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Thunderbird mail notification plugin for Linux

2006-04-25T23:04:00.000-07:00

mozdev.org - moztraybiff: index

This wonderfull plugin will kind of simulate Thunderbird-Windows's feature of mail notification.

Rock Solid CSS Layouts [CSS Tutorial]

2006-04-20T22:46:00.000-07:00

Rock Solid CSS Layouts [CSS Tutorials]: "Rock Solid CSS Layouts"

Another good one from Sitepoint.

Yahoo India Job Search

2006-03-17T08:06:00.000-08:00

Y! India Job Search

Yahoo has come up with a really wonderful...
Aggregating Jobs ..., and what interface do we expect ?

Web 2.0

Hurray!!!

php | architect - The PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals

2006-03-07T21:47:00.000-08:00

php | architect - The PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals

The Tutorial on the Zend Framework

A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript

2006-03-07T21:42:00.000-08:00

A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript

This was actually a presentation by Simon to some programmers (To remind them that JavaScript is cool)

A nice tutorial if some of you read through it.

Web Page hosting with Google

2006-02-23T02:16:00.000-08:00

Google has started with Google Pages , This is their free page hosting service...
... and as with their tradition, they have a page builder with a slick interface

Building a Firefox Extension

2006-02-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

Building an Extension - MDC

A wonderful, simple tutorial to build a Firefox Extension.

Creating Applications with Mozilla

2006-02-20T20:41:00.000-08:00

Creating Applications with Mozilla: "Creating Applications with Mozilla"

Wonderful tutorial / article about makeing apps / extension using Mozilla.

Googlist: G-Link : send quick bookmarks to your Gmail

2006-02-18T21:19:00.000-08:00

Googlist: G-Link : send quick bookmarks to your Gmail

This one will create a bookmarklet, and just as using a BlogThis! bookmarklet, It will create a bookmarklet which will open awindow in which you'll be able to send a link from your "logged-in" gmail account

Yahoo Design Web Patterns

2006-02-14T03:44:00.000-08:00

There are many ways you design the UI on the web page, what should be good and what should be coded...
There is a dividing line to it.

This will help you.
Yahoo! Web Design Patterns

WinXP ClearType: Start Menu Cache

2006-02-07T08:29:00.000-08:00

I've found (at least on my PC) that when ClearType is enabled and then disabled, The setting still leaves cache of the "Start Menu" contents as seen in the Screenshot. Check out the no-ClearType directory listing behind and the cached Start Menu clearType rendering.

Mozilla launches Seamonkey 1.0

2006-02-01T00:29:00.000-08:00

Mozilla launches Seamonkey 1.0

Live Score Board with AJAX

2006-01-28T22:48:00.000-08:00

A simple, no-fuss live score board tutorial. You may have been visiting Australianopen.com's scoreboards, etc. Most of em are in flash, java, etc. But here is something plain and extremely simple.

All you need to know is some PHP, JavaScript and yes XMLHttpRequest.

Building a Tag Cloud

2006-01-18T21:11:00.000-08:00

Building a Tag Cloud | Ruturaj's Home Page: "Building a Tag Cloud"

If you've been on http://del.icio.us/tag/ and have been amazed how its done,

The link will help you do exactly that!

MySQL Jobs

2006-01-16T20:51:00.000-08:00

MySQL AB :: New Event Feature

The future is right for MySQL, begining from MySQL 5.1, MySQL will feature a "Event" feature, which if you compare to its M$ counterpart MSSQL are termed as "Jobs"

MySQL have added a new table in mysql database, called "event". Which will basically hold all the meta-data for the "jobs"

Check a sample record from mysql.event

            db: tp
         name: e1
         body:  INSERT INTO tx VALUES (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 20)
      definer: tp@localhost
   execute_at: 2006-01-13 03:42:00
interval_value: NULL
interval_field: NULL
      created: 2006-01-12 19:40:00
     modified: 2006-01-12 19:40:00
last_executed: NULL
       starts: NULL
         ends: NULL
       status: DISABLED
on_completion: DROP
      comment:

Thunderbird 1.5 is out !!!

