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Dec 10, 2009
Protect your ideas by sharing them
One of the blogs that I started to follow is Zen Habits. I think that Leo Babauta is a smart guy. Although I am far from agreeing with him on everything he writes, sometimes he impresses me. The other day, I stumbled by his “Copyright” notification. Basically, he opened all his posts to public domain. A few days after, Seth Godin advices protecting your ideas by NOT protecting them. Whether... read more
May 25, 2009
How to Design a RESTful API
In order to understand how to design a RESTful API, you need to understand the concepts behind REST. The next section explains REST briefly. What is REST? Scalability and performance are two of the main concerns when developing hypermedia systems. Roy Fielding introduced an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems that focus on minimizing latency while maximizing scalability. The introduced... read more
Mar 20, 2009
Linux command line repository
Here is another command line repository. It has a bunch of one line commands that we maybe using everyday. You can also comment and vote on these commands. Happy coding Please, share your thoughts... read more
Mar 16, 2009
Linux Virtual Terminals
As you all know, linux is a multi-user system. This means that you can login as two or more different users at the same time. To switch between virtual terminals, you can use the keyboard combination (Ctrl-)Left Alt-FN, where N is in range 1-12). You can also switch to any virtual terminal from the command line using chvt chvt 5 Switches to the virtual terminal number 5. Happy coding Please, share your... read more
Nov 25, 2008
Program Query Languages
Needless to say that query languages have gained a huge success across various application domains, especially business related solutions. Query languages are simple languages that are intended to facilitate making queries against repositories of resources such as data or information. For instance, most business applications use some sort of data storage such as a database or XML which can be easily... read more
