If you’ve been using S3 client in the AWS SDK for .Net you might have noticed that there are no methods that let you interact with the folders in a bucket. As it turns out, S3 does not support folders in the conventional sense*, everything is still…

As Jon Skeet pointed out in this excellent article on closures, the strategies of capturing the execution context which the behaviour is bound to different between Java and C#. C# captures the variable itself, whereas Java captures the…

One of the cool new features introduced by HTML5 is the new <canvas> tag, which defines an area for you to draw graphics on using javascript.

Basics

The other day I put up a post with some quick bullet points about objects in javascript to help someone from a static, strongly typed language (like C# or Java) background understand javascript’s dynamic and loose type system. One…

I saw this in last month’s .Net magazine and thought it was pretty cool and worthwhile sharing.

Without giving away too much of the intricacies (seeing as this is not my own work), this technique essentially boils down to…

In my last post I explained the difference between the techniques of Currying and Partial Application, following on where there let me show you how you might apply these two techniques in F#, Javascript and C#.

In part 4, I put together the foundations for a mini shooting game, with targets moving on the screen and you can ‘hit’ them by clicking inside the targets, etc. etc. I promised an update to make it feel more like a game, so here it is!

I saw this tutorial the other day, it’s cool but I fancied taking it a step further and make it useful as an app rather than just a fancy way to show some structured data on the screen. Here’s a list of the features which I…