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...

If people ask me how I spent the last few hours of my teenager-hood, I can proudly state that I was coding...

Was it something trivial? Yes.
Does it have any real-world importantce? No.
Could you have spent your time better? Quite possibly

But in my opinion, A good programmer is expected to go off on tangents and code something just because. A...

hello!!! pls get me some help! i am new user in php
i got some problem in deleting my records.
there's an error saying"Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in F:\Program files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\myfiles\web\delete.php on line 52"
also with my delete_ac.php has an error saying...

Rolling out a new template! Works perfectly in FireFox. Features two columns, and a trendy logo. See me about getting the source and permissions.

Take a look.

I can remember being a young programmer, having memorized the syntax of my new favorite language from array to ℤ I had no idea where to go next. I felt I didn't know enough to launch into a larger project, there were only thousands of beginning tutorials for me, but nothing to take me somewhere after that. I coded around aimlessly with...

Well,im back from the dentist. I hate dentists,they only afflict me pain and bad nervouse ticks and some weird symptoms in the waiting room. Like i suddenly feel the urge to run as fast as i can towards the nearst door/window and leave/jump. ...

Hello everyone! I do apologize for not entering any new posts. As the school year starts up again, I'm sure many schools will have much busy work and try as hard as i can not to sign onto DIC, I still come here to post on the blog and submit tutorials/snippets. So that being the case, I will do my best in providing the community with...

Author: Vijay P. Mehta
Published: JUL 2008
Pages: 408
ISBN10: 1-59059-965-9
ISBN13: 978-1-59059-965-5
URL: http://www.apress.co...w/9781590599655

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i made a hack for our school computers, it is one to run executables as they have been blocked.
it was simple code and i used GML. in a script i just put

exe = get_open_filename("Executables | *.exe","");execute_shell(exe);

that isnt the exact code but it is similar to that (i cant remember the exact commands i...

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.

Hello everyone, today I stumbled upon this very interesting article while I was researching some stuff. The article says: "15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language". I read it and found the ideas of those exercises very interesting, once you are able to implement solutions for these problems, you know that you have become...

How about something different? Like...? Oh,Yes! Mac-Like Component UI's! I started on some of them like the Progress Bar,Menu,Menu Bar and Toolbar. Anybody want to join me with this Project?

PLY (http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/) is a Python module that allows you to make your own interpreter in python. It allows you to write both the lexer & the parser in python.
I will be posting my attempts here. If I ever finish my language it will look like this:

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Well I finally solved my issue thanks to some help from my uncle, I feel kind of dumb for not thinking of it my self. The solution was to put the bitmaps into the same folder as the executable and that solved it completely. As I progress through using allegro ill keep posting about it.

I remember seeing someone on the tutorial boards asking to see tutorials on the different controls.

I'll be taking on this challenge and learning more about the controls we use in VB.NET and what all they can do.

So please join me on this journey.

The list below is of the controls I will attempt to do tutorials on. With this season of the...

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...

Hello all,

me and some schoolfriends have started a project , making a tabbed webbrowser.
it already has a menu and some basic functions, in the next article i'll show some more functionalities
i want to implent the "add to favourites" options and, the options itself, i also want to add an AutoFill in it so i have got lots of...

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This morning I woke up and was in a great mood for some programming. Thanks to finding a Google tutorial, I finally gave Python a serious look over and I'm glad I did. It's a really powerful language.

Check it out if you haven't seen it yet!...

After doing some extensive research on different degrees and really figuring out where I want to be 10 years down the road my decision will be final this week, Subsequent Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science. The cost difference between a subsequent Web Development and subsequent Computer Science degree is minimal compared to my desired...

As promised I'd use this entry to talk a bit about the upcoming iPhone title that I'm working on. A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to meet a couple of talented 3D artists with a game concept draft ready. As things turned out they were also looking for a couple of programmers to turn this concept into an actual game. Following an...