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Teaching Students Java Bytecode Using Lego Mindstorms Robots

Assembly language is a valuable subject to teach, yet one of the most underappreciated by students. Students do not see the need for assembly language and they get through it as quickly as possible. Given the time in a computer organization course to teach assembly language, assignments - either quick-and-easy...

Tags: LEGO Co., Lego Mindstorms, Saint Joseph, Assembly Language, Robots, Programming Languages, Java, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-09-05

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Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

jFolder 1.104 (Windows)

Want to make your folders and drives stand out for easier identification? Customize their icons then. This program allows Windows 2000 and Windows XP users to customise the appearance of icons for drives (Win2K only) and folders. You can choose the icon and tool tip of any folder, giving the...

Tags: Icon, ACAPsoft, jFolder, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Radialix 2.09.04 (Windows)

Radialix 2 is an easy, technically elegant tool for binary localization of applications and resource files. It allows the user to localize executable files (PE32, PE32+), .NET assemblies, resources and INI files. The program offers a convenient WYSIWYG editor and a powerful arsenal of productivity tools, such as translation simulation,...

Tags: Assembly, Microsoft Windows, Radialix Software, Radialix 2, .Net, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...

Tags: Content management, CSS, Enterprise software, KompoZer, content management system, Microsoft FrontPage, CMS system

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Windows 7 puts Vista into perspective: Only a 'failure' in retrospect

The fault lies with MS and Driver manufacturersWe don't criticize macs because they are a package deal, with a price premium to match so they generally work just fine. We don't call for witch hunts of Linux distro's because we expect to have problems and tweaks with Linux, plus it's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, COMPANIES, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Linux Distro, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Typo takes down Internet in Sweden

HeadlineI would have headlined this story "Sweden is Missing Its Period".RE: Typo takes down Internet in SwedenWhat does this imply for the rush to the cloud?RE: Typo takes down Internet in SwedenNot really the right headline.Really should read Typo blocks access to Swedish web-sites and email addresses, since they were...

Tags: Typo, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. FREE Author's biography & tales in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Crypto Obfuscator For .NET 2009 (Windows)

Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies. Crypto Obfuscator combines powerful obfuscation, encryption and optimization techniques to provide the very best protection and performance to your .Net code against reverse-engineering. Additionally its metadata reduction, assembly & resource compression and dependency embedding functionality...

Tags: Assembly, Microsoft Windows, Encryption, LogicNP Software, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-10

DATSUF 1.0 (Windows)

DATSUF is a development kit which enables you to create quickly and easily complicated data analysis T-SQL queries. DATSUF is a set of assembly T-SQL User Functions that can be incorporate into T-SQL statements or in any T-SQL query generated by .NET language. Once you install DATSUF in your MS...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, Microsoft Windows, DATSUF, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-07-06

Volt 1.4 (Windows)

Leaving your computer on all the time is one way to have your computer ready for you whenever you need it, but it is not the smart way. The smart way is for the computer to turn on before you want it so it can download EMail, news and updates....

Tags: Window, Battery, Microsoft Windows, Computer, ACAPsoft, Productivity, Construction

Software downloads 2009-05-17

DCharts 2.0 (Windows)

Dynamic Charts developed by flash is a client display component, which runs on the explorer. Histogram, packing diagram, horizontal bar-chart, and horizontal bar packing diagram, pie chart, line figure, curve diagram, and radar diagram all together can be displayed dynamically; the type of the charts can be switched on the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dcharts, Character Symbol, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-05-07

Seven stages of SOA maturity: from silos to services

Many of you who have visited this site over the years may have noticed somewhat of a bias toward small-scale SOA as the best way to get things rolling within the enterprise -- particularly if there is resistance or benign neglect on the part of management to new ways of...

Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Chris Harding, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Report: Quanta to make Apple netbook; will have touch panels

Report: Quanta to make Apple netbook; will have touch panelsSo we can pay morefor truly the exact same thing as the other manufacturers. Neat.The others don't have Mac OSXSo it's not the same...How can these both possible be true?[i]Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple?s new netbook ......

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, Quanta, Apple Inc., Wintek, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?Yale Patt is being foolish.You cannot ignore the factors of time and money. In the real non-ideal world, their are many practical considerations that cannot be avoided.Most programmers are average, which may not be good enough for "Yale Patt" but it is...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, PPoPP 2009 Day 2, Yale Patt

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 NetbookAnd, Microsoft will be left scrambling yet again. Have they already startedthe port of real Windows to Arm, or will they try to use Windows CE here.Fake business plan - Consumer snow job1) Save on license fees? Everyone seems to agree any MS...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, ARM, Freescale

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhere

IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhereProblem is what you define as software.Today we seem to define a computer program as anything from assembly language to HTML, and most programming is actually script languages executed by an Interpreter. The computer industry seems to support this move away from real computer...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Automated Verification of Practical Garbage Collectors

Garbage collectors are notoriously hard to verify, due to their low-level interaction with the underlying system and the general difficulty in reasoning about reachability in graphs. Several papers have presented verified collectors, but either the proofs were handwritten or the collectors were too simplistic to use on practical applications. The...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Garbage Collector, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Processors, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-01-24

OmegaChart 4.0 (Windows)

OmegaChart 4.0 is a flowchart generator. This package converts source codes to their flowchart equivalence. The generated flowchart is viewable through Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Visio. The package support languages written in Fortran 77, 90 and 95 fixed form; Fortran 90 and 95 free form; Visual Basic...

Tags: Fortran, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Programming, Omega Charting Services, OmegaChart 4.0, Programming Languages, Productivity, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-01-18