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“Windows OOP” vs. “Cocoa MVC”

March 23rd, 2009 Frank No comments

While I don’t agree with the following article that windows developers (the author is looking at .NET, I believe) can’t implement the MVC design pattern, I do agree with the article that MVC is probably a better way to implement one’s interface. I want to direct your attention to the following article.

http://www.cimgf.com/2008/07/29/cocoa-tutorial-windows-oop-vs-cocoa-mvc/

CLR (.NET) Strings in Memory

February 25th, 2009 Frank No comments

The following is an interesting article related to how .NET handles strings. I’m not sure if the same thing might apply to Java; I’d be interested to find out.

Anyway, I’m posting this here for safe keeping and to share it…

http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/jcrease/archive/2009/01/16/71678.aspx

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9 Examples » Fast and Responsive UI (Link)

February 3rd, 2009 Frank 2 comments

One thing I’ve yet to really learn is how to make a well designed responsive user interface in .NET (or any other language).

I came across this article and I thought I’d share it (and save it here for myself). I’ve yet to delve in to Graham’s example but I trust it will be valuable and hence I’m posting it here.

9 Examples of creating a fast and responsive UI with multi-threadinghttp://goneale.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/9-examples-of-creating-a-fast-and-responsive-ui-with-multi-threading/

Graham’s article also points us to another interesting article; an article he recommends: Give Your .NET-based Application a Fast and Responsive UI with Multiple Threadshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300429.aspx

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