Category Archives: Metablogging

Moving this blog

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Hey all, quick metablogging note.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out to me that the blog was down for the last 36+ hours. This blog was previously hosted by web.com; I chose web.com because of their alleged high uptime, alleged competence, and alleged fast customer service. As a result of my experience over the last 36 hours I’ll be moving the blog over to a different hosting service which I hope to be both more reliable and responsive. Apologies for the inconvenience.

If you’re seeing this, you’re looking at the new site; yay, it works!  Expect things to be a bit wonky for a while as not all of the formatting and whatnot transferred over.

While I was at it, I moved the content from my blog about building a backyard aluminum foundry to https://ericlippert.com/category/foundry/. I haven’t done much casting over the last year or so but hope to get back into it this summer.

In related news, as a consequence of changing hosting services: the purple is back, infinite scrolling is on, social media buttons are enabled, AdWords have been replaced with WordAds (!), footnotes are broken, comments are too narrow. I’ll take the good with the bad.

Happy blogoversary

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Good heavens, I blew past my tenth blogoversary without even noticing it. My first blog post was on the 12th of September, 2003 and looking back I see that I made a whopping 36 posts in the two weeks that followed. That’s craziness; my publishing rate is now about a tenth of that. But of course then I had a huge backlog of material to publish that I had been collecting for years, so there you go.

Thanks all for helping me during my fabulous adventures; I appreciate it very much. Here’s to another ten years!

First day

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coverity-logoToday is my first day at Coverity! I am super-excited!

I have an enormous amount to learn about their systems. Since I have not so much as logged in to a Unix-based development environment since 1996, I’m going to be completely heads-down for the next couple of weeks. I am spending that time in San Francisco at the head office, drinking from the fire hose of static analysis knowledge. I will therefore have almost no time to spend on the blog. Expect things to be on auto-pilot for a little while. I’ve spent part of my time off queuing up articles, so it should not go entirely dark.

I’ll then spend the last week of January working remotely; the new office in the Columbia Tower in Seattle should be set up by the first week of February if all goes as planned. I am so looking forward to working downtown! I’ll post some photos when I get access to the new space.

Next time on FAIC: we’ll get back to the subject of how the Roslyn compiler optimizes lifted arithmetic.

Fabulous adventures

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Hello world, this is the new home of Fabulous Adventures in Coding. (The previous site is here.) Long-time readers will need no introduction, but if you are new here, please check out this short bio.

Today, November 29th 2012, is as I noted in my final post on the MSDN blog, my second-last day at Microsoft. After tomorrow I will be taking the next few weeks off and not thinking about programming languages for once. And after that, I’m starting a new gig in 2013 at Coverity.

Most of you probably have not heard of Coverity, but you have almost certainly used software that was affected by their tools. Coverity makes static analysis tools for software developers; these tools analyze source code written in C, C++, Java and C# and tell you about correctness and security issues before they ship to customers. Among their high-profile customers are the Jet Propulsion Lab team that wrote the software for the Curiosity rovers now running around on Mars and the software team for the Large Hadron Collider, which recently confirmed the existence of the Higgs Boson. They also serve more down-to-earth customers; it’s not all weird science.

As an expert on the design and implementation of static analyzers for C# code — because, after all, that’s what the compiler is! — the opportunity to work in downtown Seattle on a small team to improve the C# analysis product was too good to pass up. And so here I am, continuing to try to improve the tools available for C# programmers.

Though I am no longer an “insider” on the C# design team, I intend to continue to blog about the design and implementation of C#, as well as other fabulous adventures in coding. If this sort of thing interests you, please subscribe to the RSS feed at ericlippert.com/feed, and please follow me on Twitter where I am @ericlippert.

Once I’m back from my short vacation we’ll get right back into it. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to sharing more fabulous adventures with you.

Next time on FAIC: Why are the bracing rules inconsistent in C#?