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Archives: computing

• Quick Ref: SVN command line: There are times when you need to use SVN rather than GIT. Command line is actually much more easier for SVN than many other graphic tools. (92 Words) [August 17, 2011 06:57 AM]
• Git with Dropbox: Git'ing with Dropbox (104 Words) [August 14, 2011 11:38 PM]
• Cisco's new urbanism: Part of Orwell's 1984 is now finally happening in 2015 (39 Words) [February 21, 2010 11:17 AM]
• Portable development links: Random links that might be useful later (20 Words) [November 12, 2009 06:47 PM]
• Wish I had this 10 years ago: Pipe Viewer via IBM dW In 1995, I got into a data warehouse project and all the ETL was... (32 Words) [November 09, 2009 01:14 PM]
• Associate filetypes to VIM: Life saver! (23 Words) [November 02, 2009 06:42 AM]
• Prototyping GUI/Web Applications using Spreadsheet: Spreadsheets can work as poor man's UI mockup tool. (400 Words) [August 25, 2009 06:57 PM]
• Freemind for presentations?: Random thoughts on using Freemind for presentations (89 Words) [August 23, 2009 11:00 AM]
• VIM 7 - autocomplete on: Nice stuff about VIM (30 Words) [August 21, 2009 08:54 PM]
• NVL() in ant: Often you need to set a property if not already set, in ANT. Here is how to do that. (34 Words) [August 20, 2009 08:50 PM]
• Sample Source : Watij and easyb: Simple example on how to link easyb and Watij to test web applications (229 Words) [June 14, 2009 06:37 PM]
• Leo script to generate environment setters: Convert property files into environment setting shell or batch scripts. (183 Words) [April 16, 2008 10:39 PM]
• Managing notes and todos: What I've tried so far to manage notes and todolists. (920 Words) [January 03, 2008 08:00 AM]
• Excel to record expenses: Find commercial money management tools complicated? Here is a simple solution. (332 Words) [January 01, 2008 12:40 PM]
• Lean Pivot Tables: Reduce the size of your Excel files that have pivot tables using dynamic ranges (309 Words) [June 13, 2007 08:34 PM]
• Can you spot the difference?: WTF does this mean? (26 Words) [June 13, 2007 10:18 AM]
• US Modem in India: Does your modem from US complain about phone line being busy, in India? (156 Words) [June 22, 2005 05:59 PM]
• Cool tools: Software I discovered recently and found useful. (100 Words) [December 31, 2003 12:10 PM]
• Old paradigms, new avenue: May be we need to draw some parallels to avoid ridicule :-) (302 Words) [November 14, 2003 06:51 PM]
• Good middle-tier architecture: Finally! Someone has the guts to say things that are not fashionable. (605 Words) [October 07, 2003 06:49 PM]
• Semi-connected computing: MSDN has an article on the subject. I'm surprised why this is not a hot topic among vendors. (321 Words) [September 24, 2003 06:04 AM]
• Toshiba e355: Got a good deal on this one; for the money involved, I think it is a good deal. (187 Words) [August 26, 2003 06:17 AM]
• FYs in Excel: I use these formulas way too much not to note down! (107 Words) [August 18, 2003 03:25 PM]
• Midas' touch: For $20k, you can feel "touch" across the net. Atleast in a research lab. (349 Words) [August 06, 2003 06:08 AM]
• Unison - file and directory synchroniser: Very nice file synchroniser with binaries for many platforms. (226 Words) [May 16, 2003 08:18 AM]
• Groove 2.5 notes: Groove 2.5 doesn't bring me more joys than 2.0. But, it is still a really good P2P collaboration tool. (815 Words) [April 28, 2003 09:52 PM]
• Really beginning to like SQLite: Faster than a speeding bullet. Is it SQLServer? No it is SQLite! (216 Words) [February 18, 2003 03:29 PM]
• Shipping the prototype: Let's promote scripting languages to the status they deserve (305 Words) [February 07, 2003 07:41 AM]
• Linkfest 2003.02.01: Random technology stuff I found interesting during this week. (148 Words) [February 01, 2003 09:11 AM]
• Low cost e-Governance: Good vision about e-Governance for developing countries like India. (205 Words) [January 30, 2003 07:45 PM]
