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...

When logged on to SQL Server Management Studio database engine, the database appears as
<dbName> (SUSPECT)
No transaction on the database can take place

If this is the problem you are facing then you are on the right page ashishshevale 

Everyone remembers being a kid, right? Always running around, making things up as they went along. Whatever you could find was some sort of adventure, and your imagination could always lead you into creating some sort of game.

Well, what if we were to make games out of more mundane things? Like childhood, with a rule set.

Take this PHPBB board,...

Ok I am new to Window form programming.

I do really like the standard toolbox with the windows look... but I want my own look. I have looked and typed in everything I possibly could in order to find entrees or blogs on making your own graphics. But I only get things like making shaped buttons or turning the button different colors or something...

So we released Oratr 0100728 the other day. We consider it stable, although there are a few bugs that we've already fixed.

CHANGELOG:
Added preprocessor to improve parsing.
Added the ability to use a config.orc file to automatically run some code on startup.
Added functions: {timer} {global}.
Added {array build ...}, which took infinite...

I often had the need to make sure that my application only runs once on a particular pc at any one time, especially with applications that utilise a serial port for instance.

I have created a simple static class with a method that will check if a process with the same name is already running and if so close the most recent instance of the...

During the last few days, many people have been asking about regular expressions in php. So i am writing this blog to show people how to use regular expressions in php. These examples will use POSIX NOT PERL, so you may convert to PERL if you like.

Firstly i will give you a summary of what regular expressions are.
Summary...

Env X is a programming and web development organization. Anyone is able to join. You do at least need to be able to program in C++ and Java. If you don't know any of those and may be a web developer, you can work on the Env X website. To do that you will need knowledge of CSS, HTML, Javascript, and PHP. We want creative people...

So in week 1 of my 16 weeks off (actually week 2, week 1 was spent partying and getting drunk), I somehow strangely stumbled upon Python 3.2

The great thing about really understanding programming is how easy it is to switch from one language to another very quickly.

Python is a very easy programming language to learn. Do I wish I started with...

There are several members on DIC who are also members of other forums. I've always been interested in learning how malware works so I can better protect myself and others from becoming infected. So a month or two ago I joined the Malwarebytes Forum. Unfortunately, the Admins and Moderators discourage members from helping users with their...

It seems that limewire has finally lost it's long running legal battle and has been ordered to shut down distrobution of it's client software. I personally don't care much for limewire, infact I thought of it more as a p2p malware distrobution client. It is however another trophy for the music companies and copyright vendors...

PolyCrypt is a polymorphic encryption algorithm. That means that almost everything about the algorithm changes depending on the key. I have not seen any other algorithm of this type. This algorithm will have different number of rounds, content of rounds, content of the round keys, and possibly the S-Box, depending on the key. Here is the basic...

I have been programming now for a total of 3 years. I quickly gotten familiar with VB and C# is running in the same pace. I mostly think it is because of the books my school provided. It gives detailed description of each methods, great examples and different variations of "you do it" coding examples that by the time I get the assignment...

I have posted a new tutorial to the board, it's the Simple Servlet 3.0 Tutorial. I created an example using Eclipse and Java 6, and the tutorial will show you how to create servlets using the Java Servlet 3.0 API. Servlet 3.0 is a step-up from prior Servlet incarnations with major enhancements and new features like asynchronous support,...

Been working through Chapter 2 on boolean algebra in my assembly language book. It's pretty hard stuff to get through. I've been taking a lot of notes on it so far.

all stargate fans respond godspeed

Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");

All I can say about VIM is WOW! I have used VIM before but didn't really use it for much more than a text editor to impress my less geeky friends ...

I recently joined the electronics club in my school. My first day at the club was very interesting and I got to learn really cool stuff such as capacitors, stripboards, soldering etc. Next week, we(club members) are going to build our first electronic project called Flashing LED project. The idea behind the project is to assemble electronic...

Well I havent really posted here, but since my first post, I have gotten a new job in an agile team as developer specializing in test, so basically i am the QA front man for my team, but I am encouraged to commit to the codebase.

I have jumped in with a litte XAML modifications to get styling correct and am having fun doing it.

My goal now if to...

the if command is a way of telling your program to wait for a specific action or condition before performing an action. the if command is most helpful for use in windows form's application's since the application meant waits for you to do something.

the first step is telling it what to wait for. you can do this by stating in the coding: ...

Honestly, I have yet to actually enjoy SharePoint development specifically but, I still let myself learn. I want to briefly describe an issue I had when creating a sandboxed visual web part. As the name of this entry implies, the SharePointWebPartCodeGenerator...