I recently downloaded a cool fighter plane game (iFighter lite) on my iPhone. As I started playing, I felt that plane is moving a bit slow!! But soon enough I saw a little perk on the screen and I flew over it and suddenly plane's speed increased. Soon enough, enemy planes started attacking me an...

Thoughts on how a mobile phone's camera could be used to create a point and click interface (without a touch screen).

Taking a look at how to build a Progressive Fluent Interface which is a DSL where the options can and will change as you progress through the syntax. This is a useful form of a fluent interface if the want to be able to skillfully guide the user down only one path at a time.

Take a look at how to create a simple Fluent DSL which is built via Method Chaining. We will build this DSL from the ground up and talk about the various decisions which were made along the way. This is just a simple example of how you can create a internal DSL for your application with very litt...

As you may have noticed, I have become interested in the concept of Object Relational Mapping and the NHibernate framework. One of the more painful/tedious aspects of using NHibernate is hand writing the xml mapping files. That is why I got excited when I heard that Jeremy Miller was open sourcing h...

When to use which? Where's the difference? What are the best practices recommended by .NET architects? This and some personal experiences in a blog posting by Kirill Osenkov

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A discussion of the subtleties of implicit and explicit interface implementations in C#.

In my opinion, the new Office 2007 user interface is one of the most innovative things to come out of Redmond in years. It's nothing less than the death of the main menu as a keystone GUI metaphor. This is a big deal. Historically, where Office goes, everyone else follows. It's already starting to t...

Simon Ferquel has released a new version of My Exposé, the application that provides a similar feature to Mac's Exposé, giving you an overview of all open windows on your screen. Display your windows using the keyboard, the mouse or even your voice! This is still a pre-release (he calls ...

There are both pros and cons to the functionality made available through the use of abstract classes and of interfaces even though there capabilities seem similar. This article discusses the trade-offs and recommends when to use each.