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Many developers for Vista noticed all the new issues with editing and/or deleting registry keys. The new security measures turned the whole registry model to a major pain for developers.
A first step to some would be to check if the key is WRP Protected or not. To do that do the following:
Right click on the
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Dan Saffer writes about the importance of documentation to the development process. A lot of time
I’ve seen good and wholesome designs go to waste simply because they were never documented properly and when it came down to execution, the developers where left cold on their own. When puzzling several big pieces together trusting
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A friend of mine just decided that his next career move would be into the embedded Linux design and development. A very interesting and growing space. Here is an interesting piece about The rise and rise of embedded Linux.
‘You can’t do control-alt-delete on a pacemaker’. The chief executive of the leading embedded-software maker explains
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John Carmack of id Software previously stated that the source code for Quake 3 will be released under GPL (General Public License) by the end of 2004.
A new entry posted to his blog on New Year’s Eve explains why this will no longer happen. The main reason for the change is the fact that
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Bruce Eckel, a prominent author of programming books, now offers many free books to download. Among the books you can find Thinking in C++, Second Edition (Volumes 1 & 2), Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition, Thinking in Enterprise Java, Thinking in Python and many more.

I found it very strange when I saw on various boards questions like “How do I find out weather a number is odd or even?”. Recently I saw two of those questions on PHP boards. The truth is, it’s very simple.
The answer is: use the MOD (%) operator.
This is how it would look like:
if ($i
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The Programmers Stone - Computer programmers who take themselves seriously will like this site very much. The purpose of this site is to recapture, explore and celebrate the Art of Computer Programming. It is mainly an online book designated to programmers and deals with a developers daily tasks and thinking.
If this: “A computer system
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Microsoft Research has posted a preview release of the compiler technology that was formerly code-named “X#”(and then “Xen”). Now known as “C-Omega,” the new language is designed to roll the SQL, XML and object-oriented programming models all into one.
Microsoft is making the preview available under its Shared Source licensing terms. You can check
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IF you don’t know what Eclipse is, here is your chance. .
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. Find out what eclipse is all about - check out the white paper, read some technical articles, take a look at the projects, and
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At a friends request here are some tutorials for shell scripting. As requested its mostly about bourne shell. I hope it helps.
How to write a shell script
Unix (Bourne shell) scripting.
DIGITAL Unix Implementor’s Guide
How to Write a Shell Script
Examples of Bourne shell scripts
UNIX Unleashed
Shell Comparison Reference Page
Beginner’s Guide to Unix Shell Programming
Reading Input
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The Torque Game Engine came up on this blog’s adesnse ads (I know it’s lame writing a piece about something that came up on your own site adsense, but well…) and it reminded me on some talks I had with one of my friends about game development and game engines.
It seems that the Torque Commercial
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A little late but here is the bew release declaration from the PHP Development Team.
The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.3.6. This is is a bug fix release whose primary goal is to address two bugs which may result in crashes in PHP builds with thread-safety enabled. All
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Over the last few years the Israeli Perl Mongers mailing list has grown significantly to the point where there are now hundreds of posts per month. Since the large number of topics and the sheer volume of messages may intimidate Perl beginners from joining the list, the group’s leader, Gabor Szabo, has decided to open
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In a surprising move, Microsoft has made their C/C++ optimizing compiler (MSOC) available as a free download. Previous incarnations of the “standard” compiler have been distributed with platform SDKs — and more recently, the .NET framework — but the version with full optimization features enabled has only been available as a component of its professional
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The Regex Coach is a GUI app for Windows or Linux that helps you figure out Perl-style regular expressions. Verify matches, step through the regex one character at a time, grouping behavior, view the regex parse tree, get an English description of what the regex is doing, it can single-step through the matching process as
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