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…
So, I’ve been working as a software developer for 2.5 years now. I’ve learnt quite a lot of things along the way, and I wanted to write about the single most important thing that every software engineer NEEDS to use throughout their careers – whether that’s a “professional in an 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…
Happy New Year all! After a long period of not posting anything (aside from a tutorial post, shortly before Christmas, on how to use MakeMKV) for half a year, I’ve decided to post something new. Shortly after the new year, I decided that this blog could do with a new Read more…
What’s This? As I’ve said else where (mainly Facebook and Google+, but also here), I’ve been working on translating a whole book from Japanese to English. This is no small undertaking. In fact, it’s quite a big thing for a single person to be doing – we’re talking 200+ pages of Read more…
Morning all, Before others point it out, I know that the RSS feed widget (over on the sidebar, there) constantly says: An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. I’m trying to track down the source of this error and fix it. It seems to be Read more…
Software Development In the past few weeks, I signed up for a thing called GitHub. For those who don’t know, GitHub is one of the many channels through which to share Open Source code – most of the code I write in my personal time is Open Source. It also Read more…