Newsletter - 2016 Archive
Rob Conery's book enlightens self-taught programmers about overlooked concepts and techniques. The core ethos of The Imposter's Handbook is: Be an explorer. Push the edges. Find out what's possible. Dig deeper. Don't stop learning. For these reasons, and many more for imposters and non-imposters stuck in their ways, get this book!
Working with dates is something many RPG programs do extensively. In the old days of AVR Classic, we used to have to use lots of data structures and other special-case code to format dates, convert dates. It was also quite challenging to do date arithmetic and perform other sophisticated date manipulations. This article shows how AVR for .NET's *Date, *Time, and *TimeStamp data types help resolve these issues.