There has been a lot of instances where we here on DIC receive a question about a mathematical formula not working correctly in a program or script they are writing. How does one go about solving such a problem? Well, I will provide some great tips to get you started here on this entry of the Programmer's Underground!

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So recently I tried the new Google Presentations, their version of Office's Powerpoint and I must say, I think it is pretty slick for being an online application. We will talk a bit about the new presentations application, what it might mean to programmers and what it means to the rest of the computing industry... in this entry of the...

i = 0, j = k + t % rr ok? Do we even know what the heck that is saying? This is the kind of stuff programmers have to deal with when editing someone else's code. What do these things mean? As programmers we should strive to make code better than we found it. A keyword here is "Naming convention". We will explore what it means to have...

Think about it for a moment... the world is increasingly becoming more and more dependent on technology and especially the software that powers most of it. Could programmers become one of the most crucial centerpieces of a new technology frontier? They build the systems, they know the systems, and if there was a backdoor into those systems they...

I for one am not a huge Apple fan. I work on PCs, I don't own a macbook and I certainly don't carry an iPod. However, close to about 50% of those in Vancouver here do have an iPod in one form or another. I take the skytrain to work each morning and every evening and it is quiet, everyone with stupid cables hanging from their ears and them...