Max Tingle

Recently a co-worker of mine had a problem, he wanted to make a generic base class to reduce code duplication but he needed some variables, that would always be the same, from the child class.

He searched Google and StackOverflow a good amount for this issue but ultimately was unable to find anything on it and thus came to me. I, expecting it to be a basic access modifier issue, told him to make his Read More..

My oh my, what fun I've had with Java recently.

For one of my upcoming projects (Yes I actually have been working on stuff, just a bit busy getting used to 9 hour work days right now) I have been working in Java due to the fact that C# is only cross platform for web applications and this is a desktop application.

Part of this project is a server and what does a server need Read More..

In one of my newer websites I've been adding fancy CSS3 effects, I've used them before but not as much as this. In my time doing this I had an issue, a menu would scroll down on load, because of the transition slowing the movement down. The transition was there for when you change sections, so you select one and the others smoothly scroll into another position but with the height being set on load Read More..

During the development of my game engine, I discovered that System.Media.SoundPlayer had a nasty catch, it was simply hooking into a PlaySound function that Windows implements and that function only supports a single sound. Because of this I had to move onto a better player, System.Media.MediaPlayer, but this made me come toe to toe with another nasty problem, the lack of looping support. So I went along and implemented looping through Read More..

While writing an upcoming project, I needed to debug information. Now the .Net just in time debugger is great, but it's not convenient for checking values as they change in live. So I wanted to make a debugger, the information it displays updates every 100ms. This caused huge issues, when you set the text property of a TextBox or RichTextBox the caret position is reset and I was displaying a ton of information, so scrolling Read More..

It's been a while since I've wrote a blog post and my original post was a little controversial, so that can only mean it's time for another blog post!

I'm going to be discussing, or rather ranting, about the pressure to use a framework in all aspects of web. Obviously in something like ASP it's impossible to avoid the use of a framework as the .NET framework is a part of modern ASP. But I Read More..

Recently I've had a thought about the way people are "helped" to learn new things and about how easy it is to have no idea what you're doing, while doing it. In programming you are going to run into issues, some people battle it out against the issue and some people ask for help from others, but both these routes result in the person learning. Even when the person is running into issues, they are Read More..