I am programming since I am 10 and I am now 38. Today I measure how much good programming bring to my life, directly and indirectly. I’d like to give credit to aspects I love in my job. Hopefully some young people will read this and will consider maybe doing one of the most wonderful job on earth.

Girish Karachiwala is Head of Technology at Compassites Software. In this video, he talks about NoSQL and the related advantages. NoSQL is a broad class of database management systems identified by non-adherence to the widely used relational database management system model. Girish goes on to talk a...

It's very interesting how programming works, very informative rticle =)

I liked this story because it was very informative. This was written from the admin of that site. Very good!

Learn how to use the features of PostSharp to get the most out of Aspect Oriented Programming.

This article explains various loops and their execution timings. 1. foreach loop vs for loop. 1. foreach loop vs while loop.

Now a days computers are coming with multiple processors that enable multiple threads to be executed simultaneously to give performance of applications and we can expect significantly more CPUs in near future. If application is doing CPU intensive tasks and we find that one CPU is taking 100 %usage ...

Today I’m going to write about a simple yet powerful way to manipulate properties and methods of a given type. We’ll set values to properties and invoke methods through the use of reflection. Maybe you haven’t had the chance to use reflection or maybe you even don’t know what is reflection. Reflecti...

This is the last installment in the series about A* search. The C# source code implemented is available in the final part of this post. As promised in the last words of A* pathfinding search in C# - Part 2 today we’re gonna run a test case using the Romania map. This post shows a test case in which ...

This post describes step by step the methods used to implement the A* search algorithm. To illustrate the path finding problem and how it can be solved using A* I decided to use the Romania map (with the same Cities I used in Breadth and depth first search series of posts). Now I modified it adding ...

On the last day of May I wrote about how to calculate prime numbers with LINQ in C#. To close that post I said that I’d use the primeNumbers delegate to evaluate PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and measure the performance gains when the same calculation is done in parallel instead of in a sequential fashion. ...

Let’s say you have a list of integer values that represent the days of a month like this: 6, 2, 4, 1, 9, 7, 3, 10, 13, 15, 19, 11, 18, 13, 22, 24, 20, 27, 31, 25, 28 - Clearly we have missing numbers/days in the list. They are: 5 8 12 14 16 17 21 23 26 29 30. It’s really easy to get a list of missin...

NPOI is a great open source project that enables us to create Excel spreadsheets in code using Microsoft .Net Framework. A reader of my blog commented on the post titled Creating Excel spreadsheets .XLS and .XLSX in C# about a problem he was having to get NPOI working with an Excel table bound to a ...

Let’s say you have a string and want to match individual groups of characters against that string. How would you do that? That’s the question I asked myself. The following code is the outcome of some research on how to get this done. It shows you how to capture/match and name groups of characters u...