2006-01-12T20:02:00.000-08:00

Mozilla have released their latetest Thunderbird v 1.5.
It has got a lot of improvements like

Exporting / Importing RSS links as OPML
Phishing Detection
Security fixes
Server-side spam/antivirus support

One of the mails Thunderbird thinks is "Scam"

New Fedora Logo

2005-12-31T21:36:00.000-08:00

Guys at Fedora have come up with this new Logo which represents Fedora

Read more about it

Check the Designer's Notes, scribblings, etc

Model View Controller

2005-12-21T03:48:00.000-08:00

Model View Controller

A wonderful article about MVC or Model view controller arch.

Transact-SQL MD5

2005-12-20T04:21:00.000-08:00

Transact-SQL MD5

Make MD5 hashes in MSSQL SERVER 2000

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

2005-12-12T01:34:00.000-08:00

80x15 Button Maker
Wonderful button maker

Free Computer Books, Tutorials, and Lecture Notes

2005-11-14T19:41:00.000-08:00

Free Computer Books, Tutorials, and Lecture Notes

A list of online documents, books, references

Web Badges / Buttons | ZwahlenDesign

2005-11-12T01:14:00.000-08:00

Web Badges / Buttons | ZwahlenDesign
Wonderful buttons / badges / banners for websites.

//hicksdesign: design for print and new media

2005-11-11T21:47:00.000-08:00

//hicksdesign: design for print and new media
One of the coolest and most beautifully designed sites...

Binary Bonsai

2005-11-11T21:45:00.000-08:00

Binary Bonsai
A wonderful site using CSS, Wordpress and our favourite AJAX

Toughen Forms' Security with an Image [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]

2005-11-11T21:30:00.000-08:00

Toughen Forms' Security with an Image [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]: "Toughen Forms' Security with an Image"

CSS Tutorials

2005-11-02T02:18:00.000-08:00

CSS Tutorials: "CSS Tutorials"

Some wonderful CSS tutorials

JavaScript Kit Advanced JavaScript Tutorials

2005-10-27T09:43:00.000-07:00

JavaScript Kit Advanced JavaScript Tutorials:
Find decent advanced JavaScript Tutorials

Regular Expression Tester

2005-10-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

: "Regular Expression Tester"
Check out this cool Regular expression testing engine, made with AJAX

MySQL AB :: The World's Most Popular Open Source Database

2005-10-25T06:02:00.000-07:00

MySQL is out with its latest and most awaited release of MySQL 5.0
It has features as...

* Stored Procedures
* Triggers
* Views
* Data Dictionary
* XA
* and more...

Take Command with AJAX [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]

2005-10-14T22:09:00.000-07:00

Another wonderful tutorial for XMLHTTPRequest,
this time make an application that simulates a linux prompt.

SimpleViewer Download

2005-09-30T08:57:00.000-07:00

SimpleViewer "SimpleViewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Backbase - Rich Internet Applications

2005-09-03T23:30:00.000-07:00

Backbase - Rich Internet Applications

A wonderful site having products based on ...
What else.
XMLHTTPRequest

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Quick Start Guide

2005-09-03T22:36:00.000-07:00

NetBeans IDE 4.1 Quick Start Guide: "NetBeans IDE 4.1 Quick Start Guide"

Want to work with an IDE in JAVA, NetBeans is free and looks good, but don't know a shit about it...

Here it is from http://www.netbeans.org

An absolutely wonderful guide to start with.

mikezilla. code experiments. by mike golding

2005-08-22T02:40:00.000-07:00

mikezilla. code experiments. by mike golding

Some interesting tips about web , etc.

Wired 13.08: We Are the Web

2005-08-09T23:17:00.000-07:00

Wired 13.08: We Are the Web: "We Are the Web
The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people."

MySQL, Using Transactions with InnoDB Tables

2005-08-09T02:25:00.000-07:00

MySQL, Using Transactions with InnoDB Tables

A neat tutorial about transaction, locks in MySQL

Inline auto-completion in the location bar in FireFox

2005-08-06T23:44:00.000-07:00

Inline auto-completion in the location bar in FireFox: "

To enable this effect, you must add a preference that doesn't yet appear in the about:config list. Go to about:config, right-click anywhere on the page, and select New > Boolean from the context menu.

This menu choice yields a couple of dialog boxes. Enter browser.urlbar.autoFill when prompted by the first dialog box

Select true when you're prompted to select a value, and that's it: inline auto-complete for URLs is activated! There's no need to restart Firefox in this case; it works straight away.

