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Let’s Get Animated in VB.NET!

This isn't your rerun of Looney Tunes. Everything and anything that is simulating animation is hot in the world of programming. I guess it is because everyone is trying to mimic that wicked mid air desktop Tom Cruise uses in the movie Minority Report. All animated, all quick and fast, just add some user interaction and we are one step closer to making it reality! The world of animation can ...

Microsoft Should Take A Look at Java

I am sure some of us have stopped and thought "Is Microsoft really going in the right direction with its development languages?" and then you probably put your nose back into the compiler and continued coding, not giving it another thought. But wait a minute, perhaps you are right. Maybe we should take another look instead of just blindly following Microsoft's techies into their vision of what software should be ...

VC++.NET Syntax is Going to Hell In a Hat

Ok, maybe the topic is a little tough but the general idea is pretty sound. Recently I had the pleasure of helping someone on DIC with a VC++ project and decided to whip up something in the latest VS 2005. Now granted much my experience in VC++ was pre 2005 CLI so I was completely blown away with the syntax changes they made using the Common language Infrastructure (CLI) to ...

Inside the World of Ciphers

Ciphers, a great marvel of mathematics and secrecy. They are the very heart of encryption, but how do we bring this to the world of programming and make some kick ass stuff with them? I had gotten the idea of showing some ciphers through a recent question that had been brought up. So I thought I would throw out some code from the dark corners of encryption for today's blog ...