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riginally a research language from Microsoft Research, F# has long been a “secret weapon” in the arsenal of .NET programmers for doing statistically and mathematically heavy coding. More recently, however,
he compiler invokes user-defined conversion functions (which are also called conversion operators) implicitly. In most cases, this process is well-behaved and intended. However, there are cases when you certainly don’t
ack in 2006, I coined the term polyglot programming in a blog post. It is not a new concept (being at least as old as Unix and probably much older-I
This tip shows an example of how to use the Iterator API to read from an XML file: import javax.xml.stream.*;import javax.xml.stream.events.*;import java.io.*;public class StAXBasicEventReader{ public StAXBasicEventReader(){} public static void main(String[]
VS 2005, like its predessor, does not allow debugging for classic ASP pages, by default. This forces you to attach the ASP worker process (w3wp.exe). Follow these steps: Enable ASP
enry Ford’s development of assembly lines was of major significance to the manufacturing process. Ford brought all of the raw materials and skilled workers into a single facility and focused
he Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the new build platform for Microsoft and Visual Studio. MSBuild is completely transparent with regards to how it processes and builds software, enabling developers
f you need to share data in a Linux environment, some basic encryption solutions and practices will allow you to do so in a very secure manner. Many tools enable
ave you heard the latest buzz around town? SharePoint is a platform! I think this news caught even Microsoft by surprise. I say that because SharePoint is still grouped under
rom rather humble beginnings as the “Personal Home Page” scripting language, PHP has found its way into almost every server, corporation, and dev shop in the world. Yet even with
n the previous article in the Android series, you learned how to integrate the Google Maps into your Android application. One of the really neat ways you can use Google
A very common use of Aspose.BarCode is to recognize barcodes from multi-page .tiff files. This tip will show you how to recognize barcodes with in a multi-page .tiff image. Here’s
It’s easy to implement a nice dragging effect in JavaFX, using the onMouseDragged event in conjunction with the bind operator (incremental and lazy evaluation of attributes operator). import javafx.ui.canvas.*;import javafx.ui.*;import
In the article “An Introduction to F# for Functional Programming” you saw an example of working with basic shapes and calculating the total perimeter of a drawing based on those
he forerunner to this article, Getting Started with Task Parallel Library, explained how to use the Task Parallel Library (TPL) to launch swarms of tasks on separate threads that execute
arallel programming has been around for decades, but unless you had access to special-purpose hardware, you’ve probably written mostly single CPU applications. You could distribute truly intensive applications across a
One of the attributes that attracted me to the Stripes MVC framework was its ease of use and short learning curve. The latest release of Stripes, version 1.5, preserves this
The last day of this year’s second CTIA show in San Francisco featured an interesting new focus: teenagers. Friday boasted two sessions about teenage mobile use: First, there was a
ata is your business, and maintaining a healthy backup and recovery plan is vital to protecting your data. SQL Server’s transaction logs, which bridge the most recent changes to the
A recent Gartner Research study found that 10 percent of the PHP community are corporate IT developers, and predicted that during the next five years, that number will grow to
he “Getting Real” approach by Web 2.0 poster child 37signals reverses the usual development process (from model to code to user interface) by going “from brainstorm to user interface sketches
ML data in standard database processing is not being used fully or correctly in business applications today. Current XML hierarchical database query processing is basically limited to single path linear
Yes, you can map/unmap a drive on the network location from the command prompt. Use the PUSHD command to create a temporary mapping to a network drive. You can also
Instead of writing your own function to convert an integer or float to a string, just use the C++ class stringstream (in the sstream header). In C++: #include #include #include
Use the following Java code to capture a screenshot: import java.awt.AWTException;import java.awt.Rectangle;import java.awt.Robot;import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import javax.imageio.ImageIO;public class ScreenCapture { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Robot robot
Sometimes, adding default settings will result in your program throwing a generic error in the app.config file. The MSDN reference page for the error says something like, “This is a
n this previous article, you learned about the Eclipse development IDE and how to create a simple Android application and debug it on the Android emulator. Continuing with our exploration
olving the same problems over and over again can be quite tiring for a software engineer, yet the object persistence wheel has been reinvented more times than I’d like to
