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Dictionary Cleaner (zip)

Until now there has been no easy way to see what dictionary words you've added, to add words to the dictionary while not in a word processor or editor, or to remove spellings youve accidentally added. Dictionary Cleaner gives you the power to do all that and more. Dictionary Cleaner...

Tags: Click, Programming Language, Dictionary, Apple Mac OS X, Programming Languages, Apple Mac OS, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-08-15

What programming language should we teach?

What programming language should we teach?Re: What programming language should we teach?How about Javascript? No, seriously... it's free, it's cross-platform, it's already available on virtually ANY computer without needing to install anything at all, it's not terribly complicated, and it greatly resembles many of the other languages in use.When it...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, C#, Scripting languages, programming, programming language

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

What programming language should we teach?

I had a discussion shortly before the end of the year with one of our exchange students regarding a programming class I wanted to teach. My goal was simply to introduce programming concepts and algorithmic thinking. Heck, I'd be happy if the kids could walk out of the...

Tags: Java, Programming Language, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-27

BPL - Beginners Programming Language (exe)

BPL is one of the best beginners programming languages about. No matter what anybody says, languages like C++, C# and even Visual Basic, are not aimed for beginners. BPL is, specially designed to leave out the complex stuff, keep it simple but keep the power. And that is precisely what...

Tags: Programming Language, Programming, Broadband Over Power Line, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet

Software downloads 2008-04-30

Is it too late for open source Java?

Is it too late for open source Java?There is no Java in AJAXJavascript in AJAX is not Java at all. It is just an unfortunate naming coincidence.This discussion is a "Tempest in a tea pot"Most companies want vendor support and neither Ruby or Python are first class citizens in the...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Java, programming language, programming, Ruby, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

D Programming Language Library DWin (exe)

D programming language library DWin is a library for the "D Programming language", Packages included in DWin cover such areas as: Windows COM client programming, Windows Registry module, PCRE Regular Expression, send email, loads an ini style file muliti line supported, BigInt, and create Windows shortcut. This version is the...

Tags: Programming Language, Programming, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-03-18

Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service

Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Concept, Application, Server, Programming Language, Pricing Strategy, Bungee Labs, BungeeConnect, Amazon EC2, Application Builder, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Resolver One Non-Commercial (msi)

Our tools raise the bar of what non-programmers can create using their existing knowledge of spreadsheets, while helping programmers deliver grid-based applications backed up by a modern programming language. Resolver One is the tool for anyone who performs complex data analysis daily. It combines a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the...

Tags: Open Source, Programming Language, Spreadsheet, Tool, Programming, Productivity, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-01-28

Brendan Eich: From Netscape Navigator to Firefox

In a Super Techies interview, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a programmer in Silicon Valley. Eich discusses his early work at Netscape creating the JavaScript programming language, battling Microsoft in the browser wars, and his current role at Mozilla,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communications Corp., Netscape Navigator, Programming Language, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Programming Languages, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Browser, Personal Technology, Super Techies

Videos 2008-01-18

Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents

Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, and regular expression patterns, mainly developed and studied in the programming language community. The author thinks that the two approaches are complementary and should be...

Tags: Database, XML Document, XML, Programming Language, Regular Expression, Programming, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Visual Prolog (exe)

Visual Prolog is a logical programming language that counts PDC Prolog and Turbo Prolog as predecessors. The goal of Visual Prolog is to support industrial strength programming of complex knowledge emphasized problems. It supports advanced client-server and three-tier solutions and is well suited for dealing with complex knowledge. It is...

Tags: Knowledge, Programming Language, Programming, Visual Prolog, Personal Edition, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-12-20

PPL Pocket Programming Language (exe)

Pocket Programming Language is a fast and powerful programming system that makes it easy to develop games, demos, business applications, and all types of programs for both the Windows and Windows Mobile PDA platforms. Instead of taking months to write challenging games or powerful sales demonstrations, Pocket Programming Language cuts...

Tags: Programming Language, ArianeSoft, Programming, Pocket Programming Language, Games, Development Tools, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-07

AntiCutAndPaste (exe)

AntiCutAndPaste is designed to search for text fragments that have been copied and pasted in programming language source code or plain text plagiarism. It has been tested on sources from large C++, Pascal, Basic, Java, and C# projects. The algorithms used are very fast and can handle up to three...

Tags: Programming Language, C++, Programming, AntiCutAndPaste, Programming Languages, C/C++, C#, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-07-19

Google's three rules

Google's three ruleswhy not?why can't they just paste on ACID transactions?it'd probably take alittle work but some sort of transaction processor they can gut and use over their infrastructure seems a doable thing given the brains they've got there...Search vs. Enterprise AppsI think what Google does with their data centers...

Tags: Linux, Data centers, Programming languages, Network technology, programming language, SQL, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-25

How do I... Get started using the F# programming language

F# pronounced F Sharp is a functional programming language based upon OCaml. It was developed by Microsoft's Microsoft Research department. F# runs within the .NET CLR, which means it can be used within existing .NET projects. Additionally, it is able to make use of any other .NET code. This overcomes...

Tags: Programming Language, Functional Programming, Programming, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Download resources 2007-06-08

Programming Languages

Programming LanguagesLanguage and much more ..." John Backus died last week"May he rest in peace. My condolences.Your text is really good Murph!Languages and the evolution of language adoption is something really complex.In the computer word as well as in the "real" World.I really can not go back to Latin and...

Tags: Programming languages, programming language, Java, Murph, programming

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

Programming Languages

blot; forms(M,6,N); for (i=0;i < N; i++) { (-~i)+.x M;} MOVE A{[{i}*..]& is M} TO N Doesnt make sense? Try this: With sobs for his job, with tears for his toil, with horror for his...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, programming language, Fortran, James Joyce, John Backus, programming

Blog posts 2007-03-28

O'Reilly showing big uptick in Flex and ActionScript books

Thanks to Alex Barnett I saw that Tim OReilly has posted screenshots of their sales data with some very cool visualizations about whats hot and whats growing the fastest. Now as you would expect, Javascript books grew at a pretty steady pace. But what should be of no surprise to...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, programming language

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Guy Steele's new programming language

How would you like to program like this?You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steeles Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress allows the use of Unicode characters in program identifiers, as well as subscripts and superscripts ASCII equivalents are available. This and...

Tags: Fortress

Blog posts 2007-01-17