This is the fifth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Axiomatic Language Walter Wilson Homepage · Slides · Presentation One of the ways that you can describe a coding style is declarative versus imperative. That is, focusing on the desired result versus [...]

@StevenStrogatz posed a fun question this evening: If an elliptical swimming pool has a one-foot wide border around it, is the outer edge of the border also an ellipse?— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) June 28, 2014 People quickly realized the answer is “no,” but how to show it? I’ll let someone else do the formal proof, but a quick visualization makes it pretty obvious. Play around with the sliders below to see when the border is close to being an ellipse, and when it’s not. document.write(''); var [...]

Like many a good man, I too got caught into the 2048 trap, which explains in part why I have been rather quiet on this blog lately (there are a couple other reasons, too). In case you don't know what 2048 is yet, first, consider yourself lucky - and, fair warning, you might want to back away now, while you still have a chance. 2048 is a very simple and fun game, and one of the greatest time sinks since Tetris. You can play it here, and the source code is here on GitHub. I managed to dodge the bullet fo[...]

Since I have experienced the same error more than three times while creating Windows Service (.NET 3.5) on Visual Studio 2012 and/or 2013, I think I should post a solution here for my quick reference. If you create a Windows Service and target .NET 3.5 on Visual Studio 2012 or 2013, you might experience the … Continue reading →

I thought it would be nice to share some of the technical books that I have learnt most from, and still love to look through or use as reference to this day.   These are in no particular order and cover a variety of technical subjects, and some are far from recent.  If you are interested in any of these areas and have not read these books, I cannot recommend them highly enough!  I have many, many many books and have read countless over the years, many of them are awesome but are not making this list as it [...]