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Java 101 – Lesson 3 – Dissecting Hello World
This article is a continuation of articles in the series of Java 101. You will need to read lesson 1 and lesson 2 to completely understand this article (or blog post, or whatever you want to call it). In lesson 2, we executed a piece of code, which printed “Hello World” on the command prompt…
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An application from back in the day
I found a screenshot I had taken of a website which hosted an open source component I wrote a while ago. Back then, I was very active with open source development. Now, life has gotten so busy that I haven’t been able to spend much time on it. This was one of my first applications…
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Windows Mobile 6.5
I downloaded and tested Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM on my HTC Kaiser and I have to say it has a much better user interface than its predecessors. It is finger friendly, has tap-scrolling (drag to start scrolling and tap to stop scrolling) and its “Today” screen is much better (very similar to the Hyperdragon ROM).…
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Java 101 – Lesson 2 – Getting familiar with Java
I’ve never been too fond of books when trying to learn a language for the first time. The reason is that they give you too many details in the beginning that you may not necessarily be interested in until later on. The approach that I’ve found to be very useful in learning or teaching is…
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Java 101 – Lesson 1 – Installing the JDK
Since this is the first class, I guess I should talk about what Java is. Java is a language that can be used to write platform-independent desktop applications or web applications. The term “Platform independent” means that you can write the code for an application on Windows and run it in Linux or a Mac…
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Android Exeda – A more detailed look
I had written a post about CompuLab releasing an Android based phone called Exeda. It’s official now and they are making it available in March. They will make the price available along with the phone. It has a 3.5 inch screen which is sun-readable. It also has a touchpad which acts as a mouse. The…
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Action: Sponsors Sought for U.S. Citizens to be Evacuated from Gaza
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2009) – CAIR today issued a call for American sponsors willing to assist families of U.S. citizens who may be evacuated this week from the Gaza Strip. SEE: U.S. Preparing Evacuation of 150 Americans State Department officials tell CAIR that some of the almost 150 potential evacuees do not have family members in the…
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Israeli Bullets Hit Home of American Children Trapped in Gaza
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2009) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported today that Israeli bullets hit the house of two American children trapped under bombardment by Israel in the Gaza Strip. CAIR has been seeking State Department assistance in evacuating the two children, ages six and three, along with all the other Americans in Gaza.…
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G2 on the way?
According to some rumors on IT news websites, some new Android phones will be released in 2009. cellphonesignal.com claims that a phone, G2, is in the making and will be released in January of 2009. Another website claims that it will be released in April. Best of all, G2 will not be locked down to…
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Debugging services in C#
Recently, I have had to build a service for Windows and (not unlike everyone else who has tried to do this) I came across a hurdle of not being able to debug my service from the Visual Studio. I had to install the service manually, start it and debug it. Every time after the installation,…