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 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:...

As with any good publication, I'll start off with a small introduction. In this blog I plan to publish any tech-related articles, stories, tutorials, et cetera. That just about covers it.

With the introduction out of the way I will continue with a small story and some background information. I recently started working on an operating system...

So, lately I've been wanting to redesign my website, and I have been considering some of the things I might want to include on it. One of those things is a brief summary of my latest Twitter updates or 'Tweets'.

I managed to achieve this by using this PHP Twitter class...

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...

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...

This snippet will allow you to send mail from a ssl smtp account (Gmail) from your vb6 application. There are a few things you will need to do this.

Dependencies:

MS CBO for windows 2000 added as a reference....
you have to have a email for you to use for bouncing smtp from. Gmail is free and will allow you to use the smtp server.

You may want...