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...

Well.................... New year, fresh start as they say. I am wanting to start my life over and web desinging is the biggest step of all for me. I am, what you would call, a newbie. But I don't want to stay there. I want to become much much more and web design, I just recently discovered, is the love of my life (other than my wife of...

I think I'm living in a very beautiful world. I'm very happy. What about you?

Hi all, this blog is dedicated to the exploration of the tips and tricks of the c++ language. If you have any ideas on implementing any aspect of c++ feature the "unusual" but "easier yet standard/legal" way, please feel free to leave them here so others can benefit from them. Questions and "whereabouts/how-to's"...

So its January 29, 2009 and I am doing some last minute coding for a school assignment..... Well lets put it that I am going to be getting very little sleep tonight as this needs to be done before 4 pm (Mountain Time).... Ill update when I'm done...... Hope to god this case of Red Rain keeps me up!!!

So, I've been noticing all these people on here that claim to be experts in their field or chosen language, whatever the case may be. Obviously these people know way more knowledge about these subjects than the average programmer, but are they really experts? I guess the first thing we need to know is what the definition of an expert is. Is an...

I just remembered I had an account here, so thats a thing, in my absence I've completed my CS degree and I'm looking for a job, how are you all?

Seriously, I don't link people to this or anything. but 3,000+ and not a single post D:

The least I can do is pretend that ya'll were reading something. So now that you've read it, leave. D:<

Just kidding. You can stay if you want.

SLUMBER PARTY IN MY...

First off I'd like to thank anyone who will take the time to read this, you will be looked upon by NLP as a great help, anyway back to the point as to why this blog is here.

As stated above Project Delta is one of our current under-goings, what we plan to do with this game is deliver you, the gamer, the best quality FPS made. We will be using...

I recently finished a Port Scanner project written in Ruby. What this does is it asks what site (or ip) you want to scan, that is, if you are online. If you are offline, the scanner will, obviously, not work. It will also scan on local area network IP addresses. The program utilizes the 'ping' library's pingecho() method located in the...

Hello all. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend this event like I planned. It was a pretty rough day at work. We have been laying small groups off here and there since October, then started getting mandatory days off, loss of benifits. Well, now we are cutting two dozen more employees, 15% reduction in pay, loss of dental and vision, and no...

my own video-tute series to model a car from scratch
an audi a4 2006
link to my channel on youtube...

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...

Welcome to my BLOG!!!!

Netbooks are shit. Accept that.

They have tiny processors, low amounts of RAM, small hard drives, literally no disc drive, 1-2 USB ports, and that's pretty much it, unless you pay several hundred dollars more.

For years, all we have been doing, is innovating. We built bigger, better, faster, smarter computers every day.

But then, netbooks...

I Heard about in 20c, one physicist had a absolute algorithm who Richard Phillips Feynman.

1.Write down the problem.
2.Think very hard.
3.Write down the solution.

I thought about it, everyone knew and did it.

it's so simple.
but i think original feynman's algoritm was not simple as it.

is who know it ?
and, where it is ?

It is my first blog so dont be so hard on me i lose lots of my time to try get this to work so i decide to share it

so here is the code

so we add Inet1
i will show you how to copy a file from FTP

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Well once again I had to do something in wordpress that I wasn't sure off. I bit of googling and reading a few blogs I got the solutions.
At first you would think that it isn't possible buuut it is. Wordpress is just a little stingy of unknown variables being passed without it knowing.. anyway... here is how it is done. first the code:

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Currently working on a FPS with DarkGDK

I ran into a brick wall today as that I don't know what's going wrong with my Vector coding. I'm trying to solve these issues ,but to my dismay I currently suck again.
I can't believe I allowed myself to get so out of practice

Well this screwed me up. I can't seem to get PHP and vice versa working with my XAMPP ver on my newest computer running MS Vista.

I was trying to create a PHP and MySQL login system and it just won't work! I'm not even sure what's wrong. I previoulsy installed it on XP and it worked fine. Dunno what went wrong.

Any...