• Website of Bruno R. Preiss: Nice site with on-line publications and books on programming. (76 Words) [January 07, 2003 06:17 AM]
• Applying IT to IT: Making IT worth its expense. And more. (506 Words) [December 16, 2002 06:03 PM]
• Docbook for programmers: One step closer to documentation nirvana! (153 Words) [November 12, 2002 12:13 PM]
• A-A-P: Just the kind of tool every programmer dreams about. (287 Words) [November 06, 2002 08:33 AM]
• CVSTrac: A lightweight track-patch-document-and-reporting system based on CVS. (275 Words) [November 03, 2002 01:47 PM]
• Making of an O'Reilly book: Could there be a free and easy to use system for making technical documentation? (214 Words) [November 03, 2002 08:23 AM]
• Networking laptop for the road: Switching computers from network to network. (110 Words) [October 24, 2002 06:11 PM]
• Guarantee, Spam and Sorcery: Miscellaneous and amusing bits from technology front. (86 Words) [October 23, 2002 07:18 AM]
• Writing code: Is writing code the greatest thing? No. I think, it is writing less code that makes software great. (270 Words) [September 26, 2002 10:26 AM]
• Software engineering for everyone: Written on 4/4/2001, but very true then, now and for a long time in the future. (145 Words) [September 25, 2002 06:18 AM]
• StarLogo: Great real life modeling tool. (236 Words) [September 24, 2002 05:57 AM]
• Access Intranet without VPN: Great software, great developer, perfect solution. (223 Words) [September 19, 2002 06:02 PM]
• Agile Modelling: Another methodology, or rather philosophy for development. (57 Words) [September 17, 2002 06:13 AM]
• IDE or Editor?: I've no answer for this question yet! How can I get myself to like an IDE? (422 Words) [September 16, 2002 06:36 AM]
• Best of ALL worlds!: Very impressive. I doubt if things like this would've been possible without open source. (122 Words) [September 07, 2002 07:26 PM]
• Why I don't like Groove: Groove has been on my PC at work for 2 months now. I'm not as excited now, as I was when I started. (647 Words) [September 01, 2002 09:23 AM]
• What if Honda made software?: Honda's principles are very simple and sensible. Perhaps these should be used in software development. (707 Words) [August 22, 2002 07:09 AM]
• A stylesheet for O'Reilly authors: Documentation authors, think outside the "Word"! (157 Words) [August 19, 2002 07:31 AM]
• Prime breakthrough: A professor and two students from IITK finds an algorithm to check the primality of numbers. (49 Words) [August 10, 2002 07:48 AM]
• BPML: This time, it is the turn of business processes to use XML. (341 Words) [August 07, 2002 03:21 PM]
• Scintilla and SciTE: Switch to SCiTE, if you code using Notepad. (50 Words) [August 01, 2002 09:34 AM]
• Examining random events: Principles of complex adaptive systems being applied to computing (71 Words) [August 01, 2002 05:54 AM]
• Cool town: HP's vision of networked future. (102 Words) [June 23, 2002 10:11 AM]
• Gentle introduction to gettext: Just what I wanted to get the motivation to try out gettext. (72 Words) [June 14, 2002 06:19 AM]
• Software installation with Ant: Good article on using Ant. (37 Words) [June 07, 2002 09:23 AM]
• Make sure the customer comes first: Or, why the waterfall model doesn't work! (134 Words) [May 31, 2002 12:42 PM]
• Sharp Zaurus reviewed: O'Reilly Net: Simson Garfinkel reviews the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA. [link]... (13 Words) [May 24, 2002 05:51 AM]
• Powers of 10: Interactive Java tutorial: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: ">Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial. Pretty neat... (22 Words) [May 22, 2002 08:50 AM]
• Mexico get Microsoft: Microsoft lands Mexico's business (42 Words) [May 19, 2002 04:28 PM]
• yEnc: binuary to text: yEnc is a popular format for encoding binaries into text for posting into news groups. (54 Words) [May 19, 2002 11:14 AM]
• Buzz: outliner in Python: Buzz is a Python outliner that understands OPML. (44 Words) [May 14, 2002 05:59 AM]
