I’m sure we all know what CSS is: the primary style-controller of any web page, hence the name. Of course, after you are able to integrate it into your HTML, what the hell do you do next?
Lots of people are addicted to microblogging service Twitter - including substantial chunks of some open source communities. There are a fair number of Ruby on Rails developers twittering these days, for example. But Twitter's scaling and reliability issues lately have many people wondering whether it's time to look for an alternative.
When I first started working on VirtueDesktops (all those years ago), I was still new to Objective-C and very new to the concept of (mostly) manual memory management. Thankfully Thomas had the foresight to do what all good, lazy programmers should do and write himself a few small convenience methods into his codebase.
I just finished reading Tony Morris’s blog post on Scala implicits and saw the following comment:
To me, implicits look a lot like global variables, which is why I don’t like them.
Or maybe I missed something?
Uh, yep — you missed something :) I was going to reply in the comments to Tony’s post but as per usual it became far too long, so I’m posting it here instead.
We're happy to announce that we've just open-sourced ratproxy, a passive web application security assessment tool that we've been using internally at Google. This utility, developed by our information security engineering team, is designed to transparently analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with a tested web property and automatically pinpoint, annotate, and prioritize potential flaws or areas of concern.
In A Developer's Second Most Important Asset, I described how buying a quality chair may be one of the smartest investments you can make as a software developer.
When a web developer or designer uploads web site files to a web server, there’s a strong likelihood it’s running on an UNIX-style operating system. There’s an equally strong likelihood that, although developers and designers know all about how to upload their files through their favorite file transfer clients, the details of how it actually works are hidden from them.
Can you write a test that does more harm than good? In the intro to his upcoming book The Art of Unit Testing, Roy Osherove describes a case where poorly-designed tests actually hurt his team's progress:
A recent set of HTML5 discussions are changing the course of Comet. First, a recap of the last two years of Comet: With long-polling we set the bar to cross-browser push. With XHR streaming and ActiveXObject(’htmlfile’) we raised it to cross-browser streaming. With SSE we’ve been trying to raise the bar to native, cross-browser streaming. And there we’ve sat, hoping that browser vendors actually implement the latest SSE spec.
This is just a rant (hopefully it will be regarded as pertinent and non-'laming') on why Windows users try Linux and return frustrated to Windows after several hours or days. I won't praise Linux and the way it works, I won't even compare and say 'here Linux is easier because ...', instead I have a few questions for all of you who blame Linux for not being and behaving like Windows.
Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability will help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of "write once, run anywhere", freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers. This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.
The PostgreSQL community is getting really serious about replication. On Thursday May 29th, Tom Lane issued a manifesto concerning databas replication on behalf of the PostgreSQL core team to the pgsql-hackers mailing list. Tom's post basically said that lack of easy-to-use, built-in replication is a significant obstacle to wider adoption of PostgreSQL and proposed a technical solution based on log shipping, which is already a well-developed and useful feature.
I made multiple attempts at learning R but without having a real need for the tool I never really got used to it. Recently I choose R instead of Excel to complete a free online course on statistics and it helped me get a good understanding of the tool.
I thought I’d list these rules because I suspect others are like me: we’re extremely busy, we work too many hours, and are involved with too many projects to spend hours trying to figure out what some piece of code someone mentioned once in IRC actually does.
You need to upload multiple files at once? Are you searching for java applet script for multiple file uploading? Why not going with flash? Here, I have a solution with flash ….
Mimbo is one of the most used magazine theme for wordpress, it’s a great theme ! The only weakness is the way you change its options … Manually in the code …
It’s why i decided to create my own custom mimbo theme which includes a control panel. In this post I’m going to show you how you can create a control panel for your theme (in this example I will use mimbo).
Some programmers are married to the imperative, side-effecting mindset. This makes them fearful of Scala’s implicit keyword (among many other high-level programming constructs and abstractions). You can read all sorts of amateurish criticism of this language construct on various websites, but I plan to show why they are a necessity to the language being useful (in the intellectually true and meaningful sense — not in a “Java” “pragmatist” sense (I know I’m treading on thin ice here, but the point is worthwhile)).
One of the more anticipated talks at the 2008 JavaOne conference took place on Tuesday evening: author Brian Goetz's "Let's Resync: What's New for Concurrency on the Java Platform, Standard." This session ...
The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2008-5676 . phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.
"A decade ago, Microsoft competed in a world in which promises of interoperability were tightly associated with Java and J2EE middleware products such as IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic.
Pete Brown called me out to answer the next round of "what about you" questionnaires floating around the blog-o-sphere. So here's my take: How old were you when you first started programming? I got a Vic-20 ...
At the JavaOne conference Wednesday morning, Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee led a technical session on how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application ...
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has nearly 40 years in the hardware industry and is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture.
This article is about installing PHP environment - PHP, Apache, MySQL and xDebug in Ubuntu 8.04. Everything is available through the default Ubuntu repositories, so it should not be hard.
Journal written by ambs and posted by grinder on 2008.07.02 8:35 The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.
The first release candidate of Red Hat 's long-brewing JBoss Application Server 5.0 will be available imminently, according to a blog post by Sacha Labourey , chief technology officer of Red Hat's JBoss ...
Java SE for Business 5u15 Rev b13 and 1.4.2_17 Rev b13 Each Java SE for Business Java Runtime Environment or Java Developer Kit version that you select for download is available in binary format and includes ...
If yolu are interested in PHP development, fell free to join meA today June 26,A for our PHP webinar "Delphi for PHP for PHP developers". I wll demonstrate how Delphi for PHP brings visual development to the ...
I am running a hybrid environment. Box A: PHP 4.3.9 Box B: PHP 5.1.6 Box C: Memcached 1.2.2 When I set a key in memcache from Box A, I am unable to read it from Box B and vice versa.
