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GPartEd – Free and Open Source Disk Partitioner
GPartEd (http://gparted.sourceforge.net) is a free and open source software tool that does disk partitioning like its commercial counterpart, PartitionMagic. Although GPartEd is cursed with a boring name, it is nevertheless a superstar product with both looks and brains. (For the looks, see http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php.) The name GPartEd is an abbreviation for Gnome Partition Editor.
Although I [...]
The Loss of One’s Adopted Country – Another Result of the Economic Crisis
At a recent technical meeting I met a colleague with whom I’ve spoken from time to time. He is from India and has been working on an H-1 visa after getting his Masters degree at a state university here in the U.S. He, his wife, and his children have been here together for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Dabbling in Clojure
Clojure (http://www.clojure.org) is a Lisp implementation running on the Java Virtual Machine, written primarily by Rich Hickey and designed for simple and reliable concurrent programming. Clojure is a radical departure from the more conventional languages such as C, C++, Java, and Ruby. As a functional language, using it requires a different outlook and thinking [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )JRuby — A Better Language for the Java Virtual Machine
A powerful synergy results when combining the power, reliability, portability, and rich library set of the Java platform with the power and flexibility of JRuby. This article will discuss a couple of ways in which JRuby surpasses Java as a programming language for the JVM:
Code as first class objects – code blocks, lambdas, and procs [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Applying User Interface Design to Source Code
The same user interface guidelines that make for an outstanding software product apply to source code as well. It turns out that programmers actually have human minds after all.
Without effective and efficient presentation, a product’s content and functionality can be missed and misunderstood. This principle applies way beyond the realm of software products. It also [...]
