10 great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin
Most people in the web development world are under the impression that phpMyAdmin is the only MySQL client out there for websites. Going a step... more »
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Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques
Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list.... more »
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Guice it up (or AOP can be made simple sometimes)
Guice is a really pleasant DI framework that does its job with brilliant simplicity from a developer point of view. Guice has more than DI... more »
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4 Great Ways For Turning the Tables on a Bad Interviewer ?
You're wearing your best suit. Shoes shined. Resume in hand.
Linux: still better for coding
Something like one year ago I switched from Linux to Mac OS X. It was not an easy switch if you think that my desktop on Linux used to be this one,... more »
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The Framework is the Language
As I’ve mentioned I’m trying to move all my programming to a web framework. It was tough going though because of the sheer complexity and my naivete... more »
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What not to do as a Boss!!!
Some of my random observations and rants about BAD managers and bosses…
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50 Beautiful Black and White Websites
Black and white is often considered a boring, unadventurous palette, but as these examples show, that couldn't be further from the truth. Many... more »
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Mandriva Linux 2010 Officially Released
After Canonical showed off their latest operating system, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), it is now time for another Linux mammoth to take the spotlight.... more »
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Top 9 Companies With the Best Job Security ?
With unemployment reaching and expected to surpass 10%, job security is one of the top desires of employees today.
Java + Cron Job = Quartz
One of my favorite open source tools for Java/J2EE applications is the Cron Job scheduling tool Quartz. Anyone whose ever administered Linux or a web... more »
10 things Android phones do better than the iPhone
Jack Wallen has jumped on the Android bandwagon in a big way. Find out which features won him over.
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Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
Learn these 10 tricks and you'll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe...well, maybe not the universe, but you will need... more »
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Google Releases Chrome 4 Beta
It's amazing to see version four of a browser which has only been available for a little over a year. Compare that to Firefox, which took over six... more »
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7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done
I wrote this article as a “master guide” to productivity. Well OK, I don't know about a "master guide" but one thing is for sure: implementing these... more »
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A Better Developer
We developers are constantly barraged with an overflow of activities and information we don't possibly have enough time for, and we're given very... more »
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What every developer should know about time
With daylight savings time ending today, I thought this was a good time for a post. How to handle time is one of those tricky issues where it is all... more »
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Why you should contribute to Open Source
Note: The following material and presentation was prepared for students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad. The aim... more »
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Liferay: Good, Bad or Ugly?
A compilation of personal experiences of a developer with the Liferay portal.
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A First Date with TypeKit
Several weeks ago, I found myself in a friendly debate with a co-worker over the handling and future of fonts through the web browser. Hours later, a... more »
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The Bad Practices of Exception Handling
Exception handling has truly been a blessing to us software developers. Without it, dealing with special conditions and writing robust programs was a... more »
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Undo/Redo Framework
When I was looking for a generic implementation of undo/redo functionality, I found all kinds of articles and examples, but not what I wanted. What I... more »
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Most Essential Free Softwares After Windows Installation
As a Windows lover, I have always tried to make it more secure, convenient and easy to use. This is my must-have list of 25 Free Softwares and... more »
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10 Boilerplate Phrases That Kill Resumes
The 2009 job market is very different from job markets of the past. If you haven't job-hunted in a while, the changes in the landscape can throw you... more »
Essential skills for good graphics designer
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