Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
I recently found The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer while using StumbleUpon. Its an article that was published 25 years ago on USENET by Ed Nather.
Its interesting because the author writes about a programmer named Mel who created a highly optimized application in machine code. These are the binary instructions that are directly executed [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 15 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
Google Code Search is a very useful tool for making queries on open source software available on the Internet. Its useful when you need to know how to use a certain function or need an example how it can be used.
You can find Google Code Search at www.google.com/codesearch.
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 07 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
Every PHP programmer wants their application to run on as many servers and web applications as possible. In order to do this, you need to write for PHP 4. Unfortunately, PHP 4 has been discontinued, PHP 5 has been here for 3 years and PHP 6 is right around the corner.
There weren’t very many web [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 May 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
There is a large library of image files hidden within Visual Studio 2005. There are about 1400 animations, bitmaps, and icons that you can use in your applications. The animations include an .avi and a corresponding animated .gif. Every folder of images has an HTML file that lists every file in that folder and a [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
I recently created an ASP.NET application for receiving online orders for a printing company. The web form would collect information about the company placing the order, instructions for how the job will be printed and completed (binding, etc.), delivery information, due time, and the type of file(s) that will be uploaded.
Uploads with a Progress Bar
The [...]
