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...

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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Is there anything I've done badly in this code?
I completely understand if you don't want to look it all over.

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Well, all in all, my internship experience here at 2nd Solutions has been rewarding as I'm the only one in the building apparently who knows anything about programming. Well, starting out, there was some software to test, so I had to manually set up my own server (was not expecting hardware work at a programming job), but that was set up in...

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.

I have a friend who works in Network Administration, and he is fascinated with prime numbers. He codes a little but only in VBS. He also encouraged me to join STLP, so I did. He is so into prime numbers that he gave me this challenge: Find a fast algorithm for determining if a number is prime, and have it time the resulting test. I only knew...

Flow charts are an easy and visual way to see how an existing program or a program being programmed is going to run.

I use a program RFFlow 5.04 for all my flowcharting needs. Thee are many free and trial programs on the net, a simple search will locate them.

Lets say we want to simply display a message if a value is equal or less than 0, and...

I realize I don't post here, but if anyone really cares to read my thoughts on random things, then check out my wordpress blog that I actually do write to.

http://c3dude.wordpress.com

A program that displays all the prime numbers between 1 and 100.

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