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February 28th, 2011
Microsoft venture into HTML5 got hold of my attention and led me to visit Microsoft HTML5 meetup on 4th Feb'11 at SCO Complex, Lodhi Road. The day started with warm tea and a light refreshing breakfast. It was a time to have a handshake with the attendees and ice breaking space with the speakers. The speakers from Microsoft were very much enthusiastic with the launch of IE9 and new features being added/introduced to the browser.
The agenda of the event was to demonstrate MS intentions towards Read more »
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December 8th, 2010
Online Games!!!
Be it a bear fishery, yeti sports, shooting gallery, battlefield or urban terror only thing that comes to mind is the powerful graphics and the animations that attract and bind the player to play. Now a days most of the lightweight online games are driven by flash leveraging the benefits of flash based technologies and other heavyweights fall under the category of offline or network based. Read more »
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August 9th, 2010
How to write custom annotations using APT?
Annotations provide data about a program that is not part of the program itself. The more advanced uses of annotations include writing an annotation processor that can read a Java program and take actions based on its annotations. To facilitate this task, release 5.0 of the JDK includes an annotation processing tool, called apt. In release 6 of the JDK, the functionality of apt is a standard part of the Java compiler.
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July 9th, 2010
Have you ever experienced getting yourself photographed by visiting the photographer shop? Realistically, you will be given time slot, you wait, and when your turn comes, photographer takes significant amount of time in setting up and focusing and then finally clicks a photograph. He expects few days of delivery time because of his over-running schedule and his ever going pending orders. Hopefully, after three or four days you get a call from the shop saying that your photograph is ready and shipped. Imagine there is a dark shade in your frame or any other disliking feature distorting the image which might lead to you again undergo the same procedure and invest your quality time. Isn't it?
