AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer with Visual Studio

If you are getting errors trying to install AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer with Visual Studio this is the fix:
The Visual Studio development environment crashes when you open Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, or Visual Studio 2010

Can’t Stand to Sit Too Long? There’s a Desk for That

Cool always wanted one of those:
It takes courage to stand up at work. I’m not talking about sticking your neck out, speaking truth to power or anything else so dramatic. I mean it literally; it is hard to find a way to work standing up at your desk instead of sitting down.

Your Mind Will Control TVs and Phones

Cannot get here soon enough!
Soon we could all be changing channels with our minds. Researchers in Europe and Japan are developing thought-controlled consumer electronics that will allow us to play games, push buttons and send text messages just by thinking about it.

Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?

Just goes to show how HARD programming really is and if anyone tells you otherwise they are lying LOL:
I was amazed: given ample time, only about ten percent of professional programmers were able to get this small program right. But they aren’t the only ones to find this task difficult: in the history in Section 6.2.1 of his Sorting and Searching, Knuth points out that while the first binary search was published in 1946, the first published binary search without bugs did not appear until 1962.

– Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls (1st edition), pp. 35-36.

Woz has fun with leaked iPhone T-shirt (photo)

Cool pic LOL:
Steve Wozniak, the patron saint of Apple computer engineers, is smiling down on Gray Powell.

Budding AR Developer? Put Your Creativity to Use and Win $5,000

Budding AR Developer? Put Your Creativity to Use and Win $5,000

So Mr Thompson, you say you have some programming skills...

Too retarded if true ROFL:
C language inventor spurns Google's language exam

iPhone OS supports open standards; Flash is closed

Says it all:
Someone has it backwards—it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary.

QuickTime Player 7 for Mac OS X v10.6

Hard to find link for Snow Leopard download

Steve Jobs email hints at no upcoming Blu-Ray support on the Mac

Why am I not suprised.
Blu-Ray is still a bag of hurt in everyone's pocketbook!
Steve Jobs email hints at no upcoming Blu-Ray support on the Mac

How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds

Very useful if you plan on watching a lot of tutorial video's like the free Stanford or Berkeley ones:
How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds
And without the chipmunk sound!
GOM player at 1.6x seems to work good!

Summary of C++0x Feature Availability in gcc and MSVC

Useful:
This web page (automatically generated from Excel 2002, hence the lame layout) documents the availability of C++0x functionality for recent releases of Gnu C++ (gcc/g++) and Microsoft Visual C++ under 32-bit Microsoft Windows.

Lego Mindstorms Robot Sits at Computer, Plays Old-School Tetris, Wins

Pretty cool!

Jobs: 'Are you nuts'

Jobs: 'Are you nuts' to European expecting iPad in April

Apple patches Pwn2Own bug

Apple patches Pwn2Own bug

Goodbye, Gears - Google Docs Boots Plugin for HTML5 on May 3rd

I keep saying HTML5 is the future.

And that, in a nutshell, is the future of the web. Mobilized applications that behave like desktop apps, available with or without an Internet connection and that work on any device. Even the iPad. We can't wait to try it out.

Brain 'splits to multi-task'

Yup that's why I'm always good with T/F on test LOL:
"Our result is likely to provide an explanation for why people are good in binary choice but not multiple choice."

9 41 9 42: The secret of Apple's recurring numbers

Calling John Locke! If you aren't too busy on the Island, perhaps you can help us out with a little number mystery in Cupertino. John? Hello? You there?

Frequently Asked Questions About the Java HotSpot VM

Good info on 64bit Java:
Which components do not support 64-bit operation?

The Java Plug-in, AWT Robot and Java Web Start currently do not support 64-bit operation. Use 32-bit Java if you require these features.

Java Programming

Was just doing some Swing Java stuff and noticed the "The serializable class Application does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long" warning in Eclipse.
Seems that all tutorials on the web recommend disabling that warning:

Change the Serializable class without serialVersionUID option from Warning to Ignore.

C++0x Core Language Features In VC10: The Table

Handy chart to coincide with the release of VC10:
C++0x Core Language Features In VC10: The Table

Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK

Visual Studio 2010 shipped!
if you haven't heard.

Handling Money Could Bring Pain Relief

DUH... this just confirms what has been found in other studies and people that can actually run long distances or do anything painful, like myself, already know. If you can trick your mind into thinking of something positive during the pain it won't be that obvious you can withstand more!
Handling Money Could Bring Pain Relief

Java is Toast

Well if it wasn't before it surely is now:
“Father of Java” Resigns from Sun/Oracle
This is like Guido stopping work on Python or Linus on Linux.
Sure it might survive but it'll never be the same :(

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

So if you've spent a ton of sweat and tears learning Objective-C, as I have, it is all for naught...
(And, in one sense, this is good news for existing iPhone developers: their skill set is now in even greater demand.)

Shining some more light on what the iPad hype is all about

Another article for those that just don't get the iPad hype:
iPad: The First Real Family Computer

The organism which must not be named!

Pretty cool if you are into biology or the origins of life, etc:
The organisms themselves, none of which have been named yet...
. That makes these creatures the first animals ever discovered that spend their whole lives without oxygen.

Farewell, Keyboard - Generation I Will Grow Up on Touchscreens

This is what the future the iPad ushers in!

iPad CPU yields up (some) secrets to x-ray scan

COOL!
And the best way of seeing what's inside the A4 processor that powers Apple's iPad is? Take the chip out and x-ray it, of course, and that's what gadget repair house iFixit and semiconductor specialist Chipworks have done.

What's a "Universal" iPad App and How Do You Use It?

Do you already own an iPhone or iPod Touch and are planning on buying an iPad, too? Then you need to know about the new "universal" applications now available in the iTunes App Store.

Why don't the iPad and iPhone support multitasking? The answer isn't what you think.

Why don't the iPad and iPhone support multitasking? The answer isn't what you think.
Nice and simple explanation.

Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs

OMG everyone fear the Microsoft Botnet!
Finds, fixes huge number of Office 2010 bugs by tapping idle company PCs

Installing an MSI package from an anonymous file share on Operating Systems greater than Vista RTM can fail with the MSI error 1619 “The installation

One of the problems that can occur with the greater security that comes with Vista and Win7.
Installing an MSI package from an anonymous file share on Operating Systems greater than Vista RTM can fail with the MSI error 1619 “The installation package could not be opened”

Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux.

I guess we now know why Apple didn't bother with ZFS.
Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux.

Joke of the day

I'm An Idiot