November 26, 2011
There are plenty of people I know who’d like to know how to program, yet they’re confused by how to start and what the general ideas of programming are. In addition, there are a large number of programming languages to choose from, so choosing the right one to start out with may be a little difficult for the inexperienced programmer. This article will help you get started with a relatively easy to learn language.
October 20, 2011
Under Linux, there are two different implementations of Java that are available for use. Ubuntu and Arch let you easily install either implementation, while Fedora users will have a slightly tougher time (at least when it comes to installing Oracle Java). This article should clear up any of the confusion on how to get it working, including some tips and tricks I discovered for 64-bit users.
December 6, 2010
There’s no shortage of mobile browsers these days, each claiming to be the fastest, the most feature-rich and the one that’s most compatible with your thumbs. UC Browser is a cross-platform mobile web browser that much like the rest offers a feast of useful features, speed enhancements and quick-access to your favourites. The browser is [...]
August 15, 2010
So you’ve all heard of Opera Mobile and Skyfire. Opera tends to be the “most reliable” of the third-party mobile web browsers available for most smartphones today, whereas Skyfire comes with coveted Flash support for silky smooth YouTube playback. If you’ve had no joy with either of those, or simply love to have your phone [...]
June 16, 2010
Javascript is an integral part of web browsing and a lot of websites use Javascript for web applications and functions. A question I get at AskTheAdmin.com often is how I can tell if I am using a Javascript enabled browser. I have two quick methods to tell if the browser you are using does or [...]
May 27, 2010
Perhaps the best part of using Linux is the massive amount of free software you have access to. The Ubuntu repositories, for example, gives you access to tens of thousands of Linux compatible software programs for free-and that’s just by default. Yet for some this isn’t enough. Happily, it’s not all you have access to. [...]
April 21, 2010
The other day, I was enjoying a rather well designed Java-based game in my Firefox browser. Afterwards, I couldn’t help but reflect on the usefulness and power of Java – specifically how web-embedded Java applets work. In the corporate environment where I work, Java is considered the web application tool of choice for developing browser [...]
March 19, 2010
Today, most applications for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.5 are CAB files that do not need Java to run. But there are a lot of older applications and some made for other platforms that use .JAD files or something similar. To run these, your device would need to have Java for Windows Mobile installed. There is [...]
February 1, 2010
As you might be aware, flashcards are a set of cards which generally have a question on one side and the answer on the reverse. You read the question, try to remember the answer and then flip sides to reveal the answer. Repeating the same process over and over again helps in memorizing. Flash cards [...]
December 27, 2009
Over the summer the company I worked for sent me to a “Java Programming Boot Camp” held by Sun Microsystems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expectation for that course was that it would make me an entry level Java developer–after all, this was Sun’s general summary of the course. What I learned that summer was that you [...]
