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30 Jun, 2010
A universal programming language?
A random thought popped into my head not so long ago: What if we had a universal language that integrated all the common programming language syntaxes, integrating the binaries, engines and function calls for each of them, allowing anything to be written in any language in each file? .NET made huge progress allowing a single project to be coded with different languages, at file-level of course. But what... read more
29 Jul, 2008
Documenting Stored Procedures
I’ve been creating and modifying a few stored procedures for a ‘debt history and future payments’ report in a VS.NET app using SQL Server 2005 for the past days. Quite a bit of a task to be honest, but I have found something very useful while developing large stored procedures. Some times they can get out of hand, you know, with virtual tables, views, massive calculations involving... read more
28 Jul, 2008
Mad Business
This was one of the first games I ever finished… it’s terrible, it barely works, it flickers a hell of a lot (I used VB4 without BitBlt), it has a bad plot and theme, it is boring as hell, but it brings back a few memories *sniff*. If you’ve got time on your hands and want to check it out go to the following URL, the download is available on the main page: http://www.citiria.com/mb/ I... read more
22 Jul, 2008
Stop Using Excessive Flash!
When building your website, I’d suggest to ease out on flash. Maybe in a few years, when regular bandwidth is at 6MBPS and higher it would be acceptable, but today most users still have 1MBPS and lower. It takes too long to load flash sites built 100% with flash. Example: http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/easyeasier/index.htm#intro Please reconsider building a website 100% with flash, it’s... read more
