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“They really did it this time!”
One interesting trend I’ve noticed on tech-related blogs and articles is a strange focus on Linux- for example, “10 reasons to switch to [...]
Moving Forward Part I: Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1 was released in April 1992. It was very much a ‘bugfix’ release for Windows 3.0. As luck would have it however Windows 3.1 was the [...]
SteamOS: “That’s a nice Iceberg, let’s crash into it”
Recently, Valve announced their upcoming ‘product’- a Free Operating System called SteamOS. Steam OS is the culmination of a year or so of [...]
The Mystery of the “Diagnostic Startup”
Through quite a number of versions, Windows has included a tool called “MSConfig” for configuring your software setup. There is a lot of [...]
the MS Web Stack
As many web developers are aware, there are a myriad of ways to develop websites and interactive web applications today. On the server side, one typically [...]
BCUpdateLib: Not really broken
Now that I finally have a windows machine with a internet connection, I decided to investigate issues I heard of from reliable sources that the BCUpdateLib [...]
I’m a C# Microsoft MVP for 2012
I don’t know how but somehow I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for my contributions to C# technical communities (C# MVP). Of course I [...]
BASeBlock and Polygon Blocks
That’s right. The latest version of BASeBlock now adds a working Polygon block. There was a lot of reengineering to be done, but it works [...]
Win7 and the case of the broken games
A frequent- and aggravating- problem that I’ve had with games on my Windows machine is that many of them simply would not start. Inspecting Task [...]
C# > Java
What does C# have that Java doesn’t? let’s see: Operator Overloading. This was excluded from Java because it’s “Dangerous” or [...]