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Category: C#

17 Mar 2025 Alternatives to Enums – Part 2: Advanced Enums Implementing Polymorphic Behavior with Custom Types

10 Mar 2025 Alternatives to Enums - Part 1: Strongly Typed Strings

04 Mar 2025 Improving .NET Performance: Allocating Small Objects on the Stack in .NET 9 and Beyond

17 Feb 2025 Controlling Nested Class Instantiation in C#

03 Feb 2025 Data Driven Code Design

27 Jan 2025 How to Extend a Type's State by Adding Fields with ConditionalWeakTable

20 Jan 2025 Static and Compile-Time Polymorphism in C#

14 Jan 2025 Understanding Nullable Value Types in C#

06 Jan 2025 A Quick Reference to Key Topics on C# and Unity Covered in My Blog

26 Nov 2024 Alternate Lookup For Dictionary And HashSet With The IAlternateEqualityComparer

07 Oct 2024 A Deep Dive Into Boolean Operator Overloading

30 Sep 2024 Throwing Exceptions In C#: How And When

24 Sep 2024 Different Ways to Determine When an Event Occurred in Code

16 Sep 2024 Finalizers And The Resurrection Pattern In C#

09 Sep 2024 Efficient String Reversal In C#

05 Aug 2024 Collection Expressions in C#

09 Jul 2024 How To Ensure Correct Struct Initialization In C#

01 Jul 2024 Indices And Ranges in C#

24 Jun 2024 What are Indexers and how to use them in C#

11 Jun 2024 What Is Primitive Obsession And How To Avoid It

04 Jun 2024 Optional Parameters In Constructor Vs Init Properties

28 May 2024 Why We Have Strings As Managed Reference Types

21 May 2024 Type Conversions And The Implicit and Explicit Operators In C#

29 Apr 2024 Dependency Injection in C#

12 Mar 2024 Instantiation And Initialization Order of Classes in C# and Unity

12 Feb 2024 Primary Constructors in C# 12

28 Nov 2023 NDepend Review - A static analysis tool for .NET projects

30 Oct 2023 Conceptual Meaning of Interfaces

18 Sep 2023 The Benefits Of Encapsulation With Examples In C#

04 Sep 2023 How To Avoid Temporal Coupling in C#

28 Aug 2023 4 Ways To Emulate The Friend Keyword Of C++ In C#

17 Jul 2023 The Template Method Pattern and Usage in Unity

10 Jul 2023 How the boolean logical operators are used and get overloaded in C#

03 Jul 2023 Command vs Strategy pattern

12 Jun 2023 C# Equality and order comparisons (Part 3)

05 Jun 2023 C# Equality and order comparisons (Part 2)

29 May 2023 C# Equality and order comparisons (Part 1)

08 May 2023 The Monostate pattern with default interface implementation in C#

01 May 2023 Curiously Recurring Template Pattern in C#

17 Apr 2023 C# Deconstructor

27 Mar 2023 Prefer overloading than default parameters

20 Mar 2023 4 Ways To Use Extension Methods In C# Other Than Extending Existing Types

13 Mar 2023 The Null object pattern in C#

27 Feb 2023 How to prevent external changes to your save files in Unity

21 Feb 2023 Emulate multiple inheritance by using default interface implementation in C# and Unity

14 Feb 2023 What are enum flags and how to use them in Unity

07 Feb 2023 How to avoid boxing structs that implement interfaces in C#

31 Jan 2023 What are the differences in the timers in C# ?

24 Jan 2023 Initializing Lists in C#

10 Jan 2023 Encapsulation of primitive types and checked operator overloading in C# 11

03 Jan 2023 The new keyword in C#

26 Dec 2022 Using dynamic overloading in C# for a more flexible architecture.

12 Dec 2022 A guide for better use of enums in C# part 2.

05 Dec 2022 A guide for better use of enums in C# part 1.

Category: Unity

31 Mar 2025 Understanding Unity 6's RationalTime: Precision, Accuracy, and Use Cases

24 Feb 2025 Beyond MonoBehaviour: Running Code in Unity's Game Loop Using Non-MonoBehaviour C# Classes

06 Jan 2025 A Quick Reference to Key Topics on C# and Unity Covered in My Blog

17 Dec 2024 Example: Using Unity’s Performance Testing

09 Dec 2024 Various Timer Implementations in Unity

11 Nov 2024 How To Create Custom Async Return Types In Unity

05 Nov 2024 Await Anything In Unity With AwaitableCompletionSource And Custom Awaiters

29 Oct 2024 How To Use Unity's Behavior Graph: Part 2 - Subgraphs, Events And Custom Nodes

22 Oct 2024 How To Use Unity's Behavior Graph For AI With Behavior Trees Part 1

15 Oct 2024 Getting Started with Unit Testing in Unity

24 Sep 2024 Different Ways to Determine When an Event Occurred in Code

13 May 2024 How To Use The Batch Transform And Batch Gizmo Drawing APIs

