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This article is a proof-of-concept that shows how to build applications to extract key components of your social network using the Twitter API to chart, geolocate, and visualize your social-networking data. Graph common subject-matter keywords in your discussions and create geographical maps of your friends' locations.

In the course of my teaching and consulting work, I've seen plenty of badly designed and poorly written XSLT code. Many of these bad habits are repeated over and over and can cause critical flaws in XSLT code. In this article, get a feel for the typical problems that come up in stylesheets and how to remedy them.

This article offers insight into how to customize a plug-in project template in Eclipse, elaborates on multisection implementation and control within templates, introduces UI component customization methods to improve usability, illustrates a way to add input validation function on the UI side, and explains how to organize the directory structure of plug-in project automatically.

1. Linux kernel 2.6.28 was officially released at 28 Dec, 2008: ext4, graphics execution manager (GEM), TAINTed_CRAP. See First Look by arstechnica.com. P.S. Linus “almost Santa” Torvalds’ announcement is definitely worth reading:

This article shows you how choosing Python and Eclipse as the core technologies for Nokia N810 application development makes it easy to create unit tests to add built-in testing to the end product. See how easy it is to configure a development environment targeted at the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, including setting up Eclipse on a target development machine for the Python language.

Arduino is an easy-to-use electronics platform. The entire platform, both the hardware and the software, is completely open source, and the language is loosely based on C/C++. Whether you're new to Arduino or a seasoned builder, this project has something for you. There's nothing quite as satisfying as creating an interactive physical object. Use this tutorial to create an interactive laser game called "'Duino tag," where players can play tag using devices built nearly from scratch.

Use a simple script runner that lets you execute JavaScript files within a Java EE application. The scripts will have access to the so-called "implicit objects" that are used in JSP pages, such as application, session, request, and response. Most of the samples consist of reusable code so that you can easily start using JavaScript on the server in your own applications.

Quick Introduction to iTunes Apple iTunes is one of the most popular proprietary digital media players in the whole world. Using this no doubts outstanding application you can organize, play music/video files in very comfortable and user friendly way (it’s not an advertisement but real truth). Moreover iTunes is the only way to access Apple’s onilne music store and thus people often seeks the possibility to seamlessly access it after moving to Linux from Mac or Windows.

Well, as for now it is not a problem anymore to open Microsoft Office 2007 .docx documents in any Linux distribution coming with OpenOffice suit. It may be Ubuntu (Feisty, Gutsy, Interpid whatever), almost any version of Fedora/RedHat/Centos, *SUSE, Mandriva and of course Debian (as per my personal opinion it’s the best one). What is .docx actually? It’s Microsoft’s file format representing word processor documents and named OpenXML (as an attempt to create open and free international standard). Today .docx is default format for Microsoft’s word processor Word.

Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications.

Learn the tips, techniques, and pitfalls when developing Web 2.0 and Dojo applications. Wendi Nusbickel and Melissa Betancourt have worked on the Dojo application documented in this article for over a year. Having recently completed the development of a Web 2.0 Dojo prototype, they share the experience they gained when creating a custom Dojo application.

In this tutorial, develop a Facebook application in Adobe Flex that displays a slideshow of a user's Facebook photo albums. The Facebook application will contain a profile box listing all of the user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album. The Flex application will use the Facebook REST API to fetch the photos of the selected Facebook album and dynamically generate the slideshow.

Developing mobile applications can be a daunting task. Fortunately, Yahoo! Blueprint helps alleviate this pain by providing a single way to develop mobile applications. With Blueprint, you can author a mobile application one time that can be targeted at mobile devices with a browser, allowing you to reach many users. In this tutorial, learn how to develop a weather mobile widget using the Yahoo! Blueprint platform.

Use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 to create a stand-alone Web services application that can be run from the console. In this tutorial, the first in a series, start by getting familiar with the Eclipse IDE. Configure the environment; create projects, packages, and classes; then run the application from the command line.

Q: I was compiling kernel using GNU Screen utility but something happened during the compilation and I want to see full error’s output but I can't just scrollback using Ctrl+PageUp. How to scrollback in GNU Screen? A: In GNU Screen press Ctrl + a + [ to enter Copy Mode, then scroll up/down using keys j or k. Below are some other navigation keys: