Google will Unleash the Cannibals on Microsoft
2008-07-17 14:33The coming battle between Google and Microsoft promises to transform the world of computing. ... [阅读全文]
YouTorrent Relaunches with 67,170 Legal Torrents
2008-07-17 14:20YouTorrent is without a doubt the most talked about newcomer in the BitTorrent scene this year. The site initially indexed all the popular torrent sites, but switched to purely ‘verified’ torrents after receiving legal threats. Today, YouTorrent officially relaunches with 67,170 “legal” torrents, go... [阅读全文]
Google Tests Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg
2008-07-17 13:40In the new Google Search Interface each comment has an up or down vote feature as well, and Google is using thumbs up and down icons that are exactly the same as those on Digg. The comments show the username of the person leaving it, and clicking on it shows their Google account profile. ... [阅读全文]
Learn Icon Designing: The best of tutorials and articles
2008-07-17 13:34Maybe you think that designing an Icon is very difficult and just some professionals can do it. But those professionals are here to teach you how to design your own simple icons just by reading some of the best tutorials have been collected here. I’ve placed these tutorials into 3 categories; Artic... [阅读全文]
Linux 2.6.26 kernel update released
2008-07-17 13:30Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture. ... [阅读全文]
Mozilla Releases Firefix v3.0.1
2008-07-17 13:23Firefox 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 Firefox, when starting and installing addons. Most perpetual problems are related to hanging up of the GUI when Firefox starts and those missing their old a... [阅读全文]
jQuery.UI ProgressBar Widget
2008-07-17 12:31I don’t know squat about building widgets with jQuery, so I thought I would fix this by rearranging my trusty progress bar code once more and see how it would look as a jQuery.ui widget. The jQuery.ui documentation is still a work in progress so it was a bit of an adventure, but once again t... [阅读全文]
SvnTask - A New Ant Task for Subversion
2008-07-17 12:15I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple solution for using svn from ant. I just want a 100% Java solution that uses the nice svnkit library. Include two simple jar files and go….. ... [阅读全文]
New Logo for BSD?
2008-07-17 11:50Inspired by Linus. ... [阅读全文]
Learning Erlang - Erlang Gaining Momentum
2008-07-17 10:21You may have noticed that I’ve been talking a bit about concurrency and Erlang recently. I’ve started to notice that others are taking notice and giving Erlang another look. I’ve been a fan of the language for a while, although it is a functional language ala a Haskell, OCaml, F... [阅读全文]
MOAR Rabbits! Dwemthy’s Array in Java Refactored
2008-07-17 10:15Dwemthy’s Array is an uber-geeky text based adventure game with a specific coding challenge built in, and is particularly suited to implementation with a dynamic language such as Ruby. What caught my attention recently, was Adrian Kuhn’s implementation in Java. Despite my love-hate (or ... [阅读全文]
Improve system performance by moving your log files to RAM
2008-07-17 09:40The Ramlog project lets you keep your system logs in RAM while your machine is running and copies them to disk when you shut down. If you are running a laptop or mobile device with syslog enabled, Ramlog might help you increase your battery life or the life of the flash drive on your mobile device. ... [阅读全文]
Fast Flex Compilation With Maven: Israfil or Flex-mojos
2008-07-17 09:36In this post, I compare performance, measured in time taken to compile flex modules with maven, from two different maven flex plugins, israfil and flex-mojos. ... [阅读全文]
The New Apple Walled Garden
2008-07-17 08:21Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked thei... [阅读全文]
Notes for NetBeans Platform 6.5
2008-07-17 08:06Following on from Notes for NetBeans Platform 6.5 Milestone 1, let’s look at some more and some slightly subtle changes in the upcoming 6.5 release, when creating new modules (i.e., plugins). I’m using a build from earlier today, you won’t find much of what I describe here in earl... [阅读全文]
Good Erlang Tutorials: Erlang By Example
2008-07-17 07:36I have been following the Erlang By Example screencasts with Kevin Smith published by Pragmatic Programmers. Through the entire series to date (Episodes 1 through 5) I found myself engaged, interested and informed. ... [阅读全文]
A look at Java’s new Visualvm
2008-07-17 07:03THE MOST RECENT of the Java Developer Kit (JDK), version 6 update 7, incorporates a new utility dubbed Visualvm. There have been many integral monitoring and diagnostic features built into JDK 6, but Visualvm is the first comprehensive GUI-based tool to come packaged with the JDK and utilise the ne... [阅读全文]
Database Scalability
2008-07-17 06:41Database is typically the last piece of the puzzle of the scalability problem. There are some common techniques to scale the DB tier. ... [阅读全文]
Emastic - CSS Framework (beta1)
2008-07-17 06:22Emastic is a CSS Framework, it’s continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before. ... [阅读全文]
Why Should I Care What Server My Application is Running On?
2008-07-17 05:51Imagine this – you develop an application on your machine and then, when you come to deploy it to the production server, all of a sudden, you encounter various errors and failures. Or maybe, when you decide to switch your hosting provider, your application stops behaving the way it should. How abou... [阅读全文]
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