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla

2005-08-01T10:26:00.000-07:00

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla

A nice article to change "ie way" thinking to "Standards"

Programmatic POST Requests with JavaScript: Automated Form Submissions

2005-07-21T02:08:00.000-07:00

Programmatic POST Requests with JavaScript: Automated Form Submissions

a nice article on XMLHTTPRequest

DOS Batch Programming

2005-06-27T04:37:00.000-07:00

DOS Batch Programming

Tutorial for programming MS BAT files

Blogger Help : How do I post pictures?

2005-06-25T08:18:00.000-07:00

Blogger Help : How do I post pictures?
Blogger has now started with adding images in blogs... by adding them from your local computer

Javascript Shell Bookmarklet

2005-06-20T20:44:00.000-07:00

Web Development Bookmarklets

Check the Shell bookmarklet...
It is amazing...
It lets you treat the textarea as a shell, where you can type "javascript" commands and observe the changes from where the bookmarklet was created!!!!

eg changing all the images source to empty...

for (i in document.images) {
document.images[i].src = '';
}

CSS and element Attributes

2005-06-14T02:54:00.000-07:00

CSS and element Attributes

Learn how to use CSS for different attributes, and values of it.

Mozilla XPath Documentation

2005-06-07T00:43:00.000-07:00

Mozilla XPath Documentation

A nice tutorial of using XPath with Mozilla or Gecko based browser.

Dive Into Greasemonkey

2005-06-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

Dive Into Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is now turning out to be the next best extension to Firefox after webdeveloper.

Greasemonkey allows users, to use simple javascripts that use DHTML and DOM to change the way a website behaves.

And if you think you are a JavaScript freak, here is an online book on Writing scripts for Greasemonkey

New Browser Features in Deer Park Alpha 1

2005-06-01T20:17:00.000-07:00

New Browser Features for the End user

New Browser Features for the Web Developers

Firefox Toolbar Tutorial

2005-05-31T21:23:00.000-07:00

Born Geek: Firefox Toolbar Tutorial

Footsteps leading you toward development of Gecko based browsers (Firefox, Mozilla Suite, Camino) toolbars

MySQL Reference Manual :: 8.8 The mysqldump Database Backup Program

2005-05-31T04:53:00.000-07:00

MySQL Reference Manual :: 8.8 The mysqldump Database Backup Program

Generate backups of your mysql database in CSV or TAB delimited format

you can use following command

Generate CSV file
This will generate table_name.txt as the CSV and table_name.sql as table creation script

mysqldump -T /folder_path --fields-terminated-by=',' --fields-enclosed-by='"' --lines-terminated-by='\r\n' -u root -p database_name table_name

Generate TAB delimited file
This will generate table_name.txt as the CSV and table_name.sql as table creation script

mysqldump -T /folder_path -u root -p database_name table_name

Do You PHP? by Rasmus Lerdorf

2005-05-19T20:25:00.000-07:00

Do You PHP? by Rasmus Lerdorf

any PHP guy just can't miss out on this one...
Starring PHP from its birth...

yahoo! vs. google: ruturaj

2005-05-16T05:55:00.000-07:00

yahoo! vs. google: ruturaj

A visual comparision of the 2 mega search engines for my name

XMLHTTPRequest File Upload Progress Bar

2005-05-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

XMLHTTPRequest File Upload Progress Bar

Amazing stuff this one...

Firefox 1.0 Launch Day

2005-04-28T20:38:00.000-07:00

mitchell's blog: Firefox 1.0 Launch Day:
"Firefox 1.0 Launch Day"
The blog by Mitchell, Mozilla head.

Tipue - open source site search engine tools

2005-04-26T20:30:00.000-07:00

Tipue - open source site search engine tools
Tipue is an open source JavaScript site search engine. It works with any browser that supports JavaScript 1.3 and at least partially supports the W3C DOM Level 1. It is small and lightweight at less than 9Kb.

