The Singhsons

You may have heard and seen The Simpsons, but how about its desi version – The Singhsons [http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/funny/movies/singhsons.html]. Well, as Bart says [http://www.thesimpsonsquotes.com/characters/bart-simpson-quotes-2.html]: Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun 🙂…

Embedding .NET Controls in Java

Embedding .NET Controls in Java – .NET [http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/javanet.asp] – Learn to embed .NET user controls in Java applications, applets, and beans using COM to bridge the gap between the two frameworks.…

Visualize Garbage Collection

Visualize Garbage Collection [http://www.petefreitag.com/item/141.cfm] – Sun has released (for free) a very cool program called Visual GC. The tool will show you graphically how memory is organized into generation in your JVM.…

India and China in Software

India and China in Software [http://www.emergic.org/archives/2004/07/19/index.html#india_and_china_in_software] – Is India still the country where Western companies look when they outsource technology work?…

IPv6 Launched

IPv6, the next-gen Internet protocol [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5467247/] has been officially launched. The IPv6 system would run parallel to [the current] IPv4 for about 20 years to ensure that any bugs or system errors were weeded out.…

Windows Forms 2.0

Migrating from Windows Forms 1.x to Windows Forms 2.0 [http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/07/20/188775.aspx], by Tim Sneath…

Software Design Patterns

Implementing the Singleton Pattern in C# [http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/singleton.html] and Implementing Singleton in C# [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpatterns/html/ImpSingletonInCsharp.asp] , and many more Software Design Patterns at dofactory [http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx].…

Software/Application Versioning

Just a few notes I’ve gathered on software/application versioning [standards]: A full version number (eg: 1.4.3.9) is made of four parts: [major].[minor].[revision].[build] Major number is incremented only if there is a major milestone in the life cycle of the object under version…