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Cached Redirects Considered Harmful (and how browsers can fix them)

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

There are a lot of URLs out there on the Web; and a pretty big number of those URLs are either alternative names for something, or old locations that have been superseded. So “redirects” from one URL to another are a common feature of the web, and have been for many years. But recently, the [...]

Why object references are confusing, and what to do about it

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

A recent blog post from my old friend Phil1 discussed some of the gotchas of parameter passing in object-oriented languages – or I suppose specifically in partially OO languages, since the problem in this case was a combination of objects and structs in C#. It seems to me there is a genuine problem here, beyond [...]