Digitial photography is not rocket science. It just seems that way.

Here's a TV advert for a camera touting the benefits of film cameras over digital cameras. I'm almost inclined to wonder if this advert is a parody, but even so, it has a point.

Let's watch...

reddit'd (Followup to 'Construct Something Else')

Fame at last! Fame at last!

My last piece, "Construct something else!" got a bit of attention when someone posted it on reddit.That was unexpected.

Remember the rule; If you publish something that's a bad idea in hindsight, post a "clarification" article claiming you've been misunderstood and that you never thought it was a good idea in the first place. Then hide in the shower.

Construct something else! (C#)

Please read my follow-up post after reading this one.

Quoth rjw on stackoverflow...

Given the following client code:

    var obj = new Class1();

Is there any way to modify the constructor of Class1 so that it will actually return a subclass (or some other alternate implementation) instead?

C# compiler guru, Eric Lippert commented...

We are considering adding a feature "extension new" which would essentially allow you to make a static factory method that would be called when the "new" operator is used, much as extension methods are called when the "." operator is used. It would be a nice syntactic sugar for the factory. If you have a really awesome scenario where this sort of pattern would be useful, I'd love to see an example.

I have one!