I only just redesigned the blog back in September, but something has been bugging me since around a week after I did it. The readability completely sucked, I found myself preferring Google Reader or the Blogger backend over reading from the blog itself! Not good…

You can apply fonts based on unicode character codes using the unicode-range CSS3 rule. Fonts with a unicode-range rule will only target the specified range and fall back to other fonts with characters not in the range. Multiple ranges can be used by separating them with a comma.

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is a CodePen I whipped up to celebrate, fitting based on the recent posts. A binary Christmas tree :)

Make sure for code documentation you use the razor-style comments in your ASP.NET MVC views, not HTML-style comments. Regular HTML comments will be sent to the client which would increase the page size and expose unnecessary implementation details to the end-user, razor comments are kept server-side.

Display and editor templates in ASP.NET MVC let us create views in a more maintainable and elegant ways. This article looks at how to define custom templates to display and manipulate different data types.

The facade design pattern is a very simple pattern that provides a simplified interface to other code that may not be structured the same way.

The red-black tree is a type of self-balancing binary search tree that assigns a colour of red or black to each node. On every insert or delete, the tree re-organises itself so that it is approximately \log n nodes high, allowing search in O(\log n) time. The re-organising does not guarantee a perfectly balanced tree, it is however good enough to guarantee O(\log n) search.

Quicksort is an O(n^2) sorting algorithm that runs in O(n \log n) time on average. It has a number of favourable qualities; it’s an in-place sort, requiring O(\log n) auxiliary space in the worst case; and is also a divide and conquer algorithm making it easy to parallelise. Unfortunately however it’s not a stable sort.