Since programming is essentially hardware interpretation. Are there any books or articles on CPU's or other hardware components that can help in understanding low level programming languages? Or even hardware books or articles that target programmers? ...
What is your favorite essay about programming? Something which has made you think, or made you a better programmer. Something that you feel portrays the field well, or maybe that was just hilarious to read. Some of my choices would be some of Paul Graham's essays, such as Hackers and Painters. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is also up th...
Part of being a good software developer is keeping current with what people are saying in the community. There are many good articles out there on the Internet about the wide subject of computer programming. What articles have you found worth your time? Please provide the article's title, author and a link if possible. ...
What is the recommended read if someone like to be first introduced to OpenID and later go more deeply into details to be prepared for implementation of OpenID based single sign-on? Pointers to some introduction articles for start, then to more thorough documentation and advices are welcome. ...
What are your favorite programming-related / cs academic published papers? It could be a functional pearl, a programming-language paper like those often cited on lambda-the-ultimate.org, etc. Really, anything vaguely related to programming. Please also explain why you like the paper. ...
Recently, I've noticed that I've lost all patience with programming articles, and started watching screencasts instead. For example, the ASP.NET MVC site had lots of screencasts, so I watched those and got coding in no time. I was therefore wondering what the community thinks about screencasts and articles, particularly as I'm considerin...
I want to try out SICP with Python. Can any one point to materials (video.article...) that teaches Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in python. Currently learning from SICP videos of Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. ...
I'm trying to manage a personal knowledge base using a personal wiki (currently using MoinMoin, before that MediaWiki). Apart from organizing e-books and papers, I would like to be able to save web pages for future reference in my personal wiki. I've researched a little bit, and I found a couple of browser add-ons for more advanced savin...
I remember seeing an article gauging software developer skills. It had several fields of knowledge, like algorithms, languages, unit testing, scriptology, time estimation, with each measured on a scale of 1-5. Something along the lines of: Doesn't test his code Writes stand alone tests and runs them once Uses a unit test framework Use...
I am creating a blogging functionality to my website running on a cms. My requirement is this: When a person has written an article, he must automatically provided with 'suggested tags'. These words must come from the article. How can I implement this functionality? I thought some ideas. Like: Suggest words which are the longest. Us...
When you read a "howto"-style article with a code sample, which do you prefer: All the code off to the side with very few comments, and a complete line-by-line breakdown in the article OR All the code off to the side with LOTS of comments, and a complete line-by-line breakdown in the article The moral of my question: Can too many...
I'm currently getting to grips with the Immediacy CMS platform and I'm finding that techincal material / documentation for it is pretty poor. I've looked through the documentation on the immediacy site but there only seems to be simple plugin configuration documents rather than a decent API / technical introduction. Ideally I'd prefer t...
I have Merge Replication set up and I just noticed that a Aggregate Function is not available on my Subscriber. After further investigation I discovered that is is not even available in the Publication as an option. There are other Functions listed there but not that one. Ideas? Is there something written that doesn't allow Aggregate...
...re-downloads even if it was in cache. I think it had some statistics regarding the number of Yahoo users for which items had to re-download even if it was in their cache (60%?)... Read it earlier this year, but could be from last year too. I believe the page had lots of yellow on it too. Has anyone seen (bookmarked? wrote?) this a...
I'm interested in simple OCR methods and algorithms. And with simple I mean simple! Best would be a tutorial/article/documentation without dependencies on 3rd party librarys if that's even possible. I would really like to build up my knowledge from the ground up. The programming language doesn't matter. Thanks in advance! Edit: An ...
Hi, Some time ago I found a book "Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs" by Ivars Peterson. Those who read the book, most probably was impressed by thrilling stories of real live bugs around us. Later I come across of well known Death march by Edward Yourdon. This book was describing so many things happing in my day by day job li...
codeproject.com is the biggest programming article site, but it seems that it's best to post on your own blog and then submit links to reddit.com and other sites. :D other programming websites ...
Can I do it just using html and css? How do I do this with "most viewed articles"? ...
I have some joomla articles. some values in that article has to be updated by data obtained through a soap call to other site. Is there any plugin available for joomla by which i can embed custom php inside articles?? How can i do this.?? ...
How would I iterate through the tables of a database, and determine which publication and article those tables are associated with? ...