Bits From My Life

One of my friend asked me today the following question,  I'm often asked about this, someway or other. Let me answer this now for all.... Q: " I want to start programming on chip.. Can you suggest a good chip and a device to program it? Also tell me any sites which can help me ." A:" Simple one is Arduino. You will get it packaged with a programmer. If you want some more powerful and commercial one, Go for Microchip's PIC family of processors. After you are familiar with those, and need even more power, try AVR from ATMEL ." Some resources from my Bookmarks is given below: http://www.voti.nl/swp/ http://www.embedds.com/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Business-Card-PIC-Programmer/step2/Parts/ http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/ElectroInfoResources http://www.piclist.com/techref/microchip/index.htm My bookmarks become so messy now a days, and I'm not getting time to organize them. So, these are the quickest ones that I pic...

We all are hearing the buzz about Rich Internet Applications (RIA) about a year or so. But, what the heck is that beast ? You may ask. For the user's perspective, it's the desktop like experience delivered over web. Yes, you feel like you are using a real desktop application (well, at least sort of). The richness of desktop controls is transferred to web. How RIA is build? Arise another question. These all started with that amazing kid called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). Then more and more tools become available, like Java FX , Adobe Air , Adobe Flex (and Adobe Flash ), Microsoft Silverlight . But these tools, though it gives rapid and organized web application development, required some kind of plug-ins to be installed on your browser. There is the importance of AJAX based RIAs, because JavaScript is enabled in almost all browsers in use today. However, It's not a fool proof solution, because there are people who switch off JavaScript for some reason, lik...

There is no validity for this course. I mean currently no institution or firms consider this as a qualification. But may be in future they consider so. This course differs from ordinary course. There is no projects or assignments. All we want to do is study the material provided by them and submit the home works. We have more than five months of time for that. And in total more than twenty home works. This course covers Basic of Java or Core Java. It starts from novice (ie., loops and declaring variables too ) and advances from there. This covers swing, File handling, Little bit RMI and client/server networking, Threads, Java Beans etc. etc. ... The course is maintained and developed by Mr. Sang Shin. Also there are many to help him. We get support from class mailing list. And if we complete the course successfully, we also get a certificate like above one that get to me. There are other courses too. For example Java Performance tuning, Java EE, Java FX etc. And like th...

Hi I think you all already informed abot the opening of Google Summer of codes 2008.Here is its flyer.Take a minute to look at it. Want to write open source code? Want to make money? Want to do both? In 2007 alone, Google Summer of CodeTM brought together 900 students and nearly 1500 mentors across 90 countries to contribute to over 130 different open source software projects. We’re looking for mentors and students to join us in making 2008 the best Summer of Code yet! We’ll be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months. The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals: ●Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development ●Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work rel...