In the previous part of this three part set of tutorials, we learnt about global, stack and heap memory and called a function from the C standard library. In this tutorial we'll make use of Windows library functions and build up to needing no libraries at all and using system …
In the last part of this three part set of tutorials, we successfully wrote a small function in arm64 assembly language and called it from a C program. In this tutorial we will write a program written only in arm64 assembly, and make it output "Hello, world!" using standard C …
So I recently got a new laptop and unlike most Windows PCs of the past forever, it uses an ARM chip and gets pretty amazing performance. So like all the best developers, I set out to squeeze all the performance I could out of it and write an A-list game …
Annoyingly, the documentation on the Microsoft website for setting up and getting going with the FHIR service from scratch is not amazingly clear as the required information is spread across many pages.
For those of you who are Python enjoyers, here's a quick guide to getting to the point where …
I've a bit of time between jobs and wanted to keep my user centred design skills sharp so I set myself a challenge to see how far I could get with a Discovery and Alpha into the tricky issue of health data privacy in just 2 hours. The blog below …
So you know what it's like - your PC is beginning to slow down, things are taking longer than they need to. Plus, for a reason you can't work out, Windows 11 will only let you have 5 uninterrupted minutes of functional trackpad at a time. So, what does somebody in …
When you teach, you reveal the world's lies. This weekend I've been dispelling the idea the words "universal" or "standard" should ever be written in the world of software - demonstrated through the medium of the arrows in Unified Modelling Language (UML) class diagrams.
UML class diagrams can be used to …
Nothing lasts forever - something that definitely applies to software support cycles (RIP Windows Phone: gone but not forgotten) and something I had definitely forgotten about for this long neglected website, which was running on a solidly end of life Debian 9 virtual private server (VPS).
Not only was it a …