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We have a lot of newbies on the forum these days. Again and again we are asked "What are some good books for language _______?" We all have our favorites and some books lean towards a certain learning style. So one programmer is going to like a particular book more than another programmer might. But besides that little glitch in perspective, there are some books that are generally accepted as ...
There may be a time in the not so distant future where your employer may ask you do develop a web application which will hook up with a JSON data source. Perhaps you will be like "Uhhhhhh" and have a dumb look on your face. Have no worries, the underground is here to help! Lets use some PHP to generate some JSON code which we will fetch via AJAX and ...
The old saying goes "The world is but a file and I, a lonely man, shall list it in the cosmos!" Ok, I made up the new old saying but haven't you ever wanted to add a basic file directory listing script to use with your own file manager? Maybe something that can simply list the contents of a directory (its subfolders and files) and even make them expandable/collapsible like ...
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 ...
One of the most common tasks for a web developer is implementing an AJAX solution to create a more dynamic interface. A common method is to query a database, get some results, parse the results and update the interface without needing to refresh the page. But how do we customize our data, prepare it for some parsing, use the data returned to create something useful? The other day I had ...
"Yes sir, I will take that 10,000 dollar loan. If I pay 100 dollars a month that will be $1200 dollars right there after my first year." Not so fast the bank teller tells you. You still owe us $9383 and some change, not $8800. You have to remember interest and at your monthly compoundings, it adds up! Damn that interest really hits home. Here I thought I had 1200 ...
