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CSS Cheatsheet Wallpaper in Helvetica
A beautiful Desktop Wallpaper for CSS Developers.
5 Little Desktop Apps You Should Check If You Mutlitask
I generally have lots of windows left open on my desktop whenever I am working. Call me lazy for not closing the unused ones, or call me overworked.
How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.
Are Code Reviews Worth It?
JamaicaBay writes “I’m a development manager, and the other day my boss and I got into an argument over whether it’s worth doing code reviews. In my shop we’ve done both code reviews and design reviews. They are all programmer-led. What we’ve found is that code reviews take forever and tend to reveal less than good UI-level testing would. The payback on design reviews, meanwhile, is tremendous. Our code is intended for desktop, non-critical use, so I asked my boss to consider whether it was worth spending so much time on examining built code, given our experience not getting much out of it. I’m wondering whether the Slashdot crowd’s experience has been similar.”
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First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3
snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Martin Heller finds Silverlight 3 gaining ground on Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight 2 had lagged. No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely. Moreover, solid Expression Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2010 betas provide developers with much improved tools to create Silverlight RIAs. ‘”I do not expect many Adobe shops to give up their Flash, Flex, and AIR for Silverlight 3. I do expect many M|cr0s0ft shops to do more RIAs with Silverlight now that it’s more capable and to create lightweight browser/desktop Silverlight 3 applications where they might have fashioned heavier-weight Windows Forms or WPF client applications,” Heller says.’”
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KDE – KDE 4.3 Beta 2 Release Announcement
The KDE release train continues to roll, delivering another beta release of KDE 4.3 to you today. The effort has shifted towards increasing stability and adding polish to the codebase so our users will find a well-working KDE 4.3.0 on their desktops when it is released in late July.
8 Browser Innovations Started by Opera
Even though Opera is the most popular mobile browser in the world, in the desktop market Opera is the most under-rated browser despite having created many innovative features. Which was later copied by other browsers.
Upcoming Tech That Will Rock Your World
Major announcements from Google, M|cr0s0ft, and Apple in the last few weeks have techies flipping out about the awesomeness coming to our browsers, pockets, and desktops in the very near future. Strap on your jetpacks; let’s take a look.
Fedora 11: Leonidas Begins it’s Reign!
Fedora 11, released today is packed with tons of new features across the spectrum from casual desktop user to hardcore hacker. Fedora 11 showcases a new default filesystem in ext4, a 20 second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3 latest pre-releases are available as well.
26 Desktop Processors Compared
theraindog writes “The number of different CPU models available from AMD and Intel is daunting to say the least. The Tech Report’s latest CPU review makes some sense of the landscape, exploring the performance and power consumption characteristics of more than two dozen desktop processors between the 9 Core i7-975 and more affordable sub-0 chips. The article also highlights the value proposition offered by each CPU on its own and as a part of the total cost of a system. The resulting scatter plots nicely illustrate which CPUs deliver the best performance per dollar.”
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