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Aug 29, 2009
Hell Week in Software Development
I was reading David Stewart’s blog and I was so intrigued by his “Surviving Hell Week” post. It reminded me of a similar experience of mine long time ago when I was an undergraduate student. Interestingly, we both had the same feelings and reached similar conclusions. Therefore, I’ll share the story with you and then I’ll discuss some of the insightful lessons. It was my third... 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 26, 2008
Eclim is Eclipse for Vim Lovers
Eclipse is a powerful open source IDE. It is designed in a very extensible fashion that makes it attractive for software engineers to experiment with it. A few months ago, I started writing a number of Eclipse plugins. When I used Eclipse as my IDE, I liked a number of cool features such as automatic management of the package imports, some code refactoring snippets, automatic compilation, smart auto... read more
