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...

I had an issue earlier this week where I needed to remote profile a java process, but it was not using the standard(?) RMI protocol. Some intense googling later, here are the obscure, but simple steps to get this working.

RMI requires two ports to communicate, whereas JMXMP only uses one. You'll need to port forward/tunnel that remote port to...

Here's another quickie I wrote to my benefit - I have bad memory! This helps me remember things for the future. :)

We've all been there as web developers, how do I keep track of views? How many people have seen this profile page? How many people have viewed this car listing page? You have to take into account a lot of different bits...

Based on changes in activity, we have re-evaluated the reputation thresholds. The major changes to note are the following:
-The Ruby and ColdFusion forums have a threshold of +10 rep for the month.
-Java and C/C++ have a threshold of +45 rep for the month.
-PHP and C# have thresholds of +30 rep for the month.
-Python is now set at +20 for the...

I have recently found Udacity an online "university"-like site offering some online courses. I found the site via the Peter Norvig's...

I'd like to share this article and site with everyone. It was quite an interesting read especially when you look at the concepts behind the way they go about teaching code. While there are no shortage of interactive coding tutorials online (e.g. code academy) this site focuses on teaching coding by giving the code by using visual content to...

As I am sipping a cup of coffee and writing this blog post on a Saturday afternoon, I keep thinking about how fast time has passed. I joined DreamInCode on May 16th, 2009, just a few months before going to college. Today, it's May 13th 2017 and these numbers make me realize how much time has passed (not to mention, make feel a bit...

Welcome back to "What I've learned working with Dynamics 2011". Today we'll be talking about automatically generating and regenerating the code for early bound entities.

In case you haven't used it, the CRM 2011 SDK comes with several convenient tools, one of which is called CrmSvcUtil.exe...

I've been tinkering around with the custom inspectors a lot lately in Unity. Namely PropertyDrawers, which funny enough I have been calling "drawers" to date, as in the drawer of a dresser or bureau. I only this week realized it's 'draw-er', like one who draws. There's a few limitations to PropertyDrawers that I...

Recently I have seen quite a few posts looking for to read & set Environment variables in C#, so I thought it was time for a blog posting going over the ins and outs of this process. While the .Net Framework has classes & methods for reading and updating environment variables, namely the Environment Class...

[Apologies if the entry is a little unclear, I just threw this together in about 10 minutes, I wanna get it out there... it's fucking hard to find any sort of information when it comes to this at the moment]

Quick entry, gonna turn this into a tutorial soon. The code is a bit of a mess, since I was just throwing stuff together while I was...

My current side project is an electronic TCG. Ideally this type of game should be a multiplayer game. Making a game multiplayer can be a daunting task. There are a lot of variables that you need to keep in mind when designing a multiplayer game. What protocol will you use for the game. Are you going to go with a client/server, peer to peer or...

Hello everyone,

In case you haven't noticed, I have not been very active for the last 6-7 weeks. It's not because I don't like you all - it's because I am a member of my high school's FIRST Robotics Team (4265). I was asked to take the role of senior programmer and hopefully program this robot.

For those of you who do not...

I think Python may be your best bet. The vast majority of recruiters from whom I receive LinkedIn messages (and calls) as of late have all been looking for those with Python (and Django) experience. Python is a very minor point on my résumé, even though I've been using it off and on (and somewhat sparingly) for like 15 years. My first job was...

From: http://softwarefreedomday.org...

Well, not me. My blog. I finally got my hands on a separate hosting account, and now I have my site/blog/resume/knowledge base here:
http://dennisdel.com

I will not be removing this blog (or changing it's type to a link that references the new site) for historical reasons (first place where I started blogging). So the posts that were...

I found another enormously slow method in Python: getframeinfo.

from inspect import getframeinfo

https://docs.python....ry/inspect.html

It's eating up 21% of my code time. I only call it 90 times in a certain program whereas some other funtions are used 5000 times. To give you an idea of how slow it is, it is 535 times slower than the...

In addition to being a predominant language for desktop and enterprise grade applications, Java is also widely used on the mobile platform for developing mobile apps. The main Java platforms for mobile devices include Oracle's Java Micro Edition (commonly referred to as J2ME), Google's Android, and Blackberry.

Java Micro Edition (J2ME)...