Universal Mind Announces SpatialKey
SpatialKey makes it easier than ever to expose the "time and place" information locked in your data. It's easy to get your data into the system, and... more »
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How do Convert IP Address to Country Name
IP address (IPV4) is divided into 4 sub-blocks. Each sub-block has a different weight number each powered by 256. IP number is being used in the... more »
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How to get physical CPU count on a server
With hyper-threading and multi-core CPUs, it isn't easy to find out how many physical CPUs (or sockets) there are on a server. Recently we were given... more »
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Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development
tries to highlight few imp points from this book.
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Let's Bury the Term Software Engineering
Software engineering is not an accurate way to describe what software designers and developers do. We create software in an environment that is... more »
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Star Trek 1971 Text Game
Two years after the original series was canceled in 1969, high school senior Mike Mayfield was busy keeping the Star Trek universe alive by feeding... more »
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The New Law of Demeter
Once upon a time I've stumbled upon The Law of Demeter, which says that you can only call methods on: * self * self's fields *... more »
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Ruby Programming is Art?
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I realize that the Ruby language is special, in the sense that my learning curve is experienced differently than it was with Java, or even C++ back... more »
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Does Ruby help us to build better teams?
A collection of observation of how ruby may affect the way we work.
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When you don't know what you don't know...
I see that Cedric Beust still doesn't know what he doesn't know. Here's a link to his recent presentation on language trends (PDF); reading through... more »
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Is Object Orientation Working?
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The vast majority of software that people write inside a business talks to a database. Yet object orientated programming does not gel well with... more »
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freshAIRapps.com is moving to refreshingapps.com
freshAIRapps.com is well known for a best collection of Adobe AIR applications at one place. Now because of copyrights of Adobe AIR, author has... more »
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Code Leader By Patrick Cauldwell
Tries to highlight few imp points from this book.
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AspectJ in Action By Ramnivas Laddad
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Why there are no networked Flash games
In short, it's near impossible to deploy one...
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How to revert (roll back) to a previous revision with Subversion
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You would think that reverting to a previous version of your application would be one of the key use cases for a version control system like... more »
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Java developers should learn Ruby
Okay, it doesn't have to be Ruby. Pick some other language. Pick Erlang, or even JavaScript. It doesn't matter really matter, as long as it's... more »
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Why Every Developer’s Next PC Will be a Mac
Every Developer's Next PC will be a Mac. If you’re a developer, your next machine will be a Mac. Here’s why...
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The Programming Book Graveyard
I’m a bit of a pack rat… I have a hard time getting rid of anything I think I might possibly need in the future, and that’s especially true of... more »
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters
Every getter and setter in your code represents a failure to encapsulate and creates unnecessary coupling. A profusion of getters and setters (also... more »
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What is GNU?
Explanations, urls history for the GNU operating system
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Programmer Productivity: The "Tenfinity Factor"
It's widely accepted in the software industry that some programmers are much more productive than others. Many experts cite an order-of-magnitude... more »
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Sweet Meeting Smells:Three Things That SHOULD Be Said in a Software Requirements Meeting
These are some key phrases that are good to hear in a requirements meeting. If you have any meeting smells of your own to offer, fair or foul, I'd... more »
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Exceptions in Java
In this article of Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz, we look at exception handling in Java. We start with the history of exceptions, looking back at the precursor... more »
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Getting Started with Flex
In this discussion, I will focus on the basics of Flex, a web development framework based on Flash. The first section will be about the whys and... more »
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