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Announcing Ext JS 3.2 beta – Multisort, Transitions and Composite Fields

We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing…


GDC 2010: From concept to Top Paid with Unity iPhone

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Unity Technologies hosted the sponsored lunch panel during GDC 2010 today, and their “product evangelist” Tom Higgins gave a quick rundown…

Ambilight for video tag—prepare to cry.

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If Sublime Video resulted in a mess in your pants, make sure you take em off before you see for this one. Ambilight for video tag. At first it looks like an average video player,…

Thoughts on MongoHQ pricing - /dev/mull

I was lucky enough to be a beta-tester for MongoHQ, the hosted MongoDB service.
I am really enjoying using the service - the web interface is sweet, but it is really the performance which has been…


Des chercheurs ont réussi à casser une clé RSA de 1024 bits

Des chercheurs de l’université du Michigan ont réussi une chose réputée impossible. Ils ont réussi à casser une clé RSA de 1024 bits en seulement 100 heures, alors qu’il aurait fallu des années à…


Pulpcore - Rationale of using pulpcore.js

Pulpcore is a 2D rendering and animation framework for Java applets.The pulpcore.js loader has four features:

It shows a loading splash while the JRE is booting and the PulpCore application jar is…


Call Javascript from a Java applet - using the reflection API

Using the Reflection API to avoid modifying your CLASSPATH for compilation or importing the netscape.jsobject package.


Sloppy - the slowproxy

Sloppy deliberately slows the transfer of data between client and server.
“Sloppy belongs in the ‘essentials’ toolbox of every web developer”
- PC Pro Magazine


Testing Applets - Codehaus

FEST-Swing provides its own “applet viewer” to support GUI testing of Java applets. Testing an applet involves three steps: start the applet, the actual test and resource cleanup.


java.awt.Robot (Java Platform SE 6)

This class is used to generate native system input events for the purposes of test automation, self-running demos, and other applications where control of the mouse and keyboard is needed. The…


Geospatial Indexing in MongoDB

Geospatial Indexing in MongoDB (via). New in version 1.3.3. Handles “order by distance from” queries using a geohash approach under the hood, automatically searching nearby grid squares until…


Google backs HTC in what could be 'long and bloody battle' with Apple

Apple’s patent lawsuit against handset maker HTC is predicted by one analyst to be a major clash between the two corporations, with Apple having better than 50-50 odds to come out victorious in…


Running Processes

Running Processes. I’ve been searching for a good solution to this problem (“run this program, and restart it if it falls over”) for years. I’m currently using god which works pretty well, but…


Google Testing Blog: Testing in the Data Center (Manufacturing No More)

Very interesting analogy between healthcare and IT, monitoring and testing. “Let’s add equipment to take vitals and display them for any attending tester to see. Like human patients, apps have a…



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