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This is where the brightest young/old/senile/demented minds get to splurge around a bit with a topic of their choice. All articles remain the individual copyright of their respective authors.

Number of Articles : 14

Win32

Socket Coding Part One, by NRoC
Covers the basics of the winsock/berkeley socks api. First in a series of articles documenting as much of the winsock api as is possible. urm, it's kinda cack, something for the newbies maybe? C Specific with C/Perl source.

Socket Coding Part Two, by NRoC
Moving on from the basics, we look at accepting incoming connections, using select() to receive notification on socket status, and identifying and converting between hostnames and dotted ip strings. C Specific with C source.

Introduction To Win32 Programming, by Cali
An article Cali wrote for another coding site that he really didn't have time to complete (much like this one) Hopefully this way people will get use out of it. C Specific.

A Quick Introduction To Dialogs, by Fresh
An article fresh wrote a loooooong time ago, I think possibly when he was starting out with Win32. Still, knowledge doesn't age, or so they say. (who?) Here it is. VC Specific.

Process and Module Related Toolhelp32 Functions, by Iczelion
An interesting article that looks at how to enumerate processes and examine both process and module related system information. Includes an example application to view process module usage. Masm specific.

PSAPI and You - The Early Years, by The Rudeboy
If you've read Iczelions' article above, you'll note he mentions the same kinda thing using PSAPI. The Rudeboy has gone one further and written an article documenting both processes and modules under WinNT. Masm specific.

Toolbars and Tooltips for Tools, by NRoC
A lil article by yours truly. This article looks at creating custom toolbars and their tooltips from scratch. Good for beginners (prolly). LCC Specific

Creating Custom Controls by Fresh
As per usual Fresh has to do something a lil different. This article explores an alternative to the boring common controls supplied by win, making your own. The example app is pretty cool, an interesting read. C Specific.

Interesting API Functions, Part One - wsprintf by Plushmm
In this article, Plushmm looks at the use of the wsprintf function from the user32 dll in converting numerical values into their string equivalents. Tasm Specific.

Perl

An 'Interesting' use for Perl, by Anon
I'm not going to say very much about this article. Those who read through may or may not have a use for the target program. That aside, this article demonstrates many of the more powerful features of perl, even if the final application is a lil, urm dodgy =P

Algorithms & Theory

Simple Sorting Algorithms, by NRoC
This article serves as an introduction to sorting algorithms, we look at three general types of sort, and their efficiency. LCC Specific.

Fractals - an Introduction, by NRoC
Ever seen those pretty pictures that everyone seems to associate with chaos? This article looks into the theory and code to render both the mandelbrot and julia sets. C Specific.

Assembly

The BIOS Keystate Flags, and You, by YOSHi
YOSHi serves up an interesting and potentially fun article, covering manipulation of the BIOS keystate flags (the LEDs on your keyboard) Tasm Specific.

DPMI & Youth - a Bad Combination by YOSHi
Another great article from yosh, this time looking at the use of protected mode under the DPMI interface. Highly recommended reading. Tasm Specific.


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