I am very easy to make angry, and sometimes I get angry mostly for "nothing" or things I shouldn't get angry for. Though more often than not my anger is channeled so that in the end I often end up with something which is useful. Here is a comparison matrix against many of the commonly known Ajax TreeView controls in the world including ExtJS, Dojo, jQuery, Zapatec, Infragistics, Telerik, Ra-Ajax and so on and how they compare against each other... If you feel I should add another TreeView control to the mix or another performance parameter to the mix then PLEASE comment here and I WILL do just that...

Knowing what a proxy is is good. Knowing what you can do with one is even better.

The fact is that there are a lot of problems that are hard to solve in a purely-functional style. That’s not to say that no solution exists, but certain problems are very difficult to model without shared state. In such situations, a slightly different approach to concurrency must be considered. Actors are inapplicable, seeing as they are the embodiment of “shared-nothing” continuation passing, and fork/join doesn’t really help us.

An important concept in functional programming is pure functions. This post describes how to possibly implement verification of function purity in the Scala compiler.

We’ve all had those moments, when you have no inspiration for creating another game, or when you don’t know what to do next in your current project. To writers, it’s known as “writer’s block”. To us, it’s just an inspirational slump. Here are some techniques to overcoming this block of inspiration.

At least for me! If you are familiar with some of these techniques (and especially if you are not), please help me gather information by pressing a couple of buttons. I've explained how I got these performance results, and have added little testers to give a comparison of how to improve performance during heavy iterations. Please let me know what you find! (its fun for the performance-obsessed)

It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb were with regards to exception handling.

Trying to figure out the best ways to handle exceptions, which mostly seems to be context-sensitive. Checked/Unchecked? Swallow or re-throw? Are there any rules-of-thumb to always follow?

Here is a free and handy tool to have around for anyone that has ever wanted to monitor when a web site has changed. This is a very small install and a very small task to alert you when your favorite page has a new update. RadPop also hides so that it is nearly unnoticeable. The full vb.net source is also availble for download. This has been a really fun program to write and is a really good VB.Net beginners program to play with.

Topics covered include: * The idiocy of prolonged overtime * The unintuitive connection between doing more and making better products. * Ideal team sizes and work environments

An article about an aproach to hibernate session handling in two tier applications.

Demonstration of simple Tic-Tac-Toe AI written completely in Java Script using Minimax method. Source code provided :)

This is the seventh post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture eleven, which is on the topic of Augmenting Data Structures.

Wondering how threading thrives in the real-world? The enormous and highly threaded code base at SAS is an example of an application that benefits from the spelunking and debugging the Intel Thread Checker and Thread Profiler tools offer.

Introduce a way to proximate smooth round corners with css and html codes

We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of disappearing. One of his greatest ideas was the idea of personal development. To assist himself in his development as a human, he created a list of thirteen virtues which he would try to focus on following. These virtues can all be applied to the game development process, as I will show you today.

We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of disappearing. One of his greatest ideas was the idea of personal development. To assist himself in his development as a human, he created a list of thirteen virtues which he would try to focus on following. These virtues can all be applied to the game development process, as I will show you today.

After more than 10 start-ups, I decided to post a blog entry about the things that I have discovered over the years but I have not heard any one else talk about. Hope you find it helpful.

Look into how tail recursive algorithms work in the Scala and Java language. Talks about the lack of automatic optimization in the JVM and how Scala gets around this, and how you as a developer have to take care to make sure your recursive algorithms make use of this optimization when they can.

Today at a career fair, an Amazon recruiter asked me how to shuffle an array. Sounds like an easy problem, right? It turns out a good majority of people posting code to the internet get it wrong. But before reading on, try it out yourself, see what you come up with, and then Google for "array shuffle" or "randomize array" to see what other people think.

Simon Peyton-Jones tells us why he is most proud of Haskell's purity, type system and monads.

Bob McWhirter writes: "I’ve just pushed an ugly-but-working deployer targeting JBoss-AS 5.5.0.0CR2. "It’s not very consumable at this point, as it’s just a deployer, not a nice Rails plugin with a set of Rake tasks. Heck, it doesn’t even undeploy yet. "But adding the deployer to your server’s deployers/ directory allows you symlink live RAILS_ROOTs into your deploy/ directory, and be running on JBoss."

A list of 29 of the best sites where you can either promote your own web based applications, or find useful web based scripts for commercial or personal use.

This is the fourth part in a series of articles on formal language processing in Scala, focusing on parser combinators and language interpretation. I wanted to have this part out several weeks ago but setting up my new home file server (running OpenSolaris Indiana) kept me busy. I’ll save the details of that endeavour for another post.

A new language being developed by Gilad Bracha and a team. "Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak is highly dynamic and reflective - but designed to support modularity and security. It supports both object-oriented and functional programming."