Desktop programming related articles not related to .NET (Java, Python, Ruby etc)
So you are alone in your cubicle at work, twiddling away on your computer when suddenly your supervisor comes by and yells at you for not handing in some kind of report. You tried to do it earlier but your supervisor was too busy playing fuse ball with the VPs to listen to you. After all, miracle workers like you are suppose to work miracles, not bother the management. So ...
Ok so you have played around with Java for awhile, written some functions, created a class or two and now you want to get into connecting Java to an example database. How do you start? Well most enterprise applications typically use Java with a more robust and powerful relational database than MS Access. But if you are just learning, and want something simple to play with, MS Access can be ...
A lot of people on the board right now are making their own little text editors. It is a great little project to start when you are breaking into a language like Java. They are not exactly original with the names though like "nText" and "pText" and "zText" and "wtfText". Usually their main focus is on highlighting or trying to mimic the functionality of some of the great text editors ...
Now some of you may be thinking "a set" like some kind of gang terminology. While I do belong to a gang of some hard core programmers here at DIC, I can assure you that we are only talk programming terms here. So I don't want you to drive by my house or anyone to ask me to score some weed. However, if you want to know how to order ...
Ever wanted to dig through a text file and see how many times a particular word appears? Are you afraid the file is going to jump up and bite you and bite you hard?!? Don't sweat it. That crazy file isn't going to be too much trouble if you know some useful classes for dealing with the situation. In this entry we talk about opening a file using a BufferedReader, ...
Tinkering around with Ruby I figured I would write up a project that involved a little of everything a common Ruby program might have. A little sockets, a little class creation, array handling etc. The only thing I didn't include was a module but you could easily build one in if you like. The result was a nice little project which scrapes links from a given page. Ruby is gaining ...
