MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
This is the fourth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture six, which is... more »
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Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2
I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known... more »
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White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...
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Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not... more »
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Virtual SCRUM Board
Virtual SCRUM Board (VSB) is a software tool that helps Scrum teams manage the uncommitted backlog, sprints, stories and tasks. VSB empowers Scrum... more »
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Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce
David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails software framework. He’s also a partner in 37signals, producers of the popular Basecamp suite of... more »
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Why we bill by the Hour
Hourly vs. Fixed Bid, why we bid hourly and always will.
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QuickSort for Fun!
This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items.
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Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
There still seems to be confusion about the relative simplicity or difficulty of deploying a Rails app using JRuby. Many folks still look around for... more »
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Mootools basics + 5 useful tips
In this post, you will find a little reminder of Mootools base functions (Basic Learning) + 5 very cool tips and examples to do more things with less... more »
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Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-up
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics... more »
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300+ PHP Presentations Online
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The PHP Presentation System hosts over three hundred presentations, covering a slew of different topics including performance, testing, debugging,... more »
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5 Software Build Patterns
Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it?
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Distributing Air Applications in a clean, easy way
Tutorial on how to distribute AIR Applications to people that never heard of it. How to avoid to force user to install two things (AIR Runtime and the... more »
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Root Cause of Singletons
Since I have gotten lots of love/hate mail on the Singletons are Pathological Liars and Where Have All the Singletons Gone I feel obliged to to do... more »
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Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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A critical review of the upcomming JSF 2.0 spec
JSF, especially 1.1, got criticized by some Java developers. For JSF 2.0 this critique was taken seriously and a much improved spec is currently being... more »
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You've caught an exception. Now what?
An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception,... more »
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Chain.js - Great JavaScript Template Engine
Find out how to use Chain.js (a JQuery plugin) as client-side Javascript template engine -- the best one I've ever seen.
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Java.next #3: Dispatch
This is Part Three of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Three, I will explore how the Java.next languages (JRuby, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala)... more »
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Divx releases H.264 encoder alpha
DivX is joining the high-definition era: Following its first H.264 decoder, the company today announced the alpha version of its first H.264 encoder.... more »
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Swing Explorer 1.3: NetBeans Plugin & "Addition Trace" Feature
After quite a long summer delay I'm proud to announce a new version of Swing Explorer. Swing Explorer is a tool for debugging of Swing applications,... more »
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Redhat perl. What a tragedy.
According to this google trends analysis Redhat, Centos and Fedora make up the majority of linux distributions used in production. All these have a... more »
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30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes
In this article we present over 30 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal... more »
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User Stories: Three Steps to Better Presentations
As a Scrum Coach, I often take on the role of Evangelist. Monday afternoon, I explained Scrum to the Swiss Java User Group[1]. Although not my first... more »
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