XNA Game Studio Express is Microsoft’s game developer kit for homebrew and hobbyist developers and is available as a free download. (Learn more about XNA Game Studio.) Express includes a basic "starter kit" for rapid development of specific genres of ga
A Programming Style That Automatically Detects Bugs in C Code by Jerry Jongerius / January 1995. This book describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault-tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. Wi
Up until about ten months ago, very few people would have considered javascript as a language in which one could build significant portions of the UI of an enterprise application. If, say, I needed to display a table of information with support for sortin
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
This paper dates from 1984, and circulated as a Chalmers memo for many years. Slightly revised versions appeared in 1989 and 1990 in the Computer Journal and the Year of Programming. This version is based on the original Chalmers memo nroff source, lightl
How do people become professional programmers? Many people go the "traditional" path through a computer science or software engineering education and from there into professional programming work.
Consistent with many Linux commands and drivers, there is a manual page with detailed information available for this driver. This is a good place to start to manually set up and trouble shoot the driver - the Option "MonitorLayout" is a good candidate to
This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won't talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone's excited about the computer industry. I may therefo
What is that? In case you haven't already used it, prototype.js is a JavaScript library written by Sam Stephenson. This amazingly well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating ri