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Formatting Source Code with Wordpress
Sometimes you get used to doing things one way and you forget to take a step back now and then and see if there isn’t something you’re missing. In my case, I was formatting source code on this blog by putting html non-breaking spaces and < codes for angle brackets etc. Ouch. [...]
A Good Site To Buy Desktop Computer Memory
A while back, I decided to add extra RAM to my iMac. I had heard from a friend that found a deal for 1G of PC5300 SODIMM for the iMac for as low as $25.00. At the time, I got lucky and found a blowout special at a local retailer for about that [...]
Timing C/C++ Code on Linux
For my last post, I played around with C++ and a little programming competition. While on the topic, I decided I’d get slightly more serious and enter the next challenge.
One of the things that slightly annoyed me during the process is having to compile/run the program on Windows to enter the competion, while I’m [...]
The Difference Between Dijkstra’s Algorithm and A*
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve had an interest in brushing up my C++ skills. Friday, I came across a programming challenge that looked somewhat interesting and I thought I’d give it a shot.
The object was to find the lowest cost route between 10 cities encoded in a map of integers. Each integer [...]
GTK+ programs with GtkBuilder and dynamic signal handlers.
Well, I decided to review some GTK+ and Gnome development lately. With GTK+, a nice way to create a user interface is with the Glade Interface Designer. Glade produces an xml file with a glade-interface element that can be loaded by libglade. You can then change attributes of the user interface without [...]
Using YUI to Create Nested Tabs
Recently, I was browsing the YUI JavaScript forums and found a post about nesting the tab control. I haven’t done that before personally, but have done things where my tabs had Ajax or DHTML dependencies inside the tabs. I decided I’d take a whack at this one and see what I could come [...]