A simple example of bare metal programming for ARM926EJ-S core using the free open source Codesourcery toolchain based on GNU gcc.
Read more »Introducing GMoney – A RubyGem for Interacting with the Google Finance API
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Like Ruby? Want to keep better track of your investments? Check out GMoney - a Ruby wrapper for the Google Fiance API.
Read more »The average Software Developer versus the good Software Developer.
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Let me introduce Avery; Avery is a programmer, he has been working in the IT department for a big non IT company for several years, he considers himself a Senior Developer, he has never questioned his approach to the software development, he doesn’t see coding as an art
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Agile Development Hitting the Mainstream, Report Says
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A study by Forrester Research suggests enterprises are rapidly moving to adopt Agile application development methodologies, to the point where nearly half of developers surveyed said they use Agile practices.
Read more »Is Extreme Programming Dying? Is Agile Growing in Popularity?
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It’s interesting to compare the interest over time in various software development methodologies and practices. Google Trends is a great tool for this, although it’s not without limitations, especially since so many programming terms have other meanings. For instance, you can use it to visually show how interest in eXtreme programming has (sadly) been waning for many years now:
Read more »Create a Photostream Using jQuery and the Flickr API
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An article on how to use jQuery and the Flickr API to add a photostream to your blog.
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What are programming lost arts?
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Have you ever programmed raw machine code (not for class)? Examined a hex dump with just a hex editor (or, heck, without)? Written your own software floating-point library? Division library? Written a non-school-assignment in Lisp or Forth?
Read more »What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
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Looking back at my career and life as a programmer, there were plenty of different ways I improved my programming skills - reading code, writing code, reading books, listening to podcasts, watching screencasts and more.
Read more »Strangest [programming] language feature
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What is, in your opinion, the most surprising, weird, strange or really "WTF" language feature you have encountered?
Read more »Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX/Direct3D
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It's common geek wisdom that standards-based websites, for instance, trounce Silverlight, Flash, or ActiveX. Cross-platform development is laudable and smart. No self-respecting geek enjoys dealing with closed-standard Word documents or Exchange servers. What kind of bizarro world is this where engineers are not only going crazy over Microsoft's latest proprietary API, but actively denouncing its open-standard competitor?
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Concise python code
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I love python for a number of reasons. Brevity is one of them. Readability is another. However writing readable concise code can take some time to getting used to. This post discusses some code snippets especially in the context of some of the comparisons done between python and clojure.
Read more »Advantages of C over C++
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It has been claimed that C++ is a better C them C. this is being taken to mean that when switching to C++ you can continue to code more or less as she did in C and use a little extra C++ functionality for convenience.
Read more »Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
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If you're an ASCII-head of any kind, you will feel immediately at home in Markdown. It was so obviously designed by someone who has done a lot of writing online, as it apes common plaintext conventions that we've collectively been using for decades now. It's certainly far more intuitive than the alternatives I've researched.
Read more »Looking for newbies that want to learn Python
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This is a Python tutorial that tries to touch on most areas of the Python language, but attempts to be very simple so that people who have never done any sort of programming can grasp it.
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PHP: Generation of MD5 hash for HTTP digest access authentication
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An easy and short example hot to generate a MD5 hash required for HTTP digest access authentication for a given user:realm:password
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