January 1, 2010
I’m determined to learn computer programming in my lifetime. Yes, it’s all a foreign language to me, but I so admire the work that developers do. I think they should receive Emmy awards or something. Many of them certainly don’t get the recognition (or financial backing) they deserve. If you’re like me and are curious [...]
December 27, 2009
Over the summer the company I worked for sent me to a “Java Programming Boot Camp” held by Sun Microsystems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expectation for that course was that it would make me an entry level Java developer–after all, this was Sun’s general summary of the course. What I learned that summer was that you [...]
November 14, 2009
Alice is one of the coolest programs that teach computer programming to kids. What is Alice? It’s an important tool schools and families can use to turn computer programming into a game-like experience to teach basic object-oriented programming to kids. One of the coolest memories I have as a kid is when my brother and [...]
October 20, 2009
In my not-extraordinary-long lifetime, I’ve already worked with a reasonable number of text editors; ClarisWorks, Word 2003 through 2010, Open Office, Pages, Notepad and Notepad++ are just the ones off the top of my head. Amongst all those experiences, few managed to really blow my socks off. This one did. To be quite honest, this [...]
October 1, 2009
Whether you’re a college student, a middle-aged networking guru or a wife and mother fascinated by the world of online games – everyone occasionally comes across a situation where some form of hacking would make life a whole lot easier. Maybe you’ve lost the license that came with your legitimate software package that you paid [...]
September 9, 2009
Somebody at Microsoft is doing things right in my humble opinion. What they’ve done with Small Basic is reintroduce hand-coding software, but with just a little less help than drag-and-drop or WYSIWYG interface. Let’s take a look at at it shall we? Take a look at the interface. Doesn’t look like much more than a [...]
August 14, 2009
Many websites just like this one, and sites like Wikipedia, utilize the power of PHP programming to create dynamic sites. Wow you think. How do I create a website like that for myself? I now want to learn about programming in PHP, but where do I start? If you don’t know where to start, here [...]
April 16, 2009
Whether it’s for fun, for work, or for something else, programming knowledge is becoming more and more relevant in today’s world. We’re spending more and more time online, so it’s only natural for us to need to have more knowledge of how to build and maintain the sites and applications we know and love. Thanks [...]
April 3, 2009
Is there a child in a developed country that doesn’t interact with a computer in some fashion everyday? Probably not. Yet still, many of these kids have only a vague idea of what makes a computer tick. It also appears that, for the most part, kids don’t get into the inner workings of programming until [...]
March 22, 2009
Sometimes it can be a real struggle as a geeky programmer. While certain normal, everyday applications are sufficient for most computer users – most die-hard programmers always require just a little bit extra. We like to incorporate our programming into just about everything we do on the computer. This is why Brixoft’s SourceEdit application is [...]
