Idioms

June 21, 2010 00:00

What if

for (int i=0; i<100; i++) 
{
    doSomething();
}

// and

for (int i=0; i<100; i+=2)
{
    doSomethingElse();
}

Was

doSomething() for 1..99;
while (i=1,2..99) { doSomethingElse(); };

Would the world be a better place? ...

That's Not The Point

December 29, 2009 00:00

Today I read an interesting chapter in Writing Solid Code, and it showed an example where a supposed optimization led to code bloat:

To represent the hierarchical window structure, Character Windows used a binary tree in which one branch pointed to subwindwos, called "children" and the...

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GWT: Next level of automation

November 04, 2009 00:00

After playing a little with GWT, and attempting to add a map into my little webapp, I've found that this is really a very good idea. By applying a language to abstract all the small difficulties of programming a webpage for different browsers, you essentially move a larger percentage of the work int...

Attempt to rush an RPG

May 04, 2009 00:00

After reading an article on GameDev about a guy who managed to build an RPG in 40 hours, I decided I'd try my hand at doing an RPG 40 hours too, but in C#. So I started to write the first code on Saturday. After 10 hours of grue...

Putting a separator between your elements

April 16, 2009 00:00

Often when I'm programming, I'll need to list a bunch of stuff and put commas between them. Like this:

1,2,3,4,5

Usually, this is what I, and most of my colleagues do:

            List<int> nums = new List<int>();
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
          ...