June 2007 - Posts
At the college you are attending or attended, was the focus on a native language (C, C++) or a managed language (Java, C#)? The first real language I learned was C++ and later when I had to take a class in Java, I thought it was very easy. However, I
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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
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Coding outside on a beautiful day rocks. Thank you Wi-Fi.
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Two dozen years is a long time to be involved in software. That’s why I’d like to take this time to thank God I've only been alive that long and this is only my 3rd year in industry. Imagine what it must be like, to have worked in Software in 1983? You'd
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Just because something is true in your little world, doesn’t mean it’s true everywhere. “Did you know that if you were to put Saturn into a giant bowl of water, it will float?” I need a big, fat “Wrong!” stamp. I hate scientific “fact” that isn’t fact.
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Really, take your best shot: value += ((LPWORD)&((WORD *)data)[1])[i]; It’s not all that complicated, it’s not intentionally deceptive, but it is confusing. Such is life while working on a large project that you didn’t write. You will have to interpret
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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’t
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The other day we cut a feature because a blind user would not be able to use it. Imagine if you had a class project, where the professor said "make it work even if I close my eyes." Would you scream "Shenanigans!" at the top of your lungs? Well in the
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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
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(Note: I have not had time to craft a new set of coding puzzles for this month; I will post new ones when they are ready) Who here hasn't worried about money? No, this isn't about your salary or how you can make more or how you can get a better offer.
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