Understanding Event Bubbling in Javascript

2005-04-20T23:41:00.000-07:00

Handling events with the DOM – Part I

A nice article on devarticles.com, about event capturing and bubbling in Javascript using DOM

Introducing XUL - The 'Net's Biggest Secret: Part 1 [XML, XSLT & Web Services]Harry Fuecks

2005-04-18T03:34:00.000-07:00

Introducing XUL - The 'Net's Biggest Secret: Part 1 [XML, XSLT & Web Services]

Harry Fuecks yet again... This time on XUL.. something that I always wanted to learn... don't know when shall I do that... :)

Christoph Studer - Office XP style menus for Firefox 2

2005-04-18T03:10:00.000-07:00

Christoph Studer - Office XP style menus for Firefox 2: "

Check the following code to make your firefox toolbar similar to Microsoft Office XP

This is not my code, I do not take responsibility or intellectual rights for it...
:P

/* Make menus Office XP style
*
* Based on CSS code by David Tenser, available here:
* http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#app_xpmenus
*
*/

menupopup, popup {
border: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow !important;
-moz-border-top-colors: ThreeDShadow !important;
-moz-border-right-colors: ThreeDShadow !important;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: ThreeDShadow !important;
padding: 1px !important;
background-color: #F6F6F6 !important;
background-image: url(menu-officexp.png) !important;
background-repeat: repeat-y !important;

}
menubar > menu {
border: 1px solid transparent !important;
padding: 3px 4px 2px 3px !important;
margin: 0 !important;
margin-right: 2px !important;
}

menubar > menu:hover, menubar > menu[open='true'] {
border: 1px solid #3169C6 !important;
background-color: #C6D3EF !important;
}

menubar > menu[open='true']
{
background-color: #A5C3EC !important;
border-bottom-color: #A5C3EC !important;
background-image: url(mainmenu-officexp.png) !important;
background-repeat: repeat-x !important;
}

menuitem, menupopup > menu
{
border: 1px solid transparent !important;
padding-top: 3px !important;
padding-bottom: 3px !important;
color: black !important;
}

.menu-iconic-left
{
margin-left: 2px !important;
}

.menu-iconic-text
{
margin-left: 9px !important;
}

.menu-text
{
margin-left: 27px !important;
}

menuitem[_moz-menuactive='true'], menupopup > menu:hover, menupopup > menu[open='true']
{
border: 1px solid #3169C6 !important;
background-color: #FFF0C0 !important;
}

menuitem[_moz-menuactive='true'] > .menu-iconic-left, menupopup > menu:hover > .menu-iconic-left, menupopup > menu[open='true'] > .menu-iconic-left
{
margin: -1px 3px 1px 1px !important;
}

menuseparator
{
margin-left: 32px !important;
margin-right: 0px !important;
border: none !important;
border-top: 1px solid #6A8CCB !important;

}

.menu-right[_moz-menuactive='true'] {
list-style-image: url('chrome://global/skin/menu/Menu-arrow.png') !important;
}

menuitem[checked='true'] > .menu-iconic-left
{
border: 1px solid #6A8CCB !important;
height: 16px !important;
width: 16px !important;
/* -moz-opacity: 0.5; */
background-color: #F6F6F6 !important;
}

menuitem[checked='true'][_moz-menuactive='true'] {
list-style-image: url('chrome://global/skin/menu/menu-check.gif') !important;
}
menuitem[checked='true'][type='radio'][_moz-menuactive='true'] {
list-style-image: url('chrome://global/skin/menu/menu-radio.gif') !important;
}

popup[type='autocomplete'], listbox {
background-color: -moz-Field !important;
background-image: none !important;
}"

2005-04-14T04:17:00.000-07:00

MySQL Replication

A wonderful tutorial from MySQL.com for using replication in MySQL

2005-04-12T20:31:00.000-07:00

Ten Mysteries of about:config | Linux Journal

Find out more about tuning Firefox using about:config

2005-04-11T22:39:00.000-07:00

PageRank^TM without GoogleToolBar

Here is a php script that actually gather's the Google PageRank without the toolbar, quite a complex algo seems to be used 8-|

2005-04-10T23:10:00.000-07:00

Spoono - Photoshop

Nice Photoshop , flash , graphics related website.

2005-04-07T03:47:00.000-07:00

Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know

There is research(study) of how the eyeballs track the website or flow over the website content..
That study effectively helps the webmasters to place the content or the layout.

2005-04-05T23:35:00.000-07:00

Developing Custom PHP Extensions

Have standard set of coding common for your exteremly heavily browsed website in PHP... Make a custom PHP extension.

2005-04-05T23:19:00.000-07:00

IEEE Bjarne Stroustrup C++ Interview

I got this in an email forward, Thanks all to who contributed to the forwarded mail..
I don't even know if this is true, but I'll highlight some lines that definately are true...

Rating:
Quality: Unrated

On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine. Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created (C++). Picture (Metafile)

By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress its contents, 'for the good of the industry' but, as with many of these things, there was a leak.

