Dennis Forbes on Pragmatic Software Development   Subscribe to RSS


About the Author
Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development, Linux development, and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 13 years.


Recent Entries


The Feed Bag

 
Friday, September 16 2005
I've unintentionally come across this website several times (today I had a need to reference a double-slit experiment), and each time it has sucked me into meandering through its excellent interactive demonstrations. While this is high-school level physics, if you haven't brushed up in a while it can be eye-opening and educational. The site appears to have been designed some time back, and aesthetically it is subjectively rather dated, but it is pure genius the way it uses interactive elements for education - This is the sort of thing that demonstrates computer and web learning at its finest.
 
Irony (or is it?) - Mental confusion over how to spell genius ("Genious? Hrmmm...")

Reader Comments

Add Comment

Name *:

Email Address:

(your email address is not displayed)
Website:

Comment *:


Dennis Forbes