Drop IE6 Support — Give People a Reason to Upgrade
If you spend hours hacking your site to work perfectly in IE6, you're taking away any incentive from slow adopters to drop their old browser. Drop IE6... more »
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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 now available for download
The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on... more »
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VS2005 & VS2008 compatible project files
Getting a project file to work in both VS2005 & VS2008 can be a challenge. All you need to do is add IDE version specific lines and there you go!
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PHP DataServices 2 Minutes Introduction
A quick introduction to the Dataservices and PHP DataServices API.
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Erlang: Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform
A very brief introduction to Erlang/OTP which is used to write high-availability, fault tolerant systems. This article is a precursor to a many-part... more »
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Using the Flex Builder 3.x Profiler
I've been getting lots of questions about memory leaks lately. I finally found some time to put my techniques for analyzing memory leaks into... more »
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10 Things I do to code better
After being into the software development career for more than a year now, I feel I understand what is expected from a "Software Developer". There are... more »
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Possibly The Best Way To Be A Great Programmer: Be Brain-Healthy!!
I am a programmer, therefore my brain is my most important tool to invest in.
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The Google Full Monty: Chrome + Canvas + Gears + GWT + App Engine
Me thinks Google Chrome is the most significant and worthy app that Google has produced since Gmail. It's remarkable on its own merits. What do you... more »
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Bridging the Gap between Relational Databases and MapReduce: Three New Approaches
Popularized by Google, the MapReduce paradigm has proven to be a powerful way to analyze large datasets by harnessing the power of commodity clusters.... more »
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The New Classics of Computer Science
A look at some of the under-rated texts of Computer Science. We all know about TAOCP and SICP, but sometimes we forget about some of the lesser... more »
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Erlang: An Introduction to gen_server by creating a bank system step-by-step
I give a step-by-step introduction to gen_server in Erlang by creating a fake bank system. This is part one in a series of posts introducing... more »
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forkjoin updates
An updated jsr166y package is available. The changes are mainly focused on internal reducing overhead and improving scalability.
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Shinmun, a small and beautiful blog engine
Shinmun is a tiny blog engine in Ruby in about 250 lines of code. It supports RSS feeds, category listing and listing by date.
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Why Scala?
Slides from al3x at Twitter on why they're using Scala
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Using Visual Studio to Debug Mono
The following screenshots shows Visual Studio debugging a remote Mono process running on a Linux box.
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How to throw checked exception? or how Generics broke java?
java Generics was born in sin, but it also breaks java exception model.
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JavaScript to Detect Google Chrome
The negative side of having a new (and promisingly become popular) browser, no matter how good it can be, is you’ll have to test your web apps with it... more »
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Better window management with ElScreen
GNU Emacs - multiple window setups in one frame
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More Erlang with Disco
Over the weekend I was having a look at Disco, an open source map-reduce framework, built atop Erlang/OTP that allows users to write mapper/reducer... more »
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Grizzly 2.0 jars' snapshot now available!
Starting today, we are shipping the new Grizzly 2.0 artifacts/jars as Alexey described (and lead!).
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Project Rosetta is alive!
Adam Kinney just announced to a small group today that Project Rosetta went live with a new initiative towards bringing articles, discussions, and... more »
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Firebird is faster than the filesystem for blog storage
While testing some performance tuning against a well-known version control system, Firebird turned out to be faster for blob storage (files) than the... more »
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JBullet - Java port of Bullet Physics Library
JBullet is Java port of Bullet Physics Library (under ZLIB license). Currently it features most of Bullet 2.70-beta1 base features. Some features are... more »
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