Category Archives: Programming

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Useful HTML reports

While doing research, you sometimes run into the situation where you are getting loads and loads of results, and you need to create nice reports to simplify the analysis. Often this is tabular data, sometimes you might be able to … Continue reading

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Google diff, match and patch ported to C#

The title says it all, I’ve ported the Google diff-match-patch library to C#. It’s a nice diff library, and supports Java, JavaScript, Python, C++ (with Qt) and C# with exactly the same API. Porting wise, everything went fine due to … Continue reading

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Some notes on strings, data structures and data bases

A short war story on (not) using strings. In my application, I had objects which use a texture, and the texture was given as a string. I needed to index all objects by used texture, so I started by replacing … Continue reading

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Improving your programming skills

If you are serious about your craft, you probably try to improve your skill set regularly. Read on for some ways I found effective, and which could also help you to improve. The sorting order is roughly by increasing effectiveness. … Continue reading

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