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By zainnab  | Today, 12:28 PM

In this video we look at how to jump between matching braces in Visual Studio. Learn more about this topic from Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio®. ...

By janert  | Today, 02:04 AM

The primary means by which data is used for “analysis” purposes in an enterprise environment is via reports. Whether we like it or not, much of “business intelligence” revolves around reportin...

By ProfessorShiny  | Today, 01:59 AM

Solderless breadboards and XBee breakout boards provide an easy way to link your Arduino board to an XBee. While the XBee has many pins, it takes only four of them to create a working connection so th...

By adfm  | 06 May 2010 - 12:30 PM

The address book is a core feature of any mobile platform. It has to be available to you at any moment or the device isn't worth hefting around, right? If you just picked up an iPad and wanted to ...

By davidflanagan  | 05 January 2011 - 09:31 PM

jQuery is a very powerful library, but some of its powerful features are obscure, and unless you've read the jQuery source code, or my new book jQuery Pocket Reference, you may not know about them...

By Rob Miles  | 05 February 2011 - 01:07 PM

In honour of the publication of my new XNA 4.0 book: Microsoft® XNA® Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! - I present a few tricks and tips for a Better Programming Life Make a nice place ...

By Travwha  | 04 February 2011 - 11:46 AM

In the hands of Badass LEGO Guns author Martin Hüdepohl!

By lwm  | 03 November 2009 - 09:29 AM

If you want to share your Windows 7 files with Mac OS X users, use the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in Mac OS X.The following steps outline how you can view shared folders in Mac OS X...

By Doron Katz  | 03 February 2011 - 09:45 PM

This is something I have been doing for a while ,but I thought I'd share with the O'Reilly Answers community. Many of you may have a Word or Pages doc copy of your resume that you probably hav...

By janert  | 03 February 2011 - 05:14 PM

Computational and combinatorial programming is really different. It runs into different limits and requires different techniques. Most important is the appropriate choice of algorithm at the outset, s...

By zigurd  | 03 February 2011 - 04:18 PM

If you have written some Android code, or even read about Android programming, you know that some of the most important classes in Android are Activity, View, and the layout and widget subclasses of V...

By tcpiplab  | 24 September 2009 - 09:07 PM

If you use the bash shell (in Unix/Linux) you know how awesome and helpful the .bash_history file is. It lets you hit the up-arrow on your keyboard over and over to review/edit/re-use complex commands...

By janert  | 02 February 2011 - 04:57 AM

The bootstrap is an alternative approach for finding confidence intervals and similar quantities directly from the data. Instead of making assumptions about the distribution of values and then employi...

By arjonesiii  | 01 February 2011 - 03:46 PM

This article functions as an introduction to building OpenKinect and as3kinect projects. This is the first in a series of articles on this topic. This opening article attempts to answer the following ...