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hen attempting to learn a new computer language, it’s difficult to find a problem that’s both interesting enough to bother working with and also simple enough to let you concentrate
indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has been around for a couple of years now but there are still plenty of developers who don’t really know what it’s all about. Some think
I’ve read a lot recently about the economy, including a number of prognostications about how the downturn will affect IT. But most predictions ignore some basic IT facts. A downturn
If you’ve tried to back up a database in SQL Server 2008 and then restore it into SQL Server 2005, you know that the database backups are not backward compatible.
Contrary to popular opinion, the compiler cannot safely inline methods that have been declared as final. This is because these methods may have non-final declarations at runtime. For example, suppose
When you use a For Each loop to iterate through a String Array and perform some action with each item, the change doesn’t affect the String Array itself. Consider the
Here are some shortcuts that work in the Google Chrome browser: Control + O: Opens a new file dialog Control + A: Selects all Control + D: Bookmarks the current
he Getting Started with the Twitter API article described how Twitter’s founders see it as more than simply a web site where people can send short messages to those who
hile flying back home over the Atlantic, I thought about how much better developing for SharePoint has become after the introduction of .NET 3.5. I have repeatedly insisted that one
ebian GNU/Linux and Mono are two leaders of open source software. Debian is a Linux distribution with a social contract that places it among the best examples of free and
f you develop UI applications in F#, you probably miss the familiar Visual Studio form editor that comes with C# or VB. This is due to a simple reason: there
ne of Yahoo!’s key goals is to become more open through the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS). At the heart of Y!OS is an open and extensible platform that allows developers
love to say that I hate to whine, when referring to things about Windows Vista that drive me nuts, but clearly, I don’t hate to whine. I apparently love to
f you’re just setting out to develop your first mobile application, you may still be grappling with the fundamentals of installing SDKs, obtaining hardware, and scaling your application to the
When I first heard about twitter.com, a service that lets people publish messages of up to 140 characters at a time and subscribe to other twitterers’ message feeds, I wasn’t
equential values can represent a lot in a database. Sometimes they uniquely identify records (as primary key values). Often they’re part of the natural data, such as a purchase order
hile many technologies promise to put features of desktop applications on the web, Adobe AIR brings web development to the desktop. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment that allows
JavaScript’s String object provides functions that display style of the text: big() blink() bold() fixed() fontsize(<size>): This function takes a parameter to specify the font-size in pixels. fontcolor(““): This function
This tip shows you how to encode and decode your URLs using the UTF-8 character encoding: import java.net.*;public class URL_Encoder_Decoder{ public static void main(String[] args){ String url = “@sir de
hough ata binding is pervasive in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it’s also different enough that you’ll need to rethink the way you use it in your applications. .NET 3.5 SP1,
The article Why Migrate to the Semantic Webdescribed the benefits of the semantic web for applications that deal with real world objects. It outlined how an existing web application (CDMS)
Modern software development is, famously, a collaborative process. Unfortunately the tools we use to develop software don’t always reflect that home truth. Consider an application written in Java that uses
ntil not long ago, a standardized multithreading API for C++ was a pipe dream. Almost every operating system, compiler, and framework rolled their own threading libraries. These proprietary libraries were
atrices are very useful mathematical objects that science and technology professionals use to describe real-life scenarios and build abstract models for those scenarios. You will find matrices used in economics
Game developers take note: the future of video games is all about casual, social games that women and grandparents like to play; think Facebook and the Wii. Hardcore games like
hen you build complex UI applications, it is all too easy to end up with a messy, tightly coupled, interwoven mess that is difficult to develop and maintain; and impossible
he OpenBSD operating system claims to ship “secure by default” and aims to be “the world’s most secured operating system.” OpenBSD also boasts the capability to run on many hardware
hile many technologies promise to put features of desktop applications on the web, Adobe AIR brings web development to the desktop. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment that allows
