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...

Figured I'd try out the D.I.C. blogs. Who doesn't end up in the mood to post random things about their life, right? I'm not too worried about whether anyone reads it or not. I just like to write about things sometimes.

I've been reading An Introduction To Programming Using Visual Basic 2005...

Ok so I realized that I'm a horrible blogger. Half the time I forget I even have a blog. Tells you something eh. Someone supposed to blog either everyday or every other day. For me its blog every 4 to 5 months more or less probably more though. Wish I could say it was work and school keeping me occupied but it's just not. I'm not much...

In ruby, scan is a powerful method that you can use with regex to scan through a string and find all occurrences of a pattern. So if you have a string with data in it, say, maybe you are parsing from emails or some other secondary data source, you would use regex to parse that important information into your ruby app.

Props to: ...

Whoops, looks like I dropped the ball.

I'll be writing the tutorials in the tutorials section of the website. I figure you guys will find it easier to read there, than here.


Stay tuned.

I think Python may be your best bet. The vast majority of recruiters from whom I receive LinkedIn messages (and calls) as of late have all been looking for those with Python (and Django) experience. Python is a very minor point on my résumé, even though I've been using it off and on (and somewhat sparingly) for like 15 years. My first job was...

I have always been interested in how computer run. How they execute commands and all of that. I finally decided to take a step further in my life by learning python. Day 1 was a bit intimidating, as I'm sure all other languages feel the same for beginers. Learned how to run python and also the

print("")

function as well as

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Here's the story...

Chris (skyhawk133) called me up Thursday night. Yes, CALLED me...like, on the phone. (I was very surprised.) He left me a voice mail, so I listened to it and he said I should call him because he has an opportunity that I might be interested in. I called him back and he told me about Microsoft Student Insiders...

Hi! since as a child i've had dreams of creating my own hardware, games and software. i was kind of less previlaged when it came to resources and other things so I always broke my toys and used the components inside. connecting circuits and seeing them work fascinated and motivated me...blah, blah, blah!

I have joined dreamin code a...

I've been working on a web application side project for several months now and I'm just now to the point where I need to start thinking about refactoring some common javascript code into separate files. That kind of a 'migration' can be very stressful and often leads to thoughts of uncertainty. For instance, there is...