Broaden Your Horizons: Web Projects
Why should you just stick to freelancing? When work is rare, it's good to have some kind of side project to keep yourself busy, and help you progress... more »
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Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques
"In this article, we’ll show you a different approach to image optimization, based on how image data is stored in different formats. Let’s start with... more »
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Maximized form layout
After my article on minimal form layout I thought it would be fair to explain a little about my preferred way to layout a form. Or at least, the form... more »
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How to: Capture browser close button event or exiting the page in javascript.
How to: Capture browser close button event or exiting the page in javascript.
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Internet Explorer 6 finally falls
This week, Internet Explorer 6 has finally been surpassed by Internet Explorer 8. This is a huge event for the Web. IE 6 is now the least popular IE... more »
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StackExchange - The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform
Designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow has rapidly become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions. Now... more »
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Linux kernel design patterns - part 3
In this final article we will be looking at just one design pattern. We started with the fine details of reference counting, zoomed out to look at... more »
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Rubinius By The Book
Rubinius, which you've no doubt heard lots about over the last few years, is an implementation of the Ruby language written from scratch using cutting... more »
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Microsoft: Bad User Experience Is Cultural
What idiot at Microsoft thought this would be a good idea? What group of idiots let it continue for years?
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Ajax Script – Dragable content
This script enable elements draggable by assigning them to the class “dragableElement”.
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Is HTML the new PL/SQL?
In the future, hopefully every programmer will be relieved from the horrible pain of dealing with HTML, browser compatibility issues, CSS quirks and... more »
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We got elephant out, now what to expect in JavaFX 1.3/1.5(post-marina)
A discription of what was in marina and what can be included in next iteration.
E4 – A New Area For RCP/RIA Applications
I’m on the road to prepare my example for the E4 talk I’m delivering on the Eclipse-Developers-Day in Karlsruhe and I have to say that in my eyes E4... more »
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Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET
As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing... more »
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Keyboard Enabling Web Applications
It’s time to bring the keyboard back! When we first started doing things on the web, there wasn’t much to do. There were documents with hyperlinks... more »
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Caught Between Two IDEs
I seem to be caught between two IDEs: Eclipse and IntelliJ. I abandoned Eclipse a couple of years back, partly based on wide spread recommendations... more »
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Data Paging with Flex and PHP in Flash Builder
Flash Builder 4 can really speed up the development of data-driven applications. There are new wizards that can help you create the data service and... more »
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Your Resume Won't Get You Hired - What Makes a Good Cover Letter?
There are a lot of resources out there, but for me it comes down to two simple things: tell me why you want to work at my company and tell me why you... more »
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Why Ubuntu has become the flag bearer for Linux
It's easy to argue that Ubuntu's success is because there's an unlimited supply of investment from its super-rich parent company, Canonical. But Linux... more »
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Generics in Java 5 Explained
Short and Good explanation of Generics in Java 5
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Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OS
On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an... more »
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Google Weather API and Flash – Part 2
Lets move ahead and try to call google weather API. for this lets first make result component(Text Area) to read-only, because we just wanted to... more »
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Euler was groovy, too
I recently stumbled across Project Euler, which is a hip website containing quite a few different math challenges. The idea being that people can... more »
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MySQL 5.4.1 released
An update has been released for initial preview release of MySQL 5.4. The release contains scalability improvements and additional DTrace probes for... more »
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10 Signs of Crappy PHP Software
Like it or not, as a professional developer, sooner or later you are going to do some customising (if you are lucky, "extending") of existing... more »
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