Jeff Atwood likes referring to his blog post about Hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive. where he writes: "Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always."

The other day I had a look at NDepend website visits by countries statistics (produced by Google Analytics). Despite some important bias the result were pretty interesting, enough to be published publicly.

I know I said this about Lego Mindstorm back in the day and never followed through, but I have just discovered the NeuroSky Mindset device and… I Must have this SDK!

You can be doing agile without performing any of the current recommended practices and you can perform all the recommended practices and still not be agile.

At one of my sessions showing off JavaFX, I was asked the question, how can I run JavaFX in my Swing Application? At first, I asked why do you want to do this? The answer was we have built up the Swing application over many years and cannot rewrite it all at once, but we would like to take advantage of JavaFX's features. This sounded reasonable to me.

Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, Simon Phipps, presented Brazilian President Lula with a Java ring to acknowledge his support for open source technology. Lula immediately put it on - see for yourself!

A library for compiling programs in a variety of languages including Java, Scala and C#.

When readers come to your blog they usually come from referring sites or search engines and their interaction with your blog depends upon your content.

One of the really cool features of MobileMe and the new iPhone 3.0 OS is the ability for it to reach out and locate your iPhone at any time if you have that feature enabled. Right now Apple only makes this available on their MobileMe website however and does not offer a programmatic way to get a hold of the information.

Cue some tasty blues: ##Well, I woke up this morning…Had a question I wanted to know…Is a closure def as efficient to call as a method def?##

I’m very pleased to announce that I’m officially a member of the DZone team! It all started about a month ago when I was contacted by Rick Ross. To my surprise Rick had actually seen my blog and happened to read a post about me possibly seeking some freelance work. So he recommended that I got in contact with Matt to see if they had any coding work. Well I wasn’t quite qualified for the code work that needed to be done so I figured that my chances of working for DZone were gone. Luckily around that same time Rick contacted me again about a job within his department. He basically said that he liked how I was trying to get the DZone community more involved with my link posts and he then offered me a position for link moderation. We agreed that we would give it a month to see how things went. As you can assume it’s been a month since then and I’m now officially a member of the DZone team. (There is MORE to the story which you can read by clicking the link.)

It has been stated that Scala is 'Java as it should have been', but there are also numerous complaints about the language and its features (like not being side effect free, overly complex, too much of everything, too much abstraction, having a weird syntax, etc).

Though many programmers and developers may be implementing PHP in their websites, the issue of PHP security is often overlooked when building a site. Insecure coding is rather common in PHP due to the fact that it’s such a forgiving language that will often “work” even when there are a few loose ends in the coding.

The following article demonstrates how to use display SQL Server messages using ADO.NET and ASP.NET

A book on testing software at Microsoft! It’s a gift to anyone wanting to make a joke at the company's expense. Many a user would claim that, based on its products, there is no evidence that testing goes on at all and surely such a book would have very few pages. Of course this is unfair, but fun. Getting software right isn't easy and given the size of the Microsoft codebase you can expect one or two bugs to have slipped through. So a book on how the software giant tackles the problem is a good idea and should be instructive.

A JavaFX Shelf control from JFXtras by Stephen Chin. Similar to iPhone's carousel control showing music albums.

abbed Interface or Tabbed Structure Menu is getting really famous in web design & development. This tutorial will show you how to build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect. Be sure to check out the demo, you definitely will like it.

What’s a web site without an image gallery these days? Galleries are used for products and portfolios and they have been getting sleeker, faster and lighter over time. jQuery plugins are available for almost every function you can think of, everything from widgets to animation effects

Learn to grasp the concept behind URL Routing with PHP, rails style

‘Show password’ is a small and simple Jquery plugin that let your users decide whether they want their password fields masked or not.

In this article, an excerpt from Test-Driven Development: AJ2EE Example (Apress, 2004), author Thomas Hammell helps youselect the right tools for getting started with test-drivendevelopment (TDD).

I stumbled upon Gregory Higley’s Blog on Stackoverflow. He makes his living writing C#, Ruby, and occasionally Objective C but one of his two personal favorite languages is REBOL. He wrote a surprising article on Rebol / Javascript similarities. "It’s not lexical similarity that concerns me here, but functional similarity. For instance, both languages are scripting languages in the sense that they are not (usually) compiled. No big deal there. That’s true of a long list of languages. However, both languages are prototype languages, and that’s certainly not true of a lot of languages."

I'm a huge advocate of learning. And it's natural for devs to want to pick up new stuff. However, many devs don't realize that they may report to a manager that actually wants to prevent them from learning new things - even on their own personal time. I think this type of manager is rare.

Well design application has following features

The Teyjus system is an efficient implementation of the higher-order logic programming language Lambda Prolog. The main strength of Lambda Prolog, a language developed by Dale Miller and Gopalan Nadathur, is the support it offers for what is known as lambda tree syntax, a new and effective way to view the structure of complex syntactic objects such as types, formulas, proofs and programs. Lambda Prolog provides this support by using lambda terms as data representation devices and by including primitives for probing such terms in logically meaningful ways. The new features present in the language raise several implementation challenges that have been addressed in collaborative work between Nadathur and his students and colleagues. The name "Teyjus" actually stands both for a project and for a class of compiler and virtual machine based realizations of Lambda Prolog arising from the research carried out within this project. Underlying the most recent version of the Teyjus system is a new and significantly improved virtual machine that has been designed by Xiaochu Qi as part of her doctoral dissertation work at the University of Minnesota. This virtual machine extensively exploits a special form of higher-order unification known as pattern unification.