Many of us have spent hours playing games like Farmville, Sims, taking quiz like ‘When are you going to marry’, ‘Who will kill you’ etc in Facebook. Ever wondered how they are built? Ever wanted to built something like that? Ever felt like making your own app to amaze your friends? Don’t worry, it isn’t that difficult. In this series, I will talk about building a Facebook Application from scratch and by the end of [...]

Coding is a difficult job for the best of us. It takes a lot of time, effort and patience. The fact that there are so many types of errors possible and most of them are misunderstood makes the job of coding very tedious. One of these irritating errors is the Segmentation Fault and in this stone I will try and explain why this error occurs and then how to solve them. Segmentation is a memory [...]

The world today has probably more than a good billion computers in operation right now and almost all of them are connected to each other at one time or other. Networking between computers gives an additional dimension to using this amazing creation. Network Programming in Java is really simple; it uses something called sockets to facilitate communication between any two machines. In this series of stone I will focus on network programming in java. To [...]

When working with a C project we might have multiple .c files in the same project. Having to compile each and every source file after some alterations in one of them would be a painful task. Hence to avoid this , we make use of the make utility which reads its makefile and makes the building and managing of our C project lot more easier. Thus when one of the .c files is changed , [...]

Continuing on my series of stones on Netbeans, I bring on the second part of the shortcuts in Netbeans. This post will primarily deal with the various coding shortcuts NetBeans has to offer along with a few editor code templates. So without any further ado let’s begin. Move/copy up/down. Press Ctrl-Shift-Up and the current selection are copied to the lines right above the current selection. Press Alt instead of Ctrl and it is moved instead [...]

Following up on my previous post on Essential Vim Plugins for Web Developers, I have decided to tell you about the awesomeness of the C / C++ plugin for Vim in this article. Now to get things going, let’s start by thinking what are the basic stuffs that you would be carrying out as a C / C++ developer? Include header files, some functions, loops, conditional statements and a main function. These are some repetitive [...]

Laziness is a virtue that every programmer needs to some degree. Efficiency is always a trademark of a good programmer. A programmer’s effort should be directed in a way to achieve maximum outcome in less time. I have seen many programmers opting for vim editor. Yet, most of the programmers are unaware about the plugins available for vim editor. These plugins drastically extend its capabilities whilst reducing the effort you need to put in. In [...]