Programming

Java 6 is out

December 13, 2006

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 [...]

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Google Reader in GMail (Another Greasemonkey script)

November 6, 2006

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: [...]

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Poderosa – Alternative to Putty

September 20, 2006

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 [...]

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Install Eclipse Plugins – The Easy Way

August 20, 2006

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 [...]

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Koders – Search Source Code

August 19, 2006

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 [...]

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History of Eclipse

July 21, 2006

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 [...]

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Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting

June 29, 2006

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

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