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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Sabeer Bhatia Launches SabSeBolo.com

Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail.com, has announced the launch of SabSeBolo.com, the country’s first free, reservation-less audio conferencing facility.
To sign-up for the service, you need to log on to SabSebolo.com and enter your email id and password. In return, you’re given a permanent conference id and a pin. To start conferencing, you need to [...]

Uncertainty for Ruby on Rails despite changes

The launch of a low-cost Ruby on Rails integrated development environment from SapphireSteel Software based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio comes at a turning point for both the Ruby language and its associated Rails framework. But quite what the turning point will be is open to question.
On the one hand Sun’s director of web technologies Tim [...]

Academics slam Java

Learn a real language
The choice of Java as a first programming language in computer science courses is undermining good programming practice, according to two leading academics.
In a withering attack on those responsible for setting the curriculum for computer science courses, doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg of New York University (and principals of Ada language [...]

Buying MySQL Could save Sun

We knew that Sun (JAVA) has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun “shares” — that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle (ORCL) and a hate-hate relationship with IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).

Great User Interface with YUI (Yahoo! User Interface) Library

YUI Library
The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls in JavaScript, as well as CSS templates for building richly interactive Web applications using standard technologies such as DHTML, DOM scripting, and AJAX.
You can download the YUI Library 2.3.1 for free from SourceForge.net. The download allows you to install the libraries on a Web [...]