Life

52 Posts in 52 Weeks

One year ago, I set myself the goal of writing 52 blog posts in 52 weeks. "That's not that hard," you might think. Well, why not click through and see whether I made it?

By GaProgMan, ago
Life

Announcing: Discworld Disorganiser Web App

Over the past few months, I've been working on a new web application: one a search engine for Discworld novels. I'd used it to fuel a series of tutorial posts over on my .NET Core blog, too. Come read this article to see a few demo versions of the application, get a link to the live version and read about how I made it.

By GaProgMan, ago
Life

Keeping up with Development – Podcasts

Feature image courtesy of www.programmingthrowdown.com Programming is one of those occupations where it can be hard to stay up to date. Especially since it seems like there are 2 new languages, 3 new frameworks and 18 new Javascript libraries released each week. All of this means that it can be difficult to keep Read more…

By GaProgMan, ago
Life

Hot Off The Presses!

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…

By GaProgMan, ago
Creativity

A Mid-Afternoon Puzzle

I love that this one puzzle has two possible solutions: This problem can be solved by pre-school children in 5-10 minutes, by programer – in 1 hour, by people with higher education … well, check it yourself! 8809=6 7111=0 2172=0 6666=4 1111=0 3213=0 7662=2 9313=1 0000=4 2222=0 3333=0 5555=0 8193=3 Read more…

By GaProgMan, ago
Code Examples

Problem Six – In C

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…

By GaProgMan, ago