With all the bad press about how horrible Windows Vista is, and the fact that Mac OS X Leopard doesn’t much have support for the latest JVM, I think I will be sticking around with Windows XP. Here are some free Power Tools from Microsoft which can make your Windows experience just a bit [...]
Prism is a new project from Mozilla Labs that essentially dresses up a web applications as desktop applications. Prism can create desktop, start menu, and quick launch desktop shortcuts for any given URL. The shortcuts launch the web application in a undecorated application window running Firefox underneath.
Prism works well for web applications, where [...]
Here is an extensive list of top programming books available for preview on Google Books. Google Books provides scans of thousands of textbooks. The scans are not the best, most books have visible scan defects in them.
Even though the scans are not the best, there are some features that just work well. [...]
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Mac OS X Leopard is out, and so is the verdict. Apple claims over 300 features, but one key feature missing is Java 6! If the next version of Mac OS X does not include the latest version of Java, my next upgrade will be to Ubuntu. Since I can’t get what [...]
Have you ever been on the road or away from the office when you are struck by an idea for a new features and wanted to debug or prototype your application but found yourself without access to the code base? What if you where able to connect to the Eclipse running on your work [...]
This tutorial describes some of the basic graphic capabilities of the Shoes Ruby-based mini-GUI toolkit.
Shoes Fade
Here is a good example of Shoes oval method in action. For a lack of a better name I call this example Fade Into Black. It is just a series of circles getting 25%.
Here is the source code [...]
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