September 2008

Daily del.icio.us for September 24th through September 27th

September 27, 2008

Completely Test Your BlackBerry Phone for any Problems with this Secret Shortcut – If you own a BlackBerry mobile phone (or plan to buy one), here’s a very useful shortcut (or can we say Easter Egg) that enables you to perform a complete health checkup of your BlackBerry hardware. Using Java Persistence in a J2EE [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 22nd through September 24th

September 24, 2008

Sun jilted in Oracle big-systems love • The Register – That was a triple whammy directed at Sun. Not only was Oracle endorsing low-cost Intel boxes over Sun's mighty Sparc to power the server farms that run cloud data centers – an area where Sun has been heavily pushing Sparc – but she was also [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 19th through September 21st

September 21, 2008

Gbridge Does Simple but Secure File Sharing, Syncing, and VNC – Gbridge is a free software that lets you sync folders, share files, chat and VNC securely and easily. It extends Google's gtalk service to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that connects your computers and your close friends' computers directly and securely. Gbridge has many [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 15th through September 19th

September 19, 2008

Google Co-Founder Has Genetic Code Linked to Parkinson’s – NYTimes.com – Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, said Thursday that he has a gene mutation that increases his likelihood of contracting Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that can impair speech, movement and other functions Ext JS – Ext GWT 1.1 Released [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 10th through September 13th

September 13, 2008

Ajaxian » Awesome Time Waster: YUI Pacman! – Kris Cieslak has re-created the arcarde hit Pacman using the YUI JavaScript library Newbies: 10 things you wanted to do with Ubuntu but didn’t know how! :: The Tux Geek – In this post we're going to look at 10 useful tutorials written by the How-to Geek [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 9th

September 9, 2008

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » We hate success – The Justice Department has hired a litigator to look at going after Google and its growing dominance in advertising. This isn’t surprising, of course. It’s the yin-yang of American business: we love success stories but we hate too much success. Michael Medavoy: When Did Education and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 5th through September 9th

September 9, 2008

Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows: Page 1 – In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine The U.S. Closes the Mobile Innovation Gap – After lagging in wireless for [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for August 28th through September 1st

September 1, 2008

Generation 5 » Stop Catching Exceptions! – A strategy that (i) uses finally as the first resort for containing corrupting and maintaining invariants, (ii) uses catch locally when the exceptions thrown in an area are completely understood, and (iii) surrounds independent units of work with try-catch blocks is an effective basis for using exceptions Reverse-engineer [...]

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