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
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
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
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
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