http://www.dzone.com/links/users/links/277849.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:03:45 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-29T01:03:45Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/user/277849/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/firefox_3_memory_benchmarks_and_comparison.html This article reveals the author's results from profiling Firefox 3 and five other browsers over a period of 14 hours, collecting millions of data points. Firefox has some surprising memory improvements that may be interesting. open source web design Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:12:45 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/89897.html bloviatexjs 2008-06-24T23:12:45Z This article reveals the author's results from profiling Firefox 3 and five other browsers over a period of 14 hours, collecting millions of data points. Firefox has some surprising memory improvements that may be interesting.]]> 89897 2008-06-24T17:16:10Z 2008-06-24T23:12:45Z 14 0 583 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/89897.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/c_anagrams_fast_w_source_and_easy_to_use_gui.html Uses 1985 directed acyclic word graphs to implement an amazing anagram algorithm that outperforms most anything else. Has a nice Windows Forms GUI and is easy to use. Better than most other programs like it. Faster, better GUI, less memory. .net games open source Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:02:34 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86761.html bloviatexjs 2008-06-12T01:02:34Z Uses 1985 directed acyclic word graphs to implement an amazing anagram algorithm that outperforms most anything else. Has a nice Windows Forms GUI and is easy to use. Better than most other programs like it. Faster, better GUI, less memory.]]> 86761 2008-06-12T01:02:34Z 2 0 8 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86761.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/fix_a_stringbuilder_problem_easily_in_c.html I found some inefficient StringBuilder code in some ASP.NET application, and rewrote it to make it twice as efficient and clearer and simpler. The article has a 3D graph too. .net how-to Tue, 27 May 2008 03:23:38 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/83111.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-27T03:23:38Z I found some inefficient StringBuilder code in some ASP.NET application, and rewrote it to make it twice as efficient and clearer and simpler. The article has a 3D graph too.]]> 83111 2008-05-27T03:23:38Z 2 0 13 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/83111.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/launch_processes_easily_in_c_net.html This article provides some tips about using Process.Start to launch Windows processes. Also provides a tip about launching either Internet Explorer or Firefox depending on the user's preferences. .net windows Tue, 27 May 2008 03:21:44 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/83110.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-27T03:21:44Z This article provides some tips about using Process.Start to launch Windows processes. Also provides a tip about launching either Internet Explorer or Firefox depending on the user's preferences.]]> 83110 2008-05-27T03:21:44Z 1 0 17 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/83110.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/getting_special_folders_in_c_net.html A very common thing to know how to do is get the location of the Desktop, Documents, or other folders. This article shows you how can do this easily. .net how-to usability Tue, 27 May 2008 03:20:06 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/83109.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-27T03:20:06Z A very common thing to know how to do is get the location of the Desktop, Documents, or other folders. This article shows you how can do this easily.]]> 83109 2008-05-27T03:20:06Z 4 0 28 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/83109.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/indexof_and_indexofany_in_c.html I wrote this article to explore some problems with IndexOf and friends that have troubled me in the past. There isn't a lot on IndexOfAny in particular out there, so I thought this might be useful. .net how-to microsoft Fri, 09 May 2008 03:55:39 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80059.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-09T03:55:39Z I wrote this article to explore some problems with IndexOf and friends that have troubled me in the past. There isn't a lot on IndexOfAny in particular out there, so I thought this might be useful.]]> 80059 2008-05-09T03:55:39Z 1 0 30 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80059.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/eliminate_stopwords_in_c.html I show how to use collection initializers and a Dictionary to remove stopwords ('the', 'and', 'of') very quickly. All code is available, so you can copy it if you need it. Can make searching text much faster and database indexes much smaller. .net database microsoft open source Fri, 09 May 2008 03:26:17 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80054.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-09T03:26:17Z I show how to use collection initializers and a Dictionary to remove stopwords ('the', 'and', 'of') very quickly. All code is available, so you can copy it if you need it. Can make searching text much faster and database indexes much smaller.]]> 80054 2008-05-09T03:26:17Z 1 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80054.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/ucfirst_in_c_net.html Here I compare some techniques of uppercasing the first letter in a string, and present some benchmarks. ucfirst is a Perl/PHP function that is very useful to convert "john" to "John". .net perl php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:24:07 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80053.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-09T03:24:07Z Here I compare some techniques of uppercasing the first letter in a string, and present some benchmarks. ucfirst is a Perl/PHP function that is very useful to convert "john" to "John".]]> 80053 2008-05-09T03:24:07Z 2 0 36 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80053.