January 5, 2012
If you’ve ever thought about learning computer programming, now might be a good time to start. The developers of Codecademy invite you to make a New Year’s resolution to learn coding through their interactive programming lessons, emailed to you each week. So far, over 117,000 have signed up. Their program, called Code Year, is a straightforward, fairly easy to follow three-part course.
August 10, 2011
If you own a Chromebook or any other computer with Google Chrome OS, Jolicloud or even Browser Linux, you may think it’s hard to do any type of programming on such a machine. If you’re not quite into using IDEs (Integrated Development Environment), and prefer using a plain text editor, gedit will surely fit your needs on these laptops, but what if you want to debug your programs?
June 29, 2011
There are tons of text editors out there, so why would you need another one? Most people will be satisfied by their OS default plain text editor, while the coders would need a dedicated code editor. There are also people who need both. For those who are still looking for the perfect text editor, you might want to try Editra. This is a powerful and expandable cross-platform editor, for both plain text and code.
January 5, 2011
Ever since I first received my Droid, I’ve been very curious about how people produce some of those amazing applications on and off the Android market. I’m a programmer, but not a gifted hacker by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve mastered Visual Basic and Coldfusion, but when it comes to writing an application from scratch [...]
December 17, 2010
This is part 2 in a series I started last time about how to build a web crawler in PHP. Previously I introduced the Simple HTML DOM helper file, as well as showing you how incredibly simple it was to grab all the links from a webpage, a common task for search engines like Google. [...]
December 10, 2010
Web Crawlers, sometimes called scrapers, automatically scan the Internet attempting to glean context and meaning of the content they find. The web wouldn’t function without them. Crawlers are the backbone of search engines which, combined with clever algorithms, work out the relevance of your page to a given keyword set. The Google web crawler will enter [...]
October 7, 2010
There comes a time in any coder or non-coder’s life when keeping track of file changes in your own head just gets out of hand. When that happens the logical next step is to move your files, whether it be code, configuration files, text files or other; to a version control system. Git is a [...]
August 11, 2010
The Pascal programming language, which was based on the ALGOL computer language, was developed in the late 1960′s and was named after Blaise Pascal — a French mathematician, responsible for a series of discoveries and who also invented the first calculator (called Pascaline) in 1645. Considering that Pascal died in 1662 and that the Pascal [...]
August 10, 2010
There are countless file extensions out there and new ones seem to crop up every day. When you happen to discover one you have never heard of before, I bet your initial instinct is to suspect malware, rather than being excited to find out what it is. Did you ever wonder what an XML file [...]
March 23, 2010
For those that aren’t in the know, the browser based “IDE” is an abbreviation of Integrated Development Environment. Very simply said, it’s an application that can be used to write code, but usually with added compiler/interpreter, debugging and automation features. Finding a decent freeware code writing application (view previous code-editor compilations for Windows or Mac), [...]
