Desktop programming related articles not related to .NET (Java, Python, Ruby etc)
So what is behind the theory of binary gray code? It was named after Frank Gray and is a numerical system where each successive value differs from the one before it by one bit value. It is like counting in binary, but in binary counting a step may require changing two bits. For instance going from 1 (01) to 2 (10) would involve changing the most significant value 1 ...
Yesterday a user came through the Java forum looking for help with finding the intersection of two LinkedList sets. If you were anything like I was in school, you probably had a flash back to math class and the teacher drawing Venn Diagrams up on the white board. Two circles, usually representing two sets of elements, and where they overlapped was elements shared between the sets. Maybe they even drew ...
I was bored and that can be a dangerous thing. Like doodling on the phone book while you are talking on the phone, I doodle code while answering questions on DIC. Yeah, it means I have no life and yes it means I was born a coder. During this little doodle I decided to make a slot machine. But not your standard slot machine per say, but one designed a ...
A user recently came up with an interesting project today that frankly I had never really played around with too much... playing sound clips using Java's AudioSystem. The problem he was having was two fold actually. How does one go about throttling a sound (preventing the user from triggering the sound multiple times so that they overlap themselves and causing a scrambled mess that sounds like spirits you would hear ...
So I am cruising around the Dream.In.Code boards when I stumble across an interesting post about creating a shapes tool for a graphics Java program. If you are unfamiliar with the shapes tool, the idea is that you click a button, select a shape and then draw the shape onto some window of the program. Select a square, an ellipse or some fancy star and KAPOWY! you have a masterpiece ...
I got the idea for a file chunking program the other day while I was reading a Ruby article. I thought to myself, why not build a similar utility in C++? The idea of chunking a file (that is, taking a file and breaking it into smaller files) can be a useful utility when dealing with some rather big files. Perhaps if you mix it with some file compression before ...
