Today we'll be writing a simple todo list application. My goal is not to show you the finer points of todo lists, but rather to show you how to properly set up a webpy project for small to medium sized applications.
Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world's most misunderstood programming language. While often derided as a toy, beneath its deceptive simplicity lie some powerful language features. 2005 has seen the launch of
This tutorial is intended to collect together my own experiences using the Java NIO libraries and the dozens of hints, tips, suggestions and caveats that litter the Internet. When I wrote Rox all of the useful information existed as just that: hints, tips
Building a project is complex business. Due to the dozens of tasks required in converting your hodge-podge of files into a working program, there exist literally hundreds of tools that do everything from generating source code, to compiling, to testing, t
What is that? In case you haven't already used it, prototype.js is a JavaScript library written by Sam Stephenson. This amazingly well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating ri
My first experience with software quality was in 1976, when I sat in front of an ASR-33 and laboriously typed 2 pages of BASIC code from David Ahl's "Creative Computing" into my high school's Hewlett-Packard 21MX. Supposedly it would let me simulate a lun
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency -- and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Lear
XNA Game Studio Express is Microsoft’s game developer kit for homebrew and hobbyist developers and is available as a free download. (Learn more about XNA Game Studio.) Express includes a basic "starter kit" for rapid development of specific genres of ga
A Programming Style That Automatically Detects Bugs in C Code by Jerry Jongerius / January 1995. This book describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault-tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. Wi
Esta é a edição online da obra Expressões Regulares - Guia de Consulta Rápida, ISBN 85-7522-011-X publicada em 2001 pela Editora Novatec. O conteúdo integral do guia está aqui disponível gratuitamente para consulta. Siga os tópicos ou use a caixa
One night five developers, all of whom wore very thick glasses and had recently been hired by Elephants, Inc., the world’s largest purveyor of elephants and elephant supplies, were familiarizing themselves with the company’s order processing system wh
Yesterday I was glancing Douglas Bowman’s Photo gallery and a fun idea came to me. Inspired by using photo slides on a light table, Douglas employs a unified theme and feel across his gallery. Kindly he released the theme free for use and is available f
You've decided to expand your horizons. You've been programming exclusively in Java (or C++, or Perl, or Ruby) for a while now. You're happy and productive, but you have this nagging feeling that you're solving problems by rote rather than thinking as cre
The J2EE 1.4 platform is quite large, and this tutorial reflects this. However, you don't have to digest everything in it at once. This tutorial opens with three introductory chapters, which you should read before proceeding to any specific technology ar
I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone application. Since
A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: