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Krugle, Koders, CodeFetch, CSourceSearch and Likes …
So Krugle is about to come out and join the league of Koders, CodeFetch, CSourceSearch and likes. All of them intend to make discovery of source code from available repositories quicker and more...
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WordPress – Restructure Your Theme
WordPress Site Architecture 1.5 gives a nice description of how the template files are used to create the resulting web page. In addition to this Lorelle’s Designing Themes for WordPressMU explains...
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XULRunner For Mozilla Based Development
Mozilla Platform is a sturdy and proven platform for application development. XULRunner is a command-line application that is used to run XUL applications. As mentioned in the Sunbird article, XUL is a...
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FeedTree – Feeds Over P2P
Have you ever felt that your RSS client got the news just a little late? This typically happens because the RSS clients poll the feeds, and the polling happens over an interval, typically half an hour....
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Boo! – Python for CLI
Rodrigo Barreto de Oliveira wanted to program using the .Net architecture and did not want to use heavy languages like C# or C++ and preferred simpler ones like Python. Out came one more programming...
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Incorporating Usability
Taking a cue from Lorelle’s article – Usability Isn’t Expensive. It’s Practical. Usability is Useful, this is an effort to extend it to all softwares – web and desktop both. Usability is about thinking...
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Flick Animation with CSS
Animation has always meant a resource consuming activity, either the size is too big and requires binary formats like Flash or GIF or client side scripting like JavaScript to be run. All of them depend...
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WordPress Global Variables
Usage of global variables in WordPress is easy syntax, but it also makes breaking of functionalities easier while using them. This is an effort to document all the global variables used by WordPress...
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Aspect Oriented Programming – The Concept
Writing a software program is automating real world systems. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) has brought in a systematic way of capturing and designing the business information and processes. OOP...
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Dumb, Thick, Thin – What Next?
Once upon a time, software professionals used to work on dumb terminals. This will probably evoke lot of bad memories, a feeling of lack of control and a character-based user interface. The terminal...
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Make It More Usable – Help
Yes, I consider Help to be part of usability. Not because it is one of the core elements of usability, but because it can be a one-point stop for your users (visitors, readers) to know about your...
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Adaptive Programming
Adaptive Programming is a development method that is built on the Law of Demeter principle. The feature of loose coupling makes the software programs more flexible and resilient to change. For Current...
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Lateral Thinking and Software Engineering
Software Engineering is inherently complex, atleast to the software developers. This is because the purpose of software engineering is always always more than just technical – to solve some real world...
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Portlets
With Internet penetrating all the walks of life, a web page today has to display diverse information. Sometimes this information is not related to each other, but is relevant to the user. Even thought...
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Optimize Your CSS
The combination of XHTML and CSS can reduce size of a webpage, mainly by freeing up the layout from HTML tables. This does not mean that any XHTML and CSS code can do it. It has to be done the right...
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Endianness
This post has already been published on code::gallery blog which now has been merged into this blog. Just like we have to read from left to right or right to left depending upon what language we are...
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API Reference Heaven
This post has already been published on code::gallery blog which now has been merged into this blog. Found a very useful site for API reference – gotAPI (via Curt’s Comments). It is simply great to...
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This One Is For Programmers
Curt Hibbs points to some interesting questions asked by Stiff and answered by who’s who in the programming domain. Not golden rules or the word of God, but they definitely can serve as guidelines to...
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Libraries, Toolkits And Frameworks
This post has already been published on code::gallery blog which now has been merged into this blog. We come across a mesh of nomenclature regarding libraries everyday – Application Programming...
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Why Binary Searches Can Break
This post has already been published on code::gallery blog which now has been merged into this blog. Binary searches and mergesorts can break, in fact, most of them will break because they follow the...
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