Cos' Adventures

Cosmin Nicolaescu's Blog

Singleton

The Singleton design pattern is seemingly one of the most simple patterns out there, yet on several...

Author: cosn Date: 09/10/2009

Copy + Pasting in Unit Tests

Some people love designing. Others love writing the code. While it’s true that some like testing and...

Author: cosn Date: 08/26/2009

Hello Win7.c

This marks my first post from a Windows 7 machine. I am highly impressed so far. The full...

Author: cosn Date: 02/02/2009

The DATAbase is part of the DATA layer, so it should be used for … DATA

I was talking to a friend the other day, and he’s learning some Silverlight (which, as a side note...

Author: cosn Date: 01/04/2009

UTF-8 strings in C#

I was doing a code review a few days ago on a web service library. There was a message which was...

Author: cosn Date: 12/26/2008

Platforms vs. Frameworks

First of all, apologies for not having any activity lately. I pretty much blame the lack of Internet...

Author: cosn Date: 10/22/2008

First post ... sort of

For those of you who know me, you probably have read my previous posts. For everyone else, feel free...

Author: cosn Date: 10/01/2008