Now that Java 8 is out, I was toying in my mind with the concept of a new assertion mechanism which uses lambdas. The idea is to have a cen...

In my many years of experience in programming I have noticed that there are some programmers who refuse to use a debugger, or try to use the...

A memo to developers all over the world whose native language is not English: Sign of the Apache Web Server Folks, just so that you kno...

Nowadays the interwebz abounds with beautiful images of our Earth from orbit. Lately I have picked up the habit of trying to figure out what...

If you live outside of Europe you might be lucky enough to have no idea what this is all about, but if you live in Europe you are probably s...

This question was sighted on stackoverflow.com on Thursday, April 30, 2013.  It was deleted within 2 minutes from being posted, but not befo...

Java 7 introduced the AutoCloseable interface, which is roughly equivalent to the IDisposable interface of C#, to be used in synergy with ...

A few days ago one of the svchost.exe processes on my machine (Win7 64) started exhibiting this annoying behavior: it will start with about...

I had this happening on my development machine, (I use C# on VS2010) so I went over to The Code Project and asked if anyone else could repr...

Techniques demonstrated: Ultra-fast font rendering Ultra-fast bitmap scaling Ultra-fast bitmap rotation Projection of 3D structures to 2D fo...