Ed Guiness

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Author of Ace the Programming Interview

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I need this baby in a month - send me nine women!

project-management asked Sep 16, 2008 at 20:21

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Unhandled exceptions in BackgroundWorker

c# .net multithreading debugging backgroundworker asked Nov 3, 2008 at 13:50

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38 votes

How can I determine property types using reflection?

c# .net reflection asked Feb 6, 2009 at 14:10

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33 votes

Undoing specific revisions in Subversion

svn undo cherry-pick asked Sep 24, 2008 at 10:05

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24 votes

Implicit typing; why just local variables?

c# .net variables implicit-typing asked May 5, 2009 at 12:59

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22 votes

Does anyone still believe in the Capability Maturity Model for Software?

process-management cmmi asked Sep 15, 2008 at 18:12

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18 votes

Why is it bad to "monkey with the loop index"?

c# for-loop asked Jan 19, 2009 at 9:43

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13 votes

Is thread-local storage persisted between backgroundworker invocations?

c# .net multithreading backgroundworker thread-local asked Feb 18, 2009 at 15:29

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10 votes

Unexpected behaviour of Process.MainWindowHandle

c# .net msdn asked Sep 7, 2008 at 10:14

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10 votes

What does 'rich user interface' mean?

language-agnostic user-interface terminology asked May 15, 2009 at 12:56

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What's your most controversial programming opinion?

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Do programmers peak?

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Environment Setting for Highlighted Variable in Visual Studio

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Computer Language puns and jokes

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Drop foreign key without knowing the name of the constraint?

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SQL WHERE ID IN (id1, id2, ..., idn)

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Read a file into an array using Perl

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Should application architects write code?

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