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For proper API work in VB, get Dan Appelman's Programmers Guide To The Win32 API.
It is the bible as far as VB and the Win API goes.
Worth every cent.
And for a second language, there are a ton out there. Try ADA for a real language (it's a military laguage used for programming avionics packages and the like), or stretch you mind by trying Lisp, Smalltalk or Miranda, which are functional languages (which is comletly differnt to VB)
- gaffa
Following up to Paul on the first page, where he was talking about cracking 56bit DES in 56 hours, on 1500 distrubuted processors.
Does any one know of any groups out there who are aiming
to better that using processor sharing on the net? It wouldn't matter about the speed of each node, it would all be in parallel.
Would any one be interested in participating in this kind of thing?
/me starts to daydream of a simple distributed vb app and a giant disturbance on the net ;-)
andy.
btw, Dan Appleman is the Man, but i recently found another
book which i have to say is better allround (although not as a functional reference, Dan's wins that hands down).
It's one of those O'Reilly books (small monkey on the front of this one) and is called 'Win32 API programming with Visual Basic'.
This is a great book.
andy.