Sociability: It Is All About Integration
Many products today require some kind of integration with other products: Integration with corporate IT infrastructure. Integration with other applications. Integration with legacy hardware or software. Integration with new or up-and-coming hardware or software. The ability of a software application to work cohesively with other applications or within different flavours of operating systems with very few integration issues is called application sociability.When you build your application you ne...
You Can Write Microsoft Office Program In About 60 Minutes
Microsoft Office program is a programming tool called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that comes with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, and Publisher. VBA can make your repeating jobs automatic. It also can customize Excel, Word and other Office procedures for your own needs. From Office version 2000, all the Office programs are equipped with VBA.Hand-On experience is the key to be a good programmer. Programming tutorials are the easier way to learn any computer programs inclu...
Running A Program On A Remote Server Using SSH
How do you run a program on a remote server using ssh?For this example we'll have two servers, one named Johnny and another named Cash. Both are running openssh. Our goal is to have a program on Johnny login to Cash and run a program on Cash. To make the task a little more complex we'll be using different users on each machine.The first thing we'll need to do is generate public and private keys on Johnny. So, logged into Johnny as user 'boy' we create public and private keys by creating them in ...
Programming Language Migration Path
While I was preparing some personal background information for a potential client, I was reviewing all the programming languages that I have had experience with. I list languages that I'm most experienced with on my resume. However, it occured to me that if I was to list all the languages that I've worked with, then the client would become overwhelmed with the resume and just write me off as either a total bit head or looney toons. But as I reflected on all these different environments I realize...
Running A Program On A Remote Server Using SSH
How do you run a program on a remote server using ssh?For this example we'll have two servers, one named Johnny and another named Cash. Both are running openssh. Our goal is to have a program on Johnny login to Cash and run a program on Cash. To make the task a little more complex we'll be using different users on each machine.The first thing we'll need to do is generate public and private keys on Johnny. So, logged into Johnny as user 'boy' we create public and private keys by creating them in ...
I Did Not Know Software Could Do That Part II
It never ceases to amaze me how sophisticated and incredibly original some software developers are. Here is a fresh batch of handy software with cool, sometimes weird, applications.WaveToText (United Research Labs)WaveToText is an English speech recognition-based dictation pad with a WAV to text converter. The dictation pad lets you convert your voice to text in real-time, while the program's wizard enables you to convert your Windows Audio WAV files (speech recorded) offline. This speech utili...
VB NET: Dynamic Usage Of Event Handlers
With Events and Handles clause requires form us to declare the object variable and the event handler as we write our code, so linkage is created upon compilation. On the other hand, with AddHandler and RemoveHandler, linkage is created and removed at runtime, which is more flexible.Let's assume that we want to load several MDI child forms, allowing each of them to be loaded only once, and of course to know when one of the child forms is closed. Since we have several forms to load we would like t...
Use Flowcharts To Design Your Code
The use of flowcharts has fallen out of vogue with each passing year. There are many programmers who no longer know what the symbols mean and how flowcharts are used. However, flowcharts should not be discredited as legacy just yet!I have often heard programmers comment that they plan their code within their head as they type code, and sometimes with an air of superiority like they are the only people who can perform such a fete. Concepts suspended within one's mind though are fluid and constant...
Are Programmers Really Engineers?
Software Engineering - Whatever That Means If a programmer hands you her business card, it probably won?t list her title as ?Programmer;? It is more likely to read ?Software Engineer.? This raises the interesting question: does a programmer?s daily job rise to the level of an engineering discipline? I think it would be more accurate to call programming an emerging engineering discipline.Evolution of the Field Since around 1975, various people have tried valiantly to impose discipline on the chao...
Anyone Can Design Their Own Software
Chuck, decided to start a bus route, with a brand new bus, so he ordered a bus from the distributors of Volvo. When it was delivered he was dismayed to find that, although it had a chassis, an engine, a driver?s seat and steering wheel, there was little else. All the ?soft options? were missing. He called the distributor who advised that that was the way it was. Chuck had to build his own body, install seats and all the rest of it. And, as he didn?t have a license to drive a bus, he would have t...
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