Why AJAX is useless?

Why it’s useless in real applications? Finally, JavaScript doesn’t have any multithreading capabilities, except whatever comes implicitly from the web browser’s internal use of threads. Another reference: Multi-threading in JavaScript Only thing what javascript (thus AJAX) is currently capable of, is to imitate multithreading, which is 100% different thing than actual multithreading. So there we…

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Some nice code snippets

Code snippets. When doing tricks with Graphics 2D, it’s good to keep around utility to allow determining what different AlphaComposite operations are actually doing (in order to retain your sanity).

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Tig Tag – The Code Review Editor

Inspired by Tick The Code. Small utility which allows doing code reviewing without printing it into paper. Screenshot (v0.37a): Old screenshots: TigTag (v0.3a) TigTag (v0.36a) Usage: Marking code: Hit ANY key or SPACE or CTRL+V WARNING: Current version (v0.3 Alpha) may contain various defects (Send email if you find any…), and file storage format may…

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Random Points of Interest

Back to Basics: RMI Revisited | Javalobby Ghost in the Java Virtual Machine | Javalobby Optimising Computer Programs for Performance | Javalobby 5 Tips For Writing Interesting Technical Articles | Javalobby The Curse of the Swallowed Exception | Javalobby JSF Jumpstarter: Free PDF Book Download | Javalobby Why Many Java Performance Tests are Wrong |…

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KDE 4.2

Finally KDE4 series is starting to show some stability. It looks like it’s possible to start using this new Linux desktop.

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Running Amiga (EUAE) in Asus EEE PC 900

1) Get E-UAE from this page: Amiga emulator on Asus eeePC (e-uae_0.8.29-WIP4_linux-i586_sdl.tar.bz2 works nicely). 1.1) Extract (and move) files into ~/amiga/uae directory 2) Fiddle with settings, and get frustrated (too slow emulation speed, sound failing) 3) Take these config files and scripts, and enjoy Copy into ~/s/run_uae.sh [code] UAE=~/amiga/uae/uae CONF=~/amiga/uae_00.conf if [ ”$4” != ””…

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Experiences with KDE 4.1

Finally! After long waiting KDE 4.1 was released. After very bad experiences with KDE 4.0, I decided to see what has improved. For whole week I tried to use KDE 4.1 instead of KDE 3.5.9, and conclusion is quick. Conclusion for KDE 4.1: KDE 4.1 is still very slow and unstable. Like snail crawling in…

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