Same Method, Different Speed

December 31st, 2007 by kwong

I came across something rather interesting the other day when trying to determine what sorting algorithms .Net Framework uses in its list class: The built-in  sorting method runs much faster than the reverse-engineered and then compiled code, even though in theory the code being executed is identical.
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Interesting Databinding Behavior

December 21st, 2007 by kwong

Earlier today, while I was trying to bind a collection to a drop down list, I got the following exception:
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My Favorite Program of All Time

December 18th, 2007 by kwong

I remember that in one of my graduate school classes at University of Wisconsin - Madison, professor Rastislav Bodik (he had left UW Madison and gone to UC Berkeley since) showed us this article Reverse Engineering the Twelve Days of Christmas from Microsoft Research while explaining some compilation theories.
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GRUB Error 17, LILO Rules

December 9th, 2007 by kwong

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE have been my top choices of Linux distros over the years.
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Weird Master Page Problem

December 8th, 2007 by kwong

I recently ran into a very strange problem with ASP.Net 2.0. I have used master pages for a couple of years now, and this is the first time I encountered such an odd problem.
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A Strange DVD RW Problem

December 6th, 2007 by kwong

My home workstation has a Plextor PX-708A DVD-RW drive, and it has been working perfectly until quite recently.
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MATLAB 7 under WINE

December 1st, 2007 by kwong

When I tried WINE many years ago, there were not that many large applications that could actually run smoothly without some sort of hacks.
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