December 2006

Still having a blast!

December 31, 2006

I cannot believe it’s already been a month since I started my new job. Guess the old adage about time flying when you are having fun is true. I am having a blast at my new job and it is an awesome place to work. In addition to truly loving what you do at work [...]

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Dude, you’re getting a DELL flat panel monitor

December 30, 2006

Santa was good to me this year – My brother bought me a DELL 24 UltraSharp 2407WFP Wide-Screen Black Flat Panel Monitor. This is an awesome monitor that supports WUXGA resolution (1920×1200), have 4 USB 2.0 ports and a 9-in-2 media card reader built-in. *drool*

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Carbonite Rocks – Backups Made Easy

December 30, 2006

Update (Oct 6, 2007): I have stopped using Carbonite and switched to Mozy for a while now. I’ve had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years – I guess it’s better to lose $80.00 than [...]

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Here’s to third place!

December 30, 2006

I found a really interesting article in The New Yorker magazine via Matt’s blog. The article is a must-read but here’s the article in a nutshell: Focus on profitability and not market share as market share doesn’t always lead to profitability. The article looks at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and how Sony rules the video [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 29, 2006

December 29, 2006

Red Hat’s next Linux due before March | CNET News.com Red Hat plans to ship the next version of its premium Linux product on February 28, debuting major virtualization technology (tags: news redhat linux xen vmware virtualization emc oracle novell suse rhel)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 28, 2006

December 28, 2006

Cheat Sheet Roundup – Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets (tags: cheatsheet programming reference CSS development javascript PHP xhtml productivity guide)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 26, 2006

December 26, 2006

New Java Framework For Data-Intensive Java on Multicore DataRush is a light-weight (less than 3 MB on disk) but extremely powerful parallel processing engine framework. It’s 100% Java and runs on Java 5 SE. It handles all the parallel programming for you including horizontal, vertical and pipeline parallelism (tags: interesting java programming data multicore datarush) [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 24, 2006

December 24, 2006

Coding Horror: Assertiveness for Software Developers As software developers, we’re great at communicating with computers. But we’re typically not so great at communicating with other people. Esther Schindler’s recent interview with Steve McConnell illustrates how this aspect of our personality tends to work (tags: development assertiveness psychology programming management business software strategy developer career)

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Red Hat to Oracle (and market) – Oh No You Didn’t!

December 23, 2006

Red Hat shares jumped about 25% after they reported a quarterly profit and outlook that topped Wall Street forecasts. After the close, the stock is still going up in after-hours trading. Kudos to Red Hat whose stock had been hammered after Oracle announced that they were going to redistribute Red Hat’s Linux under the name [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 22, 2006

December 22, 2006

Compiling Java to JavaScript In this interview with Artima, Scott Blum, the Google software engineer behind GWT’s Java-to-JavaScript compiler, talks about the challenges of turning Java source code into JavaScript. (tags: ajax article gwt java javascript google interview)

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