Programming

Computer Programming Articles.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-07-17

Programming • [29 items]

64 bit
Bits of bits... how many bits should my computer be and why should I care? It mattered before 64 bits (2002 or so).

Agile
Agile is a process for doing Rapid Application Development.

Anti-aliasing
What is Anti-Aliasing? It is using color to increase the percieved resolution on a display.

Basics of BASIC
People ask me, "How do I get started programming?" Ther are a lot of choices, but BASIC is a pretty simple start.

Big or Little Endian
What is Endian? How do you like your eggs (or counting systems)? Big or little end up?

Binary, OCTal, HEXadecimal
Computers deal in the mystical numbering systems, like Hexadecimal, Octal and Binary.

Command Line Interface
There is an ancient computer debate about command-lines versus a GUI (Graphical User Interfaces).

Databases
What is a database? What are the kinds of databases? Why do you care?

Digitized Sound
Digitized Sound: understanding samples, rates and digital audio is really pretty simple.

Enterprise Tools
Enterprise, Opensource or Commercial tools, which is better and why? Of course the answer is, "it depends".

FUD
FUD means "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", it was used by big companies to scare users away from small companies.

Forward Compatibility
People talk about "Backwards" compatibility, but Forward Compatibility is often more important.

Free Features
A free feature in software, is like a free lunch: and in case you don't know, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Hack, Crack or Phreak
What are Hackers, Crackers and Phreaks? A little first-person explanations of how it started. (No longer current).

Hiring Programmers
Many Human Resources and Managers, don't know how to hire or utilize programmers; proven by their job reqs.

History of Visual Basic
The History of Visual Basic is a bit of a history of early computers and Microsoft...

How does compression work?
How does software Compression work? How do you make something smaller?

MHz or GHz
MHz or GHz, what does it mean? It's just clock speed - but that doesn't mean what some people think.

Programmer or Engineer?
The difference is mostly prestige of the term, but it used to mean how they solve problems and which problems.

RISC or CISC
During the 80s and 90s there was a Computer Chip design war about RISC or CISC.

Raster Images
What exactly does raster versus vector images mean? Here's the very basics of pictures or rasterized images.

Shell Script
There's a joke amongst programmers, "if you don't leave me alone, I'll replace you with a very small shell script".

Software Consultants
I worked over a decade as a consultant, and used and managed them for a couple decades more.

Software Development Life Cycle
There's a lot of variants of a Software Development Life Cycle.

Synthesized Sound
Synthesized Sound is just making waves... sound waves.

UNIX
UNIX is the old war-bird of Operating Systems -- which is ironic as it isn't an OS any more -- but more on that later.

What is MP3?
What is MP3? It's just a compressed file format used for sound (that came from MPEG's version 3).

What is a WebApp?
What is a Web Application, and how does it vary from a traditional website?

Why is software so buggy?
Why are programs so buggy? They're not bugs, they're undocumented features... sorry, that's an old programmer joke.

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