Fun with OGRE

by Antti Salonen at Open game programming

Back then, programming multi-threaded networking or 3D scenes with custom meshes and lighting (including shadows) was a nightmare (for me at least), but nowadays (especially with the aid of such terrific libraries as Boost or OGRE) I …

Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages

by Steven Feuerstein at O'Reilly – Safari Books Online

This book explains the best way to construct packages, a powerful part of Oracle’s PL/SQL procedural language that can dramatically improve your programming productivity and code quality, while preparing you for object-oriented …

Comment on MapReduce Leads the Way for Parallel Programming by ronald

by ronald at Comments for GigaOM

OMG. Now we got to the point that normalization, automated or done manually, is the future of parallel computing. No wonder CS is in such a bad shape. @Freshman, don?t be so hard on him. Dear Prof. Have you looked at a Neuron lately ? …

Small BASIC: A simple programming introduction

by David at Webometric Thoughts

As an appalling programmer it is a topic I am very interested in, and was therefore intrigued by Microsoft’s Small BASIC (via ReadWriteWeb): A development environment using a small version of the BASIC programming language. …