Python Real-time Generation of Numeric Data Fixtures in IronPython A detailed description of the reasons behind using IronPython as a scripting engine for dynamic numeric data, and some examples of how it was used.
Functional Programming Why Haskell Is Worth Learning Why Haskell? It's an incredibly powerful tool to use with other langues. And learning it will make you a better, smarter, more-versatile programmer.
Software Science FFI: Foreign Function Interfaces for Fun & Industry An FFI wrapper is much easier to write and maintain than a C extension, more portable across platforms and languages, and easier for users to install.
.NET / WPF Faking Named Parameters in .NET when Using ODBC Here's some handy code for emulating named parameters when using ODBC drivers in C# or .net.
Embedded Systems Catching Exceptions and Printing Stack Traces for C on Windows, Linux, & Mac Examples on how to catch signals/exceptions with C compiled with gcc on windows and posix systems.
Development Practices Tricky Code: Taking Steps to Reduce Brittleness Avoid "tricky code" whenever possible. If you must, test against changes.
Embedded Systems Things About C that Make Me Say, “WHAT?!?” I have found several aspects of C that really tripped me up. I’d like to share a few of them with you so you can avoid them!
Embedded Systems Hey, C Is a Functional Language Too! I will show how you can write a linked list reversal function in C with no mutation and no malloc!
Embedded Systems Conversing JSON with Qt and Ruby A simple command processing engine in C++ using Qt and QtScriptEngine for parsing JSON. The server, which initiates simple exchanges, is written trivially in Ruby.
Presenter First Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012 A sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C — updated to work with the latest tools.
.NET / WPF Making WPF Controls Modal with Adorners How to create a transparent overlay over a WPF window "behind" a given control, using a subclass of Adorner.
C & C++ Acceptance Testing C++ with Cucumber and the Wire Protocol The following example shows how this works with C++ using Cucumber-Cpp, plus an example that comes bundled with it.