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I want to learn to develop applications in Lazarus, but I need resources, preferably books, to Lazarus.
Keep in mind that I know 0 of Pascal.
Thanks.
Lazarus - The Complete Guide can be found here.
UPDATE:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Howdy_World_%28Hello_World_on_steroids%29
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Pascal_and_Lazarus_Books_and_Magazines
Free book is here. I know this is for Delphi but it will also help a Lazarus newbie very much.
To my knowledge there are also books in german (paid), portuguese (paid), and arabic (free).
The compiler and non visual manuals are here
One can also use Delphi resources to some degree; Essential Pascal is also always a good read, and so are the older Mastering Delphi books from the same author
Marco Cantu's book "Essential Pascal" is a good, implementation agnostic Pascal guide for the Object Pascal dialects of Pascal (Lazarus, FPC, Delphi).
http://www.marcocantu.com/epascal/
An older version of the book is available free, and the most recent can be purchased.
I learned using the book
'Oh! Pascal!'
. Clear and basic - very good.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm a Ruby programmer and need to learn RPG IV because of my current project. I want to learn primitive types, data structures, control flows, architecture etc. Online resources are as good as paper books.
What book or online tutorial should I start with?
This Red Book from IBM is still quite relevant today.
IBM i Information Center is the source for the actual documentation.
RPG-L is a great mailing list with hundreds of helpful people to answer all of your questions.
Another link I knew was out there, but couldn't find at first was from Scott Klement who is well known in the IBM i community.
You can run JRuby natively on the iSeries if that's your primary skill set.
There may be some pushback if you have some stodgy graybeards that are afraid of new technology stacks.
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I may have to contribute to a legacy system, classic asp with vbscript web app at work.
What are some good learning tutorials/books on this.
Please don't say you should just use .NET mvc as changing the existing system isn't an option.
I won't forget the good old ASP For Dummies, read it every day for about one month and enjoyed every page of it. Clear, simple and to the point. :)
I would recommend this book, i used to use it as a daily reference when i started learning classic asp, pretty much like yourself i didnt have the option to use dot net
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-ASP-3-0-Programmer/dp/0764543636/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297414852&sr=1-11
Also try http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp for some basic samples. If you provide more information on what you will be coding in asp i can probably suggest more sites.
Regards
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Please recommend some material about implementing Object-Oriented Databases for dynamic languages (interested in Ruby).
I realise that OODBs do not have a good mathematical foundation, but still the information I could find is absolutely insufficient for me to start working on a new OODB.
Thanks.
Have a look at Won Kim's "Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases". It's considered an authoritative source on the matter.
EDIT: An alternative reference is "Object-Relational Database Development" by Paul Brown. It takes an object/relational approach, which may be interesting given the prevalence of relational technologies these days.
There are several for pay papers:
An implementation of a multimedia object-oriented database management system
An object-oriented database system Jasmine: implementation, application, and extension
The Design and Implementation of an Object Oriented Database Management System-OMNIX
Then there's also the website odbms.org, which has resources online:
http://www.odbms.org/downloads.aspx
Last but not least I'd probably try to search for whitepapers or tech docs for a popular ODBMS like Caché.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Do you know any source for nice looking software designs? (non Web).
There is always Apple Design Awards or something like the Mobile User Experience Awards for mobile applications.
There are some good examples on http://emberapp.com. Mostly for Mac though ...
I would take a look at http://quince.infragistics.com/, while not complete applications, it does show you some best practices/design patterns for both Windows and Web applications.
I'd also take a look at some of the Windows Forms component companies, DevExpress, Telerik and Infragistics. You can learn a lot from the look and feel of their components.
In this case... a lot of programmers tend to talk only about the worst examples...cause UI really depends on personel taste.
Have a look at this question for the worst examples:
Stackoverflow Question
From my point of view i prefer clear looks...nothing fancy etc...but it really depends on the software and topic...hope this helps
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I'm into hacking challenges (like rankk.com) and some of the challenges require disassembly and little modifications of PE files.
I'm looking for a disassembler/debugger that is able to dump the strings, walk the assembler code and allow modifications.
My knowledge in this field is very limited so I'm looking for something relatively easy to use and preferably free.
IDA, nothing else comes even close.
IDA Pro
I like OllyDbg. (with a good companion :)
IDA Pro has a nice graph for better understanding of the code flow and the disassembler is amazing. Although i use OllyDbg as JIT debugger and general debugger for MASM.
IDA also has a free version now of their previous version. For light or introductory reversing or getting started it's a great tool.
IDA Pro for common cases, SoftIce for special cases (for example when you need to reverse highly protected application, you can use special SoftIce plugins and so on). I was an experienced cracker in student years :)