Bugs for breakfast

Author: David Rutten

  • Physical Interface Design

    I don’t cook every day. But when I do, I enjoy it and I especially like to make oven-dishes (they give me time to clean up and wind down while…

  • Berry’s paradox

    At the moment I’m reading ‘The Information‘ by James Gleick. I’m only halfway through and it’s a pretty good read so far, though a lot more verbose than Chaos (his…

  • The Dark Side Of The Universe

    Biology (especially evolutionary Biology) and Cosmology have always been interests of mine. My level of understanding in either field is probably best described as “blundering amateur”. I am not able…

  • More Slovak Wine (quite a lot more)

    About three months ago we attended a tasting menu based on Slovak wines at a great local restaurant. Every dish (out of a total of 8 courses) was served with…

  • On Icons

    As I’m responsible for both the code and the graphics of Grasshopper™, icon design is a significant part of my job. In fact, my very first productive work on computers…

  • [.NET fundamentals] Classes vs. Interfaces

    This is the second instalment in a collection of articles about .NET fundamentals. The first one dealt with Reference and Value types, or “classes” and “structures” as they are known…

  • Dreams

    About a year ago a stray cat started hanging around the garden. It was clearly quite young —my guess would be about 10 months, give or take 2— and incredibly…

  • [.NET fundamentals] Classes vs. Structures

    A lot of people who use Grasshopper will at some point be confronted with VB.NET or C#. Sometimes by choice, sometimes because someone else posts a script that does what…

  • VB vs. C#

    The two big languages in .NET desktop development are VB.NET and C#. Both derive from long-lived and popular language families, and both have had their share of mutual dislike. Not…

  • Fortuna Tasting Menu: Wine

    I’ve been living in Poprad, Slovakia for about 3 years now. I knew the place well since I used to visit throughout my childhood with my parents, but I’ve only…