You learn a lot from reading the bleeding edgers

Well I think Alex is bleeding, his Base4.Net project seems very cool, I just don’t understand it enough to know how to use it, but I do know I should try understand it.

But what is cool is that he does a fantastic job of blogging his insights and revelations to making it a better product. I am therefore learning quite a bit about how I can do things better. For instance his series of posts on Intellisense Planning, has been really educational as I’d never knew why the refactor tool offered implicit or explicit implementations of interfaces, and I didn’t notice any difference when I chose the different options. But having read the entries twice it now has clicked. You get that warm happy feeling of “wow that’s cool” when you realised the power that has been always available, while I just ignorantly coded on…