Monthly Archives: May 2010
“The Future Is Bright For Open Source Enthusiasts”
IDC expects worldwide revenue for open source software to rise to $5.8 billion by 2011. Foreseeing the strong promise open source technology holds, Sonata has set up an Open Source Center of Excellence...
Let’s GO: A First Look at Google’s Go Programming Language
Go is a new systems programming language launched by Google, and has received wide attention in the programming community. This article gives you an...
Bharati Vidyapeeth Opens its Gates to Open Source
Pune-headquartered Bharati Vidyapeeth has its institutions spread across India. In 2009, it adopted open source technology when it implemented the TechnoMail enterprise mailing solution...
Dissecting Instruction Level Parallelism
Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) technology is often used to improve the performance of embedded processors in application-specific domains like Digital Signal Processing. Today's VLIW...
Extending Python via Shared Libraries
Python is one of the most popular programming languages ever -- its great productivity, flexibility and general-purpose nature efficiently address areas ranging from Internet...
Automate Testing Web Apps with WebTest
WebTest lets developers write XML-based test suites so quickly, it's almost fun!
Virtually everyone uses a browser every time the computer is switched on --...
Cryptography and Steganography with Python
Steganography and cryptography have been widely used to hide sensitive information. This article offers a brief introduction to how both these methods can be...
Write Your Next Program on Linux
Quite a few colleges and schools still teach C/C++/Java programming on Windows -- and even worse, on DOS (using Turbo C/C++)! GNU/Linux provides a...
S5: A Simple Web-based Presentation System
S5 is a slideshow system for browsers that lets you run presentations like those in MS PowerPoint or OpenOffice.org Impress without a dedicated application...
OpenLDAP, Part 3: Understanding the LDAP Schema
In this article, we will explore LDAP concepts such as schema, ObjectClasses and attributes -- these will help us build an LDAP server capable...
