Over the last couple of weeks Google have caused a bit of a stir in the world of web browsers. First they announced that they’d be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 and that was shortly followed by news that Chrome 4.0 had been released.
I keep asking myself over and over again whether Flash has a reason to live, aside from sheer legacy momentum (which is analogous to the "muscle memory" that keeps a dinosaur's tail wagging for a week after it is officially dead). The longer we go in the
Douglas Purdy calls on the financial industry to expose data using OData. Maybe Lightstreamer, my-Channels, Kaazing etc should consider supporting OData as well since some of us live in more of a Push world than a HTTP request/response world
I've been writing about a performance comparison between Java, Scala and Groovy in this and this post, where I compared the runtimes of these languages for a straight-forward (and far from idiomatic) implementation of the quicksort algorithm. As you
Expandable Drop Down Ticker is a jQuery plugin you can use to create a ticker that can be viewed both sequentially and simultaneously. A drop down menu is automatically generated out of snippets of the ticker contents to let the user navigate the ticker
This post starts the behavioral patterns part of the Practical Php Pattern series. The first behavioral pattern of this part of the series is named Chain of Responsibility. Its intent is organizing a chain of objects to handle a request such as a method
This post looks at how to extract the first paragraph from an HTML page using PHP's strpos and substr functions to find the location of the first <p> and </p> tags and get the content between them.
Yet another NetBeans Platform application comes from South Africa... the Maltego client, a "frontend used to graphically allow you to look at various inter-relationships between data". Maltego itself is an open source intelligence and forensics
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Release Candidate (RC) builds are available for MSDN subscribers. If you are not a MSDN subscriber, No need to worry. The public release of the same would happen on February 10th. So you can download it on
As you may already know SilverlightShow is running an Eco Contest and there are just a few days left to enter it. Use your Silverlight skills and imagination, and create a Silverlight application that helps support any kind of environment-friendly
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to MSDN subscribers from Monday, February 8th. The release will be made available to everyone else on February 10th. You can access the download files over hereYou can
Functional C# : Extracting higher order functions with generics.
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Marking the .net 4 RC1 release on SmallestDotNet.
PoSH 2.0 -- the localized help files.
JQuery 1.4.x highlights
IronJS -- Ecmascript on the DLR
I spent some time tonight working on the compiler I am writing for my own education. I started this project while only understanding bits and pieces of what it takes to write a compiler, but I am quickly learning more. Various texts on compilers start
This post is all about CSS3 and Javascript. With all the new features that come with CSS3, there are whole lot of animation possibilities that can't be achieve before. So, Check this out and get inspired.
I run into this post from Jeff Atwood, talking about the performance difference between managed and unmanaged code: There were a lot of optimizations for this along the way, but the C++ version has soundly beaten the C# version. As expected, right? Well,
TidBITS unwittingly hits the nail on the head while talking about iPad OS multitasking (emphasis added):It's easy to imagine wanting to use an iPad to read text in Mobile Safari, copy some text to a Pages document, and send that document to a colleague
When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing
ILMerge is a utility from Microsoft Research that combines multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. This is convenient when you want to combine your application and its dependencies into a single DLL file, for example, to make deployment and
Tomorrow night there'll be the another event of the Java User Group Karlsruhe. It'll feature a talk on the Google Web Toolkit by Papick Taboada, who is quite an expert on the topic. The second part of the event will be a get-together after the talk,
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