Mozilla Prism is a cross-platform application and Firefox add-on that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. With it, you can run things like GMail, Google Docs, Zimbra, Jira, Facebook, Google Calendar, Campfire, etc. in their own separate mini-application with their ...

Using the open source tools and platform provided by Android to write mobile applications. This will be targeted at developers of all skill sets who are not yet familiar with mobile applications and their value. It will also be valuable to business leaders who are unfamiliar with the breadth and ...

As I have worked with computer languages over the years, I have been exposed to my share so-called Imperative Languages--C/C++, Java, Ada, Pascal, Python, Perl, PHP, Forth, Assembler, and so on. Because my first experience beyond BASIC had been to study C++, as I encountered more languages, I've always compared ...

What metrics are useful for code? How does code coverage fit in? How does this relate to testing? Code coverage tends to get a bad rap among programmers. Come learn all about it (and other metrics) and maybe change your mind. Examples will be done in Python but the information ...

Everyone wants to hop onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, but who in their right mind wants to spend hours trying to figure out the funny quirks of the many browsers out there? Google has already managed to write some amazing AJAX-based applications, and they have opened up their toolkit so ...

It seems that more and more geeks are discovering a fascination with cooking. Whether you're a geek that lives to cook or just cooks to live, Object Oriented Cooking is for you! Geek chef Joseph Hall will show you how smaller recipes can become objects, ready to be included on ...