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Current Entries

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Using Microsoft Cognitive Services with Xamarin Forms

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3 Sep 2016S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

A few days back I saw this awesome video on Channel 9 by James Montemagno and I learned about Microsoft Cognitive Services. The services are [...]

C++

Windows

QA

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with Networking

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21 Sep 2016Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with networking

C

POSIX

Linux

Dev

operating-systems

open-source

List ComboBox Control

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23 Sep 2016_Flaviu

A ListCtrl ComboBox control

C++

VC6

Windows

VS2008

MFC

VS6

Hybrid Cross-Platform Applications: Approach to Using Cocos2d-x on Top of Native iOS and Android Components

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5 Oct 2016YevheniyK

The article describes a general approach to using Cocos2d-x on top of native components and relevant coding specifics for Cocos2d-x, iOS and Android.

C

Java

C++

iPhone

Mobile

JNI

OpenGL

Dev

GUI

graphics

Compiling Your C Code to .NET - Part 1

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17 Dec 2019Alexandre Bencz

With this new OrangeC/C++ compiler back-end, you can compile your C code to .NET

C

C#

ASM

MSIL

C++

.NET

akka : state machines

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6 Sep 2016Sacha Barber

In this post we will look at 2 ways you can write state machines with Akka. We will firstly examine the more primitive (but easily understandable) approach, and then look into the more sophisticated approach offered by AkkaFSM. What Is A State Machine?

C++

Windows

Designing and Implementing Synchronization Primitives in Windows user-mode Applications

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18 Sep 2016Victor Soldatov

Yet another approach to create lightwight synchronization entities in native Windows user-mode applications

C++

Windows

Win32

parallel-processing

Deadlock Caused by Boost shared_ptr

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27 Sep 2016Eric Z (Jing)

Deadlock caused by Boost shared_ptr

C++

OOP in C - Merge Sort Algorithm

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15 Sep 2016Ariel Segal

Applying Object Oriented Programming principles when coding in C

C

Linux

Dev

MASM - Stack Memory Alignment

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9 Sep 2016Jose A Pascoa

SIMD instruction sets may expect a special alignment of memory, but when that memory is on the stack MASM does not provide alignment facilities.

ASM

MASM

assembler

C++

Windows

VS2010

VS2012

Visual-Studio

Dev

Architect

C++17: string_view Conversion to Integral Types

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5 Jun 2018Shao Voon Wong

Implementing string_view conversion to integral types using Boost Spirit Qi v2

XML

Objective-C

C++11

C++14

C++

VS2015

VS2013

text

C++: Avoiding Allocation/Sharing/Locking

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1 Oct 2016Shao Voon Wong

Using C++11 thread_local to Avoid Allocation, Sharing and Minimize Locking

C++11

C++14

C++

VS2015

VS2013

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

_Flaviu

 Romania

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Alexandre Bencz

 Brazil

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ariel Segal

Software Developer (Senior)

 Israel

Linux and open source enthusaist.
Expertise: C/C++, Linux, data communication, Linux server machine, RT/Embedded

Eric Z (Jing)

Technical Lead National Instruments

 China

Senior software engineer at National Instruments, to implement various Ethernet-based industrial protocols, e.g., EtherCAT. Favorite languages are C/C++ and Python. For fun, I like watching films (sci-fi, motion), walking, and various reading.

Jose A Pascoa

AtelierWeb Software

 Portugal

Jose Pascoa is the owner of AtelierWeb Software (http://www.atelierweb.com). We produce security and network software and mixed utilities since 1999. The first program I published (in a BBS) was a MS-DOS utility, had the size of 21 KB and was done in Assembly Language. Nowadays, my low level languages are more likely to be "C", "C++" and "Delphi" rather than Assembly Language but I still like it. I have nothing against more fashionable languages like C# and technologies like WPF, actually I have played with them and published software with them.

Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

Technical Lead Exilesoft

 Sri Lanka

Mark is a Technical Lead at Exilesoft, whose passion lies in coding, mentoring, and fueling technical innovation. In the past, he has worked as a developer for a product engineering company, an ERP/Technical Consultant in a Fortune 500 conglomerate, and also as a senior engineer for a startup in the manufacturing and design space. His current areas of research revolve around Enterprise Architecture, Big Data, NoSQL Technology, and Machine Learning.

In his spare time, Mark experiments with (computer) game design/development, operating system internals, and compiler design. He also discusses and blogs about various topics surrounding software development, computer science, game programming, and mathematics, which can be read at markfaction.wordpress.com. Feel free to email or message him anytime and strike up a conversation.

S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Architect

 India

Hi There, I am an IT professional with 14 years of experience in architecting, designing and building IT solutions for complex business needs in form of mobile & web applications using Microsoft technologies. Currently working in an multinational company in India as Solutions Architect. The articles here are sourced from my blog : http://techierathore.com/

Sacha Barber

Software Developer (Senior)

 United Kingdom

I currently hold the following qualifications (amongst others, I also studied Music Technology and Electronics, for my sins)

- MSc (Passed with distinctions), in Information Technology for E-Commerce
- BSc Hons (1st class) in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Both of these at Sussex University UK.

Award(s)

I am lucky enough to have won a few awards for Zany Crazy code articles over the years

• Microsoft C# MVP 2016
• Codeproject MVP 2016
• Microsoft C# MVP 2015
• Codeproject MVP 2015
• Microsoft C# MVP 2014
• Codeproject MVP 2014
• Microsoft C# MVP 2013
• Codeproject MVP 2013
• Microsoft C# MVP 2012
• Codeproject MVP 2012
• Microsoft C# MVP 2011
• Codeproject MVP 2011
• Microsoft C# MVP 2010
• Codeproject MVP 2010
• Microsoft C# MVP 2009
• Codeproject MVP 2009
• Microsoft C# MVP 2008
• Codeproject MVP 2008
• And numerous codeproject awards which you can see over at my blog

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

 Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies.

In recent years, he shifted focus to software safety research. His hobby is writing a free C++ DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

Victor Soldatov

Engineer

 Ukraine

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

YevheniyK

Technical Lead Win Interactive LLC

 Ukraine

Senior Technical Leader at Win Interactive LLC

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