I have a .net project using SQL Server backend that I'm looking at localising. Handling localisation within .net is straightforward enough, got it managing the views, data annotations, messages etc.

I'm trying to convert what was a Select Case to a Lookup Table. The Select Case was roughly 60K lines, so 30K of lookups (Int32, String). The problem is the editor is DAMNED SLOW. Every time I make an ...

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Embarrassing confession time: I never learned my multiplication tables in grade school. Sure, I had the easy tables like the twos and the fives down, but if asked what 4 x 7 or 8 x 6 was, I’d draw a ...

Some people like to do things the hard way. Maybe they drive a manual transmission, or they bust out the wire wrap tool instead of a soldering iron, or they code in assembly to stay close to the ...

Those of us over a certain age will remember using paper lookup tables for logarithms or trigonometry functions. Those who are younger will have been exposed to lookup tables in their programming ...