Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Comparing Python to Perl and Ruby
Comparing Python to Perl and Ruby
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am really into programming languages. Like editors, a programming language is a tool which is supposed to make your programming task easier.
Unlike the typical programmer, I have experience designing and implementing languages. Slick-C, the macro language in SlickEdit, is the third fairly [...]
52 Comments » - Posted in Productivity, Programming by Clark Maurer
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Creating a PHP 5 Extension with Visual C++ 2005
This article describes the steps to create a custom PHP extension DLL for the Windows platform. The Zend API documentation that comes with PHP 5 on Windows (see php_manual_en.chm) does a good job explaining how to write extension methods, parse method parameters, and return values. But there is not currently a good step-by-step tutorial on [...]
61 Comments » - Posted in Productivity, Programming by Matthew E
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Windows 95, Geocities and a Dog Named Scout
I’ve heard that every meteorologist has a storm, some fantastic show of Nature’s power that made the tiny child heart beat faster with excitement and say, “I want to be a weather man.” It seems that programming has a similar concept, a first time when a young geek hugs the computer after a few hours [...]
