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jEdit: a Text Editor and More

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

Big-Box Science

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

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

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

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

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

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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