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...

Hi, first off I’m not a computer programmer or know anything about coding. I really need to be educated in lamens terms and if someone could please help me I’d forever be great full. I was told by someone that I’m in a chrooted environment and someone has wrecked my homestead. I was told I needed a power wash to clear the cride and maybe an...

This snippet will allow you to send mail from a ssl smtp account (Gmail) from your vb6 application. There are a few things you will need to do this.

Dependencies:

MS CBO for windows 2000 added as a reference....
you have to have a email for you to use for bouncing smtp from. Gmail is free and will allow you to use the smtp server.

You may want...

I just released my second app into the Android Marketplace. The first is a (very) basic bill and tip calculator called (surprisingly) Basic Tip and Bill Calculator. Enter in the bill amount, tip amount, and number of people, and it gives each person's share. Basic, but more features are coming soon!
Second is DroidPaint. It's...

almost gave up on pacman... until I had an idea. I won't be able to get on for a while so I'll report back when I've tryed it!

Hello again, and welcome to another exciting episode of 'Code Rants'! ...

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DarkPixel Development is a company dedectated to you software needs! Here at DarkPixel, we conduct software research, and report our findings. Most of our projects will be open source! But other, more important projects, will be closed source. So enjoy your stay, and prepare yourself for an out of this world experience! Also please...

YAY!! Finally got it all working.. and threw in a person info feature... it accepts name, employee number, etc.. and uses a double linked list... that i have built from scratch... and implements an iterator class nested within the linked list class... took forever to troubleshoot through.. pretty proud of myself... i will post all code...

What is the big deal with MineCraft? My nephew who is 8, came over and I had to get it for him. Then I get to school (College) and it's one of the most popular games among a lot of my friends there.