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Is XNA going away?
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 [...]
Programming Language Performance Part XIII: Haskell
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 [...]
Per Pixel Alpha on VB.NET Forms
Note: This Post has been (partly) superceded by the implementation described in the more recent Alpha blended forms revisited Post. One common problem that [...]
BASeBlock:Visual Studio 2010 to 2012
Though I do tend to try to write my samples and test applications, as well as any new programs, using Visual Studio 2012, I haven’t yet migrated most [...]
Anagrams Part X: PHP Performance
Somehow while creating the various anagram implementations for the previous entries in this series, I neglected to create one for PHP. This was primarily [...]
Programming Language Performance Redux
This is not another entry into the series regarding anagrams, but a much simpler synopsis using a very basic algorithm. The performance of programming [...]
new Project: BCQuery
I was working on BASeBlock’s splash screen a bit, and thought it would be neat to have a little animation to expand and contract the list of loaded [...]
You’re never as awesome as you think you are
Many developers and programmers may describe their experience with a language or technology as them having “mastered” it. But is this really [...]
Developer Interview Questions
One of the trickiest parts I imagine with hiring a new developer is figuring it out several things about them. One thing you need to figure out is wether [...]
Byte-Size formatter for your Byte-Size Needs
Formatting Data Sizes When we present file-based data to a user, it is often unavoidable to show those byte sizes to the user. While you could get away [...]