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Basically rip-offs of the prop and propg code snippets you get with Visual Studio but without the scope or accessor keywords.

iprop

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
	<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
		<Header>
			<Title>iprop</Title>
			<Shortcut>iprop</Shortcut>
			<Description>Code snippet for an automatically implemented property on an interface</Description>
			<Author>Alex Boyne-Aitken</Author>
			<SnippetTypes>
				<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
			</SnippetTypes>
		</Header>
		<Snippet>
			<Declarations>
				<Literal>
					<ID>type</ID>
					<ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
					<Default>int</Default>
				</Literal>
				<Literal>
					<ID>property</ID>
					<ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
					<Default>MyProperty</Default>
				</Literal>
			</Declarations>
			<Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[$type$ $property$ { get; set; }$end$]]>
			</Code>
		</Snippet>
	</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

ipropg

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
	<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
		<Header>
			<Title>ipropg</Title>
			<Shortcut>ipropg</Shortcut>
			<Description>Code snippet for an automatically implemented property with a 'get' accessor for interfaces</Description>
			<Author>Alex Boyne-Aitken</Author>
			<SnippetTypes>
				<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
			</SnippetTypes>
		</Header>
		<Snippet>
			<Declarations>
				<Literal>
					<ID>type</ID>
					<ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
					<Default>int</Default>
				</Literal>
				<Literal>
					<ID>property</ID>
					<ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
					<Default>MyProperty</Default>
				</Literal>
			</Declarations>
			<Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[$type$ $property$ { get; }$end$]]>
			</Code>
		</Snippet>
	</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

Read a fantastic article on Life Hacker on how to teach yourself computer programming: http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-how-to-code

My only comment would be pick a language that is based on C-like syntax (rather than use Python or VB) because although the syntax may seem harder, the syntax is more transferrable to other languages and it would give you a head start.

In my personal experience, a book only served as a reference. I found books that taught me how to do something soon became too basic for my needs and often there are plenty of guides on the internet that is a good replacement. Instead you will find much of my library consists of reference books, hint, tips and advanced topics.

On our guild website, we have a block in the portal that shows who is currently on teamspeak. This uses the CyTS library to connect and get such information and occasionally it would cause the portal to stop loading.

In each case I would get home, load it up and not find any problems at all. Well today was a different matter, I was able to pin point the exact issue. For some reason the library connects to the server but then stalls when receiving information from the server.

I should tell you know, this is not a perfect fix but it does the job. I did look into other options like switch socket blocking on and off and such other approaches, but it seems that if fgets reads more than 1 byte, it stalls. This is a bug in PHP that has hung around for a while.

I have changed the _readcall function to read the first byte, check it for failure then continue with the rest.

function _readcall()
{
	if (!is_resource($this->sCon))
		return false;

	// HACK : Workaround to fail fast
	$first = fgets($this->sCon, 1);

	if($first === false)
		return false;

	$sRead = '';
	do
	{
		$cRead = $first.fgets($this->sCon);
		$first = '';

		$sRead .= $cRead;
	} while ($cRead != CYTS_SYN && $cRead != CYTS_OK && strtoupper(substr($cRead, 0, 5)) != "ERROR");
	return $sRead;
}

Because I am so lazy :P

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
	<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
		<Header>
			<Title>View model property snippet</Title>
			<Shortcut>vmprop</Shortcut>
			<Description></Description>
			<Author>Alex Boyne-Aitken</Author>
			<SnippetTypes>
				<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
			</SnippetTypes>
		</Header>
		<Snippet>
			<Declarations>
        <Literal>
          <ID>name</ID>
          <ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
          <Default>Field</Default>
        </Literal>
        <Literal>
          <ID>field</ID>
          <ToolTip>Field name</ToolTip>
          <Default>field</Default>
        </Literal>
        <Literal>
          <ID>type</ID>
          <ToolTip>Type</ToolTip>
          <Default>object</Default>
        </Literal>
			</Declarations>
			<Code Language="csharp">
        <![CDATA[
    $type$ $field$;
    public $type$ $name$
    {
        get { return $field$; }
        set
        {
            if ($field$ == value)
                return;

            $field$ = value;
            SendPropertyChanged("$name$");
        }
    }
			$end$]]>
			</Code>
		</Snippet>
	</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>