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Publications

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Tons of stuff to move over here, going to take me a while…

Written by Scott

July 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm

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). ...