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Learn Flex!!! April 5th, 2010
Adobe Flex, software for the web developer with Adobe flash’s feature…
Flex is the way to make rich Internet applications (RIAs) quickly and easily… Flex is a framework for creating RIAs based on Flash Player… Along with being a framework, Flex is also a new language… It uses a MXML, a markup language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), to build Graphic User Interface (GUI)… It use an ActionScript to process a function of web… Flex has an easy to learn programming architecture and Flex Builder is a development tool that can help developers becoming productive quickly…
The reason why as a developer you should learn Flex are many.. I’ll highlight a few here… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Adobe, Flex
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PHP vs. ASP!!! March 30th, 2010
In the world of web development, the option of which development language to use usually comes down to two well-liked choices… Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are naturally being created by either Microsoft’s ASP.Net language, or the Open Source substitute language of PHP…
ASP stands for Active Server Pages and PHP formerly stood for Personal Home Pages and is now known as PHP Hypertext Preprocessor…
ASP is basically a toy from the Microsoft development toy chest and is used with Internet Information Server (IIS) which is a program that runs on Microsoft servers… However, there are 3rd party applications that can make it compatible with a few other servers. ASP is widely used for large companies Web needs…
Rasmus Lerdorf originally designed the PHP parsing language during 1994/1995… Some other major contributors were Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans who rewrote the parsing engine to create PHP version 3… The major NT and UNIX Web servers support it and it is widely used with the mySQL database. Small and medium Web developers use it religiously… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ASP.Net, FOSS, Microsoft, PHP
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How Does VOIP Work??? March 29th, 2010
VOIP basically stands for voice over internet protocol…
How does VOIP work???
It seems to be a mind-boggling term fitted only for Geeks… But the fact is that its basic principle is the same as how many people use computers to record their voices with the use of a microphone… It starts with the computer sampling the sound that it hears from the microphone at the rate of a thousand times per second… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: VOIP
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Why use Firewalls??? March 26th, 2010
Firewalls are usually seen as a requirement if you are going to attach your network to other networks, especially the Internet… Unfortunately, some network administrators and managers do not understand the strengths a firewall can offer, resulting in poor product choice, deployment, configuration and management… Like any security technology, firewalls are only effective if the implementation is done properly and there is proper maintenance and response to security events… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Firewall, Operating system, Security
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Epic Speeches by Linus Torvalds!!! March 24th, 2010
I have been mesmerised by Linus Torvalds speeches… here are a few of them…
Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created…
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s..
Tags: FOSS, Linux
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Coming Soon: Adobe Flash and AIR on Android!!! February 15th, 2010
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe has unveiled AIR and Flash 10.1 for Android, both of which should arrive in the first half of 2010…
Have a look at its press release and blog article….
Looks like its Adobe’s reply to Steve Job’s comment that “They are lazy”… This move is like a knockout punch for Apple as there tablet(iPad) has no support for flash…
Tags: Adobe, AIR, Android, Apple, Flash, iPad
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Google Takes on Social Networking with Buzz!!!
February 10th, 2010
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on hand for the launch of Google Buzz Photo: REUTERS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on hand for the launch of Google Buzz Photo: REUTERS
Google has announced a new social networking service called “Buzz” that looks like Facebook but feels like Twitter… Buzz basically integrates your Gmail account and based on your location lets you share links, photos and videos, status updates with your contacts from your mobile device (supports iPhone, Android and Google has released a new version of Google Maps for Mobile for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices)… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Buzz, Facebook, Gmail, Google, twitter
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Generate Hardware Information on Linux!!! February 8th, 2010
You can generate a nice report (HTML or XML format) of your laptop/desktop hardware information by executing this command:
lshw -html > sysinfo.html
You may need to install it first… For Debian and Ubuntu users installation is simple..
sudo aptitude install lshw
You can find the detailed information about lshw from the following page: http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter
Tags: Fedora, Linux, Softwares, Ubuntu
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The Zen of Using a debugger!!! February 4th, 2010
I never used a debugger when I was doing my bachelors in computer science I always thought this, maybe because I didn’t really know how to use a debugger… Of course the theory behind debugging was taught to me, and we had some practical tests too, but I never really needed it during my graduation, so it became a neglected skill… And now when i have started I realized that I was the exception to the rule, as everyone around me relied heavily on their debuggers…. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: debugger
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So iPad it is!!! January 28th, 2010
So Apple have made their announcement and they’ve gone with the name iPad… Quite a surprise considering my understanding was that the trademark of iPad belonged to another company in the US…
Tags: Apple, appletablet, iPad, Microsoft
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