I cringe when I see this sort of code: var names = new List<string> { "tom", "dan", "warren" }; // Find the longest name in the list // var longest = names.First(); foreach (var name in names) { if (name.Length > longest.Length) { longest = name; } } Why…

I presented a TechSession(tm) to my development team last week which was meant to be about LiveScript. It turned out that in order to understand what the purpose of something like LiveScript is, you need to understand the beauty-warts of JavaScript (oxymoron intended). Basically, JavaScript is completely awesome. It's…