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While we were developing SilverBench (online multicore CPU benchmarking with Silverlight), I found one interesting benchmark project. It is called Balls / Bubblemark animation test. You can test and directly compare speed / performance for the following programming languages: JavaScript, Silverlight (C#), Flash (ActionScript) and Java. Source code is provided. Project is maintained from 2007 …
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StackOverflow have another interesting topic about: Underused features of Windows batch files. Of course there are many things I didn’t know about. Some highlights: PUSHD path Takes you to the directory specified by path. POPD Takes you back to the directory you “pushed” from. By using CALL, EXIT /B, SETLOCAL & ENDLOCAL you can implement …
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You probably know from DOS / Windows / Linux / Mac OS, that it is impossible to create two files with the same name and extension in the same folder / directory. Yesterday, I saw a miracle – two programs show the same file differently. One program was PHP interpreter (fread funciton), other FAR Manager. …