Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, [...]
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. [...]
It is soo true that if you work for a startup you end up wearing multiple hats. I work for a very small startup and I wear more hats that the Queen of England. One of those hats is of a Visual Basic developer. Most business applications are not fancy or web [...]
Also posted in Java, TechKnow |
I’ve mentioned before my use of Groovy in Groovy Closures and Common Groovy Errors. I have also mentioned the need to use Visual Basic scripts to open MS Word, or print an HTML document from Internet Explorer. In this article I will mention how to use Groovy and Scriptom to do COM scripting. [...]
Also posted in Java, TechKnow |
This session introduced Project Simplice. According to the speakers, Project Simplice intends to attract Visual Basic programmer to the Java camp. Project Simplice is inspired by Visual Basic and compile Basic code to a class file which runs in the JVM. Basically, this makes the Java platform basically simple to the Basic [...]
Also posted in IDE, Java, TechKnow |
I attended the Groovy = Java Tech + Ruby + Python for the JVM session. This is a simple equation that makes a lot of sense to me, especially since I develop a lot of Groovy scripts at work. This session was a 101 introduction to groovy. Rob Cope of OpenLogic did [...]
Also posted in Java, TechKnow |