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This topic came up for discussion recently. How much of the underlying technology (such as network, server, operating system, etc) does a programmer need to know in order to write good programs? A colleague held the belief that, ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
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No, not the game Second Life, but trying to give a second lease of life to old abandoned hardware. Recently I noticed a big bunch of IBM blade servers lying round, dismantled, and stacked on the floor. I thought it would be good ...
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I recently found myself babysitting a certain web application project as it went live. It was besieged with many performance problems as it scaled up to meet real-life usage. This is a pretty common problem. I deliver a guest ...
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When I bought my PC recently, it was a very ordinary PC, and yet it was specially customized. It was customized to exactly what I wanted, because I selected everything that went into it. Yet at the same time, it wasn’t ...
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I think the best upgrade you can do for your computer is to replace its conventional disk drive with a Solid-State Drive (SSD). Particularly so on a notebook or or netbook, since conventional disks on them tend to spin slower. I ...
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I recently found myself leading an application system project: CodeCrunch. This is an online system for automated assessment of programming tasks. It is designed to help students learn computer programming by providing a ...
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Sometimes I feel very worried about the computing students we’re getting in my school. Yet at the same time I’m amazed at how we could achieve the top spot in Asia and 12th position worldwide in the Computer Science ...
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We have for some time wanted to conduct an event styled like Sun Tech Days or Microsoft Tech Days. The sort of conference or workshop that would cover a variety of techie topics. No sales, no marketing, just technology. Of ...
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When I was looking to upgrade from my Nexus One, one of my mandatory requirement for the new phone was that it will run CyanogenMod 7 (CM7), or if it hadn’t yet been ported, that at least it has a reasonably good chance of ...
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Actually, there aren’t many pains. It wasn’t too difficult to learn “natural scrolling”. It gets a little confusing when you’ve got to go back to a Windows PC that does not have “natural ...