Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects - Part 1

So far in the Pushing the Limits of Windows series, I've focused on resources ma (...)

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning

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3D Sun for the iPhone

Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPho (...)

What Errors Are Included in the Top 25 Programming Errors?

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Introducing Google Buzz

We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to (...)

This Car Runs on Code

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A proposal to extend the DNS protocol

Today a group of DNS and content providers, including Neustar/UltraDNS and Googl (...)

An Introduction to AI in Games from Phil Carlisle

Every AI has a set of basic requirements. In the main, these can be broken down (...)

Stack Overflow Network Configuration

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The Case of the Slow Logons

Emails containing troubleshooting cases keep arriving in my inbox. I've received (...)

How Face Detection Works

OpenCV's face detector uses a method that Paul Viola and Michael Jones published (...)

How OS X Executes Applications

Being a long-time UNIX user, I generally have a common set of tools that I work (...)

Long Paths in .NET

Let's start by looking at one of the more interesting exception messages in the (...)

MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverse Matrices

This is the third post in an article series about MIT's course "Linear Algebra". (...)

Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner

This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner (...)

Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking

Today we're excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking C (...)

Introducing Google Public DNS

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An Engineers Guide to DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the "dark matter" of the internet. It's (...)

Google hopes to remake programming with Go

Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that the (...)

Running Mono - an Overview

The game is running on an Ubuntu server. We downloaded the source code and insta (...)

Flash CS5 - Applications for iPhone

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod (...)

Understanding the Linux File System

The way Linux organizes its files on the hard drive is vastly different from how (...)

Microsoft and Intel port Silverlight to Linux

Intel and Microsoft have announced a new port of Silverlight to Linux, specifica (...)