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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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[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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[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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[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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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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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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[Javascript , Helpful]
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May 28, 2007 3:12:12 PM
by techm
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fValidator is a form validation library that gives you useful visual cues while filling out a web page form. For example if the password and confirm password fields don't match you can visually alert the end user on the form....
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[Java , Helpful]
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May 19, 2007 3:56:46 PM
by techm
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Starting with J2SE 5.0 sun has introduced comprehensive monitoring and management support for the Java platform. Some features are
1) JVM Instrumentation
2) Monitoring and Management APIs
3) Tools
4) Integrated JMX
A graphical JMX monitoring tool, jconsole, enables you to monitor the performance of a JVM and instrumented applications, providing information to help you optimize ...
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May 3, 2007 7:19:27 PM
by techm
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If you are running a network of computers and need to figure out the state of your network you will be hard pressed to find a better scanner than Nessus. Its a free application that will scan each machine for vulnerabilities and identify the holes, give you warnings and ample notes on how to fix the problems.
Once you figure out the open ports you may have to verify the processes using openports. ...
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May 3, 2007 7:11:14 PM
by techm
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Angry IP scanner is a nice little utility that allows you to quickly scan an ip range and figure out what ips are being used along with what ports are being used....
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May 3, 2007 7:00:48 PM
by techm
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I was used to working with fport to hunt down applications based on their port numbers. However recently I could not run fport on a machine since I did not have admin privileges. Thats when openports came to the rescue. ...
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[Website , Helpful]
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Apr 6, 2007 9:26:29 AM
by gypsy
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Atleap is an open source content management system using various open source technologies and design patterns currently used.
The most part of the site development and maintenance processes is the content (mainly texts) modifications in accordance with changeable customer requirements. There is CMS necessity which can allow shifting this routine work from technical ...
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[Java , Helpful]
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Mar 14, 2007 8:43:15 AM
by Admin
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Here is a simple step by step explanation of how to integrate Tomcat and Apache using the Mod JK connector. The author has done a good job. The only problem I had was hunting down the mod_jk file which I finally found. I will try to provide a link to it
Why would you want to do this? If you need servlet functionality but dont want to type the 8080 port in urls.
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Oct 3, 2006 9:42:14 AM
by Admin
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The Joel Test
1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
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[Java , Helpful]
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Sep 29, 2006 8:48:01 AM
by gypsy
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Here is an article of comparison of some issue tracking systems. It has comparisons by the type of license, implementation language, user interface, back end, source control, reporting tools availability, customizable work flows and others. Check it out!...
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[Helpful , Product]
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Sep 24, 2006 7:34:39 PM
by techm
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According to the website, "PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
* Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
* Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
* Send generated files via eMail
* Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
* AutoSave files to folders and filenames ...
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[Helpful , Video]
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Sep 23, 2006 6:14:41 PM
by techm
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For the brave of heart you can get an open source alternative to macromedias captivate . Its written in python so you need to have python on your machine and VNC server.
According to the site "Vnc2swf ...
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