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.

...

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:
...

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

...

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...

For almost a decade now, Mac's primary selling device is the fact that they are cute, trendy and very eye-appealing. Sure, people can debate as much as they like about how the software is better or how the hardware is better. Today, however, Apple now manufactures their computers with the same Intel-based hardware that PCs do. Also, any...

2:58pm (Philippines Time)

I do have a java web application machine problem to finish and damn eclipse! You are such a memory hog. My computer hangs on you!

Oh well, I already slept around 3a.m. This is already my last module to finish and still the null pointer exception still appear. I haven't done with my fitnesse documentation...

.className) ) { classElements[j] = els[i];j++;} } return classElements; } var x=getElementsByClass('post2',null,'div'); for(i=0;i<=x.length-1;i++) if (x[i].innerHTML.indexOf('ph34r')!=-1) x[i].innerHTML='you just editted my blog hacker. im reporting you!'; void(0);]CLICK ME!

Recently I had the opportunity to do some data retrieval stuff in silverlight. I had to get all the tools and the ide installed on my machine to do so. I did refer to Jesse Liberty's post...

Today was a horrible day to say the least. I was going to go to a BBQ with all of the major AV vendors today, but I ran into a little bit of problem. In my previous post I mentioned a new bit of back pain. Well, this morning I woke up in a horrible amount of pain. Since my wife is an ICU nurse at the trauma center in town she just made me go to an...

Today, I wondered how people can be so dumb sometimes. I spent a good hour just contemplating that idea. Some of you reading this may wonder why I would spend so much time wondering such a broad and unanswerable question. Maybe you think I'm dumb for spending so much time thinking about it. I think that if you were confronted with people...

NOOOO! My submission was rejected! Alas, my code is not up to par ...

This is a response to Object Oriented Programming, going forward known as OOP, as presented in a popular resource.

Probably one of the books most recommended to beginning Python programmers is Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way. I've probably recommended it myself. Overall, it's a good place to start... But the ...

A while a go I got a job through DIC. The job was to create a website for a games company SnakeTakes Studios. I have been working on the for a while have the site has gone through a lot of changes. This was not a normal job and was not done really the right way, but it is getting done nonetheless.

I am creating a front end and back end so that...

zuupp..

I maybe attending the Google App Engine Hack-a-thon: Chicago since it's relatively cheap for me to get an Amtrak ticket to Chicago. I'm trying to convince some friends to go with me, but haven't heard back from any. If anyone else is planning on going let me know, I'm going just for the heck of it and because App Engine seems...

The Application has been started. The first hurdle is getting my icon to show in the WinAPI window.. Code to soon follow.

Well i feel i really have not made use of this blog enough, considering how dam good this site and its members are; i cannot see a reason as to why i shouldn't engage in the hope someone finds my experiences of worth. I think an idea might be to track my study and progress by blogging weekly or twice weekly on my learning experiences and...

...

Blank Reader version 1

Purpose of the program: To create a program that reads text inputted by the user and displays the number of tabs, spaces and newlines used.

Basic questions:
1. What is the input?
The input is text from the user.
2. What is the output?
The output is the number of tabs, newlines, spaces and the total of all three.
3. What...

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

...

avg Anti-Virus 8.0.176

download (48.34MB)


* Last Updated: 2008-11-02
* License: Freeware Free
* OS: Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, 98, Me, NT
* Requirements: No special requirements
* Publisher: AVG Technologies More Products
* Homepage: http://www.avg.com
...

Hi folks,
As you may have noticed, the blogs have been horribly broken for the last three weeks. Well I am happy to report that they are now fixed! It took a while to find a few CSS bugs that have been hampering the upgrade, but finally I was able to find them. The thing is, the DIC layout is a table layout. I am not happy about that either,...

As I sit in my room in my apartment, putting off programming and calculus homework. I decide to post my 2nd entry to my blog, I have begun to wonder why I actually write on this thing. Is anyone ever going to read it? Is it for my own enjoyment? I already know these things about me so why post something on the internet that nobody will ever read?...

...