Maybe the reputation points might not mean a lot to most people here, but I don't generally post in areas outside of assisting people with problems, so this means that my points are a fairly good indicator for how many people I've actually helped, and it feels pretty good.

I think back to the first people that I helped with C# problems...

You couldn't find a book title that aligns more perfectly with my blog's mission statement: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate. It's a whistle stop tour of seven programming languages. Each one is chosen for an aspect of its programming model.

The languages are Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell....

It has come to my attention, both here on DIC and in the real world, that many programmers do not actually know that there is a difference between a switch statement and a string of if-else clauses. This seems worthy of correction. You may have been told at some point in your path to becoming a developer that a switch statement is "just like...

In order for someone to help you to solve your problem you have to help us to help you. First, post the relevant code wrapped in code-tags. Highlight the code and press the [ code ] button just above where you are typing. Press the Preview Post button until it is correct.

Post relevant...

6000+ Kudos

Recently I broke through the 6000 Kudos barrier.
So I wrote small program to screen-scrap the contributions page so I could do a breakdown of all my contributions by language section.

Still not quite got the full A-Z in both snippets and tutorials.

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Today I'm releasing my free ebook - A Primer on SQL here at Dreamincode. It is a short ebook teaching the basics of SQL assuming no prior knowledge of it. While the examples and text use Ingres as the database management system, the code should work correctly on any SQL compliant database.

Contents...

I set out to see if I could write a simple Cross-OS program using NASM and GTK+ 2 on Linux and Windows. GTK is a cross OS GUI library, so it seemed it would be easy enough. Holy crap was I wrong!

On Linux, it is simple:
1. Build the GUI with GLADE and save the glade file.
2. Write Assembly code using NASM to load the glade file, show the...

Intro...

Hey guys so I have decided to start blog series where I will be talking about my experiences in Android! Today I will talking about how I calculated the path of enemy units in the game that I am creating. I would like to note that any code that post in this blog entry is still a work in progress and not all the logic bugs have been worked out...

One year ago, I posted a whiny, melodramatic entry about the horrible abuse I was suffering at the hands of my employer when they implemented their mandatory everything-must-use-Joomla-for-a-CMS policy. I am now on the cusp of launching my third Joomla-backed site and, while I'm still not excited by it, I have learned to manage (and in some...

So I've been using Arch Linux as my distro of choice. I'll tell you why with a screenshot:
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ASUS Zenbook UX31E-DH52 -- A Developer's Perspective...

Jam Session with BlackBerry 10!



Coming May 1-3...

There are a lot of threads about doing homework, and about questions regarding homework. Yet we still get tons of questions for the same things over and over... see the same problems over and over... so I'm going to throw my hat in the ring of trying to cover these in one place rather than have so many people waste so many man-hours saying...

Welcome to the VB.net FAQ and Resources Blog.

This blog has been started as a focus for several pinned topics in the VB.net section.

The existing pinned topics.
vb.net FAQs
Resources
Fancy a Challenge?
Project Ideas
Tutorial Ideas & Suggestions

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Welcome to another exciting episode! Today we will be discussing a topic that seems to be a bit of a confusing one for everyone... storing BLOB images in MySQL and then showing them again using PHP. While it is always advised against, we will show you a little demo code for how this can be done and discuss why/why not do this. We will then...

The other day while helping out in Java, I came across this thread...

Well once again I had to do something in wordpress that I wasn't sure off. I bit of googling and reading a few blogs I got the solutions.
At first you would think that it isn't possible buuut it is. Wordpress is just a little stingy of unknown variables being passed without it knowing.. anyway... here is how it is done. first the code:

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Hey guys, I've submitted a t-shirt design on threadless, titled "Sweet Shades", and I need as much support as I can get.

Let me know what you guys think, and if you're feeling it, like it on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, anything helps!

Also, any critiques would be great, cause no matter what, that's what I'm...

blogs are useful, and they are fun, i will type fun things here i hope

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I'm currently working on a WordPress Plugin which also writes to the MySQL Database, using the $wpdb-class, prevented by the WordPress Plugin-API.

I came up with some strange behavior doing that:
I used the $wpdb->prepare()...

I found many website having attractive design and lots of information that can really attract the customers. While you targeting big brands, it is essential for you to provide corporate information on your website which can help you in gaining trust of your visitors.

Given checklist can help you in establishment of strong brand of your corporate...

Welcome to my first entry in DIC's Dev Blogs section!

Before I start you should all note this code is written for VB.Net, should you wanna use C# then convert it.
However if there's a huge demand for a C# tutorial I'll add that on a later date.
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One of the more popular controls that come with ASP.Net is the GridView control. This control is great for displaying data from a database as well as editing and deleting that same data. One of the shortfalls of the GridView, however, is its lack of support for inserting new data into the database. The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to...

Simply put in one word, Amazing. XNA game me the tools to actually get my mind set on making games. I have an open canvas in the game industry now. Even though I'm still a novice, I can finally feel myself getting somewhere now. Unlike the times where i felt hopeless in coding.

So, we're getting some gamers who think it might be a good idea to try to reverse engineer games and their save game files. There serveral reasons why this is bad:

• When you install a game you normally (or in fact always...

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I have a link of C#/ Do you help m e! I from VIetNam. Thank very much for yor reply!

Are you a heavy internet user? Are you a frequent heavy downloader and worried about the download limit set by your ISP? Do you have the right of accessing more than one internet source (e.g. your personal 3G wireless link, public or private Wi-Fi, home DSL, etc.)? If the answer is yes, then Octopus+ is for you.

OCTOPUS+ is an...

Tips on choosing a BSD version

Linux has been the latest word in alternative operating systems for a few years now; but, there are other options with a history that precedes both Linux and the GNU base. These systems are based on the Berkley Software Distribution, a direct descendant of AT&T's (Bell Labs) UNIX which was rewritten. There...

This post is part of the HTGAJDJWAIB series of posts....

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here is the most recent incarnation of the Liberty BASIC code for my Fox / Chicken / Corn game, with several significant improvements.

I have gone from just over 240 lines of code to just over 270, but at the same time I have added a huge amount of subtle features and streamlined the logic too.

I was having problems with the use of brackets to...

Let's say we wanted to append a String "text" to a JEditorPane, making sure that any html is parsed:

String text = "<p> Example </p>";

I've found two ways to do it.

The simple but bad way:

JEditorPane pane = new JEditorPane("text/html", null);pane.setText(pane.getText() + text);

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