Earth has the Bermuda Triangle, Space has black holes, and humanity has my crazy mind. All of these things are largely unexplained phenomena and so I figured, why not throw out one for the programming world? If Bermuda can have a triangle, dangit we are going to have one too! Introducing Pascal's triangle.... on this episode of the Programmer's Underground! Pascal's triangle has been studied around the world for hundreds of ...
You can probably guess what a Data Flow Diagram might mean. It has something to do with Data from Star Trek and his schematics right? No no... while he kicks ass on the Enterprise, Data Flow Diagrams kick ass in system design. You might not be able to build a robot with artificial intelligence and calculates at teraflops a second, but you can dramatically improve your skills of converting a ...
There has been a lot of instances where we receive a question about a mathematical formula not working correctly in a program or script they are writing. How does one go about solving such a problem? Well, I will provide some great tips to get you started here on this entry of the Programmer's Underground! Mathematical formulas are all around us for all sorts of things we do in life. From ...
This type of question plagues the DIC board and dominates the PHP forum most of the time. How does one go about building a PHP game like ___________ (fill in the blank)? I have had my fair share of web based PHP gaming startups and will tell you more about the leg work needed into creating a solid game foundation in PHP.... on this entry of the Programming Underground! During my ...
You may have heard of the idea of "Blackbox" development. Where is it? Can I open it? What does it contain? Is it that red rider BB gun I wanted from xmas all these years? NO! It is the idea of encapsulating or "hiding" implementation details about a software component. In today's entry, we will cover what it means to be blackbox and how designing with this idea in mind ...
