How to Read C Declarations
Here’s a handy guide to reading C declarations, where things can get very confusing very quickly. Quick — what’s being declared in the line “int (*(*vtable)[])();” ?
View ArticleHow Map/Reduce/Filter Can Rock Your World
Better late than never: C# 3.0 will feature map, reduce and filter, and Dare “Carnage4Life” Obasanjo explains how to rock these features. He concludes the article with “If your programming language...
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Going Down Memory Lane with C
The July 25, 1994 issue of Time magazine. The computer science student phase of my academic career (the less said about the previous phase, in which I was an electrical engineering student, the better)...
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Salmagundi for Friday, November 7th, 2008
Interview with Chris Slemp, MSDN Here’s another video interview featuring Yours Truly at the PDC: it’s with Chris Slemp, Program Manager for the Server and Tools Online group at Microsoft. In the...
View ArticleC++ Pointers for Kids
Here’s a fun little claymation video showing called Pointer Fun with Binky that explains C++ pointers “to kids”. Why can’t all programming be taught this way? My favourite phrase of the moment, thanks...
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The C# “Yellow Book”: Free as in Beer and Good as in Beginner’s Guide
As a new Microsoftie and programmer returning to C# after a six-year absence, I have a lot of learning and re-learning ahead of me. In preparation for this, I spent the better part of an afternoon in...
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A Fix for the Error in Hour 9 of “Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours” /...
While following the exercises in the book Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours – one of the few books I’ve been able to find on Ajax for ASP.NET 3.5 – I found an error in the “Hour 9” chapter in the...
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Default and Named Parameters in C# 4.0 / Sith Lord in Training
Round Trip Back when I was working for OpenCola (from January 2000 through January 2002), the start-up cofounded by Cory Doctorow, I was doing a lot of work using beta versions of C# to build prototype...
View ArticleMy Interview at MeshU
No tech workshop is complete without a little goofing around on an accordion, and I certainly didn’t want the MeshU day of workshops (which preceded the Mesh Conference) to be incomplete. I did a quick...
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Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework Released
Until now, taking advantage of the UI improvements in Windows 7 (and even some features in Vista) took a fair bit of work – there was a lot of stuff that wasn’t available through the .NET Framework....
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Discuss C# with the “Head First C#” Author, Save Big Bucks on “Head First C#”...
Want to learn C# or brush up on it? From Wednesday, August 18th through Tuesday, August 24th, you can join Head First C# co-author Andrew Stellman and other techies in a week-long exchange about C# in...
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“C# in Depth” and “Azure in Action” for the Price of One Book–Today Only...
For today only (that’s Sunday, August 15th), Manning is offering the pair of their books, C# in Depth, Second Edition and Azure in Action for the price of one! Just use the discount code dotd0815 in...
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Andrew Stellman’s C# “Inner Circle” Discussion, Game Challenge and C# Video Q&A
The Week-Long Discussion Andrew Stellman, co-author of O’Reilly’s excellent and easy-to-read C# intro, Head First C#, is holding a week-long “Inner Circle” discussion on C# and .NET 4.0 in the forums...
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Intel/Microsoft Parallel Programming One-Day Course: September 20th in Montreal
(If you don’t get the joke, here’s a little explanation.) Moore’s Law isn’t dead; it just ended up taking on a new form. Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, it refers to the observation that for...
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