Code Project is a great resource for developers. I use it, have projects bookmarked, read the newsletter, and got the T-shirt (okay that’s a lie…just the underwear). This makes it even better. You can search Code Project by doing little more than highlighting or copy/pasting code, typing in a few words, and blamo!, there you have it. it uses Live Search for MSDN and the intertubes, which I’m not overly keen on, but if I want to really search m...
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software development with some really amazing hairB-Trees Tutorial
A decent article/tutorial on trees as far as data structures are concerned. “CIS Department > Tutorials > Software Design Using C++ > B-Trees”:http://cis.stvincent.edu/html/tutorials/swd/btree/btree.html
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.NET Line Count
I found this slick little app a few years ago, and it looks like it’s still around. Count your VC# and VC++ lines, and it differentiates between code lines, blank lines, designer lines, etc, which is nice. The downside: it’s really only useful for VC# and VC++ projects, which is alright if that’s all you are working with. Check it out. C#, Visual Basic and C++ .NET Line Count Utility – The Code Project – .NET PS. You’ll note that I didn’t ment...
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Rake Tutorial
Oh me, oh my. When I first posted about this, in June of 2007, my original post started with Ruby is sweet. I should use it more often. And now, on Monday, I get to start my new job playing with Rails all day long. Funny how things change. Regardless, the quality of this tutorial hasn’t changed, so here it is again. Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial
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Notepad++ for the win++
Who actually uses notepad anymore? Notepad++ is pretty much the bomb, so use it instead. .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.
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Oracle + auto_increment = Pain
I had to do auto increment in Oracle a while back and it was painful. It ended up happening, but not in the nice MySQL way. Whatever, it worked. This site has a few tricks. Autoincrement primary key for Oracle
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Borland C++ Builder 5, How I Hate Thee
I’m pretty sure Borland’s C++ Builder 5 is the worst IDE ever. It’s slow. If you try to use tooltips or code completion, it takes a good 5 seconds before anything shows up. On top of that, since they didn’t put the tooltip activity in a separate thread (I haven’t seen source code, but it’s pretty obvious), the entire application is frozen and you get the hourglass while it’s looking for something to display. Super. Not only does it take foreve...
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Einstein@Home Statistics in Wordpress Sidebar
If, like me, you participate in some sort of grid computing project, it’s interesting to see your progress. I take part in Einstein@Home, and I wanted to display my stats in my sidebar (on my other blog). I’ll give you two ways to accomplish this. First way is the quick way, which involves including the jQuery Javascript library, and a second which involves writing your own Javascript. The second option results in a smaller file, but the jQuer...
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BugTrap
I still haven’t used this, mainly just because I haven’t had the need. I’m still convinced it’s the greatest thing ever though. BugTrap
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PARUS Parallel Programming Language
I’m so lazy! Almost two years ago I said I’d check out PARUS, and it never happened. Well now I’m more organized and can put it on my Tracks todo list. I’ll get to it. Probably not this weekend, but eventually. PARUS
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