Rob Janssen (RobIII)

What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text

If you are dealing with text in a computer, you need to know about encodings. Period. Yes, even if you are just sending emails. Even if you are just receiving emails. You don't need to understand every last detail, but you must at least know what this whole "encoding" thing is about.

OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing

C and Pascal--the standard languages of the time--provided a handful of machine-oriented types: numbers, pointers, arrays, the illusion of strings, and a way of tying multiple values together into a record or structure.

Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5

The .NET Framework 4.5 is now available on Windows Azure. Thank you to everyone cheering for this moment. We’re just starting to see the possibilities that a rich developer framework like the .NET Framework and the cloud can have together.

My First BillG Review

In the olden days, Excel had a very awkward programming language without a name. "Excel Macros," we called it.

Athene's Theory of Everything

Professor of Communication Studies Corey Anton at Grand Valley State University reviews AToE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9-KQZbnHQ Rocket Engineer Evie...

Discovery Channel Can We Travel Faster Than Light is an amazing episode to watch

Discovery Channel Through the warm hole Season 2: Can We Travel Faster Than Light____ is an amazing episode to watch. PLZ,. FIND INTERESTING EPISODES SIMILAR...

Faster Than The Speed Of Light

In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim -- they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the s...

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Windows Phone 8 Makes It Hard to Get Started

I decided to give Windows Phone 8 development a shot, enticed by their “$8 for 8 days” deal on developer program membership (it’s normally $99/year). My idea is to try writing Easy Score Keeper for Windows Phone 8 since I just released it on iOS.

Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page (Preview)

Today, following the announcement of the official release for ASP.NET Web API , we also released a preview for the ASP.NET Web API Help Page, which is available as a NuGet package. This package automatically generates help page content for Web APIs on your site.