This is a guide for creating your own VBE driver for your custom operating system in C. This is a continuation of my previous blog post Create your own graphics library in C++, as I realised that not everyone may have a VBE or VGA driver. This post will also guide you through how to … Read more
A quick guide on creating your very own graphics library for your custom operating system in C++. Before you jump into implementing this, you will need a way to draw graphics on the screen. If you don’t already, make sure that you have a VGA/VBE driver, so that way you can easily interact with the … Read more
Before jumping straight into an idea you may have had (e.g. a social media platform), there are a few things that you should think about or consider beforehand. You need to consider how you are going to structure, optimise, and maintain this website. You may also want to consider if it’s actually worth reinventing the … Read more
First of all, you may not know what RIM is. RIM stands for Choacury Raster Image, I designed to be like a Bitmap but basically better, specifically for the use in ChoacuryOS. Bitmaps have many limitations including them not including transparency by default. RIM however fully supports transparency. I made this utility called RIMTils, which … Read more
Many applications now use browser engines such as Chromium (Standard, WebView2, and Electron) instead of actually being truly native. This typically causes excessive resource usage and bloat as they’re basically packing a web browser with their application. Now this can be more convenient for developers, but causes issues later on. Older applications were a lot … Read more
I have been programming this little app in C# that is basically a password safe, it’s not finished yet. However, it uses encryption and BSON (Binary JSON) to keep the data nice and structured. It uses the password to generate the encryption key using WTDawson.PersistentID. This is a really short blog post because I don’t … Read more
NPMWrap is an API wrapper for NPM which stands for Node Package Manager. It has features that allows you to add, remove and upgrade packages on a Node.JS project. It also allows you to look up packages on the NPM registry. It’s pretty simple and easy to get set up and use, and is open-source … Read more
First of all, why do people use Python so much? Well Python is one of those languages that is pretty simple to use, it tends to be people’s go-to for languages to learn as a beginner and people usually just stick to it. The thing is, Python has a lot of limitations and too many … Read more
I am adding a new ID system to WTDawson.PersistentID, which is overkill for the vast majority of applications but is useful for applications that require large-scale IDs (Generating billions or trillions of IDs)…
When thinking about making a desktop application with C#, you should think of a few things such as…