• DOS batch programming: My sanity was saved by Windows 95 / DOS 7 Batch Programming, a site devoted to the topic. DOS and... (47 Words) [April 26, 2002 06:33 PM]
• Goodies from IBM dW: Three nice articles from developerWorks. 1. Security in a Web Services World: This paper describes a proposed strategy and comprehensive... (78 Words) [April 12, 2002 10:43 AM]
• ExcelWriter module in Perl: "The Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module can be used to create a cross-platform Excel binary file. Multiple worksheets can be added to a... (74 Words) [April 10, 2002 07:48 AM]
• IBM Sash: Last year, I tried IBM Sash. I really liked the idea where you can use HTML forms and Javascript to... (198 Words) [April 06, 2002 07:07 AM]
• Litestep - again!: After 6 months, I was feeling crippled at work without having "workspace" features available in Windows. So, got LiteStep and... (44 Words) [April 03, 2002 06:43 PM]
• Jon Udell on instant outlining: Jon writes about his thoughts and impressions on instant outlining technology using Radio Community Server. As usual, very well written.... (96 Words) [April 02, 2002 06:44 AM]
• Andre Durand: what next for Jabber?: An excellent article about an excellent piece of software. Good strategy and directions outlined - let us hope that the... (22 Words) [April 01, 2002 12:04 PM]
• Unix under Aqua: Linux Journal has a pretty good article about power of UNIX behind OS X.... (14 Words) [March 30, 2002 09:17 AM]
• KnowNow: "KnowNow provides Internet-scale event routing solutions that seamlessly integrate information among Web services, applications and users -- enabling the real-time... (81 Words) [March 25, 2002 10:44 AM]
• Residential computing at UC Berkely: A very nice site with good resources. What is really impressive is that they've taken pains to document everything. That... (24 Words) [March 20, 2002 06:22 PM]
• Outliner software: Now that there is an attempt at standardization of outline representation, I'd like to see more software for this. I... (112 Words) [March 19, 2002 06:38 PM]
• Rebol: Make-doc-pro: Came across Make-doc-pro a scheme like Zope's structured text, but more powerful. Implemented in REBOL, it is a very useful... (81 Words) [March 15, 2002 11:13 AM]
• Sun & Microsoft: Sun Microsystems sues Microsoft for more than $1 billion, for not including Java in XP. Forking hell - Ballmer tells... (26 Words) [March 08, 2002 03:51 PM]
• Microsoft responsible for Enron collapse: Microsoft's reliance on a "Tupperware" information architecture faulted in a USA Today article. Very interesting read, though I find it... (61 Words) [February 22, 2002 08:08 AM]
• Dual-boot PCs: Apparently Microsoft has exclusive OEM deals that prevent manufacturers from installing other OS in PCs into which they install Windows.... (289 Words) [February 19, 2002 06:50 PM]
• ComputerHistory.Org: ComputerHistory.Org. Pretty informational site. Check out the timeline. There is also a page on internet history, but it rendered as... (29 Words) [February 19, 2002 07:14 AM]
• Bye bye HP Pavilion!: Ed Foster reports that HP will not give you a backup media for Windows XP unless you prove that it... (139 Words) [February 16, 2002 06:21 PM]
• Microsoft stops new work to fix bugs: Describing the state of computing today as unstable and unreliable, he (privacy chief for Microsoft) said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates... (54 Words) [February 12, 2002 07:52 PM]
• Opera 6.0b for Windows: Downloaded Opera 6 beta for Windows. Very nice and stable. Mozilla 0.9.5 seems flaky at times, so I'm wondering if... (30 Words) [November 18, 2001 08:00 AM]
• No XP for me: Brian Livingston puts in a very compelling argument about not switching to Windows XP TM. I'm not going to upgrade... (44 Words) [October 29, 2001 08:00 AM]
• Connect to home from outside: Explains how to login to the Linux server at home. Modem dial-up script posts the dynamic IP address to a... (49 Words) [April 04, 2001 08:00 AM]