A series about how to develop a business component architecture with Spring - part three is about properties.

10 most usefull Add-Ons (Tools) for Your Browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Add-Ons Like shut up, 20 cubed, google mail multi-account checker, dotepub, screen draw, findlist, tab notifier.

There are lots of strings attached to becoming a good programmer, in this blog post I will discuss some salient points that have worked for programmer over the years and will surely help a newbie or neophyte programmer to become a good programmer.

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Bootstrap is an HTML5 & CSS3 framework designed to help you kickstart the development of webapps and sites. WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates. Impress your clients and visitors while using a single, rock-solid foundation.

It's interesting to see a network, Instagram, starting to replace the iPhone's native camera application in many users' daily usage of their phones. I see this in my kids' behavior all the time. When they want to take a photo, they open Instagram, not the camera application.

There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making... the list goes on. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day's events.

300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by their journeys could be compressed into one short animation, what would it look like? What would someone seeing it be able to learn, if anything?

Now that we got that out of the way... I have been seeing posts on sites with people having fun with embedded systems/devices and I was feeling left out. I didn't really want to go out and buy a device so I looked at what was laying around.

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in 140 characters of Ruby.

The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click.

However, examining what "went wrong" is quite interesting, if one attempts, as much as possible, a dispassionate, analytical approach that aims to gain knowledge, rather than assign blame or paper over real defects with a rose-colored vision of things.

HiJack is a hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for the mobile phone. HiJack devices harvest power and use bandwidth from the mobile phone's headset interface. The HiJack platform enables a new class of small and cheap phone-centric sensor peripherals that support plug-and-play operation. HiJack has been tested with the iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch, and iPad devices.

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix based on Ubuntu 11.10 is now available for corporate and government institutions evaluating Ubuntu as a desktop solution.

Today I was recalling good days of language C and got tempted to play around POINTERS, STRUCTURE, and DATA STRUCTURE etc. I started to write some C code and as soon as I started, the first hurdle came that where to write code? I was running on 64 bit Windows 7 machine with Visual Studio 2010. I binged and found much suggestion to download this and install that etc. However being fan and loyal user of Visual Studio, I was more desired to use rich IDE of Visual studio for my C program. To my surprise it is quite possible to use Visual Studio 2010 to write and compile code in C language.

This is very problematic code, from my point of view, for several reasons. Look at how it allocate responsibilities. IApplicationEvents is supposed to execute the actual event, but deciding when to execute the event is left for the caller. I said several reasons, but this is the main one, all other flows from it.

This post is in reply to Hadi’s post. Please go ahead and read it. Done? Great, so let me try to respond, this time, from the point of view of someone who regularly asks for patches / pull requests.

In my previous post, I spoke about ISP and how we can replace the following code with something that is easier to follow:

There is a widespread view that the ordinary PHP developer does not need to control memory management, but "controlling" and "knowing" are slightly different concepts. I will try to throw light upon some aspects of memory management when working with variables and arrays, and some interesting pitfalls of the internal optimization of PHP.

If you've got any real world programming experience then no doubt at some point you've had to resort to some quick and dirty fix to get a problem solved or a feature implemented while a deadline loomed large. Game developers often experience a horrific "crunch" (also known as a "death march"), which happens in the last few months of a project leading up to the game's release date. Failing to meet the deadline can often mean the project gets cancelled or even worse, you lose your job. So what sort of tricks do they use while they're under the pump, doing 12+ hour per day for weeks on end?

Apache has an option called "AllowOverride" which allows you to override some Apache settings via a .htaccess file you can place in a directory. I'll show you why that's a very bad idea.

David Winterbottom provides two solutions to the issue of getting manage.py commands to run from cron.

Henry Lee's tutorial on creating smoke for a Windows Phone application breaks down the Smoke's behaviors and how to handle them in Windows Phone, as well as instructions for creating "per-frame smoke" and how to change the smoke properties for each frame.

Speech recognition using the Java binding of OpenNI and CloudGarden's TalkingJava SDK, recording with the PC's microphone rather than the Kinect's.

Google's "Report a Bug" or "Feedback Tool" lets you select an area of your browser window to create a screenshot that is submitted with your feedback about a bug.