Recalling the lambda notation…

It measures ONLY 18×18 pixels!!!

See these screenshots!

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Screen 2

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According to this article, up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company “scrambles” to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.

Last week IE Team has released a new version of IE Developer Toolbar. Althrough it’s still beta 2 (as latest), it’s a new build.

You can download it from here.

1. Introduction to Ajax
2. Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax
3. Advanced requests and responses in Ajax
4. Exploiting DOM for Web response

Lightning 0.1 is an embedding of the Mozilla calendar code specifically designed to run inside Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 and 1.5.0.*. This release is a preliminary, non-production release designed to showcase the work that’s been done and allow contributors to help us test it out. True email / calendar integration is planned, but that is not part of this release.

Here.

Profiling is a technique for measuring where software programs consume resources, including CPU time and memory. In this article, software architect Andrew Wilcox explains the benefits of profiling and some current profiling options and their shortcomings. He then shows you how to use the new Javaâ„¢ 5 agent interface and simple aspect-oriented programming techniques to build your own profiler.

More here.

NetHogs:

NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this. This makes it easy to indentify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth.

Since NetHogs heavily relies on /proc, it currently runs on Linux only.

bmon:

bmon is a portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator running on various operating systems. It supports various input methods for different architectures. Various output modes exist including an interactive curses interface, lightweight HTML output but also formatable ASCII output.

nmon:

The nmon tool is helpful in presenting all the important performance tuning information on one screen and dynamically updating it. The tool works on any dumb screen, telnet session, or even dial-up line. In addition, the tool is very efficient. It does not consume many CPU cycles, usually below 2%. On newer machines, CPU usage is well below 1%.
Data is displayed on the screen and updated once every two seconds using a dumb screen. However, you can easily change this interval to a longer or shorter time period. If you display the data on X-Windows, VNC, putty or similar and stretch the window, nmon can output a great of information all in one place.
The nmon tool can also capture the same data to a text file for later analysis and graphing for reports. The output is in a spreadsheet format (.csv).

TechCrunch posted some exclusive photos of a new service from Google, Calendar (CL2).

You can see them here.

Wordpress has released a security fix, so I downloaded the 2.0.2 version, since I haven’t upgraded to 2.0.1.

I followed this guide on upgrading and it workded flawless.

News about GTK+ 2.10 at FOSDEM 2006.

DesktopLinux.com broke a story last week that Google will be working with CodeWeavers to get Picasa working under Linux. It was followed by reports in PC Magazine and TechSpot , though they simply copied the other article. If you haven’t used Picasa , I’d recommend downloading it and trying it with Wine. It actually works really well out of the box and it’s a great little program. Personally, I still prefer something like EoG for simple image viewing but Picasa really has a lot more features. Given how well it runs with Wine, it’s not a stretch that CodeWeavers would consider working on it.

More here.

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.

It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users’ desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.

Wink is available for Windows and for Linux as well.
More here.