October 2007 - Posts

Floating Point, Why are you so buoyant?
18 October 07 11:26 PM | MattManela | 3 Comments   

Floating point precision can often be confusing to people. The following code block should illustrate some important things to keep in mind about floating point numbers. In this block I am attempting to get the value 64,000,000 in two different ways. Read More...

Filed under: C#, Programming

Self Documenting Code
09 October 07 05:06 PM | MattManela | 4 Comments   

I have come across many developers who believe that comments are not necessary to make code readable. They argue that code should document itself. By this they mean that the code you write should be clear and have good enough naming conventions such that Read More...

Filed under: C#, Programming, Random Thoughts

Windows Media Player Problem AND Solution
05 October 07 09:33 AM | MattManela | 1 Comments   

I am the proud owner of a iriver clix portable media player. I have had it for about a year now and I have had no complaints. It works beautifully. When I first got it I had some concerns about using Windows Media Player. The clix is made to work best Read More...

Filed under: Personal, Windows