Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a great set of features. So many features, in fact, that even some very significant ones don’t get nearly the attention they deserve. A perfect example is the Flow Documents feature, which allows developers to create documents natively in WPF. ...
People like to argue about the respective merits of client/server versus peer-to-peer network topologies, but personally I think this is the wrong debate. Who says you have to pick just one? I'm a big fan of hybrids that combine the best of both worlds.
F# is a programming language that provides support for functional programming in addition to traditional object-oriented and imperative (procedural) programming. The Visual F# product provides support for developing F# applications and extending other .NET Framework applications by using F# code. .....
I keep being surprised how few people are aware of all the things they can use strace for. It's always one of the first debug tools I pull out, because it's usually available on the Linux systems I run
I’m just back from the Devoxx conference in Antwerp. An update was given on the new language changes that will be in Java 7. The JDK currently has a release date of September 2010.
Here is stuff that is strange, weird and completely out of usual or expected. It is a paradox that we are both repulsed and interested in these at the same time.
Note: I originally posted this a day earlier, but quickly retracted it when it was pointed out that I made a rather egregious error in the ffmpeg tests’ settings, so I re-did those and added a few more codecs.
As you should be well aware by now, you can use PHP as a command-line scripting system to automate common tasks. We look at this in more depth later as we explore some of the alternative things you can do with command-line PHP. ...
A very well written guide that I found more useful than the PHP Manual.
Code-generation has been used throughout the age of the digital computer. The use of code to generate code might, at first glance, seem an odd thing to want to do, but the technique is alive and well, and is widely used in .NET. Nick Harrison explains, and introduces the CodeDom....
Once you understand how .NET's garbage collector works, then the reasons for some of the more mysterious problems that can hit a .NET application become much clearer. NET may have promised the end to explicit ...
An excellent explanation of how the GC works in the Microsoft .Net Framework.