmisko.com/best-c-sharp-b for the list - and mng.bz/QnKQ to order it. End of shameless self-promo :)

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C# in Depth, Fourth Edition

This guide is your key to unlocking the powerful new features added to the language in C# 5, 6, and 7. Master asynchronous functions, expression-bodied members, and much more.

Lots of signed copies (and bookmarks!) now available at the lovely Waterstones Reading,

I'm starting to think that rack mount units are a bit like hard disks, in terms of "you will always fill the space you have, then want more." On the other hand, they're extremely satisfying... so neat.

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Nov 29

How quickly does your code get time zone database updates? 2022-11-29T17:43Z: IANA time zone database 2022g published 2022-11-29T17:50Z: NodaTime v3.1.6 pushed to NuGet

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Dinosaur with bi flag colours: Girlfriend’s away for the weekend.

Zoom out to see bi dino sitting on a rock playing a video game: I can do whatever I want.

Bi dino stops playing and looks up.

Bi dino slouching sadly on the rock, with a thought bubble showing them thinking of a dino with lesbian flag colours: I want to hang out with my girlfriend.

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I've been playing Redactle for the last couple of weeks, and it's great. Now I want Refactle, which starts with a complete mess of code, and lets you try to apply various refactorings until you end up with something readable.

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Actually getting round to looking at Mastodon servers now. I'm assuming I don't need to find a server which caters to exactly what I post about. I'm guessing "Christian feminist man in tech, fan of musicals" might be a bit niche.

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Nov 16

Our cats really can be very cute sometimes.

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Jon Skeet

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Nov 12

Followers who are up on US politics: I assume that the Republicans were planning on shutting down the January 6th committee if possible. If they get a majority in the House, but it's only very slim (e.g. 223) would they still have the votes to do that?

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Nov 5

Now asked the Stack Overflow question:

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Why does sending via a UdpClient cause subsequent receiving to fail?

I'm trying to create a UDP server which can send messages to all the clients that send messages to it. The real situation is a little more complex, but it's simplest to imagine it as a chat server:

Either I don't understand UDP (very possible), or I don't understand UdpClient in .NET (very possible), or UdpClient doesn't really understand UDP (would be surprising). Time to start prepping a Stack Overflow question. Really hope I don't need to start using Socket directly.

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I just don't think I've got the energy to file a proper bug report for TimeZoneInfo producing the wrong results for Asia/Gaza from 2037 onwards on Linux, on .NET 6. <sigh>

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Nov 4

It strikes me that with the appalling way the Twitter layoffs have been conducted, they're likely to find it hard to retain the remaining staff *or* recruit new staff (at least without a huge mea culpa). Who'd want to work for a company run like that?

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Answer to b looks promising, although I can't see prices yet. The downloaded data shows what I'd expect.

Spreadsheet showing 01:00-01:30 and 01:30-02:00 twice each.

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Blogged: handling times for an EV charger -

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Handling times for an EV charger

This morning (October 30th 2022), the clocks went back in the UK – the time that would have been 2am fell back to 1am. This is just the regular “fall back” transition – ther…

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Handling times for an EV charger

This morning (October 30th 2022), the clocks went back in the UK – the time that would have been 2am fell back to 1am. This is just the regular “fall back” transition – ther…

Given the responses saying "the charger should be converting to UTC", I think I may write a blog post with some sample code of what *I'd* do if I were writing the charger code.

Answer to a) - yes, I got 5 hours of charging. I won't find out the answer to b) until tomorrow.

Exciting experiment tonight! I have my electric car charger set to charge between 00:30 and 04:30, as that's when I get cheap electricity. The clocks go back (2:00 to 1:00) tonight. So: a) will I get 5 hours of charging? b) will all of it be at the cheap rate? Enquiring minds etc

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I've just finished another pass at some wording around overload resolution in the C# standard. (The improvements in C# 7.) It was only a few lines, but it's overload resolution. That means I'm done for the day, right?

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 26

I can't help but think that the Conservatives have handed all other parties a long-term gift. *Every* time they call for someone to resign due to some admitted mistake in future, the response should be: "Sure, so long as they can come back in a week. That's okay, right?"

Holly Webb has written over 150 stories for children in her 18 year career including the the bestselling and well loved Animal Stories series. This film gives us some beautiful insight into

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In conversation with children's author, Holly Webb

Holly Webb has written hundreds of stories for children over her 18 year career including the popular Animal Stories series and the Winter and Summer Wildlif...

Point of pedantry,

. In bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p it claims that it's mathematically impossible to have 3 candidates if one has 155, as candidates can't nominate themselves. I haven't seen anything saying one candidate can't nominate another...

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 23

(It's been fixed now.)

The

needs to use Noda Time: "With just over 48 hours to go until nominations for the next Conservative Party leader close at 14:00 BST on Monday" - um, over 48 hours? Is there an extra day I'm not aware of?

I keep having weird thoughts about what's really going on behind the scenes in the Conservative leadership election (and what will happen in the next week). Current thought: Sunak and Johnson are playing rock/paper/scissors somewhere to decide who actually enters the race.

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 22

If at noon on Monday, Mordaunt has ~50 nominations and Johnson has 90, would 10 of Maudant's break to get Johnson over the line? And is that even allowed under the rules?

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 21

If Johnson *does* end up as PM again, I would dearly love Starmer's first PMQ question to be "Did you enjoy your holidays?"

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 21

On November 4th I'm going to be giving a talk about working with date and time information as part of PeakIT 005. Register for free here:

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PeakIT 005 - Day 2 - Peak IT

04/11/2022 @ 2:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Welcome to Day 2 of PeakIT005! This year comes with a surprise: You can register to only one speaker from Day 2 and we will send you the access links for the entire...

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 21

I believe there's a significant chance that Johnson (if he runs) will win the leadership contest. I suspect he would then fail to form a government, so we'd be in for a quick general election. That might even be our best hope for an early election - but would be farcical.

Jon Skeet

@jonskeet

Oct 20

I really want to see a general election with at least one party campaigning with the slogan "Make politics boring again."

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He's four months old.

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Twitter, I'm disappointed. I'd really expected that by now there's be a really good version of "We both reached for the gun" but with Jeremy Hunt controlling Liz Truss...

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Oct 16

Blogged: Introduction to DigiMixer -

codeblog.jonskeet.uk

Introduction to DigiMixer

This is the first of what I expect to become a series of maybe a dozen blog posts about a hobby project I’ve started, called DigiMixer. Back in January 2021 I posted about controlling an XR-1…

C# quiz: Look at the picture in the following tweet, and answer this question. What will you see at debug time if you hover the mouse over the ids variable? #CSharp #dotnet