I've written before that my first exposure to computers was a simple text-based "Lunar Lander" game.
Earlier this year I did some research and I found the original LUNAR source code, which is in the FOCAL programming language, and some translations to BASIC.
I decided I needed to port this …
Because implementing obsolete programming languages is a great use of my free time, I've created cxxforth, an implementation of Forth in C++.
Inspired by JONESFORTH, I wrote it in the style of a tutorial. The source code is automatically converted to a pretty-printed format: https://github.com/kristopherjohnson/cxxforth/blob …
When determining why some damned thing in my .NET programs is taking so damned long, it is useful to be able to look at the elapsed time for various sections of code. The straightforward way to do this is to create an instance of System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch, start it, do …
Here's another C# code snippet that takes me way too much time to recreate by just reading the documentation.
This is a simple example of a class that can be serialized to/from XML. In this case the "ServerConfig" XML string can contain a list of servers, looking like this …
I had a need to convert an XML string to a nice, indented format. It was a little more complicated than I expected, so I'm posting this snippet here where I can find it again when I need it.
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml …