[Cool , Product]
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Sep 30, 2009 3:35:29 PM
by ram
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Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There's a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that "the operation can currently take up to 40 seconds" and a small ...
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[Cool]
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Sep 10, 2009 11:19:57 AM
by ram
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Good way to embed PDF files to your site....
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[General , Website]
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Apr 22, 2009 3:59:41 PM
by ram
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An excellent compilation of how to speed up your website. Must read for all the programmers....
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[Helpful]
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Jan 10, 2009 1:37:49 PM
by techm
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I recently discovered a new search engine that does price comparisons for different kinds of printing services. Even though the concept is simple the convenience factor is amazing. Lets say you want to print business cards, rather than visiting multiple sites to find out prices and shipping dates you can ...
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[Technology , Database]
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Jan 8, 2009 9:53:04 PM
by ram
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Newyork Times has announced an API for congress, which lets developers access information about Congressional representatives and their votes.
The initial release exposes four types of data:
1) list of members for a given Congress and chamber,
2) details of a specific roll-call vote,
3) biographical and role information about a specific member of Congress
4) member’s most recent positions ...
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[News]
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Jan 8, 2009 3:15:37 PM
by gypsy
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DC's initiative towards Web 2.0. They made certain data public and set up a contest so that people can create applications based on them. Check out the list of applications, its pretty cool....
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[Helpful , General]
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Sep 3, 2008 9:43:26 PM
by techm
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According to Daniel Tenner the following are some good ways to recognize a good programmer. Be sure to read the full article:
Passionate about technology, Programs as a hobby, Will talk your ear off on a technical subject if encouraged, Significant (and often numerous) personal side-projects over the years, Learns new technologies on his/her own, Opinionated about which technologies are better ...
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[General]
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Jul 11, 2008 10:27:27 AM
by gypsy
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Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy. This article contains interview techniques, garnered from a recent summit on writing better code, that can help you can find the most qualified programmers for your projec...
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[Product , Helpful]
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Apr 22, 2008 4:19:11 PM
by techm
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Today I could not login to my Vista machine. After sometime it boiled down to two choices:
1) Reinstall Vista and lose all data.
2) Reset my account password.
I decided to go with option #2. After some googling I found a lot of people mentioned using a freeware software called Ophcrack . This ...
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[Product , Helpful]
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Jan 13, 2008 8:38:15 PM
by techm
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Came across fiddler today which is a is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic ...
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[Helpful , Product]
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Jan 12, 2008 3:38:04 PM
by techm
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Despite having all the resources in the world Microsoft cannot speed up Outlook searches. I usually can schedule a haircut and be pretty sure that the search will not be over by the time I come back.
Thanks to a 3rd party plugin called Lookout I can do most of my searches in under two seconds across all my Outlook folders. Unfortunately Lookout is not being actively developed but it still works ...
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[Video , Technology]
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Dec 20, 2007 4:16:37 PM
by techm
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Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University tapped into MacGyvers spirit and cooked up a multi touch display system using a Nintendo Wii remote and ball points. Essentially since the Wiimote tracks IR light, Lee figured out that by waving a LED in front of the Wiimote he could trick the computer into doing whatever his LED pen was doing. Cut through the confusion by watching the video after the ...
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[Java]
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Dec 6, 2007 12:21:17 PM
by gypsy
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This article will introduce you to JBoss Webservice (JAX-WS). Here you will learn how to use the annotations and create a web service to deploy in JBoss.
Related Article
Invoking Web Services using Apache Axis2 ...
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[Reporting Tools , Java]
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Nov 30, 2007 9:40:52 AM
by gypsy
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Open Reports provides browser based, parameter driven, dynamic report generation and flexible report scheduling capabilities.
OpenReports supports a variety of open source reporting engines, including JasperReports, JFreeReport, JXLS, and Eclipse BIRT, to provide support for a wide range of reporting requirements and capabilities. OpenReports also supports QueryReports and ChartReports, easy to ...
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[Java , Helpful]
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Nov 20, 2007 4:00:43 PM
by tarek
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Take a deep dive into jMaki, a client-side framework that makes it easy to build Ajax-based web applications. In this session hosted by Ed Ort from the java.sun.com team, jMaki Project lead and Sun Ajax architect Greg Murray discusses some of the important elements of jMaki and ...
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[Helpful]
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Oct 27, 2007 10:53:33 AM
by techm
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Here is a great deal for our readers. The new new internet conference held on Nov 1st in Reston Va will cost you only $295. Speakers include Om Malik and Ted Leonsis. Thats a $300 saving on the individual price. Click here to get ...
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[Video , Technology]
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Oct 20, 2007 4:42:04 PM
by techm
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Angela Caicedo has combined Sun's Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT ) enabled virtual reality glove and Project Looking Glass to create the most realistic minority ...
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[Java , Database]
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Oct 16, 2007 3:14:37 PM
by ram
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Microsoft SQL Server today announced the general availability of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.2 driver has been released. This release continues Microsoft's commitment to the Java community and non-Microsoft centric programming platforms.
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[Helpful]
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Aug 31, 2007 4:19:11 PM
by ram
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Here is a small tutorial for Struts-2 beginers.
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[Cool , Helpful]
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Jun 17, 2007 7:11:53 PM
by techm
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I got this via an email. So I'm not sure about the original source, however this cartoon explains Software Development Life Cycle better than anything you will ever see. Pic after the jump...
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