The much anticipated open-source IDE, Netbeans 6.0, has been released and available for download. The IDE Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris and easy to install. In addition, Netbeans supports many languages including Ruby.
The screencast is also available if you want to know more about it.
Graphing is an important tool for business. In fact, my first freelancing Flash program was about graphing. A new tutorial by W. Jason Gilmore in Developer.com about using PHP/SWF Charts system to create a chart/graph has been posted.
PHP/SWF supports a wide variety of charting formats, including bar, candlestick, 3D columns, pie, 3D pie, and advanced charts such as scatter, polar, and composites.
He starts off by showing how to install the charting system. After that he goes into coding and shows an example of using bar chart. He also shows how to use a 3D column chart which really looks amazing!
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar lanuches a Design Competition for all high school seniors from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The award is a four-year scholarship in VCUQ. Dealine is 31st of January, 2008. So hurry and sign-up…
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2007 for Arab and North Africa Regional Contest [ACM–ICPC/ANARC] starts today (03-12-2007). This year ANARC will be held in the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt. The winner will move to the world finals which will take place in Alberta, Canada, in April.
ANARC contest will be held in Wednesday 05-12-2007 and will last exactly five hours. Every team will be given the same set of problems to solve in Java and C/C++. The award ceremony will take place the same day few hours after the contest where the winner will be announced.
Me and my teams were suppose to participate in this contes but we faced some problems.
Found this article about programmers looking for job. The first part of the article is about the phone interview. The poster will discuss about the face-to-face interview on other parts in the future.
That reminds me of my part-time job phone interview 1 month ago. The Sun campus manager called me directly from UK, overseas, to do the interview and it went really well. I’m happy that I’ll be working for Sun as a Sun Campus ambassador. Sun Microsystems after all is an open source alliance member and they are the one maintaining the Java language which I really love.
I might have posted this video before [Am I a video freak?]… But what the heck! It’s fun to watch again!
Zain, the third-biggest Gulf Arab mobile telecommunication firm by market value, concluded the purchase of 100% of share capital of Iraqna company for mobile telecommunication services in Iraq. The acquisition costs $1,2 billion and was made through MTC-Atheer, Zain’s Iraqi subsidiary, which was one of the 3 mobile telecommunication firms operating in Iraq.
Commenting on the transaction, Dr. Saad Al Barrak, Managing Director-Deputy Chairman of Zain Group, stated:”We are delighted that MTC-Atheer acquisition if Iraqna will create one of the most dynamic and resourceful mobile telecoms companies in Iraq and in the region at large
This investment reinforces and demonstrates our commitment to the future prosperity of Iraq while complementing Zain’s aspirations of becoming a top ten global mobile operator by 2011.”
– Zawaya
Zain has been expanding their market, and now they cover 20 countries across the Middle East and Africa. The firm, formally called MTC started in Kuwait, is now in the process of building the 3rd Saudia Arabian mobile phone network firm.
YAY! Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch a new website dedicated to provide free online resource for anyone anywhere. You can now watch more than 2,600 videos and audio clips online taken from real lectures for free and for everyone! The website is based on OpenCourseWare (OCW) which provides free lecture notes, exams, and other resources for more than 1,800 real courses.
That a fabulous new for me. Now, it is easier to study whatever I want and whatever I like (if available) with all these resources from MIT. It’s easier to study and find more information for my college courses!!
So you have been programming with JavaScript? Usually programmers write the JavaScript code in the header of the HTML page or load it externally:
But sometimes there is no need to load some of the JavaScript codes because it won’t be used on the page. That will waste you unnecessary bandwidth and will cost your website users their precious time.
The solution is to load the JavaScript file dynamically only when is required. Ed Eliot posted an article shows how load a JavaScript dynamically. However, loading the JavaScript file asynchronously causes some problems when calling a function written in the loading file. Ed Eliot has written his idea on how to solve this overwhelming problem. He simply uses the event handling to check whether the file finished loading or not. Read more about this in his article.
An article for beginners on how to write a better JavaScript code and be a better programmer. It talks about a better way to use getElementByID and to add events. How to write a better send request (for Ajax) and better way to change styles is also a part of the article. It is a small article, so there is no harm for experts to read it and extend their knowledge.
