SlashdotRegular expressions can be somewhat daunting to the beginning programmer. They really do look scary. But just like the back of your math book, it feels pretty good to look back and realize how far you’ve come. I’m going to give you an example of the power of regular expressions, and this [...]
When you work for a company, some days you feel owned. You feel maybe as if you are an asset for “the man”. But on those days when you realize that you are an autonomous agent able to do as much as your inner resolve allows, then you are a person who is indeed [...]
Something you may not have seen yet is Google Maps “Terrain” view. It’s a new button that lets you view detail terrain elevations, and it looks like they’re adding some 3D building structures too.
It also includes coloring for vegetation, and names of mountains, hills, and the like. So go do some exploring!
It’s finally time to rewrite that program that everyone is using. You know it’s been overdue for a while. You have some great ideas that you know will make it better, faster, more secure, right? You’ve been putting it off because you know it’s a big job. But now you have time, [...]
I really like maps, and no one does maps better than the Google Maps API. Today I’ll go over a few simple steps to getting started with the Google Maps API.
Today I’m going to review a very awesome new web-based IDE called Appjet. This is for the programmer who wants to write web code without setting up a LAMP stack or configuring a server. Now you shouldn’t use that argument with me, since I really enjoy exploring all aspects of LAMP servers (especially [...]
