Speculative execution is a term applied to the execution of code that you may not need the results of. With the abundance of spare processing power on servers these days (and workstations for that matter), you can easily make an application be far more responsive to the user or make processing tasks on a server application quicker.

If you find you’re getting compile errors something along the lines of error C2664: 'CreateFileW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char [261]' to 'LPCWSTR' or error C2664: 'CreateProcessW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char *' to 'LPWSTR' I got plenty of these when compiling code which I C&P’d, which was working perfectly in one project, to a new project I had just created; All the errors were related to converting char/char arrays to LPWSTR. There are plenty of programmatic ways of converting this data, and keep in mind you may still want to check...

I was asked by a colleague about how I might go about shuffling a deck of cards in C#. I found a few takes on this general problem on Google, and make no mistake: this has been covered by numerous persons over the last 80 years according to some of the research I found. So, yes, this is mostly likely a Wheel Version 2.0 piece of code, but here it is and hopefully it’ll be useful to someone. Firstly, you need to decide on a Random Number Generator. If you’re just interested in solving this card-shuffling problem as part...