Here is a complete transcript of what was was said, unedited, and unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews. You will find it interesting...

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Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the world of software design, how does it feel, looking back?

Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' and, the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it. Universities got pretty good at teaching it, too. They were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' - graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem.

Interviewer: Problem?
Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol?
Interviewer: Of course, I did too

Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like demi-gods. Their salaries were high, and they were treated like royalty.

Interviewer: Those were the days, eh?

Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and invested millions in training programmers, till they were a dime a dozen.

Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a year, to the point where being a journalist actually paid better.

Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.

Interviewer: I see, but what's the point?

Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics Picture (Metafile)system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain your sanity.

Interviewer: You're kidding...?

Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer could very easily become a systems programmer. Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn?

Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do.

Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.

Interviewer: I don't believe you said that...

Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.

Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it?

Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient.

Interviewer: What?

Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear of a company re-using its code?

Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but...

Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the early days. There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or '91. I felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would learn from their mistakes. Picture (Metafile)

Interviewer: Obviously, they didn't?

Stroustrup: Not in the slightest. Trouble is, most companies hush-up all their major blunders, and explaining a $30 million loss to the shareholders would have been difficult. Give them their due, though, they made it work in the end.

Interviewer: They did? Well, there you are then, it proves O-O works.

Stroustrup: Well, almost. The executable was so huge, it took five minutes to load, on an HP workstation, with 128MB of RAM. Then it ran like treacle. Actually, I thought this would be a major stumbling-block, and I'd get found out within a week, but nobody cared. Sun and HP were only too glad to sell enormously powerful boxes, with huge resources just to run trivial programs. You know, when we had our first C++ compiler, at AT&T, I compiled 'Hello World', and couldn't believe the size of the executable. 2.1MB

Interviewer: What? Well, compilers have come a long way, since then.

Stroustrup: They have? Try it on the latest version of g++ - you won't get much change out of half a megabyte. Also, there are several quite recent examples for you, from all over the world. British Telecom had a major disaster on their hands but, luckily, managed to scrap the whole thing and start again. They were luckier than Australian Telecom. Now I hear that Siemens is building a dinosaur, and getting more and more worried as the size of the hardware gets bigger, to accommodate the executables. Isn't multiple inheritance a joy?

Interviewer: Yes, but C++ is basically a sound language.

Stroustrup: You really believe that, don't you? Have you ever sat down and worked on a C++ project? Here's what happens: First, I've put in enough pitfalls to make sure that only the most trivial projects will work first time. Take operator overloading. At the end of the project, almost every module has it, usually, because guys feel they really should do it, as it was in their training course. The same operator then means something totally different in every module. Try pulling that lot together, when you have a hundred or so modules. Picture (Metafile)And as for data hiding. God, I sometimes can't help laughing when I hear about the problems companies have making their modules talk to each other. I think the word 'synergistic' was specially invented to twist the knife in a project manager's ribs.

Interviewer: I have to say, I'm beginning to be quite appalled at all this. You say you did it to raise programmers' salaries? That's obscene.

Stroustrup: Not really. Everyone has a choice. I didn't expect the thing to get so much out of hand. Anyway, I basically succeeded. C++ is dying off now, but programmers still get high salaries - especially those poor devils who have to maintain all this crap. You do realise, it's impossible to maintain a large C++ software module if you didn't actually write it?

Interviewer: How come?

Stroustrup: You are out of touch, aren't you? Remember the typedef?

Interviewer: Yes, of course.

Stroustrup: Remember how long it took to grope through the header files only to find that 'RoofRaised' was a double precision number? Well, imagine how long it takes to find all the implicit typedefs in all the Classes in a major project.

Interviewer: So how do you reckon you've succeeded?

Stroustrup: Remember the length of the average-sized 'C' project? About 6 months. Not nearly long enough for a guy with a wife and kids to earn enough to have a decent standard of living. Take the same project, design it in C++ and what do you get? I'll tell you. One to two years. Isn't that great? All that job security, just through one mistake of judgement. And another thing. The universities haven't been teaching 'C' for such a long time, there's now a shortage of decent 'C' programmers. Especially those who know anything about Unix systems programming. How many guys would know what to do with 'malloc', when they've used 'new' all these years - and never bothered to check the return Picture (Metafile)code. In fact, most C++ programmers throw away their return codes. Whatever happened to good ol' '-1'? At least you knew you had an error, without bogging the thing down in all that 'throw' 'catch' 'try' stuff.

