Using email for almost everything from FTP downloads/uploads or Free WEB site hosting to using it for gatter FINGER or WHOIS information (telnet is still not available :)
by Fred Wilson - Most web apps will be monetized with some kind of media model. Don't think banner ads when I say that. Think of all the various ways that an audience that is paying attention to your service can be paid for by companies and people who wan
The New to Java Center provides customized learning paths to its collection of links to tutorials, articles, online books, and software downloads. (from SUN)
designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. Intended to be a reference, not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
This site contains Darwin's complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts. There are over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. There is also the largest Darwin bibliography and the largest manuscript catalogue ever published
"Probably, 40 or possibly even 50 percent of marriages will end in divorce if current trends continue. However, that is only a projection and a prediction."
These examples are taken from "A Plagiarism Pentimento" (Rebecca Moore Howard, Journal of Teaching Writing, Summer 1993), but the discussion of the examples was written--and revised--by the faculty of Drew University in 1998-99
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design.
The obvious question is: should you be considering a move to 64-bit Windows? In this article, we will explore the answer to this question. We will discuss the advantages of 64-bit Windows over 32-bit, talk about a few concepts, and get some tips...
This Subversion cheat sheet was created during the initial setup of Subversion on Apache 2.0 on Windows and Mac OS X. A detailed tutorial covering most of the features of Subversion can be found in the online Subversion book.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science is written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education. Although it is often difficult to find explanations for technical subjects that are both clear and accessible, this web s
The men and women running SAC in 1960 essentially put the entire planet’s population at risk by deliberately disabling the PAL safety mechanisms. Perhaps we should keep that in mind before we put too much trust in the people charged with our nation’s
explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.
these are samples, not complete applications. The code (and coding style) is not meant to be industrial strength; it's not even well-designed. The sole purpose of the samples is illustrating a point, not teaching proper coding style.
From past to present, about 650 missile systems have been developed and deployed in the world. And it is believed that 200 to 300 of them are still deployed now.
in Uninformed Vol1 2005.May by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. + Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
by Bill Venners May 23, 2005. <<"patterns" is still a buzzword. ... Patterns help sell seminars. There's a lot of marketing hype around design patterns. ... can help people learn object-oriented thinking>>
As CD's are not 100% indestructible many people want to make a backup of their games. Using the backup to play the game thus saving the original. (Fight the DRM)
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
From Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. The user's experience should be similar to all other similar applications to minimize learning curve and maximize usability.
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
a portfolio of products that are based on the power of networks and the idea that the same software should run on many different kinds of systems and devices.
The Microsoft® Windows® Driver Development Kit (DDK) is a consolidated driver development kit that provides a build environment, tools, driver samples, and documentation to support driver development for the Windows family of operating systems.
Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects + Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (Multidimensional) (ADO MD) + Remote Data Service (RDS) + Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Extensions for Data Definition Language and Security (ADOX)
contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we hope you disagree with.
Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, Joey deVilla decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table.
Attributed to Bruce Beiser, the law states that every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffectual.
Steve Ballmer became Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer on January 14, 2000. Shortly after, the company's stock nose dived as investors spanked all tech stocks
refers to a person's predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though there are "better" or more appropriate methods of solving the problem.
by Dan Shapiro - "It can take hours or days to fully evaluate a patent. When time’s short, here’s the quick and dirty way to figure out what the patent covers, usually in under a minute."
previously at http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ , ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 is the international standardization working group for the programming language C++.
C and C++ compilers automatically define certain macros that can be used to check for compiler or operating system features. This is important when writing portable software.