Every second you blink, Twitter gets 600+ per second new Tweets during non-peak hours. This goes upto 900 per second during peek times, of Earthquake, Apple events. Serving Millions and billions of tweets everyday is … Read more
In the need for speed, Facebook had been working under the hood to boost PHP runtime to crazy levels which were not possible before. Facebook has now Open sourced the underlying code, as predicted. The … Read more
PHP offers a light-weight runtime for small-to-medium sized webapps. If you are not a PHP developer, you will be surprised to know that PHP doesn’t support multithreading natively, though there are ways to make it … Read more
A typical full-fledged OS could ranges from 1-20GB before/after installation. But How small can it really get? Few Megabytes? Kilobytes, perhaps. BareMetal is an open source CLI-based Operating system. The OS is written entirely in … Read more
The Evolution and Features that can mark Success for Windows 7 – Direct X 11 from dx10 and dx9 No doubt, Windows is the best platform for Gaming. Other platforms, due to lack of proper … Read more
Closed Technologies have had the enough, the future is bound to be open. I can’t think of a stream where Open source has not contributed. In few of the relatively newer streams, like telecom, Open … Read more
They say generations are getting smarter, Microsoft Research creates a Programming Language for Kids. Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up with an idea which would be considered brilliant provided Microsoft is ready to back them … Read more
iPhone is now a proven platform that has intense demand and supply when it comes to Applications. With over 110,000 applications available in the App Store, its still on the rise. Nexus One may have … Read more
The developers are heard: the much awaited Android SDK that powers Nexus One is finally here, available to everyone. Developers and handset manufacturers can download the latest Android development kit and begin to take advantage … Read more
From practical apps like Google Wave, Gmail (mobile), we’ve seen that minimal client caching can be a good idea for most web applications. However, faster internet fades away half of the value. But for the … Read more
Reverse engineering is becomes a necessity every now and then. When it comes to java decompilation, there are several available in the wild that do it pretty well but the problem: Most of them are … Read more
Though most of us prefer to code offline, it makes sense to have a web application that lets you edit, run and debug a code snippet without having to setup environment for the language. The … Read more
Gaming on iPhone is snap. We’ve seen so many beautiful 3d Games on the platform that run so flawlessly. Porting games to iPhone is in-vogue, the best example is Driver that made its way from PSX … Read more
The cloud is buzzing, Google’s Cloud dreams do converge with Palm’s Web based OS apps aspirations. But what comes today takes it one step further into the cloud. Palm has launched a beta version of … Read more
Google had introduced upgrades to it’s translate service by adding a provision to Speak out loud the translated text. If you haven’t tried it so far, give it a shot here. There’s no official API … Read more