Desktop programming related articles not related to .NET (Java, Python, Ruby etc)
It was asked recently how one might go about changing the various access times (last modified, creation date etc) of an existing file through C/C++. The idea we will show you below takes advantage of a few functions in windows.h for altering file and system times. And no it can't be used on your homework to change the due date. And no it doesn't include the creation of a flux ...
In a long standing tradition here on the Programming Underground we are going to add another entry to the definitive series. For those of you who are still relatively new to my blog, the definitive series is a series of blog entries where we take an algorithm and run it through the paces of five different languages: C++/C#/Java/VB.NET/PHP. With the code side by side we can see the similarities as ...
You may have heard of an iterator. You might have even used one and hadn't even known it. Iterators are a common tool in all sorts of languages from C++ and the STL to .NET to java and beyond. When you use an array and loop through it or manipulate its "internal pointer" from subscript 1 to subscript 2 you are manipulating the most basic of iterators. In the later ...
So you may have wondered "How do I get a nifty little icon in the system tray for my Java App?" and after 20 minutes of banging your head against the wall you got dizzy, fell down, and probably passed out to only wake up and forget what you were doing. Then you go on your merry way to play some Nintendo Wii Fit. Yeah right! We all know you ...
Once in awhile I really like to push the crazy and bizarre in the way of programming theory. Twist something mother nature made into a computer mutation that only a mad computer scientist would love. I fell upon the idea of creating a binary forest. What is that you ask? Well it is what I am calling a vector made up of binary trees. Each tree would have its own ...
Once in a great while I stumble across a supposedly "professional" article that makes little to no sense. This is usually due to some over evangelical developer who just loves a language. I think it is part of our job as developers to hold back the love and always approach language comparisons with an open mind. In this entry I will talk about an article that gives 10 reasons why ...
