Category Archives: Tools

Useful tips and recommendations for development tools.

The Ultimate Geek Gift Guide 2009

By TechKnow | November 10, 2009

This geek gift guide is not so much for geeks and techies but for those that have geeks and techies in their life and need a little help in finding the right geek gift this holiday season. So if you don’t know what is the hottest gift item or you want to redeem yourself [...]

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Google Chrome OS

By TechKnow | July 8, 2009

Google just announced that they are working on a new Operating System designed for netbooks. You might think they are talking a new version of Android specially designed for netbooks, but you’ve be wrong. Google is developing a new web-based browser-powered Operating System dubbed Chrome OS. Android is Google’s Operating System for [...]

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Disposable Laptops

By TechKnow | July 7, 2009

I think the price range of laptops have made them disposable. Recently, I had the choice of sending an HP laptop repaired at $400 or just buy a new one for about the same price. There are many laptop models, from many vendors, at the sub-$500 dollar range. So, what would you [...]

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Top Griffon Tutorials and Resources

By TechKnow | June 16, 2009

Griffon is the rapid desktop development equivalent to Grails or Ruby on Rails. Griffon is a desktop application framework written in Groovy, a scripting language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Just like Grails or Rails, Griffon is very DRY and opinionated, comes with generators, and separates your models from your controllers from your [...]

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NetBeans 6.7 RC2

By TechKnow | June 8, 2009

NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate 2 was released recently and I already have it installed and running. It is also worth noting that several NetBeans related books came out in print just before JavaOne 2009.
In full disclosure, NetBeans is not my primary IDE. I mainly use Eclipse for Java development, sometimes Visual Studio for [...]

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Closed Products and Open Platforms

By TechKnow | May 13, 2009

At a fundamental core, Google News and RSS tried to answer the same problem, how to aggregate the most current articles from your favorite news sites and blogs? Having a ton of raw brainiacs with twenty percent time Google over engineered their solution with more artificial intelligence than common sense. Google News came [...]

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