Here are the articles that were published in July 2006.
The other day someone asked me for what needed to be done in order to make EZDSL compile with Delphi 2006, at least with the Win32 version. I'd installed BDS2006 as part of my Developer Express work a while back and so I decided to make the changes. Read more...
Every now and then I just need to do some programming. Not only that, but something I haven't done before, preferably translating some weird code from something like an academic paper or from a book by Knuth into C#. So something algorithmic or data structure-y: I want to continue learning and being stretched. Read more...
After a few late nights last week, together with a push this weekend, I've completed the redesign of my website to commemorate completing the third year of my blogging (I started July 1, 2003). What you're seeing took a lot of playing around with TopStyle, a lot of googling for hacks to make IE6 behave, and a lot of browsing The Zen of CSS Design. (Updated: Mon 31-Jul-2006) Read more...
Back in November 2005, I wrote a series of articles on writing lock-free data structures in C# and illustrated the concepts with a lock-free stack, queue, limited-priority queue, and a free list. All seemed well, except several people have commented that I never uploaded the source code and please could they have it? Why didn't I acquiesce? Read more...
I noted recently that has been some time since I last blogged here about an algorithm. I do apologize. It's unfortunate, but I can only give the same old excuse as any other tech blogger: sometimes work overpowers everything and writing an algorithm article sometimes can take a little while. Anyway, having offered an apology (which I hope was accepted), let's dive straight into one I've not used before, one of a set that deals with graph data structures. Read more...
A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of a shock: I received a spam email addressed to Julian Bucknall. (Updated: 13-Jul-2006) Read more...