Programming: The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire
An inspiring story about a vegetable vendor, explaining programming and experiencing how programming doesn't come naturally... As the college season... more »
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A Look At Free/OpenSource Cross-Platform Installers
Software Distribution is an essential part of Software Development and can sometimes be the first impression that can make or break the user's opinion... more »
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Google Chrome's Beats Others at JavaScript Performance
With Google Chrome released, one of its most awesome features is the excellent JavaScript performance. It is a complete new re-write for a JavaScript... more »
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Netbeans 6.5 Beta Released
Netbeans, “the only IDE that you need” is undergoing a major overhaul and the new version is called Netbeans 6.5. Today after weeks of development and... more »
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iPhone App Store’s $30 Million May Be Second Best
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in an interview yesterday to Wall Street Journal that the iPhone AppStore made $30 Million in the first month of sales. That... more »
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Linus Thinks “OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys”
Linus Trovalds was the person who started the Linux operating system project and owns the copyright to the name, “Linux”. Recently when discussing a... more »
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Mozilla Releases Firefix v3.0.1
Firefox 3.0 was released with much funfare and with lots of testing. But it turns out a lot of people have problems with the latest version of... more »
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A look at Java's new Visualvm
THE MOST RECENT of the Java Developer Kit (JDK), version 6 update 7, incorporates a new utility dubbed Visualvm. There have been many integral... more »
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Processor Errata to be Next Big Virus Exploit
Most Linux/*nix/Mac users felt viruses were only for Windows users, because of underlying OS protection in Unix user access model was good enough. But... more »
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Opera Starts Classroom For Web Standards
Opera announced today that it has launched an education initiative to teach people about web standards. The first part of the initiative is called the... more »
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First Look: Google Test Framework Simplifies Testing
Software Testing is probably one of the most boring and tedious task to a lot of people, but there are still people like me who love writing unit... more »
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Opera 9.5 achieves more than 4.5 million downloads
Today, Opera Software announces record download figures. In the five days following its launch on June 12, 2008, Opera 9.5 achieved 4.7 million... more »
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Windows Beats Linux/OSX at Handwriting
Lately I’ve been trying to code an application which requires some form of natural handwriting recognition. Natural Handwriting is basically the way... more »
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Improving Java Web Performance With C/C++
The post talks about benchmarking a java web application and how Native Libraries in Tomcat can help improve performance. How C/C++ and JNI can help... more »
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India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime
I recently started using Twitter and have become a big fan of the service. I've been appalled by the downtime the service has endured, but sympathetic... more »
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Google Gears as the Next Flash
When Google Gears was first announced, it was praised as the final nail in the coffin for desktop applications as it now made it possible to take Web... more »
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Google Starts Charging For The Cloud
Everyone has realized the real money is in selling the cloud computing services. Amazon had it, HP will be getting onboard and Google now wants to... more »
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Improve Apparent Application Performance Through UI
Have you ever felt that your application feels heavy or takes a lot of time to load? Do your users and customers expect "Improved performance" in the... more »
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Netbeans 6.1 Vs Visual Studio 2008
Netbeans 6.0 added major features and NetBeans 6.1 comparatively is a minor upgrade, but nonetheless added lots of new improvements. In light of new... more »
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Adobe Flash Player 10 Adds 3D
Adobe's play with Acrobat 3D didn't go too well. Acrobat 3D was for creating 3D models and save them as PDF. It was a nifty and useful idea, but... more »
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JRuby Won & It Was Fun
One interesting session at JavaOne 2008 was hosted by Raghavan aka Rags from Sun Microsystems. The session was called the Script Bowl and was a war... more »
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NetBeans Misses Bundled SVN
Subversion or SVN support was added in Netbeans 6.1. It is one of my favorite and most used feature from Netbeans. For those who don't know SVN or... more »
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Project Capuchin - Sony Ericsson Mates JavaME & Flash Lite
Sony Ericsson announced today that they are experimenting with a new technology which plans to integrate Flash inside JavaME applications. This will... more »
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netBeans 6.1 Final Released
The guys from netBeans have released the final version of netBeans 6.1 after ironing out a lot of bugs. Its an awesome release and the speed increase... more »
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Java Applets Don't Run In Browser Anymore
If you had your Java textbooks tell you that "Applets are defined as programs that run in the browser", then you probably have to get a new revision... more »
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