Free PDF Download: Getting Started With Flex 3
SitePoint are giving away PDF copies of the book "Getting Started With Flex 3" for the next 60 days. All you need to do is complete a one-page quiz... more »
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Kevin Mitnick: Social engineering 101
Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
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WPF Tutorial - Using MultiBindings
Introduction to WPF's MultiBinding. The tutorial includes full source code and easy-to-follow examples.
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Stripes Book now available!
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Stripes book is now available! Get it while it's hot! http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fdstr
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The life expectancy of IE6
An analysis of IE6 usage statistics from three different sites, and an attempt to determine from current trends when IE6 will become irrelevant
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Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as... more »
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What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB
I just had an e-mail exchange with someone looking for a VB lead in Colorado Springs. I think they are going to have trouble filling it with an... more »
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My Precious...
One of the important themes running through Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and that story’s associated foundational histories, is corruption. The... more »
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 4 - Data Binding
This is the fourth in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker.... more »
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A New Competitor to LCD
A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid... more »
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What's Drizzle?
Today Brian Aker announced a fork of MySQL, called "Drizzle". Drizzle is a slimmed-down MySQL, in a lot of ways what MySQL should have been before... more »
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Maven Makes Developers Feel Stupid
Although Maven has its benefits, its documentation is often spartan and scattered, and sometimes it can be quite painful to figure out how to... more »
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Skip lists are fascinating!
Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black... more »
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JavaFX - A Forever Unfinished RIA Technology?
The answer was horrifying. It is still not done and production ready. The JavaFX project has been around for quite some time now, and it is still not... more »
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Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App?
The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity. We have written about this trend extensively, with our... more »
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Learning To Drive a Stick Shift
They have little or nothing to do with why I say: if you want to be a top-notch programmer, you can no more afford to ignore the C and C++ languages... more »
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Breaking the Law of Demeter is Like Looking for a Needle in the Haystack
Every time I see Law of Demeter violation I imagine a haystack where the code is desperately trying to locate the needle.
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NetBeans Tip: Reload Debugging (debug-fix-nb)
Just few days back, I talked about that its rather a good practice to debug, not to run! While following that, I discovered another thing, which was... more »
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Extracting errors and warnings from a log file using PowerShell
This blog post shows a simple Powershell command that searches a log file for errors and warnings and adds the matched lines to either to the... more »
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Showing/hiding content in a web page, plus visual differences between DIVs and SPANs
Example approaches to hiding/showing content in a webpage by toggling CSS styles, plus examples of the visual differences between DIV and SPAN blocks
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Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit?
After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see... more »
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The ADO.NET Entity Framework vs. NHibernate and Other ORMs
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had occasion to look fairly closely at the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and compare it to NHibernate. Of course,... more »
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Code Access Guide to Eclipse 3.4
This article describes how to access the Eclipse source code, how to use the Plug-in Spy to identify a plug-in which is responsible for a certain part... more »
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StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder performance comparison
Even if the StringBuilder was around for a while now, many people still use StringBuffer in single threaded applications... So StringBuilder is... more »
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Useful Eclipse Code Templates
Eclipse's Java editor allows you to define code templates. You can use them to code complete things that you type all the time, such as get logger,... more »
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