Some friends of mine have this nasty issue with their Macbook; it’s shutting down spontanously. Apple’s support forum is full of postings from users seeking solutions, and a web site is just dedicated to this problem. Now, a German news site has poste
What would an Atari-MIDI site be without a page on the "famous" Notator? While I have the full program myself, I felt I could not comment enough on this deep and wonderful program to create a good page for it. David Etheridge comes to the rescue with an e
The first time you try to fill an open position, if you’re like most people, you place some ads, maybe browse around the large online boards, and get a ton of resumes.
An inexpensive MIDI controller with useful scratch and mixer controls, for DJing, live laptop performance, and VJing? We’ve all been anxious to know whether the BCD2000 delivers. Our resident live visualist gives it a spin (so to speak).
Introdução Se você tem dois ou três computadores em casa ou em seu escritório, certamente tem interesse em conectá-los em rede para compartilhar impressoras, arquivos e a conexão à internet. Para isso, a ação mais comum é a criação de um cabo
MonoRail From Castle Getting Started A MonoRail introductory tutorial MonoRail (former Castle on Rails) is a MVC web framework inspired on Action Pack. The Action Pack way of development is extremely productive, very intuitive and easily testable.
It was just last December that Tim O’Reilly said that Ruby book sales had surpassed Python book sales. Now Ruby book sales have also surpassed Perl book sales.
What I am trying to introduce here is a full fledged Java Instant messenger, which has all the features supplied by commercial messengers like Yahoo or MSN. Although it cannot compared to be in par with those messengers, it is an attempt by me to learn Ad
The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions.
In this presentation, given at TheServerSide Java Symposium Barcelona in June, Bruce Tate looks at how Java developers, framework designers, and language designers can learn from the capabilities of Ruby to improve Java. He specifically addresses language
Depois de vários anos trabalhando com desenvolvimento de sofware e conhecendo vários programadores diferentes, posso afirmar que existem algumas características “não-técnicas” que só os melhores possuem, dentre elas:
If you studied math, science, or engineering at a four-year college in the US, much of what you learned is useless, forgotten, or obsolete. All that money, all that time, all that wasted talent. If all we lost were a few years, no big deal. But the really
AI Related Ruby Extensions This page will maintain list of AI related extensions/modules/gems for the Ruby programming language. Please contact me if you know something I missed.
You are in a dimly lit room. You are alone on a stage before an audience of 1,000. 10 minutes into your presentation, your hands no longer shake or sweat. This is going well, you think. But just then you notice a vaguely familiar sound--tap, tap, clickety
Computadores velhos recuperados para doação Computadores 286, 386 e 486, todos obsoletos ou sem condições de uso, foram recuperados para doação a instituições assistenciais e escolas no Brasil e no Paraguai.
Need to keep track of what to do and when to do it? Track time spent on a project for a client? Try Clocking IT for a while, and always know who did what when.
I've spoken with several people about the recent prediction, from Burton's Richard Monson-Haefel, that "JEE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century" in five years, meaning, it will be an annoying, obsolete platform. The original report is only available to
Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increa
Dilbert is a cubicle dwelling employee for a large soulless corporation. Along with his cynical and under-motivated co-workers, he labors fruitlessly under the bone-headed leadership of the Pointy-Haired Boss. Occasionally Dogbert, Dilbert's super-intelli
What is mig33? mig33 is the ultimate extension for your mobile phone. It is a combination mobile instant messenger and calling card service. You can chat to your buddies and meet new friends using the group chat rooms, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and
geopy makes it easy for developers to locate the coordinates of addresses, cities, countries, and landmarks across the globe using third-party geocoders and other sources of data, such as wikis.
The most complicated aspect of large software projects is not the implementation, it is the real world domain that the software serves. Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on making the domai
EnteGreat has a singular mission: help manufacturing companies succeed. Our strategy of combining the Management of Technology with Transformative Change gives global manufacturing companies the tools and the knowledge they need to bring about solid, subs
I'd been planning to add full-text search capabilities to FastRI from the beginning, and in Ruby-land "full-text" means Ferret. But I wanted to keep dependencies to a minimum, as FastRI could someday aspire to replace parts of the agonizing ri in the stdl
X-develop, and its little brother CodeGuide, are commercial IDEs that are developed by Omnicore and respectively sell for $499 and $399. CodeGuide includes Java support, while X-develop also supports C# and Visual Basic on .NET and Mono. What sets them ap
Working with Hibernate and attempting to wrap caching services elsewhere in one of our applications, I'm concerned with the way these caching frameworks handle expiration. If you have many different types of domain artifacts that you want to cache with a
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X
It turns out I’ve amassed a heck of a lot of Javascript. It started out as simple effects. Then it progressed to some widgets. Now I ended up looking at Javascript as a valid tool in the arsenal.
You want your Ubuntu desktop to be more responsive? It will take less than a half hour to perform all these tweaks. These tweaks will make your system faster and more responsive without a doubt. Read on to perform the tweaks and enjoy your faster system.
A Programming Style That Automatically Detects Bugs in C Code by Jerry Jongerius / January 1995. This book describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault-tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. Wi
Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users.
Summary Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other p
I’m an application addict! When I recently switched to the Mac I went hunting around for the best applications to add to the base operating system. There were quite a few good sources of information, but I found one in particular very useful. Mac Specia
In software engineering, the term software architectural style generally refers to "a set of design rules that identify the kinds of components and connectors that may be used to compose a system or subsystem."* Some common examples of architectural style
OPEN SOURCES « Community development is business development | Open Sources Home | Open Source SOA in Japan » January 25, 2007 Selling open source just keeps getting easier Filed under: Open Source One way to know that the open source market is maturing
Something that I would have thought impossible has happened. By understanding how incredibly limited my capacity to do work is, I am getting a greater and greater sense of freedom and contentment.
The hack presented below has been developed on a MAC OS X. It uses the TOhtml function of the Vim Editor (i use Version 7.0). It runs in HTML Mode only.
Having just wrapped up the European Business Rules Conference (see my previous posts), I noticed that some misinformation was provided at EBRC around sequential and inferencing execution of business rules. Sadly the misinformation was provided by a vendor
The ANTLR 3 Eclipse Plugin helps you develop ANTLR 3 grammars inside Eclipse. It currently provides a project nature, a label decorator, a builder, and problem markers for ANTLR errors.
For your listening pleasure. 1M = 1 minute of recording! MPEG Audio (stereo) @44.1KHz 16-bit 160-kbps layer II using the Mpecker Encoder. Must use Headphones!
In this tutorial, you use the Sun Java Studio Creator integrated development environment (IDE) to build a web page that contains a text field component created using the AJAX technology. As you type in the text field, auto-completion is attempted based on