GMP Install Instruction for Windows Platform

GMP Install Instruction for Windows Platform

C# BigInt: A GNU Multi-Precision Library for .NET

The GNU Multi-Precision Library for .NET is a .NET wrapper (written in C#) of the GNU MP Bignum Library, which is probably the fastest general purpose large number arithmatic library in the world. Below, you can download the wrapper along with a pre-built DLL of GNU MP.

Installing Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications

Supposed to work with Windows 7?

Installing and Using Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Applications

Learn to install and use the add-on called Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based applications.

FreeBSD adds support for Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch

This is big news.
Now it's the developers turn to take advantage of it.
Apple's Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD.

Beginner Developer Learning Center

Microsoft's actually got a lot of useful video's here if you got time to go through them.
Too bad they force you to use Silverlight to watch them though:(

Difference between a computer scientist and a programmer?

Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects
I guess a progammer employed by a company or himself actually has to ship a program in a reasonable time period vs a computer scientist like Knuth can spend years figuring something out and perfecting it before showing it to the world.

How Win7's "Boot to VHD" Feature has Changed the Way I Work

Might come in handy. Will have to try it.
Boot to VHD.

Why Johnny can't code

Food for thought.
BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
Yeah wasn't it burned into the ROM or something I thought?

Java VisualVM

Looks cool will have to check out.

Words of wisdom

Advice to Young Men from an Old Man

History of Visual Studio

Pretty cool.
History of Visual Studio

Flash for iPhone is a Hail Mary pass for Adobe

Is flash finally coming to the iphone?
maybe

Problems with SQL Server Express user instancing and ASP.net Web Application Projects

Some critical info to know for Windows web developers.
Microsoft recommends that the workarounds described in this article only be used to unblock affected development scenarios. When deploying applications into production on any version of IIS, SQL Server Express user instances should not be used.

The configuration of application pools on IIS 7.5 production web servers should use either the new application pool identity, or custom created user accounts. Application pools on IIS 7.5 production web servers should no longer run as NETWORK SERVICE.

The workaround described for working with WAP projects and websites located in a user's Documents folder should be used as a temporary workaround only. From a security standpoint it is not desirable for NETWORK SERVICE to have read access to all of the sub-folders within the Visual Studio Projects folder. The recommendation is to move IIS-hosted WAP projects and websites to a different file location that is normally accessible to an IIS service account (e.g. under c:\inetpub\wwwroot).

fallout trilogy easter egg

Funny LOL
Guy shows up in games after you install in vista or win7.

fgwlib working on macosx snow leopard

Okay I finally got this library from "You can do it" programming book working on my mac!!!
This is how I did it.
I modified the make file that was included on the cd for Linux slightly.
After that created the libfgw.a static library I testd it out on the cross program that creates a cross in playpen by typing:
g++ -c cross.cpp -o cross.o
then
most important and complex commandline!
g++ -o cross cross.o libfgw.a -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11

after that just type
./cross to see X11 pop up running a cross i macosx snow leopard!

anyways here is the modified makefile. only change really is adding an all to actually make it build the static library. Don't know why the original was missing it?
CC = g++

AR = ar

DEL = rm

OBJ_DIR = ./
OUTPUT_DIR = ./
OUTPUTFILE = libfgw.a
C_INCLUDE_DIRS =
C_PREPROC =
CFLAGS = -pipe -Wall -g0 -O2 -frtti -fexceptions
RC_INCLUDE_DIRS =
RC_PREPROC =
RCFLAGS =
ARFLAGS = rcs


NULL = nul

SRC_OBJS = \
$(OBJ_DIR)/adler32.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/deflate.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/flood_fill.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/infblock.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/infcodes.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/inffast.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/inflate.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/inftrees.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/infutil.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/line_drawing.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/minipng.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/playpen.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/point2d.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/point2dx.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/shape.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/trees.o \
$(OBJ_DIR)/zutil.o

define build_target
@echo Creating library...
@$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) "$(OUTPUT_DIR)/$(OUTPUTFILE)" $(SRC_OBJS)
endef

define compile_source
@echo Compiling $<
@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(C_PREPROC) $(C_INCLUDE_DIRS) -c "$<" -o "$@"
endef

.PHONY: print_header directories


all: $(SRC_OBJS)
$(build_target)


.PHONY: clean cleanall

cleanall:
@echo Deleting intermediate files for 'build_fgw - $(CFG)'
-@$(DEL) $(OBJ_DIR)/*.o
-@$(DEL) "$(OUTPUT_DIR)/$(TARGET)"
-@rmdir "$(OUTPUT_DIR)"

clean:
@echo Deleting intermediate files for 'build_fgw - $(CFG)'
-@$(DEL) $(OBJ_DIR)/*.o

print_header:
@echo ----------Configuration: build_fgw - $(CFG)----------

directories:
-@if [ ! -d $(OUTPUT_DIR) ]; then mkdir $(OUTPUT_DIR); fi
-@if [ ! -d $(OBJ_DIR) ]; then mkdir $(OBJ_DIR); fi

$(OBJ_DIR)/adler32.o: adler32.c \
zlib.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/deflate.o: deflate.c \
deflate.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/flood_fill.o: flood_fill.cpp \
playpen.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/infblock.o: infblock.c \
zutil.h \
infblock.h \
inftrees.h \
infcodes.h \
infutil.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/infcodes.o: infcodes.c \
zutil.h \
inftrees.h \
infblock.h \
infcodes.h \
infutil.h \
inffast.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/inffast.o: inffast.c \
zutil.h \
inftrees.h \
infblock.h \
infcodes.h \
infutil.h \
inffast.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/inflate.o: inflate.c \
zutil.h \
infblock.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/inftrees.o: inftrees.c \
zutil.h \
inftrees.h \
inffixed.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/infutil.o: infutil.c \
zutil.h \
infblock.h \
inftrees.h \
infcodes.h \
infutil.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/line_drawing.o: line_drawing.cpp \
line_drawing.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/minipng.o: minipng.cpp \
minipng.h \
zlib.h \
playpen.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/playpen.o: playpen_unix1.cpp \
playpen.h \
mouse.h \
keyboard.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/point2d.o: point2d.cpp \
fgw_text.h \
point2d.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/point2dx.o: point2dx.cpp \
point2dx.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/shape.o: shape.cpp \
flood_fill.h \
line_drawing.h \
point2dx.h \
shape.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/trees.o: trees.c \
deflate.h \
trees.h
$(compile_source)

$(OBJ_DIR)/zutil.o: zutil.c \
zutil.h
$(compile_source)