Just read a post (permalink is broken) regarding how software engineering is nowhere near the level of quality as traditional engineering, partially because we don't have standards, regulations, etc. While I agree with some of the argument, people often...

The finished product: I'm having trouble finding a way to embed the SL app inside this page, so let's see if this works (c'mon, skydrive!): CLICK HERE TO SEE THE APP IN ACTION. And download the solution from here: Taking it Further Particle systems are...

Tying it all together has zip to do with the physics simulation, but there are a couple of interesting bits which I'll paste into here. The rest you can grab from the solution that I'll post up; feel free to ask questions. The Game Loop The heart of the...

So now that we have vectors, we need to do something with them. We're going to use the concept of a Particle . This is supposed to represent a tiny object in our world that is affected by physics. For this reason, it has a position, velocity, acceleration...

If you know how vectors work, this isn't going to be interesting. If you've never seen one before, I'll try to keep it simple. Keep in mind that throughout this post I'm talking in 2 dimensions. The same stuff applies for 3D work; you'd just add another...

Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to simple physics and vectors. Part 2: Details of the Vector2D class. Part 3: The Particle class and basic physics-based motion. Part 4: Tying it all together. Part 5: The finished product, and "what next...?" Introduction...

Our team owns lots of smallish applications; all of them have a DB layer, an OM/API layer, logic and UI layers. What happens over time is that we have different people working on the same apps, switching between them over the course of time. This is great...

A fascinating series of posts about how this guy built a bot to play online poker (for real money). This spans a gamut of programming topics from DLL injection, to screen scraping, to AI, to good OO practices... And it feel so cloak & dagger ; you...

Thin, fat, thin, fat, thin, fat... Take a look at a simplified evolution of "The Client", as it's sometimes known: Terminal -> Mainframe (so thin...). At a time when computation was complex and expensive, there was little choice but to centralize it...

Of course I've heard of the Obfuscated C Contest , but this is the first I've heard of the Underhanded one - so cool: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ The general theme of the contest is to write "sneaky" code that's difficult to spot at a glance. This year...

Some Silverlight goodness. My friend Darren wrote this amazing game that has strong ties to those 90's adventure games that I miss; Kings|Space|Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. Writing a game engine is one thing, but doing all the artwork &...

I'm finally getting into the groove with LINQ and lambda expressions, and am over the initial skepticism I had regarding the feature. My initial reaction was based on using LINQ for DB access, and was along the lines of " Pfft. There's no way I'm embedding...