40 Outstanding Websites with Unique and Creative Layouts

A website with pleasant graphics and typography, does not only fill visitors with appreciation it typically also encourages them to take concrete action purposely conveyed by the website owner. The more beautiful and elegantly organized a website is, the greater emotional response it may get from its visitors. This is an important factor when people decide whether to bookmark and consider to come

Tell me Why

No, not the Beatles song.This is my single most important recommendations for speakers.  If I devote an hour of my life to attend your talk, answer the ‘why?’ question. We’ve all heard that there are only a few important questions to answer in a presentation, article, blog post, or anything else:Who? What? When?  Where? How? Why?I’m going to make the bold assumption that most of you are

Building COBOL Applications within VS2010

See what excited the COBOL world this January. Watch the launch video and see Visual COBOL in action. The demo shows how to build COBOL applications within VS2010, and Eclipse IDEs integrating with .NET and other UI technologies... and much more, including COBOL applications running on an Android phone! Read more: .NET Journal Posted via email from Jasper-net

Generate your Fluent NHibernate POCO and mapping classes automagically.

At our current client, we”re refactoring some legacy data access logic to use Fluent NHibernate.  We chose NHibernate because of its large community and previous success on other projects at Clarity.  We chose the Fluent flavor primarily because of the compile-time checking of mapping files and brevity of code vs traditional hbm files. Unless your project is very small, you”re going to want a

GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux

Table of contents IntroductionSemantics' descriptionInformal discussion and examples Simple examplesLoops and tangled hierarchiesNames and nodes The problem with “..”Stateless semantics for “..” “Universal cover” semantics for “..”Formal specification Basic notionsMutating the filesystemGarbage collection semantics Other considerationsRecursive traversalSecurity considerations Weak

Remote desktop on mobile phones

Project DescriptionMobile Remote Desktop enables you to connect to your computer from mobile phones using bluetooth connectivity. Once connected, Mobile Remote Desktop gives you the control of mouse and keyboard of your computer from mobile phone. Read more: Codeplex Posted via email from Jasper-net

Write Space

Write Space is a customizable full-screen text-editor that lives in your web-browser. It is designed to minimize the distractions that come between you and your writing. FEATURES• Persistent auto-save. The document is automatically saved with every key-press, so you don't have to worry about losing your work.• Offline. The application is completely self-contained, which means that it will

USB driver bug exposed as "Linux plug&pwn"

Rafael Dominguez Vega of MRW InfoSecurity has reported a bug in the Caiaq USB driver which could be used to gain control of a Linux system via a USB device. The bug is caused by the device name being copied into a memory area with a size of 80 bytes using strcpy() without its length being tested. A crafted device with a long device name could thus write beyond the limits of this buffer, allowing

8 Essential Developer Apps for Multiple Platforms

1. Sublime Text If you’ve been in the industry for any length of time, chances are you’ve heard of Sublime Text. Sublime is a powerful and flexible code with a robust feature set and a powerful Python language-based plug-in system, so you can further add functionality to the application. The $59 price tag may seem a bit steep (Sublime is free to try for as long as you like), but this program

WPF Architecture

This topic provides a guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) class hierarchy. It covers most of the major subsystems of WPF, and describes how they interact. It also details some of the choices made by the architects of WPF. This topic contains the following sections. System.Object System.Threading.DispatcherObject System.Windows.DependencyObject System.Windows.Media.Visual