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/astar_pathfinding_in_c.html A description with screenshots and code samples of how to find the shortest distance between a monster and a hero, taking into account obstacles such as walls. Very simple example of game monster AI. Also links to a C# program with a GUI you can download, compile and run. .net games how-to open source Sun, 04 May 2008 00:20:56 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/79090.html bloviatexjs 2008-05-04T00:20:56Z A description with screenshots and code samples of how to find the shortest distance between a monster and a hero, taking into account obstacles such as walls. Very simple example of game monster AI. Also links to a C# program with a GUI you can download, compile and run.]]> 79090 2008-05-04T00:20:56Z 2 0 60 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/79090.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/protected_proxy_example_in_c.html Shows what a protection proxy does, and how to make one. Make you code simpler and your app more reliable with this design pattern. Includes plenty of sample/skeleton code to illustrate the concept. There aren't many other articles like this one on the Internet. .net frameworks how-to methodology Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:34:28 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/78205.html bloviatexjs 2008-04-28T23:34:28Z Shows what a protection proxy does, and how to make one. Make you code simpler and your app more reliable with this design pattern. Includes plenty of sample/skeleton code to illustrate the concept. There aren't many other articles like this one on the Internet.]]> 78205 2008-04-28T23:34:28Z 2 0 14 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/78205.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/datagridview_tips_and_secrets.html Explores ways to improve your DataGridViews. They have tons of properties and methods, but which ones are important? Includes steps to enhance your app and make it prettier, faster, and simpler. Some of things tips you won't find in many other places. .net frameworks usability windows Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:32:11 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/78204.html bloviatexjs 2008-04-28T23:32:11Z Explores ways to improve your DataGridViews. They have tons of properties and methods, but which ones are important? Includes steps to enhance your app and make it prettier, faster, and simpler. Some of things tips you won't find in many other places.]]> 78204 2008-04-28T23:32:11Z 3 0 21 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/78204.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/fifo_caches_in_c_with_generics.html Sometimes you need a cache that stores the last N items, retrieves them in constant time, but doesn't grow endlessly. This is an efficient implementation of those objectives. .net how-to open source Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:08:09 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/77350.html bloviatexjs 2008-04-23T20:08:09Z Sometimes you need a cache that stores the last N items, retrieves them in constant time, but doesn't grow endlessly. This is an efficient implementation of those objectives.]]> 77350 2008-04-23T20:08:09Z 3 0 72 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/77350.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/benchmark_of_dictionarytrygetvalue_in_c.html Developers say it is more efficient to use TryGetValue and avoid hash lookups. Here is a page that benchmarks a real-world application and sees what the difference actually is. Includes samples of Hashtable, Dictionary, ContainsKey and TryGetValue. .net how-to research Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:06:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/77348.html bloviatexjs 2008-04-23T20:06:13Z Developers say it is more efficient to use TryGetValue and avoid hash lookups. Here is a page that benchmarks a real-world application and sees what the difference actually is. Includes samples of Hashtable, Dictionary, ContainsKey and TryGetValue.]]> 77348 2008-04-23T20:06:13Z 2 0 18 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/77348.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/better_looking_windows_c_dialogsintroducing_bette.html Most of the C# custom dialog examples on the Internet don't adhere to UI standards to the tee--this one does, and uses graphics to measure text strings, and conditional logic to present its best appearance to any current Windows operating system. Look at the screenshots and download the full source. Far nicer and easier than MessageBox. .net gui open source windows Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:21:48 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/72658.html bloviatexjs 2008-03-26T02:21:48Z Most of the C# custom dialog examples on the Internet don't adhere to UI standards to the tee--this one does, and uses graphics to measure text strings, and conditional logic to present its best appearance to any current Windows operating system. Look at the screenshots and download the full source. Far nicer and easier than MessageBox.]]> 72658 2008-03-26T02:21:48Z 2 0 36 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/72658.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/directed_acyclic_word_graph_in_c_open_efficient.html Some Open Source C# code that implements a DAWG data structure, which is faster and uses a fraction of the memory that the C# hash does. Post includes code with a user interface to manage word lists, create DAWGs, and code that can be used in your application to read DAWGs easily. .net c-and-cpp research windows Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:47:24 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/69795.html bloviatexjs 2008-03-08T01:47:24Z Some Open Source C# code that implements a DAWG data structure, which is faster and uses a fraction of the memory that the C# hash does. Post includes code with a user interface to manage word lists, create DAWGs, and code that can be used in your application to read DAWGs easily.]]> 69795 2008-03-08T01:47:24Z 3 0 76 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/69795.jpg bloviatexjs http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/277849.gif