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Is Developing in Xamarin Better Than Xcode?

Apple makes its Xcode IDE available for free to iOS and Mac developers. Should experienced C# developers use the cross-platform Xamarin Studio instead? Talent Community Guides David Bolton and Eric...

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Factorial Fluency Challenge Update

Here are some Intermediate results from our Factorial Fluency Coding Challenge. Of the 27 entries received thus far, I’ve marked 11 and omitted two because of errors. Results Everyone who entered...

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Introduction to Rx – Reactive Extensions

Thirty years ago life was much simpler for desktop developers. Processors only had one core, GUIs, mice and event driven programming didn’t exist outside universities and UIs were simple affairs using...

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Apple Hiring Engineers for Maps App

Apple’s throwing more weight behind its effort to douse the firestorm of criticism that erupted over its mapping debacle. It’s currently looking to hire C++ and Linux engineers who’ll be tasked with...

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Interview Questions for C++ Programmers

Even if you know C++ syntax and have memorized STL components, you could stumble during a technical interview since some managers like to explore the boundary of a programmer’s C++ knowledge. To make...

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Coding Challenge: Best Have a Card Up Your Sleeve

Our newest coding challenge runs through January, ending on Jan. 31, 2014, so you should have plenty of time for it. It’s about a card game called Sevens. The game is for three to seven players. To set...

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Creating Random Access Text in C#

Back in April I looked at disk folders as a possible alternative to NoSQL or using a relational DB. My conclusion wasn’t encouraging—I was concerned about poor performance, especially on Linux. The...

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Passing Functions as Parameters

When I first started programming in the late 1970s, I was heavily into Pascal and the concept of passing an address as a parameter was just unheard of outside of academic circles. Procedural...

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Is C Still Relevant in the 21st Century?

Many programming languages have come and gone since Dennis Ritchie devised C in 1972, and yet C has not only survived three major revisions, but continues to thrive. Large chunks of Windows were...

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Is Microsoft Truly Embracing Open Source?

Back in the day, Microsoft viewed open source and Linux as a threat and did its best to retaliate with FUD and patent threats. So it must have been galling to its executives as, over the past 20...

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