Skip lists are fascinating!

igoro.com — Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#. read more...

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Test Driven Development Naming Conventions and Guidelines

stupiddumbguy.blogspot.com — New TDD and experienced TDD developers will find this list of naming conventions and guidelines useful. read more...

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Software Developers Never Change

published 7 months, 24 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 7 months, 25 days ago

coderjournal.com — So if you are to take anything away from this rant, take this, do what you love, and become the best at it. And if what you love isn’t your 9-5 job, deeply understand this and get out of the way of people who’s 9-5 job is what they love. read more...

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Beauty is only Skin-Deep: Skinning your WinForms Application

published 7 months, 29 days ago, submitted by ericdcoolest 7 months, 29 days ago

atalasoft.com — "The first impression is everything, right? So this post is all about how to skin your application. While I can't turn you into Monet, I can show you what a paint brush looks like." read more...

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See how simple is to create a great user interface for you app

wpf-graphics.com — See how simple is to create a great user interface for your WPF or Silverlight application. You can simply use almost any vector drawing application (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Visio, Autocad, Excel, Word, etc.) and then with the ViewerSvg or Paste2Xaml convert the drawing into XAML. Or even simpler, you can use one of the thousands vector images that are already available on the internet - see links. There are also samples that demonstrates the power of vector images and how simple is to create a great effects with them. read more...

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New F# Compiler Released

published 8 months, 5 days ago, submitted by dengar007 8 months, 5 days ago

research.microsoft.com — The new version of the F# Compiler was released May 1, 2008. Go download it now. read more...

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A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

dev102.com — Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following... read more...

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A .NET Cryptography Primer, part 3

published 8 months, 22 days ago, submitted by yesthatmcgurk 8 months, 22 days ago

statestreetgang.net — This part covers symmetric encryption, more commonly known as password-based encryption. Goes over the different types of symmetric algorithms available, concepts such as initialization vectors, and includes code examples. read more...

3 comments | category: Security | Views: 8