- Making Your Words Look Good in Word 2007
- Feb 9, 2007
- Word 2007 can make your writing better. Or at least look better, with multiple formatting, layout, style, and auto correction tools. Greg Perry walks through those tools to help you make the most of your words.
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- The Mini Toolbar and Other Excel 2007 U.I. Improvements
- Feb 2, 2007
- "Mr. Excel" Bill Jelen discusses the mini toolbar, formula bar, zoom slider and other new or changed UI features in Excel 2007.
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- Prolog: Logic Programming for Rapid Development
- Jan 26, 2007
- Careful use of domain-specific languages such as SQL and XSLT can dramatically ease development. David Chisnall looks at SWI-Prolog, an open-source implementation of a language used heavily in the AI community, and describes how it can help in development of knowledge-based systems.
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- Inserting Charts and Related Material in PowerPoint 2007
- Jan 19, 2007
- Seamlessly integrate information into your presentations using shared data.
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- POSIX Parallel Programming, Part 3: Threads
- Jan 19, 2007
- David Chisnall looks at using threads.
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- POSIX Parallel Programming, Part 2: Message Passing
- Jan 12, 2007
- David Chisnall explores some more-flexible mechanisms for allowing processes to communicate.
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- Working with Strings
- Jan 5, 2007
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- Implementing Parameters for Dynamic Reporting
- Dec 11, 2006
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- Inserting Charts and Related Material
- Dec 11, 2006
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- Invoicing and Collecting Income
- Dec 11, 2006
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- The Mini Toolbar and Other U.I. Improvements
- Dec 11, 2006
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- Making Your Words Look Good
- Dec 4, 2006
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- Managing Dependencies Between Source Files
- Nov 10, 2006
- Alan Ezust and Paul Ezust introduce the features of the C preprocessor. They also explain forward class declarations versus including header files, discuss some best practices to reduce dependencies between header files, and explain the difference between strong and weak dependencies.
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- Behind the Scenes of Objective-C 2.0
- Nov 3, 2006
- David Chisnall takes a look behind the scenes at Apple's upcoming revamp of the Objective-C language. As with any new language, some things are good, some are ugly, and some are both.
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- What Makes a Good Programming Language?
- Oct 20, 2006
- There are plenty of programming languages around. David Chisnall points out the various factors that determine what makes a "good" language. But note his caveat: These principles don't always apply in any given set of circumstances!
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- Syncing Your Data the Cocoa Way
- Aug 11, 2006
- Sync Services enables developers to synchronize data between applications on a single machine, between machines, with other devices, and even with a server. Marcus Zarra illustrates how this service works and introduces you to this powerful new framework.
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- Understanding Classes and Objects in REALbasic
- Jul 21, 2006
- This chapter provides an overview of object-oriented concepts and how they are implemented in REALbasic, and gives some insight into strategies for executing your object-oriented programming effectively.
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- Debunking the Myth of High-level Languages
- Jul 14, 2006
- David Chisnall explains how programming in a low-level language can make a compiler's job harder, essentially wasting effort and slowing down your program's processing.
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- A Taste of Erlang, a Dynamic, Asynchronous Message-Passing Language
- Jun 30, 2006
- Erlang is a descendant of Prolog, intended for high-availability, high-performance applications. David Chisnall explains why he likes it, despite Erlang's occasional minor irritations.
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- Basic Concepts of the C# Programming Language
- Jun 30, 2006
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