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A Descent Rabbit Hole: From Nostalgia to Source Code Analysis

Frank Krueger (@praeclarum) posted a fun fact on X: "Fun fact: Descent didn't use 3D file formats per se. Instead, 3D models were compiled as x86 assembler doing draw commands." That sent me down a...

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February 7, 2026
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Stochastic Parrots Are a Good Thing

If you've used ChatGPT or Claude, you've probably noticed something odd. Ask the same question twice, and you get different answers....

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January 28, 2026
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Action Events in .NET

The Async Pattern used in .NET 1.x and 2.0 code always annoyed me because of the excessive coding noise it introduced. The new support in .NET 3.x in relation to lamdas (convenient delegate or...

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December 4, 2008
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General versus Special Case Tension

One of the blogs I subscribe to is by Reginald Braithwaite. He was recently interviewed on InfoQ and part of the conversation related to the development process of generalizing in programming: ……so...

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September 19, 2008
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Viewbox scaling in ElementHost

This post relates to the following forum post: I'm attempting to be able load XAML files into a Windows forms application at run time but for the WPF graphics to be automatically scaled to fit into...

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September 14, 2006
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MVS Reports Script Tips

MacroView Studio is one of the software products developed and maintained by Torq Software. It includes the ability to edit MacroView graphic, metascript and report template files....

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August 14, 2006
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SoapSerializer and Generics Don't Mix

After a bunch of monotonous code changes the previously V1.1 application now compiles successfully under V2.0 of .NET with generics in used for all domain model aggregation relationships....

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December 7, 2005
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Generic List Covariance

I'm currently moving an existing .NET Framework V1.1 application to V2.0 and changing the domain model to use generics for any collections and lists....

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December 5, 2005
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