07 May 2024 The Proxy Pattern In Unity

22 Apr 2024 How To Use The Decorator Pattern In Unity

08 Apr 2024 Property Bags And Visitors In Unity, How to Replace Null Fields With Default Values.

02 Apr 2024 SOLID For Unity Monobehaviours

18 Mar 2024 Unity's Audio Random Container: A Guide to Randomizing Audio in Unity

12 Mar 2024 Instantiation And Initialization Order of Classes in C# and Unity

04 Mar 2024 MinMaxCurve And AnimationCurve For Loot Table Probabilities

26 Feb 2024 The Mediator Pattern In Unity

05 Feb 2024 Asynchronous Code In Unity Using Awaitable and AwaitableCompletionSource

29 Jan 2024 Asynchronously Instantiate Objects with InstantiateAsync In Unity

23 Jan 2024 Stats VS Resources in Video Games

16 Jan 2024 A Stat System for Unity part 2

08 Jan 2024 A Stat System for Unity part 1

18 Dec 2023 How To Use Loops Inside Unity's Update Methods

12 Dec 2023 How To Make A Replay System For Inputs In Unity

25 Sep 2023 How To Create A Simple Spell System In Unity

12 Sep 2023 Usages Of Nested MonoBehaviour classes in Unity

31 Jul 2023 How To Make GameObjects Communicate With Runtime Instantiated Prefabs

17 Jul 2023 The Template Method Pattern and Usage in Unity

26 Jun 2023 What is the performance cost of expensive calls in Unity's Update

19 Jun 2023 How to improve performance of conditional execution in Update

12 Jun 2023 C# Equality and order comparisons (Part 3)

22 May 2023 What are Coroutines in Unity and the WaitForSeconds performance tip

15 May 2023 How to move around a point in straight lines in Unity

24 Apr 2023 How to use AddForce with Impulse in Unity to have constant speed for a certain distance

10 Apr 2023 Unity Scriptable Wizard, what it is and how to use it

03 Apr 2023 How to create an early and a super late update in Unity

06 Mar 2023 A way to refactor the update loop in Unity for cleaner code

27 Feb 2023 How to prevent external changes to your save files in Unity

21 Feb 2023 Emulate multiple inheritance by using default interface implementation in C# and Unity

14 Feb 2023 What are enum flags and how to use them in Unity

16 Jan 2023 How to create a Database system to handle Unity prefabs

19 Dec 2022 Execution order of Awake and onEnable for different scripts in Unity is undefined.

Category: General

10 Feb 2025 How to Ask Programming Questions: The Importance of Defining Data Over Code

23 Dec 2024 Two Years and 100 Programming Blog Posts: Lessons Learned

02 Sep 2024 School VS Self-Taught Programmer Part 2: Soft Skills

27 Aug 2024 School VS Self-Taught Programmer Part 1: Knowledge

23 Jan 2024 Stats VS Resources in Video Games

04 Dec 2023 What Are The Implied If Statements In Code

07 Aug 2023 4 Ways To Deal With Bugs In a Program

24 Jul 2023 8 Summer Books For Game Developers and Programmers

Category: Architecture

03 Feb 2025 Data Driven Code Design

06 Jan 2025 A Quick Reference to Key Topics on C# and Unity Covered in My Blog

18 Nov 2024 The Principle Of Least Astonishment

13 Aug 2024 Why I Don't Like The KISS Programming Principle

22 Jul 2024 How To Choose Between Conflicting Programming Principles

17 Jun 2024 The Tell Don't Ask Principle

11 Jun 2024 What Is Primitive Obsession And How To Avoid It

07 May 2024 The Proxy Pattern In Unity

29 Apr 2024 Dependency Injection in C#

22 Apr 2024 How To Use The Decorator Pattern In Unity

02 Apr 2024 SOLID For Unity Monobehaviours

26 Mar 2024 How To Properly Use Dynamic Polymorphism

26 Feb 2024 The Mediator Pattern In Unity

20 Feb 2024 Proper Use Of Abstractions

04 Dec 2023 What Are The Implied If Statements In Code

28 Nov 2023 NDepend Review - A static analysis tool for .NET projects

21 Nov 2023 SOLID: How to use it, Why and When

13 Nov 2023 SOLID part 5: The Dependency Inversion Principle

06 Nov 2023 SOLID part 4: The Interface Segregation Principle

30 Oct 2023 Conceptual Meaning of Interfaces

23 Oct 2023 SOLID part 3: The Liskov Substitution Principle

16 Oct 2023 SOLID part 2: The Open Closed Principle

10 Oct 2023 SOLID part 1: The Single Responsibility Principle

03 Oct 2023 Software Architecture in Game Development

18 Sep 2023 The Benefits Of Encapsulation With Examples In C#

04 Sep 2023 How To Avoid Temporal Coupling in C#

21 Aug 2023 3 Ways To Create Dependencies Between Classes: Inheritance, Composition And Parameterization

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