Programming

I am still using Java 1.4 and was contemplating on move to Java 5/1.5 and lo Java 6 is out.

Ok now if you are confused with these version numbers check this page.

I am still to get in terms with the new features of Java 1.5 itself and now Java 6 seems to come with a bunch of more goodies !

Also Sun seems to be marketing their Netbeans IDE with this release

Java SE 6 is the current major release of the Java SE platform, with full support from NetBeans IDE 5.5.

I have tried to use NetBeans couple of times and I

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Google Reader, the online RSS reader from Google had a major upgrade some time back. Check this post to know more about Google Reader.

Mihai Parparita, one of the lead developer of Google Reader has written a Greasemonkey Script to add Reader into GMail. The script added a "Feeds" link within GMail as shown below:

Winston has written another Greasemonkey script to integrate Reader into GMail. Some of the new features are:

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

I use PuTTY for 2 primary reasons

It can save the session information and I can quickly load the session of my choice (i.e. I don't need to remember the IP details etc)

It has support for SSH sessions.

The application is a single executable file and its pretty easy to configure and use. A step by step guide for configuring Putty can be found here. The only drawback is that for every session, I have to open a new window, and especially when you

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Eclipse as of today is the industry's major non-Microsoft software tool platform. The number of companies adopting this platform is a testimonial of the platform's success. (Check my previous post for more on the history of Eclipse IDE) Eclipse has a well-designed, and extensible architecture. What is valuable about Eclipse is that it provides an open source platform for creating an extensible integrated development environment. This platform allows anyone to build tools that integrate seamlessly with the environment and other tools. The key to the seamless integration of tools with Eclipse is the plug-in. With the exception of a small run-time kernel, everything in Eclipse is a plug-in. This means that a plug-in you develop integrates with Eclipse in exactly ...

I was not even aware that there was a search engine dedicated for searching source code. Thanks again to StumbleUpon ! In fact after digging through Google search results, I got to know that this tool existed for quite some time :( About Koders Koders.com is the leading search engine for open source code. Our source code optimized search engine provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications. Every month Koders generates a report on the keywords used in the search tool. It generates a list of top searched keyword, top solutions (i.e. downloaded ...

In the late 1990s, IBM began development of what we now know as Eclipse. In the mid-1990s, a number of powerful commercial development environments were available; Microsoft Visual Studio was becoming a more general-purpose tools platform. A number of Java-based IDEs were also coming into play, including Symantec's Visual Café, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's Visual Age for Java, and others. Primary Goal The platform began development by Object Technology International in 1998 (a subsidiary of IBM purchased in 1996, now known as the IBM Ottawa Lab) to address the problems raised by customers that dealt with the cohesiveness of IBM software tooling. Customers complained that IBM's tooling looked like it came from different companies and didn't work together. IBM wanted to establish a common platform for all their development products to avoid duplicating the most common elements of infrastructure. This would allow customers using multiple tools built by different parts of IBM to have a more integrated experience as they switched from one tool to another Beginning of the phenomenon In November 1998, the OTI team was given the go ahead because they had experience building several generations of IDEs. Also, another IBM team was going to build the first product on this new platform.

Check out this link to learn more about Linux Command line and Shell scripting http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/index.php The content is nicely organized and should be very useful for Unix/Linux newbies and probably even for people knowing Unix

Tags: Linux, Shell scripting, Linux Command