My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

Chapter two of my 70-536 study: files and folders, streams, readers and writers, compression and isolated storage.

My study notes for Microsoft exam 70-536: .NET types, collections, generics, I/O, serialization and more, with C# examples.

After a burnout, I'm putting my own project on hold to study for Microsoft exam 70-536.

The Proxy Pattern, and the last article in the design patterns series, now that I've finished reading Head First Design Patterns.

The State Pattern: replacing an enum and its switch statements with a class per state, so a game unit acts differently when it's alive or dead.

The Composite Pattern: tactical moves made of submoves, as a tree that the game treats as a single move.

The Iterator Pattern: one loop over two factions' orders, whether they're stored in a List or an array, and then the same with IEnumerable.

Following Scott Hanselman's post, this blog now supports OpenSearch, so you can search it straight from the Firefox or IE7 search box.

The Template Method Pattern: a base renderer that fixes the drawing order, while the 2D and 3D renderers fill in each step.