During the 4th Semester of my studies I wrote a small 3d spaceship deathmatch shooter with the D-Programming language. It was created within 3 Months time and allows multiple players to play deathmatch over local area network.
TechEd 2012 background 1 - Race conditions and Interlocked operationsNote: This goal of this post is to provide more in-depth information and reference for attendees about a presentation I'm giving at Tech Ed New Zealand 2012. The session is DEV402 - Multithreaded programming in .NET from the ground up.
Machine Learning: Introduction to Genetic AlgorithmsThe Introduction to “Machine Learning in Javascript” post provides a nice introduction and context for this post and the rest of the series. I like starting my machine learning classes with genetic algorithms (which we’ll abbreviate “GA” sometimes).
ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework DbGeography Spatial TypesUPDATE: Be sure to read the whole post including the refactoring update at the end via a Pull Request from Dave Ward. You'll notice I'm using the DbGeography spatial type with Latitude and Longitude. This support is new in Entity Framework 5.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective ProgrammersAs a software engineer, you might want any number of things out of your job - a steady paycheck, the opportunity to work on interesting projects, a springboard to the next better job, or maybe you just like hanging out with other programmers.
Tales from the Evil EmpireTo those of us who have been around for a while, namespaces have been part of the landscape. One could even say that they have been defining the large-scale features of the landscape in question. However, something happened fairly recently that I think makes this venerable structure obsolete.
7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a MonthSteve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 270 million page views per month, and 20+ database servers.
Reddit’s database has two tablesSteve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database. Lesson: Don’t worry about the schema.
Why programs must not limit the freedom to run themFree software means software controlled by its users, rather than the reverse. Specifically, it means the software comes with four essential freedoms that software users deserve. At the head of the list is freedom zero, the freedom to run the program as you wish, in order to do what you wish.
LTE Base Station SoftwareLTE Base Station Software Introduction LTEENB allows to build a real 4G LTE base station (called an eNodeB) using a standard PC and a low cost software radio frontend. All the physical layer and protocol layer processing is done in real time inside the PC, so no dedicated LTE hardware is necessary.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.