I’ve always been interested in understanding common programming errors so that I can easily recognize and diagnose problems, hopefully without spending hours staring at my breakpoints in my debugger. Previously, I’ve written on Common Groovy Errors and Top Worse Java Errors. The US Department of Homeland Security, under the Common Weakness Enumeration initiative put out [...]
I many 10-5 developers not working directly with ajaxified web 2.0 applications I was not able to go to the Google I/O conference. I don’t feel so bad not going since Google has just released video recordings of over 70+ technical presentations from Google I/0. Most of the technical presentations are pushing Google’s APIs such [...]
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. Just like [...]
There has been a lot of commotion and even a book with having Ruby on Rails run on the Java VM. But looking past the JRuby hype it is clear that PHP has a several orders of magnitude more open source code, projects, and corporate backing than Ruby on Rails. The folks behind the Resin [...]
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The last session of CommunityOne 2007 was titled Up the Stack. The main concern of this session was the whole software development stack, from the Operating System to the database and all the way to the web framework. For the most part, developers these days working on the next great Web 2.0 pay no heed [...]
Flash charts just look a lot better than what we could do with plan images. Flash is a lot more interactive and since they are vector base you can zoom in and out without image deterioration. The PHP folks have a lot of great libraries for working with Flash such as Ming, PHP/SWF Charts, and [...]
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