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...

I had to take a break from reading through the book for a while. Need to clear my head to get it around a few things that don't want to take hold. I decided to put some of my new skills to the test and wrote a Tic-Tac-Toe program.

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Not necessarily the group here, but in general being a mentor is something some people fail to get the point of. It has never been about reputation, prizes, incentives, or anything else heralded as an award, and it never will be. If you're in it for yourself then you'll never truly realize the meaning of life: others.

Life is not to be...

Hey everyone I know just about no one reads this blog but just in case dont forget to visit my proper blog: http://williamgeorgegardner.com

I want to learn programming languages as much they are...But i can't find good guidance for me plz anybody help me to give directions for learn.......

C Language is powerful programming language developed by Denis Ritche in 1972. C Language is a general purpose language but normally used for system programming.
In this c language tutorial you will learn the basics of Computer Language and C Language in deep.

Introduction to c language...

I tried to look into search engine for a good site which is having good and current interview question and answer,generally sites are featured with advertisement more than real content,

So i decided to lookout for the site which can deliver content with simplicity.
www.pourbrain.com is a very good site for java and microsoft interview question...

A lot of you might know that changing the etc/netbeans.conf file, one can increase the java heap space. But if you would want to do it right from Netbeans itself here is a way to do it.

If you get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space while running your project. This is one of the fix.

This tutorial is for Netbeans IDE 6.9...

I think i am gonna adopt the idea of making a game engine for my code.

After reading my latest book acquisition the benefits of making a game engine as opposed to just coding for a single game seem to be great.
Of course still learning as i am going and doing this so .... would be more of a trial and error type of thing. I think on my next few...

For the past few months I have learned a great deal about web development but for some reason I am loosing interest. So upon taking some advice that was given a while ago I am embarking on creating a GUI with Python. In the hopes that I will learn a great deal about programming because after all that I have learned this summer I feel like I...

hey all,

Microsoft has come to a point where they have decided that they are going to get top of the top developers to make up a panel and work on the security and pirating of OS. But how did this attachment below slipped out there offices??

This was originally a reply to some people in a thread asking me to explain what Clojure was and give a "Clojure Rocks" speech. After I wrote this, I decided to put it here so that I could link to it rather than have to reiterate myself in the future for these sorts of questions. So here it is, in all it's glory. Enjoy


Clojure is a...

Welcome to Javascript 6 - Comparisons and else if. Let's delve right into comparisons. it's just an addition to the math signs and everything we've learned so far, you should catch on quickly. If you haven't, take this time to read Mini Lesson 1 - Advanced Variables. If you've done this, continue on, as the variables...

First time messing with a blog so forgive me if i fail around for a while before finding my feet here.

Another book pertaining to quantum computing which has been my "bible" so to speak in grasping a more in depth understanding has got to be Nielsen and Chuang's Quantum Computing and Quantum Information.


This is the definitive industry standard for obtaining a glimpse into the world of quantum computing. The authors introduce...

So we released Oratr 0100728 the other day. We consider it stable, although there are a few bugs that we've already fixed.

CHANGELOG:
Added preprocessor to improve parsing.
Added the ability to use a config.orc file to automatically run some code on startup.
Added functions: {timer} {global}.
Added {array build ...}, which took infinite...

The following is some bash scripting in a Linux Red Hat environment. Enjoy.

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Some project managers are still finding ways on how to raise productivity from their IT staff. It is much like in basketball, the star receives the most minutes but we can’t make one employee to work more than their regular work hours or bulk him/her with tasks. How to make all of your team members a star player? Raise their productivity and here...