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March 2012

Computers & Programming

Time Zones

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,…

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Computers & Programming

Function Pointers in C#

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…

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Computers & Programming

Microsoft Visual Studio Epic Fail

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…

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Blog is Stale

I had to write something just because my blog is getting stale. Maybe stagnant is a better word for it. I am still working on the Windows Phone project but I’m working on it professionally and I don’t know if I can talk about the project at all….

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