Blog about Programming, Open Source, Technology, Software and IT Jobs. in 2010-04-02

O'Reilly Webcast: Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel

Pivot tables let you put together in seconds data summaries that would take forever to create with Excel formulas. That speed gives you the ability to get answers about your data as quickly as you can think up questions...

O'Reilly Webcast: Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel

Pivot tables let you put together in seconds data summaries that would take forever to create with Excel formulas. That speed gives you the ability to get answers about your data as quickly as you can think up questions...

52 Worst Photoshop Mistakes In Magazines

We love Photoshop because it’s one of the most useful photo-editing applications for both web and print designs. With some fair amount of knowledge, you can manipulate any photo and turn them into anything you...

Where 2.0 2010: Dave Fetterman, "Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide..."

Dave Fetterman (Facebook), "Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide Through the Social Graph"

Where 2.0 2010: Dave Fetterman, "Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide..."

Dave Fetterman (Facebook), "Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide Through the Social Graph"

Where 2.0 2010: Deborah Estrin, "Telling Traces"

Deborah Estrin (Computer Science Department, UCLA), "Telling Traces"

Where 2.0 2010: Deborah Estrin, "Telling Traces"

Deborah Estrin (Computer Science Department, UCLA), "Telling Traces"

Where 2.0 2010: Jeffrey Johnson, John Crowley and Schuyler Erle, "Haiti: CrisisMapping..."

Jeffrey Johnson (Open Solutions Group, John Crowley (STAR-TIDES) and Schuyler Erle (SimpleGeo), "Haiti: CrisisMapping the Earthquake"

Where 2.0 2010: Jeffrey Johnson, John Crowley and Schuyler Erle, "Haiti: CrisisMapping..."

Jeffrey Johnson (Open Solutions Group, John Crowley (STAR-TIDES) and Schuyler Erle (SimpleGeo), "Haiti: CrisisMapping the Earthquake"

Where 2.0 2010: Marc Naddell, "What are the Smart Paths for Getting Your LBS App to Market?"

Marc Naddell (NAVTEQ), "What are the Smart Paths for Getting Your LBS App to Market?"

Where 2.0 2010: Marc Naddell, "What are the Smart Paths for Getting Your LBS App to Market?"

Marc Naddell (NAVTEQ), "What are the Smart Paths for Getting Your LBS App to Market?"

SAX Error - MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.

Problem When some special UTF-8 characters inside a XML file, and your SAX’s parser is not configure to parse the UTF-8 properly, the following exception will be thrown. com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. ... Solution The solution is quite simple, get the content in UTF-8 format, and override the SAX input source. File file...

Keep An Object's Shadows Intact While Changing Background In Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to take an object with shadows on a white background, and place it onto a different background while maintaining the transparency of the shadows. To do this we’ll use the...

Where 2.0 2010: Jack Dangermond, "Spatial Analysis and the Geoweb"

Jack Dangermond (ESRI), "Spatial Analysis and the Geoweb"

Where 2.0 2010: Jack Dangermond, "Spatial Analysis and the Geoweb"

Jack Dangermond (ESRI), "Spatial Analysis and the Geoweb"

Type-classes are nothing like interfaces

A beginner is confused about Haskell’s type-classes and so asks the question, “What is a type-class?” The response is often devastating, “You know, like Java or C# interfaces.” This wildly misleading statement...