In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.
Mac OS X, which combines a powerful core foundation with a compelling user interface called Aqua. With advanced features and an aesthetically refined use of color, transparency, and animation.
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
"I refer to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make meaning, so we must make notes---in our head, on the page, and in our notebooks"
From Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. The user's experience should be similar to all other similar applications to minimize learning curve and maximize usability.
Latest technology news; monthly journal; events, hot forum topics; top articles; viewpoints; links to papers and reports; career centre; dedicated C++ forum - some pages with hundreds of views; media centre with audio, video, netseminars to subscribe to
not a full reference to the standard library. Some elements are listed using actual class or function declarations; other elements are listed using a shorthand to make things simpler and/or more concise.
"In my opinion, good knife skills are an essential component of being a good cook. And good knife skills are not particularly difficult for the average person to learn."
by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes "I've been writing on CPU technology here at Ars for almost five years now, and during that time I've done my best to communicate computing concepts in as plain and accessible a manner as possible while still retaining some level
a compilation of all the JVM options for various versions of the JVM on primarily SPARC/Solaris Platform. The descriptions for each option are taken mostly verbatim from the reference documents.
@ Ars Technica by Wayne "Hat Monster" Hardman "The BIOS is that dark, cavernous pathway to your computer's very soul that both beckons and repels the would-be performance seeker."
Two new (in the sense that, as far as I know, they were never before programmed for a computer) algorithms for the classical Tower of Hanoi problem and their variations are discussed.
explores the challenges of constructing a distributed e-business architecture based on the concept of Request Based Virtual OrganiZation (RBVO) and presents a solution based on ebXML, Open Source e-business component
Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price.
a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright.