18 Excellent CSS Tips and Techniques Tutorial for You

July 13th, 2007 Poromenos, a greek student, has written a nice tutorial on Python, a rapidly growing and ever popular Web 2.0 language. I think it will take you somewhat longer than 10 minutes to go through all the examples.

March 10th, 2008 Here is a nice video on the quintessential Hello World program. All you need is Java to go through this excellent introductory tutorial for Windows users.

July 24th, 2007 I came across a very interesting ad from Toto introducing Washlets to the US market. It employs nudity, specifically smiling asses to drive home its point - Washlet makes your ass happy.

December 20th, 2008 Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. But its been more than 10 years from then and the popularity has taken Java to an enviable height.

May 2nd, 2007 I was recently introduced to Mercurial, a new distributed version control system people are talking about. Version control systems are central to any development team and a choice shouldn't be made lightly as you will often find your development process limited by the limitations of the system.

November 5th, 2008 vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers.

March 12th, 2008 Amazon.com WidgetsCheck out this excellent video of Java puzzles from Google tech talk. There is also a nice book on Java puzzles by Joshua Block & Neal Gafter.

May 6th, 2008 JavaOne 2008 is starting in couple of hours. I will be there all four days soaking in all the knowledge, fun and sharing about it in this blog.

August 17th, 2008 Smack is an excellent Java XMPP Library. While creating a pubsub broker in XMPP I faced a strange issue where few messages were missing.

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.

May 30th, 2007 We are currently processing huge amount of sensitive corporate data for a Fortune 500 company as the first phase of a project. You have to be very careful in data processing, much more than any standard programming effort.

September 11th, 2007 I have tried several HTML Editors over the years. One of the earliest WYSIWYG HTML editor I used was Netscape Gold / Composer, which was quite basic but probably the only one at that time (1995).

January 15th, 2009 We see so many encrypted pages with tight security features around the internet. Do you want to make an encrypted page for yourself? What if we start from the basics and encrypt a query inside and ASP page? So let me show you how.

July 21st, 2007 Ext extension UploadForm is a new extension to easily upload multiple files from web interface to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded.

March 3rd, 2008 I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam you; they are the hardest to detect), referrer spam etc.