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A Bit of Logic: Understanding Bytes and Bits
If you haven’t heard already, a byte is a sequence of eight binary units. These binary units are called bits. While this is no great…
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Introduction to Game Programming Or the Appaholic’s Ten-Step Program
Hello there, and welcome to my little article about making computer games. I assume that you’re reading this because you are at least a little…
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Overview of Contract Programming
There are lots of avenues you can take to becoming a contract programmer. But before we explore some of those, you need to find out…
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Why do I Want to Use a JOIN Clause?
Recently a friend of mine asked me why he should use a JOIN statement rather than adding extra criteria to the where clause. It’s an…
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Why Visual Basic is like McDonalds
Why? At McDonalds you can order items the way you want them, and they are delivered FAST! But, you don’t have a completely open menu.…
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Treatment of NULLs by Oracle & SQL Server
Oracle & SQL Server behave subtly differently when processing columns containing nulls. Consider the following series of SQL statements: CREATE TABLE tempone ( creditlimit NUMBER(6));…
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8 Steps for Optimizing and Improving Your Visual Basic Code
Here are 8 steps to improve the readability, debug-ability and speed of your Visual Basic application. 1) Use Option Explicit (and the Require Variable Declaration…
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Interfaces in Java
An interface declaration in Java introduces a new data type. An interface is a named collection of abstract methods and constants. Interfaces are syntactically similar…
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A Closer Look at Methods in Java
In object-oriented programming, a behavior is referred to as a message that one object sends to another object. Behavior is the only way by which…
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C# vs. VB.Net – It’s Just Syntax!
Since the .Net languages came out, there have been many holy wars between C# and VB.Net. If you would have asked me that question last…