White Papers

White papers on various topics

Wordpress site was hacked, months back !

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I did a quick search and realised that my site had fallen victim to a version of the WordPress Pharma Hack – a particularly sneaky hack which means everybody apart from Google sees the normal version

Heart of Unix

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Despite all of its warts, I like working in Linux. I've used it for 15 years and I've never been as productive in another environment.

Flash and HTML5: Which One is Right For Your Project?

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Although it’s still early in the evolution of HTML5, we’ve started to receive many requests to develop data visualization projects in HTML5 instead of Flash. In most cases, these requests have been

8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching

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T hese talks offer insights, concerns, and inspiration while discussing today’s educational practices and shortcomings, from a variety of perspectives.Education is only one of the vast array of topics

10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Informed About

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It’s been nearly two and half years since the publication of the first “10 internet technologies that educators should be informed about” article on this site and given the fast paced evolution of tec

Continuous Improvement Loop for BPM Optimization

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With market demands increasing and margins decreasing, businesses need a facilitator to help them maximize organizational performance.

5 things you didn't know about ... multithreaded programming

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Multithreaded programming is never easy, but it does help to understand how the JVM processes subtly different code constructs.

Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site

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At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical.

HTML5 - What's that

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One page description of What is HTML5 and why should we care.

No SQL Databases - Landscape - 1

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The need to look at Non SQL systems arises out of scalability issues with relational databases, which are a function of the fact that relational databases were not designed to be distributed (which is

10 skills developers will need in the next five years

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If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent.

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

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The article talks about how executives need to pay attention to all 4 aspects of body, mind, emotions and spirit to achieve higher performance.

Meeting planner survival guide for Managers

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Whether you're a novice planner or a veteran, this compilation of must-read articles is your meeting planning resource. Just click on the headline below to link to our helpful, how-to features

Getting Things Done - A one page Article.

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This is a great White paper to refer to if you think 24 hours in a day are just not enough. This explains how to organize and get things done. Try to follow this for a week to see if you get results.

52 reasons why programmers work on weekends

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A good read if you want to avoid working on weekends. Programming can be tough sometimes and it may be difficult to keep away from computer.

Firefox Problematic extensions

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This article lists some of the extensions that are known to cause unwanted side effects in Firefox or in other extensions and plugins, along with recommended workarounds.

How to reduce Memory Usage in Firefox

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My Firefox use to be slow and use up lots of memory. Then I found this article and applied the techniques. My firefox became faster and reduced memory usage by 50%

Teach yourself Programming in 10 years

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Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, te

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick - Pen Drive Linux

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Carry a portable Linux version with you on a USB flash pen drive. Bring your portable desktop with you wherever you go.

New elements in HTML 5

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HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress.