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And so I face the final curtain 31 Jul 2013 | 05:38 am
After about seven years including 1,820 blog posts, 350 newsletters and hundreds of articles I've decided for various reasons to bow out from writing About C,C++, C# (and unofficially Google Go). It h...
Tox - Cross Platform Secure IM / VOIP 30 Jul 2013 | 10:53 am
Written in C, Tox aims to give you a bit of privacy (at least until the NSA can decrypt all the stored data!). It's been created to be easy to use and let you connect without anyone else listening in....
XWT - A cross Platform .NET UI Toolkit 29 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
Xwt is sort of like WxWidgets etc where this one open source library lets you write GUI code for different environments. In this case it's a C# library for WPF or GTK (using GTK#) on Windows, Cocoa en...
Finding Work Face to Face 28 Jul 2013 | 10:17 pm
One thing that the internet is not quite so good at is helping you introduce yourself to customers face to face. Last Wednesday evening I went to a Silicon Roundabout Meetup at Google Campus in Bonhil...
Xamarin Update to Mono 3.0 26 Jul 2013 | 10:12 pm
Xamarin, the C# development system for iOS and Android that I enthuse about has just done a major upgrade. Being easily seduced by leading edge (aka bleeding edge) technology I went for the upgrade an...
Best Method of Pricing Contract Work? 24 Jul 2013 | 11:00 pm
Yes this is programming related. I've been asked to price up creating an iPhone App (in C# using Xamarin) that is a hand held version of a website used for processing a lot of retail data and returnin...
Latest C Tutorial Published 22 Jul 2013 | 02:10 pm
As promised this latest C tutorial is about low level operations, bit manipulation and even very light weight encryption using the ^ (XOR) operator. There's still a few more tutorials to go to cover ...
Here's a Surprise- C99 in VS 2013 20 Jul 2013 | 07:18 pm
Yes C99 will be supported in Visual C++/Studio 2013. Presumably they're bringing out a new version of their flagship software tool so soon because they've found a designer who doesn't ... Read Full P...
The Joys of Programming 19 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
For most of this month I've been working on a commission to convert a Windows Phone App to iOS using Xamarin Studio. The last three days have seen me immersed in the field of TCP/IP trying to have my ...
Rampant Pixels Foundation Library 18 Jul 2013 | 10:52 pm
This caught my eye because of course I write games code in C and the worst aspect of that is reinventing the wheel. The Foundation library offers a lot of ... Read Full Post