Desktop programming related articles not related to .NET (Java, Python, Ruby etc)
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 ...
Monkeys and Koalas are not the only things that climb trees, Programmers do too! But our trees are a bit more virtual. In Java (and many other languages) there is a control known as a Tree or Treeview. It is used to create a hierarchy display much like you see in Windows Explorer in the left hand pane. You can see nodes and how they relate to one another much ...
This question came about on the board recently and I thought it might be a good little snippet to give people an idea of how to access the time. You could use this method to pull out the hours, minutes, seconds, months, years, days etc all in ready to use integer format so we can use it with math functionality. Now the example will be using localtime to get the ...
So you have a great class written and you want to integrate it into your project. Whether it be C#, Java, VB even C++ you may have asked yourself "How do I go about getting my class to update my form controls?" or "How do I get the class to change something on my interface or another class?" It is a common question asked on the board and the answer ...
File handling can be a bit daunting to the beginner. We all know what a file is, but how to access and use even the simplest text files through a program can make our brains go to mush. That is because programs see files as streams of data. It opens access to a file and pulls in that data as a stream in either chunks or in a serial (single ...