Interviewer: But, surely, inheritance does save a lot of time?

Stroustrup: Does it? Have you ever noticed the difference between a 'C' project plan, and a C++ project plan? The planning stage for a C++ project is three times as long. Precisely to make sure that everything which should be inherited is, and what shouldn't isn't. Then, they still get it wrong. Whoever heard of memory leaks in a 'C' program? Now finding them is a major industry. Most companies give up, and send the product out, knowing it leaks like a sieve, simply to avoid the expense of tracking them all down.

Interviewer: There are tools...

Stroustrup: Most of which were written in C++.

Interviewer: If we publish this, you'll probably get lynched, you do realise that?

Stroustrup: I doubt it. As I said, C++ is way past its peak now, and no company in its right mind would start a C++ project without a pilot trial. That should convince them that it's the road to disaster. If not, they deserve all they get. You know, I tried to convince Dennis Ritchie to rewrite Unix in C++.

Interviewer: Oh my God. What did he say?

Stroustrup: Well, luckily, he has a good sense of humor. I think both he and Brian figured out what I was doing, in the early days, but never let on. He said he'd help me write a C++ version of DOS, if I was interested.

Interviewer: Were you?

Stroustrup: Actually, I did write DOS in C++, I'll give you a demo when we're through. I have it running on a Sparc 20 in the computer room. Goes like a rocket on 4 CPU's, and only takes up 70 megs of disk.

Interviewer: What's it like on a PC?

Stroustrup Picture (Metafile): Now you're kidding. Haven't you ever seen Windows '95? I think of that as my biggest success. Nearly blew the game before I was ready, though.

Interviewer: You know, that idea of a Unix++ has really got me thinking. Somewhere out there, there's a guy going to try it.

Stroustrup: Not after they read this interview.

Interviewer: I'm sorry, but I don't see us being able to publish any of this.

Stroustrup: But it's the story of the century. I only want to be remembered by my fellow programmers, for what I've done for them. You know how much a C++ guy can get these days?

Interviewer: Last I heard, a really top guy is worth $70 - $80 an hour.

Stroustrup: See? And I bet he earns it. Keeping track of all the gotchas I put into C++ is no easy job. And, as I said before, every C++ programmer feels bound by some mystic promise to use every damn element of the language on every project. Actually, that really annoys me sometimes, even though it serves my original purpose. I almost like the language after all this time.

Interviewer: You mean you didn't before?

Stroustrup: Hated it. It even looks clumsy, don't you agree? But when the book royalties started to come in... well, you get the picture.

Interviewer: Just a minute. What about references? You must admit, you improved on 'C' pointers.

Stroustrup: Hmm. I've always wondered about that. Originally, I thought I had. Then, one day I was discussing this with a guy who'd written C++ from the beginning. He said he could never remember whether his variables were referenced or dereferenced, so he always used pointers. He said the little asterisk always reminded him.

Interviewer: Well, at this point, I usually say 'thank you very much' but it hardly seems adequate.

Stroustrup: Promise me you'll publish this. My conscience is getting the better of me these days. Picture (Metafile)

Interviewer: I'll let you know, but I think I know what my editor will say.

Stroustrup: Who'd believe it anyway? Although, can you send me a copy of that tape?

Interviewer: I can do that.

2005-04-01T02:45:00.000-08:00

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The history of Mozilla Firefox!

2005-04-01T02:18:00.000-08:00

Browser Stickies

Want a web based Sticky note.... ?

2005-03-31T03:50:00.000-08:00

Articles about MySQL v 5.0

MySQL 5.0 New Features: Stored Procedures

MySQL 5.0 Views

MySQL 5.0 Triggers

MySQL 5.0 Data Dictionary

2005-03-30T03:22:00.000-08:00

apachefriends.org - xampp

The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, Turck MMCache, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

2005-03-28T04:13:00.000-08:00

[1.0] A Guided Tour Of Awk

Awk the SQL of Linux...
A wonderful tool,

WARNING: Highly Addictive

2005-03-24T20:26:00.000-08:00

An Industry at Risk

If you are reading this blog... Then you must almost definately be in a IT industry...
Please read this article which is against Patents... reason being.. just take a look at some of the patents that are aquired

IBM holds patent #4,965,765 which covers the use of different colors to distinguish the nesting level of nested expressions.

