Software lets programmers code hands-free

A new speech recognition tool promises to let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard.

The tool, called VoiceCode, has been developed to help programmers with repetitive strain injury (RSI). This is a common affliction for people who spend a lot of time using a keyboard or mouse and causes pain in muscles, tendons and nerves in a sufferer's arms and back. Some estimates suggest 22% of all US computer programmers, or 100,000 people, suffer from the condition.

1 million digits of Pi

1 million digits of Pi is available at the url above :)

Who needs to pirate books with a list like this?

List of free books around the net

101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET

So many?

Visual Studio 2005 Express free forever

We are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!

Working at Microsoft

It seems like there's a lot of public interest in what it's like to work at Microsoft. Here's my personal persepctive on the good (+), the bad (-), and the in-between (=).

EasyEclipse 1.0

EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins.

We select, assemble, test, patch, build installers and document a full IDE, offered as reliable distributions and plugins.

Google Summer of Code 2006 started

Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period.

Open source community needs a haircut

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

I realized that, paradoxically enough, good programmers need to be both lazy and dumb.

Development tool for Flash

FDT is full-featured environment for Flash development (ActionScript), implemented as a plugin to Eclipse platform

Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software

This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows©. The goal of this book is not to cover how to reproduce an entire program from a binary, but instead how to use the Scientific Method to deduce specific behavior and to target, analyze, extract and modify specific operations of a program, usually for interoperability purposes. As such, the book takes a top-down approach, starting at the highest level (program behavior) and drilling down to assembly when it is needed.

The Official Eclipse FAQs

The official Eclipse FAQs has been released as Wiki page. The initial contents for these FAQ pages has come from The Offical Eclipse 3.0 FAQs written by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra.

GD Development to be moved to PHP.net

Thomas Boutell, creator of the GD graphics library, has offered the PHP group the opportunity to take over development of GD. Ramsus has accepted the move.

Bit Twiddling Hacks

Alot of problems, which can be solved with bit operations.