Archive for May, 2007

“AndAlso”…VB.NET short circuiting oddity

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

It comes as no surprise that Visual Basic frequently breaks away from traditional programming semantics, but the “AndAlso” short circuit conditional simply does not make sense.

For those not familiar with the short circuited conditional, it is a syntax where you can have two conditionals in an IF statement, and if the first conditional fails, the […]

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My time in purgatory is almost over!

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Although I love technology, and find fun and challenge almost anywhere; I have to admit, my current project is repetitive drudgery of SQL changes, retest, fix, ad nauseum. Yet there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I just hope it is not a train.

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