Archive for the ‘General’ Category

List of Top Open Source Games

Lately I’ve been compiling a list of the best open source games out on the Internet, partly just for new games to play and partly because I was thinking of contributing to one of the games. It’s amazing how many good quality open source games are available now days. I am Impressed. Anyway, I figured [...]

September 15, 2011 · crow · 2 Comments
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What is game programming

What is game programming What is game programming? Well, I suppose game programming is a little bit of everything in the computer science world. Programming games is one part science, one part art, and one part fun (most of the time!). Programming games is much different than “normal” programming. Traditional business apps today are largely [...]

August 27, 2011 · crow · One Comment
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I’m Back

Hey guys, sorry I’ve been away for a bit. I’ll try and respond to your questions, especially those over on the C# dynamic web service page. I’ll be adding a whole lot of new content as well. If anyone has any suggestions on a topic feel free to leave them for me. See Ya!!

July 15, 2009 · crow · 2 Comments
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How To Extract A Zip File With C#

The .Net Framework Class Libraries are great and allow you to manipulate many different file formats. Unfortunately they seemed to have left out support for standard Zip files. Thankfully our good friends over at ICSharpCode have released an awesome little library for handling Zip files called the SharpZipLib. The library is very simple to use [...]

April 3, 2009 · crow · 3 Comments
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Documentation Template Via Visual Studio Macro

Consistency is the key when working on computer software, especially if you are developing a large system with multiple programmers. You should be consistent with the layout and format of your source code. Unfortunately this can be difficult to achieve when time is precious – and isn’t it always. However Visual Studios macro system makes [...]

April 2, 2009 · crow · 6 Comments
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WP-Syntax Test

Just wanted to check out the WP-Syntax plugin and see how it works/looks.   #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h>   int main( void ) { printf( "HELLO WP-Syntax\n" );   return 0; }

February 8, 2009 · crow · 2 Comments
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Welcome!!

Welcome to Crows Programming! This site is dedicated to my various rants and raves, mostly related to computer programming and related technologies. I look forward to hearing feedback from all of you on my thoughts and ideas! ~Crow–

February 6, 2009 · crow · No Comments
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