I’ve added a few things from my previous site:
- Visual Basic Arrays Tutorial by Adam Wehmann – An array tutorial that covers the basics of arrays and how you use them in VB.
- API Spy Tutorial by Digial Rampage – Wonder what an API Spy is and how to use it? This is a short and simple tutorial that’ll cover what you need to know.
- Mosaic Gallery – A collection of mosaics generated by Mosaicer 2.0.
Basically, two programming related tutorials that were written for this site and a gallery of mosaics. I think I want my programming section to consist of just tutorials this time, instead of downloadable examples. Well, I may do a little of both, but tutorials appeal a lot more to me. And for the moment being, I’m not taking any submissions, even though I’ve had a few people offer to write examples. Somewhere inside of me there is a Regular Expressions tutorial, but I want to wait a while, and I need to think up some really good examples for it. In school when I was taught about regular expressions, they were presented in the most boring way possible and we were shown no real world application of them. It was only recently that I re-discovered them and realized how great they really were.
I’ve stopped doing Spot Lighted Site posts and no one has called me on it. Not that I’d think any of you would lose any sleep over it, I felt kind of corny doing a weekly feature like that anyway. From now on I’m only going to sporadically feature a site or an article, since a lot of “Spot Lighted” posts might clutter up the main page and make it harder for people to find the real news. I’m also kind of torn on what kind of sites to feature. In the past I’ve featured some completely non-programming related sites like antigirl.com and sullen (now defunct), but it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense for me to do that. I think I want to keep this site mostly on focus – though deviations from time to time are good. So I guess with all this rambling what I’m trying to say is that there’ll be less Spot Lighted Sites (like what’s been happening for the past month), and when something is talked about, it’ll hopefully have some kind of interest to the people who come here.
I’m not to keen on regular expressions. I can understand some of it, but I’ve actually looked for tutorials and always arrived at information regarding the regular expression scheme for a specific program. When you make start uploading new guides you should make sure to start including a lot more .NET tutorials, because that’s where a majority of “professional” programmers have migrated, and Microsoft is ending its support of Visual Basic 6 soon.
Regular Expressions are awesome. I’m amazed at how much easier they make certain things (input validating, special types of find and replace, and information extraction to name a few).
It sucks that they’re ending the support of VB6, though I suppose they can’t keep it around forever. I’ve got a copy of Visual Studio 2003 that I’ve never installed. Right now I’m debating if I should use that, or if I should get the latest and greatest version out. After my next app, I think I’m going to do some downloadable apps.
2005 is the latest version, but apparently 2007 is set to be released sometime within the fall. I assume 2007 will include the .NET 3.0 framework, or at least utilize it.