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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

So, while I was trying to implement the double buffer (previous post available here) I started thinking about perhaps a simpler implementation with one of the concurrent collections, so I tried with a ConcurrentQueue<T>.

A game running at 60FPS needs to render every 16 milliseconds, meaning that all the logic for collision detection, animation, obstacle avoidance, physics, etc. must happen in that very short time.

For the last few years I have been writing code in C#.

Mono for android or Xamarin.Android little tips: If you turn on GPU emulation, sometimes GPU emulation doesn’t actually start, it downgrades to software rendering, this makes the emulator slower and it doesn’t actually uses OpenGL(if you are using monogam…

I did a few presentations about Monogame in Gaming Reimagined (at what used to be the Landsdowne Road Stadium) and in Games Fleadh, if you were there I would really appreciate your feedback (good and bad, please just leave a comment here).

A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought Mono for Android.

As you might or might not know, I am one of the founders of BatCat Games, the important word about that sentence is **games.

I’ve been playing with mono for android the last few days.

So, after the last post, where I introduced Directory truncator, I present you some extra work I have just committed.

Recently I needed some code to truncate a directory of files or folders, for example I wanted to remove files or directories given a max number of files or directories.

I needed a psd content processor and found one here it is based on the EndoEngine.

This is not a big one but it’s good to know.

A reading diary is my way to discuss with myself what I think about the book as I read it.

I‘ve been feeling that I’m missing out by not knowing much about functional programming and this book was recommended to my many times, so I started reading it.

So I was at DDD South west last saturday presenting Raven DB: day to day.

Just a small post to let you know.

Cameras are cool, so lets keep at it and try a spring camera, i.e. one that follows you around.

This a very simple walk through to use Mercury on a Windows Phone 7 project.

What is a camera?

I got a Windows Phone 7 to play with for a while and these are some notes about the experiment.

So a few Scientists and a few developers met last Wednesday.

XNA is the SDK from Microsoft for game development.

What an awesome experience to organize and participate in this event.

In the last few years the tooling available to .net developers for unit testing in general has matured, these are some of the tools that I either used or heard of : Continuous Integration: Team City: I use it and really like it, simple to set up and use,…

During the past weekend I was at DDD Scotland, it was great to meet all the people there.

DDD Scotland is happening next weekend, I’m really looking forward to it.

Hi : Recently a group of us (tho mostly Pablo Nuñez ) translated the article from Udi Dahan Clarifying CQRS.

I ve been talking to some people over the past few months about CQRS, particularly CQRS/ES and at some point of the conversation I get the **framework **question.

Say we are not concerned with the query side of things (because we have an autonomous query service that need not know about your aggregate roots).

I was in Belfast yesterday were I was presenting what I called “CQRS/ES and friends” in NIMTUG .

This post belongs to a series of posts on CQRS/ES Part 1 – introductory terms and overview Part 2 – Event sourcing and information about commands So, we are moving on.

CQRS with Event Sourcing [caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”269” caption=”Photo By edinburghcityofprint(flickr)”][/caption] Looking at CQRS and Event Sourcing as Architectural patterns, when we use them together the impact of that is widespread.

I’m preparing for a talk on CQRS and I though I’d support it with a series of posts on the subject.

We are evaluating BDD frameworks at the moment and I’m going through StoryQ.

In the Book Club, we are reading 7 Languages in 7 Weeks (for more info on the book club go to Dublin Alt.Net mailing list) so far a really awesome book, Its helping me have a quick view of not only different languages, but also different programing paradi…

I was invited to give a talk on Open Source in DIT to a group of students.

I heard about this new web framework the other day, the code its available on github/jacksonh/manos the main interesting thing I heard about it were: runs on Mono Has its own server Has no dependecies on Asp.net the main goal of mono is to simplify web ap…

This is just how I organize folders and projects on my machine, there are endless possibilities , but I saw someone searching for it online and it did took me a long while before I settled on this, so I thought I would blog about it.

I had a bit of trouble getting to this, so for self reference more than anything, I thought I d post about it.

Yesterday we had the 3rd IOSCD.

There is a bunch of things happening in Dublin in the next few months, I figured it would be handy to push a post on it. 30th of august - Windows Phone 7 .

Kick post on Types, nothing outrageous, but this was just a construct that I never used too much.

So I was getting an “ Could not Load File or Assembly” error, even thou I was pretty certain I was referencing the right dlls in the correct folders.

What is pair programming?

Recently I started using Visual Studio 2010, if you follow me on twitter you probably know that this hasnt been a nice transition for me (apologies for the cursing btw) I ve had many crashes, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone, not only a quick search in t…

I think the best way to describe this is saying, When is the next one?

Fluentmigrator is a really nice migration tool that allows you to tear your database up and down keeping version, please visit the project page for more info.

I’m late with the Ada Lovelace Day article, I had the choice of making it on time but incomplete, or put some time and be late, and I chose the later this time.

Hi all: Just thought I d post here that a group of us in Dublin.