Category Archives: Programming

Timing C/C++ Code on Linux

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Dijkstra’s Algorithm and A*

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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GTK+ programs with GtkBuilder and dynamic signal handlers.

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Using YUI to Create Nested Tabs

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Python Environments With Gentoo

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Dennis

It’s been some time since Python 2.5 became stable and released. Version 2.5 has plenty of new features that have helped me in deciding that it was time to go ahead and start using it for primary development of all … Continue reading →

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Using YUI components in a templated environment

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Dennis

If you develop sites anything like I do, you’ll end up setting up a site wide layout and theme before you start coding any individual pages. I like to add YUI components where they are useful, but I’ve come across … Continue reading →

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