Great programmers don't just happen !
I saw an interesting reference on the web calling the WIN32 API, the Assembler language of Windows. While not quite true technically (since a true assembler is even lower level than something like the Windows API), it is a valid description of the WIN32 compared to other GUI frameworks, such as dot.net. The benefit of assembler Back in the day when
Read moreAs a long time WIN32 programmer, I find it strange that Intel’s SOC (aka. ATOM System On a Chip) chips are not succeeding as well as I had hoped. The ATOM series has continued to improve by leaps and bounds, but there is a bottleneck somewhere which has prevented them from being used more extensively in IOT and Mobile devices.
Read moreIn this tutorial I will teach a few lessons about coding using the PowerBasic compiler by using a sample application I wrote which demonstrates a common error when writing desktop applications. This allows me to teach multiple lessons here. Often when we have an app which takes a long time to finish a task (ie. reading a data file, processing
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