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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each...

0 replies - 2563 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

PDC and Python (In That Order)

I just want to preface this post by telling you that I am writing it from the eliptical machine. I had this brilliant idea earlier this evening and it may be...

0 replies - 405 views - 11/11/09 by sarajo in News

A Good URL Regular Expression?

I have been looking for a good first layer of validating an url to see if it is valid. For checking the format of the url it seems to me to be the most...

2 replies - 1328 views - 11/09/09 by casualjim in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun.  Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five...

0 replies - 2824 views - 11/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 2422 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The Blurring Lines of Languages

On Twitter the other day I had a short conversation (well, it wasn’t really a conversation since it was only about 4 tweets) with Jeff Cohen who is the...

1 replies - 511 views - 06/30/09 by justin_etheredge in News

An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two

Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#.

4 replies - 5033 views - 06/30/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

An Introduction to Functional Languages

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. ...

10 replies - 9221 views - 06/25/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

F#: Using C# Extension Methods

An interesting thing I noticed about referencing C# libraries from F# is that you can't access C# extension methods in the same way that you would be able to...

0 replies - 603 views - 06/15/09 by markhneedham in News

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9325 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Curry for Dummies

Introduction Functional programming concepts aren’t that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to demystify the concept of currying,...

0 replies - 1283 views - 08/18/08 by bdesmet in News