I sent a request for technical reviewers of my book “Practical RDF” to the Semantic Web, RDF Interest, and Jena Interest groups . My hope is that I’ll get volunteers that reflect the book’s targeted audience, and so far I’m getting a terrific response from an incredibly interesting mix of people. In fact, I’m extremely […]
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Just writing
Creating C# Applications: Chapter 4
One of the most innovative features of C# is the concept of managed and unmanaged code. It is this that truly differentiates this language from its more commonly used cousins, C++ and Java. What is unmanaged code? Well, put simply, unmanaged code is any C# code that uses pointers. Conversely, managed code could be considered […]
Creating C# Applications: Chapter 3
When I work with more than one programming language at a time, such as Java and Perl or VB and C#, the biggest problem I have keeping the languages untangled is remembering to use a semi-colon (;) or not when ending the statement. No matter how hard I try to keep my language syntax separate, […]
Creating C# Applications: Chapter 1
Introduction There’s been considerable material on programming C# within the Visual Studio .NET environment, but not as much on C# as the first programming language based on the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). This online C# book provides an introduction to C#, the programming language. In addition, the book also takes a look at the CLI […]
Bits of prose
A long time ago in a place far, far away, and long before I started writing articles and books on computer technology, I used to write poems. Well, I called them poems. Recently, I found a folder of poems and decided to put my three favorite online. I’m aware that this could result in a […]
