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...

Let's say we wanted to append a String "text" to a JEditorPane, making sure that any html is parsed:

String text = "<p> Example </p>";

I've found two ways to do it.

The simple but bad way:

JEditorPane pane = new JEditorPane("text/html", null);pane.setText(pane.getText() + text);

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Today, after several hours of crunching code, I registered at Dream.In.Code. Not for help or support, but for a quick escape from busting my brain. You see, I'm a forum junky. I own several forums myself and I'm a member at over forty communities. In fact, I'm an executive at the world's largest forum community, ChannelFuse...

Our team's first collaborative game project, Elliptical Diffusion is a quirky 2D side-scrolling MORPG directed more at having a smaller loyal fanbase than being massive multiplayer.

It features your typical MORPG elements such as leveling, skill growing, and questing, though it expands in the way of an evolving storyline and the ability to...

Hi! since as a child i've had dreams of creating my own hardware, games and software. i was kind of less previlaged when it came to resources and other things so I always broke my toys and used the components inside. connecting circuits and seeing them work fascinated and motivated me...blah, blah, blah!

I have joined dreamin code a...

hello i made this blog by accident and if any moderators or somebody with the power to delete a blog, could you please delete this blog, or atleast tell me how to delete it on my own. thanks in advenced

I First started coding in 2008 Computer Science Class in The University of Western Ontario. I was admitted to the university as a business student however, after taking the computer science classes I quickly made the transfer to the computer science department the following year. I have taken it upon my self to further my programming knowledge by...

Normally, APIs are easy for me to learn. Really, they are. For instance, SFML, which I'm using to code the tile-engine for my tutorials, I hadn't even touched before I started writing those tutorials. It's an easy to use API and well documented. I've been able to figure everything out using only the online documentation and the...

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How It All Began...

Troubles of remembering a bunch of things... this web browser is kicking my arse...

Let it be known that on Friday, June 10 in the year of somebody else's lord 2011, the project of Terminatrix was announced to the world, Proposing itself to be or aspire to become an artificial intelligence project, written in the language of the Devil Bill Gate's Bastard child language of C#. To all of those who worry about such things:...

The category for this year's Thesis is "Utility Software".
Some of my colleagues said that it would be easy this year because it's just a Utility Software - It's not even a thesis worth project.

But honestly, I don't have any idea how to make it.
My professor said that using VB.Net would be very useful in creating a...

So after a bit of time following some tutorials and studying other people's code, I decided to make something that is useful at least in the slightest.

A buddy of mine asked me to create for him a program that allowed him to type in his current percent in a class, and then figure out how much more he needed in order to get the grades higher....

i'm hailong ,welcome to everyone !

A program that displays all the prime numbers between 1 and 100.

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Well, here it is: my fist blog entry of my first blog. I need to get my thoughts straight as I wade into the jungle of 3D programming, (for real...

the price of silver will raise to over 50$ on 7/29/2011 around 3pm

I would like to thank every one that supports my inanity and insanity over at the javascript help forum.

http://www.dreaminco...A&prune_day=100

It's also nice when you support the good stuff. Thanks for that too. Though insanity can be good in small doses.

Hi,
In this blog I m going to give you some tips every week to make your program(c/c++ code ) efficient, readable and good to understand by others.
Along with this you will know how to look in to others program to understand the flow , what where to modify the things.
I will try make your programming EASY......
It is not rocket science.