Quickly Find Day of the Week – C#

Hi all! This is just a random post to show off something new I found. I don’t claim credit for this algorithm and if you’re curious as to how it works then this Wikipedia article may be of interest to you. This post has a good explanation of why the algorithm works in the first …

Learning Japanese – Some Thoughts

For a long time I have been planning to learn Japanese and I have attempted to do so on and off for a little over a year. My main drive for this has been my love for the Japanese culture and more specifically my interest in anime. In my various failed attempts to learn the …

Setting up a local web server with WAMP

Hi everyone. This is something I recently had to do so I figured I’d share this with anyone else out there that may want to know. For a long time I’ve wanted to setup a local web server to build and test sites locally without the need to continually upload the files (and as a …

US – The Worlds Copyright Police – Update

This is a follow-up to the article I posted earlier this year. The US have now started seizing domain names, against the wishes of their own people and the rest of the world. They need to be taught a lesson, that they are not gods and do not control the fate of the internet. The …

The US – The Worlds Copyright Police?

I have just been reading a rather interesting article on TorrentFreak about a new law that the US government hopes to pass, for which I quote the title of the post on TorrentFreak. United States lawmakers have proposed new legislation today that would allow the Department of Justice to take over domain names of websites …

Localization using WPF and C#

For anyone who is interested I have posted a tutorial on building a localizable application using C# and WPF here for anyone who is interested. I will hopefully post a copy here in time but for the moment I see no need to duplicate the content. If you have any comments, suggestions or improvements please …

Firefox, YouTube and WebM – The Experiment

Hi everyone I have just spent a little while playing with the new WebM and HTML5 experimental support in Mozilla Firefox and I mus say. I am quite impressed. The 760p video samples I have seen are truly quite impressive. I would suggest that anyone capable should get their hands on a browser with experimental …