Hannes DuPreez

If you have read the first installment of this series, you know by now what audio fingerprinting is, but just to recap: an acoustic fingerprint is a condensed digital summary, a fingerprint, deterministically generated from an audio signal, that can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in an audio […]

Visual Studio 2019 keeps growing strength to strength. In this article, I will highlight the new and updated features in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10. So, what’s new in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10? C++20 New Features Besides the fact that the compiler and STL (Standard Template Library) are feature-complete for the latest C++ 20 standard, there […]

The second Pure Virtual C++ event took place on the 3rd of May 2021. It had guest speakers such as Daniela Engert, Gabriel Dos Reis, Kyle Edwards, Erika Sweet, Sunny Chatterjee, Jim Radigan, and Augustin Popa. The main topics for this event were: Modules in C++ 20 CMakePresets.json Improving C++ code safety using Static Analysis […]

By Wikipedia’s definition, an acoustic fingerprint is “a condensed digital summary, a fingerprint, if you will deterministically generated from an audio signal, that can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in an audio database.” Think of audio fingerprints as you would a human fingerprint. A human fingerprint can be […]

Microsoft Mesh has been in the news a lot lately and there is a lot of buzz and anticipation around the project. While some information about the “virtual playground” has been made available around the Internet, not a whole lot is known about how this new product offering from MSFT will change the virtual space […]

You may have heard of .NET MAUI and are wondering what, exactly, it is. Not to worry – we explore the basics of the App UI and what it means for .NET developers in today’s coding highlight. If you have not heard of it, don’t worry – .NET MAUI is not an entirely new technology! […]

Because .NET 5 and the .NET  6 preview were released quite close to one another, I thought it would be good to highlight each Framework’s improvements and new features. .NET 5 Improvements and new Features Let’s start with .NET 5. Merged platforms Microsoft has always had a unified platform vision of a .NET ecosystem. This […]

The final part of this series will quickly tie all the code that we have written during the previous two parts to the form, Windows functions and CD functions. There isn’t much work, but it made sense having a separate article for this as I didn’t want to overwhelm you even more with the first […]

Introduction As you may or may not know: strings are strange creatures! I say so because there are so many ways to do a certain task. It is, however, up to us (as developers) to determine the correct way to achieve our goals. In this article, I will show you different ways to change each […]

Introduction Today, you will be making a fun little project that is built as an optical illusion. Example code is in VB.NET. Optical Illusions An optical illusion, or visual illusion, is caused by a human’s visual system and characterized by a visual percept that differs from reality. Optical illusions can be classified into the following […]

Introduction Hello and welcome to the second installment of this series. Now that we have the Windows API functions needed to read and write to a CD and its pits, we need the physical CD functions. This is what you’ll be doing today. If you haven’t checked out Part 1, “Creating a CD Player in […]

Introduction If you are one of the many unlucky ones who has never won anything in a lottery, well, this article is for you. Because I didn’t win the lottery so that I could live a more comfortable life without stress and being tired all the time because of the three jobs I do, I […]