I’ve been tinkering away and thought it would be about time I give a status update. Over the last month or two I have been porting my PSION OPO/QCode runtime to JavaScript from C#, this has required quite a lot of work and rewriting and refactoring, along with the hope to include additional new...
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I recently got introduced to the concept of Split Ticketing, where you split up your train journey into multiple segments to reduce the overall cost. This may seem strange, but it is in part due to reducing the flexibility of your route, and by doing this you can reduce the cost. This got me...
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Low level operations are commonplace for embedded developers but usually are overlooked by application level developers, but they still offer some useful quirks. After reading a few articles I decided to port some of the most common and useful bit level hacks to C#. More information about the built in operators that are found...
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Within computing the topic of Software Patents is huge and could have lasting effects however I think we have been going about this all wrong, and it all boils down to the simple question: Are you a Computer Scientist or a Software Engineer? How you answer that question I believe will most likely have...
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Being a Windows user on a Mac I have always been faced with the challenge of how to access my documents and applications. Either I choose BootCamp and get pure speed but get hit with needing to dedicate a chunk of hard disc space and the time to boot between Mac OSX and Windows,...
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When you start learning any language you start having to understand the underlying type system that the language employs. C# is no different and stored variables contain meta data within the CLR to help guide the runtime. This is ever generated at compile time if the variable is strongly typed; or implied via a...
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To most, Javascript seems a secondary concern when writing a website, however the overall end user experience can depend a lot on Javascript, why? Like all web content, it has to be downloaded from a server, and this takes time. The more Javascript you have, the longer it takes to download and thus the...
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An important part of anyone’s social media experience is trying to work out how much influence you have over your peers and who are you actually targeting. There is always the problem which some blog owners fall into, where they write content; such as a blog for their pet chickens -my mum has considered...
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The Bank holiday is a lovely time to get things done, and currently I have been working on my entry to the 10k Javascript Challenge. I started writing about my idea and entry in my previous blog post. To put simply my entry is a landscape ray tracing example which is done in near...
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In 1955 a young architect joined Braun and started designing some of their most iconic products. His ideas went on to change the way we look at technology and ultimately how Apple came up with such simple yet incredible ideas such as the MagSafe power adapter. The man I am talking about is Dieter...
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