This evening's episode of Bones on Sky was greeted with slightly more than the usual level of anticipation in our household because of the presence on the show of Stephen Fry. Naturally, Stephen didn't disappoint, and proved that while, as he has recently argued, for some people a British accent may substitute for acting skill, in his case he needn't berate himself for relying on a stiff upper lip instead of emoting. His acting style was well suited to Bones' combination of character driven dialogue and light humour, and gave the character the layers behind the surface of jokey tea-drinking Britishness that were needed....
Scott Guthrie is blogging with his usual enthusiasm about some new keystroke-saving language features we can all look forward to in the Orcas release of C#: Object Initializers are great, and make it much easier to concisely add objects to collections. ... Using the new Object Initializer feature alone (saves) 12 extra lines of code ... versus what I'd need to type with the C# 2.0 compiler. The C# and VB "Orcas" compilers allow us to go even further, though, and also now support "collection initializers" that allow us to avoid having multiple Add statements, and save even further keystrokes: List<Person> people = new List<Person> {...