Never underestimate the collaborative power of developers on the Internet. It's why there are now tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of open source projects. I can remember working in ... Read More

Surprisingly, this isn't from Microsoft and I need to spend a bit of time debugging it as searches with it only produced Client Error messages when I built and ran ... Read More

Microsoft came clean today about a recent bug in Internet Explorer in an ActiveX video streaming control. Here's the code, Can you spot the bug? It's very subtle... _int64 cbSize; hr = ... Read More

One of the classic computer science texts says (in my words), "get it right then make it faster". The quote "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is attributed ... Read More

I do wonder sometimes about Microsoft's strategy regarding ASP.NET. It has been their big web publishing system for well over four years, and apart from changes to C# and the newer ... Read More

It's just 40 years on from the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and yes someone has produced a virtual Apollo Guidance Computer. This is not a lunar landing game but an ... Read More

I forgot the #ifdef which controls the direction of the import/export so that would make creating a bot a little harder! The idea is is that by placing the function ... Read More

While not suitable for every application, if you wanted to create a wiki yourself, it would take a fair bit of programming effort. It would have to understand wiki syntax ... Read More

As correctly spotted by Stole, that when a C (and other language) compiler, strings like "hello, world!" are often put into read only memory. Older CPUs might have had the ... Read More

The start date is August 9th. I've created a bot in C. The dll interface for C and C++ is the same as before but with a few more parameters. ... Read More

I'd expect experienced C developers to get this, but it's a good one for beginners. Why does this crash? char *s = "hello, world!"; s[0] = 'H'; Answer on Monday! Link to C Programming ... Read More

Join "About C,C+ and C# Programming Facebook fans" today. Yes, I've setup a Facebook group for here so if you're a Facebook user, feel free to join. C# Search Algorithms ... Read More

If you've acquired a bit of programming experience it's tempting to try and make money by renting yourself out. You don't even have to leave home to look for work ... Read More

Just released is Chaiscript an interesting new open source scripting language designed specifically to embed in C++ applications. There is tight integration between your application and the Chaiscripts user ... Read More

I think they're great to look at, and the fact that they scale almost indefinitely is truly remarkable. But lets be honest, unless you are looking for some new deep ... Read More

It's not confirmed but I think I've got H1N1 which is a human virus, not a computer one! It's just a nasty flu bug and has left me a bit ... Read More

Earlier than expected (by one day), Silverlight was released a couple of days ago. This is almost as significant a release in itself as Silverlight 2 was over the original ... Read More

Thanks to Lennie de Villiers for the tip off. As well as Silverlight 3 which came out today, there's another .NET framework with a very small CLR; that's the ... Read More

Tracking bugs is one of those things that computers do very well. If you're developing software commercially, or even open source or for yourself then you should be using one. ... Read More

Not that there's ever been acrimony but Mono of course is from the other side of the tracks and there's always been an assumed threat hanging over its head that ... Read More

Software Piracy is a problem for software sellers though I doubt that the figures bandied about for revenues lost are that accurate. I've seen people copy software, games over the ... Read More

For your applications, you can go for a professional help system or roll your own. One example of the latter and made available for free or open source (license is ... Read More

As it's July 4th here's something slightly off-topic. Back in the early 1980s, Atari ruled the roost in video games. They'd started in 1972 and Pong was the first creation ... Read More

Amazingly back about 1997, it was still possible to have PCs connected to the Internet without firewalls or proxy servers. However the bad guys soon got active and a year ... Read More

The next version of Windows is only a few months away and Vista will then be consigned to the same shelf as Windows ME. Prices have recently been announced for ... Read More

Developed by Swedish developer Jonas Gauffin who runs his own telecoms company, C# WebServer lets you embed a webserver into your .NET applications, just like Opera Unite does with browsing. ... Read More