Over a year ago I wrote about how I was building an application with Mono, Xamarin and GTK# on MacOS (even though it wasn’t called that then). Well, since then the Microsoft .NET team had announced that they were open sourcing the .NET runtime and were re-building it for non-Microsoft Read more…
This post will contain my notes on the C# System.Threading namespace. For an extremely basic introduction to Threads, see my previous post [LINK] Thread Class The Thread Class is a found in the System.Threading namespace and can be used to create new Threads, get their status and manage their priorities. Read more…
I’ve decided to take the Microsoft C# exam (code 70-483), mainly because I’ve been working in C# for 6 or so years now and it would be great to see how much knowledge I have of the language. Also, we’re all taking exams at work and I don’t want to be Read more…
Background My mobile phone has SMS messages that go as far back as my first smart phone (around 2009). Each time that I upgraded, I found ways to transport them to my new phone. Why? Well, why not? It’s always good to look back through my old messages and reminisce Read more…
So yesterday I decided to see how long it would take to program a simple game. Rock, Paper, Scissors has some of the most clearly defined rules for games. Process So, I fired up Visual Studio 2013 Express and started creating a console application. The initial version would take user Read more…
Edit (18/01/2013) I have edited this post on the above date. However, the only change that I have made is that I am now hosting the source code (found at the end of this post) on GitHub. This means, that if I need to make a change to the code, I do Read more…
The publishing of this post as postponed by three days because of problems with Jamie’s connection Today was the second day of Microsoft’s UK Tech Days conference on the Windows 7 Phone format. It took place at the Fulham Broadway Vue and covered the topics involved in developing and deploying software Read more…
Today was the first day of Microsoft’s UK Tech Days conference on the Windows 7 Phone format. It took place at the Fulham Broadway Vue and covered the topics involved in developing and deploying software ‘apps’ for the Windows 7 Phones. Content Most of the content was made up of developers Read more…
I thought I’d share with something (relatively) simple and stupid – and I don’t just mean the language I used to program it. This first project was started during May of 2006, and I’ve never actually gotten round to finishing it. There’s a readme file in with the zip archive Read more…