Friday, March 21, 2008

Ajax loader generator

Simple and great animated gif generator. Create your animated ajax loader online.

http://ajaxload.info/

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Continuous Integration anti-patterns

A two parts article about Continuous Integration at developerworks.

The Five-O'Clock Check-in is a quick way to lose friends if your team follows the rule that no one goes home until changes are committed and a build is run. Just the wait to submit code can be tedious. Imagine what happens, then, when the build breaks. I'm thinking that there will be a lot of calls home to explain why you'll be late ... again.


Part I
Part II

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Setting heap size when "Run as Eclipse Application"

I have to put -Xmx128m as VM arguments in "Run Configuration Dialog"



Read more about setting java heap size

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Firefox 3 performance


10 times faster than IE7, 30% faster than opera


  1. Firefox 3 Nightly (PGO Optimized): 7263.8ms
  2. Firefox 3 Nightly (02/25/2008 build): 8219.4ms
  3. Opera 9.5.9807 Beta: 10824.0ms
  4. Firefox 3 Beta 3: 16080.6ms
  5. Safari 3.0.4 Beta: 18012.6ms
  6. Firefox 2.0.0.12: 29376.4ms
  7. Internet Explorer 7: 72375.0ms

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Chickensaurus

Reassemble a chicken skeleton from the bones remaining after a chicken dinner. Read how in this wired article





Sunday, February 17, 2008

Tasktop tour

Tasktop Technologies created and leads Eclipse Mylyn, an open source tool that transforms the developer's workday by automatically focusing the development environment on the task at hand. To enable all knowledge workers to benefit from the dramatic productivity improvements cited by developers using Mylyn, Tasktop Technologies is developing the task-focused desktop. Tasktop also provides consulting services to companies extending their offerings to leverage Mylyn's Task-Focused User Interface.

http://tasktop.com/videos/2008-winter/tasktop-eclipse.html

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Write your google powered translator NOW

Google translator API can be used unofficially. See how in "Mine Google Translator" source code.

Project Description
This project provides several ways to consume the Google Translation System.

You can use our WinForm Software, as well as the Asp .Net WebControl or the Asp .Net Service.