I’ve just managed to fix a particularly annoying issue I was having with Cygwin under Vista with UAC enabled. Essentially, when I ran the Cygwin bash shell as an Administrator I was seeing the following:

I’ve always used Google as a search engine: I can say that having tried out all its competitors it’s results are simply the most relevant.

As you may know, C# has a rather lovely little feature whereby you can setup an event on a class, like so:

Recently I started to receive some rather strange error messages from some .NET programs I had written that made use of the WebRequest class. The exception was something like this:

I’m really feeling the pain of the simplicity of C#’s generics system. I have found some situations where I could introduce more type safety by being able to refer to a type parameter on the left hand side of a generic constraint which is not a parameter of the immediate definition, but rather that of an enclosing class. For an example of what I mean, see this: