If you're an ASCII-head of any kind, you will feel immediately at home in Markdown. It was so obviously designed by someone who has done a lot of writing online, as it apes common plaintext conventions that we've collectively been using for decades now. It's certainly far more intuitive than the alternatives I've researched.
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Looking for newbies that want to learn Python
This is a Python tutorial that tries to touch on most areas of the Python language, but attempts to be very simple so that people who have never done any sort of programming can grasp it.
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PHP: Generation of MD5 hash for HTTP digest access authentication
An easy and short example hot to generate a MD5 hash required for HTTP digest access authentication for a given user:realm:password
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Qt 4.6 and Qt Creator 1.3 Released
Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications and devices easier and more enjoyable.
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New to Java programming?
New to Java programming? This page provides an overview of Java technology basics and explains how the technology fits into the context of contemporary software development.
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Open Source Google Programming
First Google expressed an interest in the web browser client market, and then the operating system market and now it has launched its own free and open source systems programming language.
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How ImageMagick can save you time
ImageMagick is a great tool! Many times it has saved me from programming. Here is just one example of many applications of the ImageMagick that can save one's time.
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TOP PHP frameworks in terms of number of books published on a given framework
One possible way of determining which PHP frameworks are popular is to check how many books have been published on a given framework.
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Measuring software quality
In the past decade, the open source model of software
development has gained tremendous visibility and validation
though popular projects like Linux, Apache, and MySQL.
This new model, based on the “many eyes” approach, has
led to fast evolving, easy to configure software that is being used in production environments by countless commercial enterprises.
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Python: input, raw_input, and inadvertently treating integers as strings
This is a "newbie" mistake, but these little details do tend to get in the way, which is why I'm posting my wee Python tutorial. If you know Python or programming, even reasonably well, this will probably seem way too simple to you. Just giving you a "heads up" so you don't waste your time. I encountered a lesson that teaches storing conditionals using booleans. The code was presented like this:..
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The C programming language and its importance
The C programming language is unique. It is special. It is small. It is great and it is filled with UNIX genius.
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KDE's Google Summer of Code 2009 Report: Huge Success
Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE this year. 37 out of 38 projects were finished successfully. Much of the work done during these projects is already merged into trunk and will be available for the users with the KDE 4.4 release in January 2010. Each student quickly presents his work done during the summer holidays.
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Software Integrity in an Open Source World
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Programming GP-GPUs: Options and Answers
There continues to be plenty of news in the GP-GPU (General Purpose - Graphical Processing Unit) sector. In case you missed the previews, the standard video card now can be used as a data parallel computer right on your desktop!
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Review: Coders at Work
"Peter Seibel has given me a sneak peek at his new book Coders at Work. Allow me to beat my colleague Xach to the punch by saying This book is dead sexy. When it comes out, you should definitely get a copy. Seibel is a good writer and a good programmer, and I'm a big fan of his last book Practical Common Lisp. You should get that book too.
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