The Rise & Fall Of India’s Youth Icon – Orkut
This is a detailed post explaining the reasons high groth of Orkut in India and why Facebook has now started gaining share in India. A must read for... more »
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Kohana PHP 3.0 (KO3) Tutorial
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I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.
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First-class methods: Java-style
This is the home page for the First Class Methods (FCM) closures proposal for Java 7. The 'FCM' proposal consists of two parts - FCM and JCA. For... more »
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Cross Thread Communication In C#
Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on Multi-Threading in C#. Before we even think about looking at any code, I think first, since this is... more »
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State of Open Source Java EE Application Servers
This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the... more »
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Why JSR-310 isn't Joda-Time
One question that has been repeatedly asked is why JSR-310 wasn't simply the same as Joda-Time. I hope to expain some reasons here. Joda-Time as... more »
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Utilizing multi-core in “Go” programming language
Today, Google announced the brand-new programming language, called “Go”. - golang.org This is a very impressive language for system researchers... more »
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U.S. arrests and charges two Madoff programmers
Two computer programmers designed codes to falsify thousands of fake trade blotters and phantom records for swindler Bernard Madoff and took hush... more »
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Wow, it's been 3 years I've been in Scala-land
After RubyConf 2006, I realized that Ruby was not on the right track for me. I went searching for a new language. I've been a JVM guy since '96, so... more »
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Introducing Mule Data Integrator - for graphical data transformation
MuleSoft released a brand new product, Mule Data Integrator, for graphical data mapping and transformation. Mule Data Integrator (MDI) is free for... more »
Text Effects In jQuery
jQuery is not just about Menus and Animation Effects. With jQuery you can also create attractive text effects and play with the text to communicate... more »
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var improves readability
Countless times I’ve heard the argument that you should use the var keyword with caution, that it decreases readability of your code, or how it can be... more »
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Google-style code review meets git
Gerrit, a Git-based system for managing code review, is helping to spread the popular distributed revision control system into Android-using... more »
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State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance
There are 8 alternative Ruby VM's and 4 of them will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year. A detailed look at the past year and where the community is... more »
GWT 2.0 with Eclipse plugin released!!
Google has released a release candidate version of GWT 2.0. They have also released a google eclipse plugin for GWT 2.0 which provides new UIBinder... more »
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In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database
Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object... more »
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How Programmers Work
This is why we jump out of our skin every time you tap us on the shoulder.
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First Impressions of Google Chrome OS - Screenshots
This morning I just installed Google OS Chrome on my Mac OS using Virtual Box. To my surprise, my first impressions are . . .
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Easy Partials in Rails
I created something at my job that has proven to be extremely useful that I think many people could benefit from. I like to call it Easy Partials, and... more »
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Who’s not getting gzip?
An interesting post about gzip compression on the web.
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Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be stored in the cloud
I'm not sure if I want all my data stored on the 'cloud'
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List of Open Source Defect/Issue Tracking Systems
Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being “free”, these open source defect tracking systems have... more »
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Forgiveness in UI design
Users make mistakes, no matter how good your user interface is designed. But there is something you can do about it. There are approaches you can use... more »
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SOA and Cloud
Before we talk about Cloud, I want to quickly review where SOA came from. Most of us who started our IT careers in the 80s and 90s will clearly... more »
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The Unwritten Rules of Web Design
In the relative short time that websites have been around, compared to other media, much has been learnt about web design. There aren’t any ‘rules’... more »
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