Discussions about programming and programming languages are frequent. They can get heated. One interesting notion is the notion of language [...]

“Zebra-Striping” is the name for a common technique for reports or long lists of items where each row is given a colour distinct from those [...]

Sometimes you need to create temporary files. Usually, you can discard those temporary files by opening them in a fashion so they are deleted when they are [...]

With the runaway success of Visual Basic 1.0, it made sense for future versions to be released improving incrementally on the existing version. Such was [...]

XNA Game Studio is a finicky bugger, and it’s even more finicky now that it is no longer being maintained. One of the biggest issues is that it [...]

C#’s linq(language-integrated query) features are some of the more powerful features available through the language. Aside from it’s query [...]

The D Programming language is designed as a extension of C and C++ into the domain of a higher-level programming language. It is not 100% Source compatible [...]

Is XNA Going Away? The following consists of my opinion and does not constitute the passing on of an official statement from Microsoft. All thoughts and [...]

Haskell is one of those languages that, to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, can’t get any respect. I mean, sure, it get’s a lot of use in [...]

Note: This Post has been (partly) superceded by the implementation described in the more recent Alpha blended forms revisited Post. One common problem that [...]