Peggle and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Two fantastic and very different iPhone games, but how is your enjoyment of them affected by the platform on which they run?
COM objects that don’t have the expected lifetime can cause chaos when combined with .NETs garbage collection system.
What F# language and syntax features are required to implement a fundamentally object-oriented WPF custom control?
Thinking of adding some code to your DLLs DllMain function? STOP!
The joy of programming can be a difficult thing to describe. I take a look at some of the bizarre things people have compared it to.
I’ve just noticed a nice little feature in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: pinned DataTips. Values displayed in the debugger as you hover over a variable can now be pinned in place and remain aligned with the source. They can even have annotations added… Tasty!
Lambdas in C++ and F#: compare and contrast.
A FormatException is generated by the WPF DataBinding diagnostics if the original exception text contains curly brackets.
Programmers are notoriously bad at creating good user interfaces. How can you tell if your app was designed by a programmer? (Hint: it’s easy).
