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...

Reading tutorials from sdltutorials.com

I am moving a website created in Classic ASP to a 64-bit server. I updated my Include Statements, file folder paths, and connection strings. But this one cookie is giving me grief. It won't pass on to other pages. My co-worker, who is more knowledgeable than I, said it was the path of the cookie which pointed to the original folder...

Sometimes, when boredom's solid hand has taken grip of my wandering mind, I ramble. I will find myself segued in a, more often than not, unrelated story, talking utter nonsense, complete bullshit. Boredom, being the awkward shit it is, will then take my mind to other places, leaving me to forcefully finish a story I now have no interest in.

A...

So, I started my internship a few weeks ago (I'm actually writing this instead of working). Most of my projects are working with Microsoft SQL Server and PHP, writing forms with validation that add information to tables in databases etc. I know it's nothing new, but it's kind of new and interesting to me. Hopefully by the end of the...

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I will let you all know a little something i am currently doing my Bachelor of IT and they said that my Cert IV in IT should keep me going but now that i am into it what i learnt in cert IV has nothing to do with what they want us to do in the Bachelor.

Cert IV programing language VB.NET
Bachelor programing language JAVA

Thoes two languages...

Well, what to say, Ohai!

What I would be posting in this blog will be some of my approaches to problems.
Like other blogs there will be coding and stuff that Iv been working in and on.

Welcome, to the end.

Okay, I know it has been a while since I was on here. Work got busy, then I got busy looking for a new job. I still am in fact. As for my RPG Toolkit? Well, the gaming group I was in fell apart and I lost my motivation to work on the application. Since then I have found a new group and got my motivation back. And with my lack of a job currently, I...

Env X is a programming and web development organization. Anyone is able to join. You do at least need to be able to program in C++ and Java. If you don't know any of those and may be a web developer, you can work on the Env X website. To do that you will need knowledge of CSS, HTML, Javascript, and PHP. We want creative people...

Recently I have seen quite a few posts looking for to read & set Environment variables in C#, so I thought it was time for a blog posting going over the ins and outs of this process. While the .Net Framework has classes & methods for reading and updating environment variables, namely the Environment Class...

A recent question...

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Roughly 2 years ago, through a fit of boredom, a bit of procrastinating, and a somewhat stubborn attitude, I joined this forum. For a few months, I was a fairly active member helping out who ever I could. Unfortunately, as time progressed the effects of gravity seemed to weaken and I appeared to drop off the face of the Earth.

Since my abrupt...

I often had the need to make sure that my application only runs once on a particular pc at any one time, especially with applications that utilise a serial port for instance.

I have created a simple static class with a method that will check if a process with the same name is already running and if so close the most recent instance of the...

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I have been resurrecting my freelance career and one of the biggest hurdles I stumble upon is a pricing structure that is attractive and more apt to close the sale. Today I stumbled across an article on Dzone and it got me to start thinking about my pricing strategy.

It is common for a freelancer, especially in web design/development to follow...