Monthly Archives: May 2011

Mix it up

Channel 9 have posted a great set of videos from Mix 11 covering a range of subjects from Javascript to Windows Phone to HTML 5. Doug Crockford covers the new ECMAScript 5 standard and then takes part in a panel … Continue reading

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You looked better from the other side

Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart Another really good book by Ian Stewart. Like lots of other books around this area, it gives a basic introduction to group theory and discusses how Galois and others … Continue reading

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Crash bang

The first game I played on the Play Station was Crash Bandicoot. There’s a series of blog posts starting here, where Andy Gavin describes how the game was designed, and how they worked around the limitations in the processing power … Continue reading

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No assembly required

I’ve been programming on .NET for quite some time but only recently came across the following method which allows an object to be created with all of the fields zeroed out. This can’t be done at the C# language level, … Continue reading

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What’s on your mind?

Anders Hejlsberg answers some questions on C# in this recent Channel 9 video. I was hoping it would go into more detail about Roslyn – sadly, it doesn’t.

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Where is the string that Theseus laid?

Mention Haskell and IO in the same paragraph and you’ll always find the word Monad in close proximity. Monads are the construct (pattern) that Haskell uses to thread the world state through a series of computations, but when we’re dealing … Continue reading

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