Patent #5,249,290 covers assignment of client requests to the server process having the least load.

Patent #4,941,125 covers using a digital camera in conjunction with character recognition software to store and index documents on a CD ROM.

# And IBM really does charge small companies 1% of royalties to license a single software patent, and 5% for its entire portfolio.

2005-03-24T03:57:00.000-08:00

Internet & Web - Web Content

Developer.Apple.com provides the WebDevelopers very decent and useful articles, from Fonts to XMLHTTPRequest to DOM and CSS

2005-03-23T23:03:00.000-08:00

SitePoint Forums - Javascript - Usefull Tips & Tricks

no need to explain what the link may contain ;)

2005-03-23T20:38:00.000-08:00

Apache Ant Demystified[Java and J2EE]

Little bit of Java for now... and a nice tool for it ...
Apache Ant, a nice tool to complile stuff with other intelligent tasks.... !

2005-03-22T21:50:00.000-08:00

PHP HOW-TO

After a long time... a PHP link :)

2005-03-22T19:41:00.000-08:00

Controllable Navigation Bars with JavaScript, Part 1

Nice article if you want to have hide / unhide navigation bars something similar to SitePoint's navigation. (As of today ;) )

2005-03-21T22:33:00.000-08:00

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 Released
Mozilla has released Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, It is basically a security update of their previous stable version 1.0

2005-03-17T05:29:00.000-08:00

EPIC 2014 - Hosted By: Ido

This one takes us into future year 2014 ,where Google, Amazon lead us to a journey where every article, news, blog that we read, hear see is filtered, customized from a zillion posts, articles, news items.

2005-03-13T19:16:00.000-08:00

XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines | Baekdal.com
Think you know how to program the AJAX way !?
Here are some guidelines for GUI, and other stuff

2005-03-13T19:15:00.000-08:00

Login Demonstration using XMLHTTPRequest
The above one is a nice Login Demonstration, where the author uses the "AJAX" method to get Logged

2005-03-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled - MozillaZine Talkback

:( A sad story,
From today on there would be no official releases of Mozilla Application Suite (a.k.a Mozilla SeaMonkey)
Mozilla would be concentrating their efforts towards Firefox and Thunderbird

2005-03-10T03:46:00.000-08:00

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

By - Dr. Roy Thomas Fielding

The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system. The Web has been iteratively developed over the past ten years through a series of modifications to the standards that define its architecture. In order to identify those aspects of the Web that needed improvement and avoid undesirable modifications, a model for the modern Web architecture was needed to guide its design, definition, and deployment.

Software architecture research investigates methods for determining how best to partition a system, how components identify and communicate with each other, how information is communicated, how elements of a system can evolve independently, and how all of the above can be described using formal and informal notations. My work is motivated by the desire to understand and evaluate the architectural design of network-based application software through principled use of architectural constraints, thereby obtaining the functional, performance, and social properties desired of an architecture. An architectural style is a named, coordinated set of architectural constraints.

This dissertation defines a framework for understanding software architecture via architectural styles and demonstrates how styles can be used to guide the architectural design of network-based application software. A survey of architectural styles for network-based applications is used to classify styles according to the architectural properties they induce on an architecture for distributed hypermedia. I then introduce the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and describe how REST has been used to guide the design and development of the architecture for the modern Web.

REST emphasizes scalability of component interactions, generality of interfaces, independent deployment of components, and intermediary components to reduce interaction latency, enforce security, and encapsulate legacy systems. I describe the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles. Finally, I describe the lessons learned from applying REST to the design of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Uniform Resource Identifier standards, and from their subsequent deployment in Web client and server software.

2005-03-03T22:51:00.000-08:00

हिंदी युनिकोड में टाईपराईटर

ये हे ऐक बहुत ही अच्‍छा ऐडिटर, जिसमें आप हिंदी युनिकोड में टाईप कर पाऐं गे

2005-03-02T21:47:00.000-08:00

adaptive path | ajax: a new approach to web applications

This one... neatly expains what goes through XMLHTTPRequest...

The term "Ajax" is coined where XMLHTTPRequest, Javascript, CSS

2005-02-26T09:00:00.000-08:00

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...
Ok.. This is yet another XMLHTTPRequest Post
This fellow Chris as neatly indented the code of Google's Autocomplete javascript which does the XMLHTTPRequest, and tried to xplain it as well...
Nice Work Chris!!

