Monthly Archives: July 2010

Computer programming is not as mysterious as you might think. In simple terms it is the process of designing and writing computer programs. That is pretty straightforward, isn’t it? This article will give you a clear idea of what it’s all about.

Alexandru Ghiondea from the C# team created an excellent deck of slides that he used at Microsoft Days 2010 in Bulgaria. The C# team reused the deck several times for User Groups’ presentations and talks. If you are planning a talk at your User Group, …

Custom software development is the need of the hour. IT business is getting revolutionised and there have been new concepts and different tools of technology evolved. Every IT organisation is looking forward to make use of these new tools in technology to offer better services.

Objective-C was written in the early 1980s. It was designed as a way of introducing the capabilities of the Smalltalk language into a C programming environment. A majority of the iPhone’s framework libraries are written in Objective-C, but because the language was designed to accommodate the C language, you can use C and C++ in [...]

The mentality that there can be only one programming language is as illogical as believing there should be only one flavor of ice cream or only one style of automobile! There’s a reason they make both sports cars and family cars. Different programming languages occupy different niches in the programming world like different kinds of cars occupy different niches in the car world.

Object-oriented programming is not inherently difficult, and yet few programmers learn how to do it well. In this article, an experienced developer offers tips on how to developed object-oriented software more effectively in C++.

The iPad was released on the Australian market last week to the usual Apple hype. People lining up outside the iconic Apple store to be the first get to play with the new toy. Regarded as a revolution in the way we browse the web, it has brought with it a new headache for all designers and developers of websites.

In this post, which is the third one in my parallel programming introduction series, I want to show how you can cancel parallel operations when working with the Task Parallel Library (TPL). I’m going to modify the program that I started in the previo…

Agile development is a growing trend in the software industry. The methodology has started to become widely adopted both in corporate environments as well as with the independent contract developers.