Developers thrive on the feedback of the community, and as a budding web developer or programmer you may find yourself thinking, “How can I get myself recognized?”. So how does one get recognized in the web development or programming field? Here are a few ways to do just that.

• Open source your work. This may be difficult for you if you’ve never done it before. You may feel like it’s your code and you don’t want anyone to have it. I…

A nine-year-old programmer in Singapore has hit the Top 10 selling list on the iTunes store with a paint application called ‘Doodle Kids’ , used on the Apple iPhone. His father is a Chief Technology Officer for a local firm in Singapore, so it’s not extremely surprising to see his son follow in his footsteps.

Whether or not you’re jealous (I am), you have to be amazed at how young kids are learning and mastering computers these days. Things like this…

Neowin.net reports that a trusted source within Microsoft informed them that the RC will not be ready by the end of this month, but instead, the RC is being tested internally and the official release date is set for April 10, 2009. It is likely that once the RC build is ready for the masses, TechNet and MSDN subscribers will be the first to get their hands on the build, though that won’t stop many people from downloading it off torrent…

According to TechArp.com, which has accurately predicted past moves by Microsoft, IE8 will be ready for RTM this coming March. According to the source, they say it will most likely be released sometime during the last two weeks. Microsoft, however, has declined to comment.

“Our timeline is driven by the quality of the product,” said a spokeswoman today in an e-mail reply to a request for comment. “Microsoft is deliberate in our approach to releasing new products, and we feel a…

Bespin is a project directly from Mozilla labs that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing in hopes of increasing developer productivity and promoting open standards. See the video to see what the guys at Mozilla have to say:

I think what Mozilla is doing is great. Once this project better evolves it could be extremely useful. My main caveat with Bespin is that aside from being incomplete, it lacks FTP support (which I would totally love if they…

This site notes that on Friday, Feb 13th, at exactly 3:31:30 PM Pacfic Time, Unix time will equal ‘1234567890′. I found this to be pretty interesting. If you don’t know what Unix time is you can read more about it here. Pretty geeky. They are even having a countdown down in San Fransisco to celebrate the event.

Update: See the video below:

A couple of days ago I did a test on If Statements vs. Switch Statements and said I’d be providing more benchmark tests later on. This test involves the printf and cout functions. Both produce the same exact results but will they be comparable in speed? Again, at the bottom of the page you can download the source code for this test.

Note: I am/will be using the Code::Blocks IDE to perform my benchmark tests which uses the MingW / GNU GCC compiler. Using a…

Using the benchmarking method described in my previous post, I set out to discover which is faster: C++ If statements or switch statements.

To do the test I had to ensure that the code was exactly the same besides the If and switch statement portions of the code. Below are my two like functions:

void IfStatement(){
    int val = 5;
    string value = "";
    for(int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){
        if(val == 1) value = "one";
        else if(val == 2)…

I explained in the forums an easy method for determining the speed of a C/C++ function. Just include the following function into your project file:

long getExecutionTime(void (*func)()); // define Function

long GetExecutionTime(void (*func)()){
    long cTick, nTick;
    cTick = GetTickCount();
    (*func)();

    nTick = GetTickCount();
    return nTick - cTick;
}

Then use the function by passing in the function name into GetExecutionTime, for example:

void doSleep(){
     Sleep(5000);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    cout << "Code executed in: " << GetExecutionTime(doSleep) << "ms \n";…

It is confirmed that Windows 7 will have the following versions:

1. Starter – Similar to Home Basic, no Aero enhancements but it will feature the new taskbar and be fairly bare bones but feature most things that Home Basic will have. This version will only allow 3 running applications at any given time. This will not be available in the US but will be for emerging markets. Expect this to be an extremely low cost option.
2. Home Basic – Basically the unrestricted version of…