March 2012

Time Zone handling in programs is interesting. Beyond the incredible inconvenience of Daylight savings time, programs tend to use the local time and let other programs deal with that information. I suggest that all code in the world be changed to send and receive data using GMT, UTC,…

I had this problem that I wrote about this morning where I needed to save a pointer to a member function in one object then call it in another object of the same type as the first. The code would work fine in C++ because it is possible…

There are no such thing as function pointers in C#. There are no pointers. There are no function pointers in Java, JavaScript, and many other languages. So how does one handle saving a function and then calling it later from where it is saved? “Delegates” is what they…

Microsoft Visual Studio is a great tool. The integrated development environment let’s me manage large projects with multiple components. I can manage the files, edit the sources, build the entire product tree, and debug code line by line, all using this one software package. So why is it…