So you may be testing with selenium already, you may even be using selenium RC to automate your testing and integrate it with your other unit tests, and you may already be doing so in a shared development environment, but if you aren’t using selenium RC with multiple users, you may not know that you [...]

This is a very simple mailer class that is also easy to use. <?php /** * mail.php * * A (very) simple mailer class written in PHP. * * @author Zachary Fox * @version 1.0 */ class ZFmail{ var $to = null; var $from = null; var $subject = [...]

Vim Color Improved is a syntax highlighting plugin that allows you to include code from local or remote files in your Wordpress posts. I started using vim to syntax highlight my code samples based on a couple of searches that turned up this page here. However, since I started my new project that involves posting [...]

So we’ve seen lots of examples of our Fibonacci program in scripting languages, but other than C, I haven’t touched on many compiled languages. So here is a version in Java, probably one of the most common and popular languages in use today. Considered by advocates to be the among the best enterprise application development [...]

So finally we get to Ruby. Is it a ghetto? I don’t know about that, but I do know that writing our simple Fibonacci program in Ruby was a piece of cake. Before we get to the good stuff, though, I’d like to recap where we are, and what we’ve done so far. Here’s a [...]

In our latest installment of the Fibonacci project, we’ll write our simple program in Python. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what we are doing here, please read the first post here. Python is a newer, but increasingly popular scripting language. I suppose the most interesting difference here is that Python is dependent [...]

So this is our fourth post of the Fibonacci project, and in this installment, we are going to take on Perl. For those of you who don’t know about the Fibonacci project, you should read the first post, Fibonacci in C. Also, you may want to check out the other posts in the series. The [...]

So here’s the big surprise. Shell scripting! It’s not what most people think of when they think of programming, but systems administrators are still doing lots of scripting work to automate tasks. Shell scripting can tackle some pretty serious and complicated problems, so running our Fibonacci program is no sweat. If you haven’t seen the [...]

So here is my second post in the Fibonacci project. For those of you that have not seen the first post here, the Fibonacci project is a learning experiment designed to highlight the similarities and differences between programming languages. In our C Fibonacci example, we learned that we need to declare variables and types, even [...]

Welcome to the first post of the Fibonacci project. In the following weeks, I am going to write this simple program in as many languages as possible, to highlight the similarities and differences between them. Today I will start with C, a classic language that is still in use today, and a good foundation for [...]