CoolBeans: From College to Industry

Many people take C++ as the end all be all of languages. And why not? It supports many different paradigms of programming at once: functional, object oriented, templated, metaprogramming, assembly and probably more. But what doesn’t it support? I don...

Many times you will go up to a professor and say "I don't think the assignment should be Foo, it's too time constrained or too complex, let's make it Bar instead". To quote one of my favorite songs, I bet they looked at you "like a cow looks at an oncoming...

Many of you I’m sure have played the popular Geometry Wars for Xbox Live Arcade. Now, raise your hand if you’ve found a bug in the game? My psychic powers say most people haven’t found one. Console games are generally very stable because the platform...

You know what's great about getting paid to work on weekdays? There's absolutely nothing you have to do on Saturdays. Yesterday I got up around 1 PM, went to the mall to buy stuff, went to the movies, went to the gym, played X-box, watched some Futurama...

Here’s something I didn’t know about until I saw someone use it here at Microsoft. Data breakpoints are a nice debugger feature that let you find out when a memory address changes. Say you have some code like this and you’re trying to figure out...