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Moose

By Henry Van Styn | Jan 23, 2012

Perl has been around for more than 20 years. During that time, it has received its share of both praise and criticism, and lots of misconceptions surround it. Much of this stems from long-outdated notions of what Perl used to be, but have nothing to do with what Perl actually is today. more>>

jEdit: a Text Editor and More

By Adrian Klaver | Oct 26, 2011

jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. more>>

Big-Box Science

By Joey Bernard | Oct 25, 2011

A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old desktop has more than one CPU. How best can you take advantage of the amount of power at your fingertips? more>>

Parallel Programming Crash Course

By Joey Bernard | Sep 13, 2011

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code. When you are involved with heavy-duty scientific computing, you usually need to go to parallel computing in order to get the runtimes down to something reasonable. more>>

Git - Revision Control Perfected

By Henry Van Styn | Aug 24, 2011

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is extremely flexible and guarantees data integrity while being powerful, fast and efficient. more>>

Cover photo of The Audio Programming Book.

A Linux Audio Christmas

By Dave Phillips | Feb 02, 2011

Some interesting items showed up under Dave's Christmas tree, including a new book by some old friends, a laptop keyboard (music, not QWERTY), and an excellent Linux audio plugin for high-quality reverb. Dave must have been a very good boy last year.

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A programmer’s discussion: procedural vs. OO

A Programmer’s Discussion: Procedural vs. OO

By Chad Columbus | Aug 17, 2010

So I have been writing code of one sort or another for over 15 years (mostly Perl) and there is still one thing I don’t get ... what is the advantage of object oriented programming (OOP) over procedural programming (PP)? more>>

An image of the SciTE editor with CsoundAC code.

Introducing CsoundAC: Algorithmic Composition With Csound And Python

By Dave Phillips | Aug 03, 2010

What happens when the world's most powerful waveform compiler meets one of the world's most popular programming languages ? Find out how one programmer makes it all work out in this introduction to CsoundAC. more>>

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