Archive for March, 2009

A new Wordpress theme for our blog

Finally I found a new design for this blog site!
I looked after a new  theme the during the last weeks on several places and tried also commercial products as a “Woo” theme. Most of themes I found doesn’t met my requirements. Premium wordpress themes are often more unique, but it’s not possible to see if [...]

8 Excellent Free Websites To Enjoy Your Weekend Or Just For Fun

What do you do normally on weekends? Find a way to get busy in something to refresh your minds? This post will make you busy on your weekends to spend your time in more interesting way. Here we are listing down few of the unique free websites that are fun to use for everyone of [...]

The power of Erlang bit syntax

Just finishing off the chapter on bit syntax and pattern matching over bit strings for our Erlang book. We wanted to put in a realistic example, and chose a TCP segment as described here.

Advanced GWT Components 1.4.6 released

Release 1.4.6 includes:
Bug fixes:
1. Grid Resize Does Not Collapse Properly
2. SimpleGrid resizing issues
3. Issues with GWT embedded browser
New features:
1. Implement basic borders API
2. Implement advanced tab panel
3. Columns resizing feature must be implemented in the SimpleGrid
4. Add setDate() to DatePicker
5. New demo application required
6. Add grid methods to provide an ability to get grid [...]

Engineering Windows 7 : A few more changes from Beta to RC…

Hey folks, just wanted to provide another update (building on the recent post on some changes since Beta) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate. Again, there are many and this is not an exhaustive list. Of course we continue to gather telemetry from the large number of [...]

Why Sun won’t give Harmony the seal of approval

My last blog post, on the long-running Sun-Apache Software Foundation spat that resurfaced when it came time to vote on Java EE 6, attracted a bit of interest. Some off-the-record sources chatted with me about it and I now feel like I have a bit more of a sense of what it’s all about. Here’s [...]

Design Patterns for Dummies. The Memento Pattern

I have been writing about the GOF design patterns for quite some time now, and, this would be the last of the series. I will be writing about the Memento pattern today which is a behavioral pattern. You can read about the other patterns from the following links.

Do not fear continuous deployment

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that you have relatively easy access to a number of the developers you may work with through open source projects, mailing lists, IRC, etc. Today Kohsuke Kawaguchi of Sun Microsystems, the founder of the Hudson project, stopped by the Slide offices to discuss Hudson [...]

GXT’s MVC Framework

For the past couple of months, I’ve been developing a GWT application using a mix of plain ol’ GWT and GXT widgets. When I first started developing it, I didn’t know how to best organize my code and separate the logic. The solution I came up with was to adopt some sort of MVC framework. [...]

Creating pseudo 3D games with HTML 5 canvas and raycasting: Part 2

This is my second article about creating Wolfenstein-like games with JavaScript, DOM and HTML 5 canvas; the techniques discussed are similar to those used in my WolfenFlickr project. In the first article, I created a basic map for the player to walk around in and a pseudo-3D rendering of the game world using raycasting techniques. [...]