by Sourcetoad | Apr 18, 2016 | Programming
Today I’m going to be looking into substring matching algorithms. The benchmark appears to be the Boyer-Moore algorithm. It actually seems to be pretty commonly used for search and replace in text editors. In fact it is said to be the most efficient...
by Sourcetoad | Apr 5, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Programming
I’ve been thinking about micro-services lately as a way to organize projects. I think I understand the concept better when I think of them like dynamically-linked libraries. At first, it seemed inefficient to have different services communicate through...
by Sourcetoad | Feb 16, 2016 | Programming
Auto-updating programs are definitely useful. When one evaluates their most-used programs, they’ll probably just as well notice that a majority of said programs auto update in the background. For instance, two of the programs I use the most—Chrome and Atom—are both...
by Jun | Jan 25, 2016 | Code, Programming
Most programmers have used, or are at least aware of, regular expressions and how they work. But, fundamentally, what is a regular expression? Well, to understand that, we’ll have to understand a few core concepts. First, we need to know what an alphabet is....