2005-01-07T10:25:00.000-08:00

Cl� Ma'ck Entertainment
There are some really high quality images of celebs over here

2005-01-05T05:04:00.000-08:00

irt.org - JavaScript Objects FAQ Knowledge Base
Check this link,
think you know a lot about JavaScript ? Check their FAQs and stuff amazing...

2005-01-03T20:11:00.000-08:00

start [JPSPAN]

I've been linking many XMLHttpRequest posts. But here is one that could be really ... really useful. Its a sourceforge project, that uses php to make Javascript code to use the XMLHttpRequest.
Check out these xamples

2005-01-03T20:06:00.000-08:00

dltypeof - Custom JS typeof operator - DHTML Lab - WebReference.com
Javascript Guys must have used the native function typeof(), But U guys must have as well been frustrated when it returns a dumb "object" When you thought it would have returned "date" , "array" or so on.

Well here comes the dltypeof() which is not pre-build into JS... :( But thanks to WebReference DHTML article that I was going through, It helps you return a little more required datatypes "the one that you expected"

2004-12-28T09:03:00.000-08:00

Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group
Ever wondered if you are not able to create those 80 x 15 px buttons for your website ,
Check the above site, quite easy to make.. But definately good idea implemented by AdamKalsey ! :D
You can select custom colors, borders, etc.

2004-12-09T21:15:00.000-08:00

Mozilla / Firefox minimization Bug / Feature

Mozilla, Firefox when minimized and opened after a 20/30 mins take a huge CPU suddendly becuase they start to use the memory which they had given up.
To bring back all the tabs and paint the pages, they use this memory,
To stop this from happening...
In the address bar about:config
then
add a new boolean key by right clicking on the list
add the new key as
config.trim_on_minimize and set it to false
Now you can check that Mozilla / Firefox does not give away the memory on minimizing by opening Task Manager and then minimising Mozilla

2004-11-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

Using the XML HTTP Request object: "Internet Explorer on Windows, Safari on Mac OS-X and Mozilla on all platforms provide a method for client side javascript to make HTTP requests, Opera 7.6preview 1 also now features the object. This allows you to make HEAD requests to see when a resource was last modified, or to see if it even exists. It makes your scripting options more flexible allowing for POST requests without having the page change, and opens up the possibility of using PUT, DELETE etc. These methods are increasingly used to provide richer Web Applications like G-Mail that use lower bandwidth and offer snappier user response."

2004-11-05T10:12:00.000-08:00

15 Seconds : Client Side Validation Using the XMLHTTPRequest Object
The ASP guys into Wonderful client side scripting for the XMLHTTPRequest object.

2004-10-27T20:45:00.000-07:00

goollery: "Goollery?"
The world is really starting to use Google as a hard disk, Pretty much what google wants them to do
Goollery is a GMail based photo gallery. You can upload pictures from a website. The pictures will automatically be stored in your gmail accout.

2004-09-30T23:57:00.000-07:00

Bitflux Blog
Check this link,
and try to search in the Blog Live search...
it makes a xmlhttprequest to his server and returns an XML feed, which is parsed and shows as an drop down result
the keystroke event is used to search... !!!
its amazing

2004-09-30T05:56:00.000-07:00

FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet
Thought the funky text formatting editor was only for IE ?
check this FCKeditor....
They forgot the "u" though!

2004-09-30T02:33:00.000-07:00

Free Photoshop Tutorials, HTML Tutorials, Flash Tutorials
Check out all the funky tutorials...
from php to photoshop

2004-09-15T00:50:00.000-07:00

GNOME artwork & themes - art.gnome.org
That is the best part of gnome or Linux everything is free..
Just check out the themes , wallpapers, etc... Amazing...

2004-09-15T00:44:00.000-07:00

Bookmarklets Home Page - free tools for power surfing

Check the amazing bookmarklets..
My favourites are Images and the One Directory Up

2004-08-10T05:05:00.000-07:00

.net Charting Gallery
.NET Charting libraries, Yes its paid but I think its worth the money spent on it..

2004-08-09T02:34:00.000-07:00

Devshed

A detailed and nice article explaining MySQL architechture and locking concepts and more

2004-08-09T01:45:00.000-07:00

PHPBuilder.com - Using JavaScript To Call PHP Database Routines Between Windows

Using JavaScript To Call PHP Database Routines Between Windows

Use Javascript for a remote Procedure call