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It not often that Singapore gets positive limelight in IT news (Yup I am refering to Odex...) but this article certainly sounds like something which will make IT people take a second look.To make flying more enjoyable for its passengers, Singapore Airlines Ltd. is adding bigger screens, more in-flight movies and a PC, running Red Hat Inc.'s distribution of the Linux operating …
Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. - WikipediaThis area has recently caught my interest. Previously when I was still at Cornet Technologies, the framework which I had developed had an "aspect of delivering data" which seemed to be a mismatch with the SOA approach that …
I realised that after my move over to Australia that my Firefox installation had lost its built-in spell checker. At first I thought that it was the result of certain new plug-ins I had installed, but after look round a bit, found out that it was because of a missing dictionary.In short what happened was I after getting to Australia, I changed my operating system time zone …
Its been a while since I last had to do any manual html composing. Instead of sticking to the regular dreamweaver, for this time round, I took a look around to see what good open source alternatives are available. Heres the latest configuration of my "enviroment".Firefox with the following pluginsFirebug - great debugging toolWeb developer - name says it all, a real "swiss …
It has been a while since I fiddled with java. Was trying to revert to an earlier version of JRE (1.42) after installing JRE 1.5. Did not manage to find much concise info on the web besides for chunks of queries on the sun forums. But I did manage to find what I was looking for there and thought it would be nice to summarise it here.Anyway on windows, the easiest thing to do …
Every once in a while, Ted talks showcases technology that simply makes me go WOW. The Talk by Bill Stone is one such case. He plans to send a machine to bore through miles of ice and swim through a liquid underworld that may harbor alien life. And if that's not enough, he's also planning to mine lunar ice by 2015.Sounds like a page out of a science friction novel? Watch the …
Michael made a post on his blog recently about pros and cons of working for a small business.I am not sure about other industries, but for the IT industry, I personally think it boils down to what you intend to achieve with your career and your appetite for risks. A job acts as a spring board and transition phase to your future plans. Its always good to start a little career …
Simply amazing, Microsoft's new upcoming product Microsoft Surface.Official SitePopular Mechanics July 2007 ReportImagine this working with software and add ons that can be written. What I have in mind is Bump Top (Demo at Ted Talks) running on Surface.... will surfaces be the new desktops in homes of the future?
During the recent D5 conference where Bill Gates and Steve Job were interviewed, this came up.I think in terms of intuitive taste, both for people and products, you know, we sat in Mac pro …
Wow the iPhone is looks great in the ad. Would be great to see what other products will emerge from this new next level benchmark in mobile phones.
Ask.com just had a relaunch of their website. My first impression is that it looks and feels like Google.... with a touch of Yahoo.Its certainly a vast improvement over the original and while the little touches on the UI like skins that are nice to have. Interestingly, the search results returned feels more personal compared to what I can find from a Google search. I could …
For technology, there is always a point when its utility value takes a huge upturn. Like for the Internet, it was the intervention of WWW, for mobile devices, it was when your local Telco …
Just saw this on TechCrunch about Reactee.Reactee allows users to create t-shirts that include a personalized message such “Stop Global Whaling” or “Andrew Keen is a Luddite” that is then …
What is iris?iris is the acronym for Intelligent Route Information System. Through iris, we hope to provide information services to enhance your travel experience with SBS Transit. iris currently offers 2 applications to help you better plan your journeys: iris NextBus and iris Journey Planner. Source : SBS Transit When i first saw this I had a feeling of Deja Vu. Back when I …
Simple and straight forward to install Google Gears. Besides for the small hitch of having to restart Firefox before being able to use it(Somehow they left that out in the installation instructions), I would give the process a 5 star rating. Downloading of the items was all simple and direct.The UI for Google Reader in offline mode was a pleasant surprise. It looks great on a …
The past 2 weeks have been really busy, but for my work life and in the technology sector. From cool tech conferences like where2.0, new stuff like Google mashup, Street views on both Google maps and Live Search, interesting Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interview and so on..... talk about information overload :PGoing on that, Google Gears would likely be something that will help …
I have recently taken onto listening to podcasts from educators corner as I transit to and from office. The session by Shai Agassi hit many notes that I felt was very true with respect to technology. These podcasts are a definite must listen for anyone who intends to do something in technology with business.
Having read a recent BBC news article about scratch I cannot help but take a step back and look at what the term programming actually means.These days with 4GL programming languages, tools like workflow(WF), languages like ruby etc, how do you actually define the job title of a programmer? What are the skills that a good or decent programmer should have?Computer programming …
Lately, I have become acutely aware of certain incidents at a local tertiary institution's library. Amazingly at this world class library(Names are left out to protect the guilty :P), with all the IT and high-tech systems, they are unable to track some books that have been dropped into their book drops.Technically speaking there are 101 things that can go wrong when a book is …
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