Programming News

O’Reilly Labs: Code Search – 700 O’Reilly books-worth of code

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:30:30 +0000

Enter search terms to find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O’Reilly books.
The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code — all edited and ready to use.

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Cooperative Bug Isolation Project – Distributed Bug Tracking

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:24:17 +0000

“Liblit has created lightweight instrumentation that is added into the binary language of software. The instrumentation creates a sparse, but statistically fair, random sample of software behavior. The system produces “feedback reports” which get fed into a database that accumulates the data and starts to identify trends.”

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Pthread Samples

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:18:06 +0000

Each sample program can be compiled and run independent to the other code. To make an executable out of a source code, write your own Makefile, or:
g++ -o first first.cc -lposix4 -lpthread
first.cc: A simple program that creates two identical threads. Each thread reads a shared variable balance and add $1000 to it.
second.cc: Allows a thread t

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MarqueeTool v.2. How to change shroud Color and Opacity?

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:15:30 +0000

Did you already sow a new version of Marquee Tool? In that story is a sample of changing marquee appearance. Now you can easily change color/opacity of picture marquee. Hit Alt and then click up/down buttons. This is a shortest way to increase/decrease marquee opacity on the fly. Also you can use setColor, setOpacity methods. All developers welcome

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5 Great Code Search Engines!

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:06:00 +0000

Happy Programmer Day! Are you still writing your own code or flailing around on Google to find a sample or snippet you need? Well kick back, relax and check out these great tools for finding code. Work smarter not harder!

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Sample, Simple and Basic Apollo Application

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:06:33 +0000

I am going to share my thoughts on Apollo, Since last week I was working on a sample application, I have developed a simple application using Apollo. Its amazing and as I have mentioned in my previous articles that Apollo is an embodiment for Adobe.

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New Acropolis Expense Sample Overview

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:50:14 +0000

There is a new Acropolis sample available from the Acropolis team. It is definitely worth checking out. It includes a set of very thorough tutorial documents in the download.

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Family.Show Version 2.0 WPF Sample Application Available

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:14:38 +0000

Vertigo has released version 2.0 of the sample application Family.Show. It is a very cool WPF sample application.

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Sample LOLCAT Code (PIC)

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:05:40 +0000

Check out some of the other hilarious pictures at http://icanhascheezburger.com/

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GWT in Action – Two Sample Chapters

dontezm — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:51:49 +0000

Robert Hanson has been an early adopter of GWT and was one of the first to release third party widget libraries and demonstrate how to integrate Javascript libraries like Scriptaculous. His blog has been a source of aid and comfort to many an aspiring GWT developer. Now he has published a book, with Adam Tacy (not quite out yet, but soon) in the “i

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