Not Rocket Science

I just received my copy of Using the HTML5 Filesystem API by Eric Bidelman and wanted to use it as an example of how I would like Tech Books to be: This book is specialized and concise.

A couple of weeks ago, Duke Nukem Forever was finally released after perhaps the longest development period ever.

Some time ago I received an offer for a NDepend Professional license.

Just a little one liner.

I saw Tron Legacy on Friday and thought I'd write down a few thoughts.

Yesterday I have concluded the .net BF series with the explanation and code of the .net BF Compiler.

In the last 5 parts we looked at each of the 8 instructions, how it works in BF, how it would work in C# and how it looks in IL.

If you are developing Windows Desktop applications, you may want to offer context-sensitive help, triggered either by pressing F1 or by clicking on the question mark icon in the title bar and on an element.

The final two commands we're looking at are [ and ].

In the last two parts we tackled 4 of the 8 possible BF Commands: >, <, +, -.

One of the changes I really like in Visual Studio 2010 are optional parameters to method.

The last posting gave an introduction to the concepts and we started looking at the memory[pointer]++/-- functions.

In the last posting, we looked at BF as a language and how to write an interpreter in C#.

Today I'm starting a small series about how to write a Compiler to .net IL.

I've just pushed a new Version of my TimeSpan Library to GitHub.

I needed a Sanitizer function for a project, which will replace chars in a string with other chars.

I have polished the TimeSpan library a bit more.

Working with Time is always weird.

I've been starting to pick up ASP.net AJAX again, mainly because as a SharePoint developer I will be "stuck" with WebForms 3.5 for the next few years (SharePoint 2010 will not be a .net 4.0 application).

If you want a table with different CSS Styles for even/odd rows, that is reasonably easy, usually you have code like this: bool evenRow = true; foreach (var item in someList) { evenRow = !

Okay, so my system Hard Drive isn't too big, only 139 GB.

Just a tiny little extension method.

I'm currently working on an ASP.net Application for myself, and I was thinking about Configuration.

No no, I do not mean Advertising IN Games aka.

kay, so back in the old days, we had INI Files to store settings in.

OverClocked ReMix recently released another Album, this time remixing the entire Final Fantasy 4 Soundtrack, called Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption.

Okay, first a disclaimer: This post contains major spoilers about all 4 Terminator movies, so if you haven't seen them yet but still want to, you may want to leave now.

The String.Substring method in .net is useful, but has one slight quirk: If you try to read too much (i.e. "123".Substring(1,5)), you get an ArgumentOutOfRangeException saying that "Index and length must refer to a location within the string.".

If you want to have a static readonly string, you have two options: public static class MyStringTestClass { public static readonly string StaticReadonly = "Static ReadOnly String"; public const string ConstString = "Const String"; } The difference

So, today Capcom released the sixth Version of Street Fighter II for the XBox 360 and Playstation 3, available on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 M$ or on PSN for 14.99$.

So, Stack Overflow is live since a few weeks, and it's gaining more and more momentum every day.

I'm trying out the Windows Azure SDK, and after downloading the WindowsAzureSDK-x64.msi file, I was greeted with an error message: Now, I was puzzled a little bit, because I had IIS 7.0 and .net 3.5 SP1 installed, but it turned out to be a RTFM Mistake.

For a little project to learn ASP.net MVC, I needed my Controller to return a HTTP 301 Redirect.

Edit: An updated Version (which also adds BigInteger compatibility) is part of my Utility Library on GitHub: https://github.com/mstum/mstum.utils For a project I am working on I needed a way to convert long numbers into Base 36 numbers.

I consider myself still a rather mediocre developer.

just started playing Assassin's Creed, in which you play as Altair, an Assasin who is doing his Business around 1191 in Jerusalem and other middle eastern medieval cities.

I've bought Mass Effect for my Xbox 360 about 3 Weeks ago.

So, I got myself an Xbox 360 the other day.

Until a few years ago, Packaging for PC Games was very wasteful: In a big cardboard box, you usually found the manual and the game CD itself, along with some advertising and filler material, but overall, the box was 80% empty.