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When Programmers Can Write No More
News The only way to cure programmers block is a direct infusion of Skittles and Mountain Dew intravenously, keeping the brain in an alert and creative state," said one Slashdot poster. While some famous writers turned to the bottle to break a block...
[August 4, 2000, 15:22]
Advanced PROC REPORT: Doing More In The Compute Block
White Papers Along with this flexibility comes complexity and this complexity often thwarts the programmers as they try to write increasingly interesting compute blocks. One of the unique features of the REPORT procedure is the Compute Block.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ruby Cookbook: Code Blocks And Iteration
White Papers These features live mostly in the corners of those languages, shunned by novice programmers. In Ruby, a code block (or just "Block") is an object that contains some Ruby code, and the context necessary to execute it.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Language Support For Lightweight Transactions
White Papers This paper argues that these problems can be addressed by moving to a declarative style of concurrency control in which programmers directly indicate the safety properties that they require. They can also block, waiting for arbitrary boolean...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
WinPTE
Downloads You simply have to try see it in action to fully understand its power and reduction of manual editing done by most programmers. Power Block Mode lets you apply editing operations to any number of lines in a file while editing only a single line.
[April 10, 2004, 13:01]
Torvalds Lambastes DVD Lawsuits
News Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, roundly criticised on Wednesday the companies that have sued Web sites and programmers -- one as young as 16 years old -- to keep the secrets of digital versatile discs under wraps.
[February 2, 2000, 17:04]
Hackers' DVD Call To Arms
News Last October, an international group of programmers published the source code to a program that broke the encryption protecting DVDs from playing on unauthorised platforms. One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was charged...
[February 3, 2000, 14:39]
A Year Ago: Hackers' DVD Call To Arms
News Last October, an international group of programmers published the source code to a program that broke the encryption protecting DVDs from playing on unauthorised platforms. One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was charged...
[February 3, 2001, 5:00]
Kevin Poulsen: A Hacker Christmas
News The legOS programmers (no, I'm not making this up) recently fixed a bug in their inter-block packet switching code, just in time for Christmas. It got a shot in the arm recently, when LEGO created Mindstorms, a fully motorised, programmable robotic...
[December 25, 1999, 6:30]
A Year Ago: Kevin Poulsen - A Hacker Christmas
News The legOS programmers (no, I'm not making this up) recently fixed a bug in their inter-block packet switching code, just in time for Christmas. It got a shot in the arm recently, when LEGO created Mindstorms, a fully motorised, programmable robotic...
[December 25, 2000, 6:00]
New Game Consoles Blow Away PCs
News Of all the machines, it is the forthcoming Sony system that has drawn the most oohs from programmers and artists who have seen prototypes. It's now the coolest thing around for programmers. The prototype programs Sony has shown look little like the...
[September 3, 1999, 9:13]
Dijkstra, Pioneer Of Computer Science, Dies
News Other ideas he invented or helped define include structured programming, stacks, vectors, semaphores, synchronised processes and the notorious deadly embrace -- feared by multitasking programmers the world over -- where two processes both stop...
[August 8, 2002, 15:17]
New Program Mimics Napster
News The new Gnutella software was developed by a team of young software programmers headed by Justin Frankel, who, as a college student, wrote the Winamp player program. Associates of the team of young programmers who worked on Gnutella said the...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
A Year Ago: New Program Mimics Napster
News The new Gnutella software was developed by a team of young software programmers headed by Justin Frankel, who, as a college student, wrote the Winamp player program. Associates of the team of young programmers who worked on Gnutella said the...
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
Microsoft Vice President Makes .Net Pitch
News Microsoft group vice president Paul Maritz kicked off the company's eighth Professional Developers Conference in Orlando Tuesday by articulating how Microsoft wants programmers to transition to its .Net platform.
[July 11, 2000, 16:42]
Microsoft To Divulge More XML Plans
News Gates said on Thursday that Microsoft intends to make multiple XML announcements at its annual Professional Developers Conference for software programmers. The tool, which will ship by year's end, will allow programmers to build Web-based software...
[July 27, 2001, 15:52]
US Seeks To Stop TV Pirates
News The fight over the relatively obscure proposal for digital television is a reflection of a much larger debate over the power of computers and programmers as traditional entertainment media converge with PCs and the Net.
[October 28, 2003, 12:30]
Google Fosters Ties With Developers
News The conference is part of a company goal to cultivate a better relationship with programmers, particularly those on the cutting edge of mashup development, a relatively new style of application development that combines information from different...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Experts Warn Of New-style Cyber Attack
News In fact, prevention may rely more on protecting computers from being used by malicious programmers, rather than protecting the target, he said. It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very hard to block it using current software," said Thomas...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
MS Palladium: A Must Or A Menace?
News Concerns about trusted computing initiatives have been fuelled by policies and legislation such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has been used repeatedly by the music industry, movie studios and even the software industry to...
[November 8, 2002, 8:05]
