New Fun Blog – Scott Bilas

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• Assertive Finalizers

  Mar 8, 2010

  In my previous post, I talked about why I have stopped using finalizers for unmanaged resource collection. ...

• Finalizers: An Incomplete Pattern

  Mar 1, 2010

  When you were first learning about how .NET finalization works, did it just feel wrong to you? It sure did for me. ...

• Bracketing Operations With IDisposable

  Feb 9, 2010

  I learned a fun little .NET trick today at work, figured I’d pass it along. This is probably a well-known pattern, but I don’t know its name. ...

• Dungeon Siege Page Posted

  Feb 2, 2010

  By popular request, I just posted a new page that has everything I could find that I’ve done related to Dungeon Siege. ...

• Finally Onto WPF

  Jan 14, 2010

  I’ve been learning WPF for some GUI tools I’m building, and it’s a whole new world. ...

• You Have Slain A Magic Mushroom!

  Dec 27, 2009

  I’m excited. The classic Sword of Fargoal has been remade for the iPhonepod platform! Sword of Fargoal is an ancient Rogue-style game for the C-64, written by Jeff McCord in BASIC (I remember curiously walking through the source code) and published by the long-defunct Epyx, one of my favorite publishers from back in the day. ...

• Ultimate AS3 Fake Enums

  Dec 24, 2009

  I just can’t leave this thing alone. This is hopefully the last revision I’m going to make to my fake AS3 enum class (here’s the original posting, then two updates). ...

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