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I’ve grown interested in Chess programming this year, and started building my own chess engine that will understand the WinBoard protocol. Chess programming is fascinating. Initial development is difficult but I’m starting off with the basics : A simple bitboard representation. A simple implementation of the Alpha-Beta algorithm. …
There’s been some long gaps between blog entries due to the amount of time I can afford to write. What am I up to these days? Still working my full time day job as a systems developer (I actually think it qualifies as a day-night job). Writing (and fixing) articles for CodeProject. Doing lots and lots of R&D (new frameworks, applications, …
Wow, this actually works! (Testing with Live Writer). Photo by ShareGrid on Unsplash
Got my first CodeProject article submitted! Yes I know, it’s small and still a work in progress but it’s a start! The URL’s going to change soon, I’ll update this post with the new link. Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
Sure, we all know how to do that by know, right? Funny thing is, all the blog entries I’ve seen like the ones here and here , end up creating a new map, usually situated in the root of your assembly (or event worse, create temporary orchestrations to do that). In order to move it to another folder in your project you’ll have to edit the …
Dispose those objects! If you’re using the SharePoint object model anywhere, make sure that you dispose any objects that you create (not those that the SharePoint object model creates for you, like calling GetContextWeb()). These objects have a small memory footprint visible to the Garbage Collector, but a large amount of unmanaged resources …
I’ve been porting an application of ours to .NET CF 2.0, Mobile 5.0 and SQL Mobile the past couple of weeks. .NET CF 2.0 is impressive. The .NET Compact Framework 1 was a bit lacking in functionality - it felt like Microsoft shipped an unfinished product. .NET CF 2 provides a lot of new functionality : Pocket Outlook Access, Phone and …
I’ve been dabbling with SQL 2005 a lot these days and two features impress me: SSIS and Reporting Services. You might find it difficult to actually deploy a SSIS package. I’m missing something with calling a web service in SSIS… Even when you change the connection manager setting for the HTTP Connection manager to a new value …
Yeah! Got my new toy - an IMATE JAMIN with (important!) Windows Mobile 5.0. I’ll be playing around with the new SQL Mobile and .NET Compact Framework 2.0 on this device - expect a storm of new posts. Photo by NASA on Unsplash
I’m no Scott Woodgate, but I think I know a fair amount about BizTalk. However, it seems that I never recognized what the Listen shape actually does (you don’t see this mentioned very often btw.). Turns out that this little shape can solve many of the problems we’re currently having, mainly correlation issues, like situations …