Interviews are the Worst
If you have experience in the software engineering field, an interview process can test the experience you have; projects, production scenarios, designs. Unf...
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Doxygen Themes
Customizable and modernized Doxygen themes.
Compiler Basics
Introduction of compiler basics using a toy example.
Automated Testing for GitHub Actions
Create a testing harness for your created GitHub Actions.
Code Analysis for GitHub Projects
Integrate your GitHub projects with a code analysis tool.
Fluent C++ v0.1 Release
Fluent style querying for C++.
CMake Simple Library Example
An example of a simple library using CMake.
GitHub Actions - Cache APT Packages v1 Released
A GitHub action to cache APT packages for future workflow runs..
C++ validate and throw with a dynamic message in a single line.
Assert a condition and throw with a dynamic message in a single line in C++.
2020
C++ Memory Semantics for C# and Java Devs
Understanding how memory semantics works in C++ from the perspective of a C# or Java dev.
2015
Streaming UUEncoder in .NET.
Flashback
Get Windows Service name from executable in PowerShell.
I was recently putting some PowerShell scripts together for deployment and maintenance of software to our machine instances. One of the requirements was to b...
Log per class pattern.
Rookie Moves
Creating XML based templates in log4net.
Motivation
Using type converters for JSON.NET.
Motivation
2014
Using CC.NET & Gallio for priority based smoke testing.
Pitfalls in Production
State behavioral pattern to the rescue.
The Creeping Problem
2013
Understanding type theory (Part one: Lambda Calculus).
Series Introduction
PCAP-NG reader for .NET.
Introduction & Scope
Automated combinatorial and spot testing of web service operations.
Introduction & Scope
Text generation using Markov chains.
Introduction
2012
Understanding compression and Huffman Coding.
Definitions
IMAPI version 2 managed wrapper.
Introduction
Implementing a bit reader/writer in C.
Introduction
Licensing using XML digital signing.
Motivation
Automate IIS enable on Windows 7.
Background
Bit specific builds in Visual Studio 2010.
Using Conditioned Tags
2011
WPF and data multithreading deadlocks.
WPF & Multithreading
Tips for Java performance on Android.
While Java may be a higher level language that makes code writeability easier, conventions must be broken when developing on Android to reap performance gain...
POCO not transforming into a POCO proxy.
A POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) must be transformed into a POCO proxy [MyNamespace.MyClass ->{System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies.MyClass_0A943C2FC37D33304CEB...
Detecting cycles in decimal digits and lists.
I was recently working on solving problem 64 for project Euler and one of the needed algorithms was a detection of cycles in a list. This routine works for d...
Entity Framework June 2011 CTP Bug
I recently installed the Entity Framework June 2011 CTP to preview the enum support but ran into a bug along the way that reported an error while processing ...
EF 4.1 Code First: Many one-to-one properties for same class type on an object.
I just started using the Entity Framework recently to employ persistence for an already established code base. Initially I was using the "Model & Databas...
Pseudo random proportional scheduling in games.
I have been working on a game where enemy characters must select a target seemingly at random but such that the distribution of selected targets is balanced....
Writing a TEDS (IEEE 1451.4) parser.
I was tasked recently with writing a parser for TEDS bit stream data. There is an IEEE published paper with an overview of the standard but it doesn't give a...
Reentrant lock acquires in CLR.
I always like when a post gets to the point (especially after searching in Google). In short, if you perform an operation that waits to acquire a lock, the t...
Namespaces for classes.
When designing classes for outside use (eg. API) or as a library component for multiple applications, readability and easy element (field/function) selection...
Delete long file path names.
I made the stupid mistake of importing an Eclipse project into my workspace when the import location was from the workspace itself. I went to delete the recu...
Representing scientific units in code.
I have been working on implementing a stream reader for IEEE 1451.4 TEDS and came across this interesting paper regarding representation of scientific units ...
Using Ubuntu 10.04 with SVN+HTTP.
I setup a server recently using Ubuntu 10.04. LAMP was easy to configure, as was Subversion. Although making Subversion and Apache2 play nice together with D...