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A classic example of fine craftsmanship
Of all the bad code I’ve seen (some of which I’ve written myself), this classical example is still one of the finer and more hilarious examples of a truly creative mind. From memory it looked something like this: read full post
A simple static cryptography class
Implement things once, never think about them again. Cryptography is not something I’m constantly working with, so when I do need it for something I usually have to look up how things worked again and I end up reinventing the wheel. Well no more. read full post
Windows 8: for touchscreens only
So I’ve been playing around with the developer preview of Windows 8, and I must say I am impressed. However, here’s one thing I noticed immediately: Windows 8 is aimed at touchscreens, and touchscreens only. read full post
A generic reduce function in C#
A reduce function is a function that traverses over some input data (usually a set of objects) and produces a single output value. An example use would be finding the average age in a set of people. Here I’ll show how to build a generic reduce function in C#. This is not necessarily good code, but it is a nice practice with generics and delegates. read full post
So I found a blog engine...
So I found a blog engine that will run on ASP.NET. Why? So I can run it from my own server, which is the very slow piece of hardware trying to serve you these pages. read full post