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Tony has written 199 posts for CompSci.ca/blog

Adam Bielinski rocks indie game development socks

Adam Bielinski (a fellow CompSci.ca forums member), the one who made Forces video game for his high school project assignment, is catching another wave of fame over at the Great Games Experiment. It appears that Adam has snatched both featured developer and featured game spots. Well done!

That is pretty amazing for a high school project. [...]

WPF UniveRSS – your RSS in 3D, right now

If “real” hackers write computer programs in 3D (you know, Swordfish, The Matrix, etc), why should RSS be any different? UniveRSS is a 3D Vista RSS reader, that showcases WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), and represents RSS feeds as 3D cubes spinning around in a virtual universe. A nifty idea…

You navigate through the feed galaxies in [...]

Rubber ducks help best with computer science

“Rubber Ducking” – the phrase originated from The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. The concept is that simply explaining the problem out loud, will often help one to come up with a solution, be it computer programming, design, or anything that requires thought really. In the words of the Pragmatic Programmer:

Place a rubber duck [...]

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