As many of you might know, Entity Framework 4 still lacks support to map enum properties.
There are countless of more or less worthless workarounds, everything from exposing constants integers in a static class to make it look like an enum to totally insane generics tricks with operator overloading.

This is a followup to my previous post on the same topic : http://rogeralsing.com/2010/07/29/evolutionary-algorithms-problems-with-directed-evolution/

Creationists often use “irreducible complexity” as an argument against evolution.
e.g. you need all parts in place and functioning before the “whole” can do its work and thus reproduce and spread its features.

This is a follow-up on my earlier posts regarding my toy language plastic:
http://rogeralsing.com/2010/04/14/playing-with-plastic/
http://rogeralsing.com/2010/04/17/more-on-plastic/

This is just a must see.
Scientists have designed a DNA sequence in a computer and managed to create real, self replicating cell, with it’s own email address encoded in the DNA 🙂

I’ve added some more features to my toy language “Plastic”.

I’ve added generator support to my toy language “Plastic”.
It’s quite funny how easy it is to implement some language features once you understand how they work behind the scenes.
At first, I thought generators would be extremely hard to implement, requiring AST transformations to build state machines a’la C# for enumerable methods.

As some of you might know, I’ve been fiddling with a generic DSL grammar, here and here.

[EDIT]
This was supposed to be my contribution to first of april (Sorry guys)
But apparently people are already doing things similair to this, for real, which makes this post quite a bit less fun.

I’ve replicated my favorite Netbeans theme “Norway Today” to VS.NET 2010,
I think it the dark blue bg works quite well with the blue VS2010 design.