Google Gears Turns One: Future is in Open Standards
Google Gears, the offline web application API it debuted last year at its developer conference, is turning one this week, and to celebrate, Google... more »
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10 Object Oriented Design Principles
Every now and then when I review code, I see developers write code that does not conform to the basis OO design principles and this eventually make it... more »
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Analysing the memory consumption of Netbeans versus Eclipse
This blog post analyzes the memory consumption of Netbeans with the Eclipse Memory Analyzer and compares it to Eclipse. Potential areas of... more »
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Top 25 Command line tips and tricks
Shell Fu seems to have built up a reasonable list of command line tips and tricks. There are a few real gems here.
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Java Swings, you say? Are you crazy?
Almost half of the Resumes I get to interview on Swing, write: “Swings” instead of “Swing”. They don’t seem to do the same mistake with other... more »
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Ruby: An EventMachine Tutorial
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Ruby / EventMachine is an event-driven networking library for Ruby, similar to Twisted for Python. Certain aspects of it are also similar to... more »
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Rails For Beginners: All You Need To Know!
bloid via sitepoint.com
If you've ever read any beginner's articles about Ruby on Rails, you'll know that quite a bit of thought has been put into the code base that makes up... more »
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Never ever synchronize threads without specifying a timeout value
Whenever there is more then one thread and more then one shared resource there must be some synchronization in place to make sure that the overall... more »
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The Most Reusable Piece Of Code Ever…Period
Can anyone else think of a cleaner, more highly used piece of “pocket code” than the good old State enumeration that they have used time and time... more »
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Intro to Design Patterns: Builder Pattern
bloid via java.dzone.com
Either because you're new to them, or as a refresher, here is the start of a series on the "Gang of Four" design patterns. Andre Mare, the author of... more »
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Convince me to use Python
I don't know if this is kosher or not, but I'm posting a link to my own blog. No ads there, so don't worry. I'm sincerely interested in an open... more »
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The Thing About Git
bloid via tomayko.com
The thing about Git is that it’s oddly liberal with how and when you use it. Version control systems have traditionally required a lot of up-front... more »
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Useful lightweight terminal applications
Here’ s a list of some useful lightweight terminal applications which i use mostly on my linux distro.
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Version Control and “the 80%”
A post about how 20% of programmers like innovation and new and 80% do their job without innovating. Some thoughts on Distributed Version Control... more »
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Google's Problem
Even though Google has the coolness of Apple Inc., the worldwide following of MicroSoft, and the quality of Toyota, Google has at least one major... more »
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6 steps to successful Continuous Integration
In early seventies, when computer aided projects become bigger and bigger, more independent companies were involved. After few months of development... more »
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If a programming language was a boat…
This one is inspired by a recent forum post, that still leaves me in amazement. Hi, Im wondering how i can create a boat in turing and if... more »
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Mercurial 1.0 released!
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
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HotRuby: Run Ruby on a JavaScript interpreter?
bloid via ajaxian.com
This is from the "wow, really?" department. HotRuby is an implementation of Ruby in JavaScript! The way it works is that a HotRuby "VM" takes the... more »
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Programming Languages: Is newer always better?
bloid via databasesandlife.com
I constantly hear the belief that modern programming languages and environment are better than older programming languages. More productive, easier to... more »
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OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features, an early look
An overview of the new features in the coming release 3.0 of OpenOffice.
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Solving Algebraic Equations Using Regular Expressions
Boyan Kostadinov via blog.stevenlevithan.com
Regexes suck at math. To a regex engine, the characters 0 through 9 are no more special than any others.
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Superlanguages: A Revolutionary Approach to Development
Superlanguages offer a new approach to application development. They empower developers, de-skill aspects of the development process, can include all... more »
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