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...

Welcome to my first entry in DIC's Dev Blogs section!

Before I start you should all note this code is written for VB.Net, should you wanna use C# then convert it.
However if there's a huge demand for a C# tutorial I'll add that on a later date.
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Now that I am almost done with my degree (IT) I am will be jumping almost feet first into the industry. Any input would be appreciated...

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've always heard of the stack and heap, and being advanced topics, i tried not give them too much though

But here's a two quick bullet points which made the concepts really accessible
(taken straight from the book)

- When you call a method, the memory required for it's parameters and it's local variables is always acquired from...

A small program I made for an assignment in one of my courses that calculates quarterly interest, given a principal and interest rate. I feel as though this isn't nearly as efficient as it could be. If you have any suggestions, I implore you to throw them out there.

Notes:
-We aren't quite at the point in the course in which we script...

Well i feel i really have not made use of this blog enough, considering how dam good this site and its members are; i cannot see a reason as to why i shouldn't engage in the hope someone finds my experiences of worth. I think an idea might be to track my study and progress by blogging weekly or twice weekly on my learning experiences and...

Hi all, I'm working on a slot machine. I'm a novice to intermediate coder and am developing this slot machine for my website. www.dangerousdavesdesigns.com
I would like it to have 5 reels and right now only 3 pay lines but eventually I would like to have a wild card and 25 lines with 2 separate bonuses.
So far my code has 5 reels and 1...