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Hiring software development team in Ukraine: step-by-step guide & major benefits

October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 Karan S

When it comes to hiring software developers, most companies prefer to stick close to home. But instead of hiring a development team in Canada or the US, why not look at hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine instead? Despite the recent conflict, there are many benefits to hiring your development team in Ukraine, including accessing a diverse skill set at a lower cost. Let’s dive into the details. Hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine: What does it involve? Ukraine has been on the map for all the wrong…

How to develop a healthcare app: a summary guide for 2022

August 27, 2022 Karan S

Planning to build a healthcare app? Consider reading this piece on how to make a medical app. See, the world is moving towards modernized solutions, allowing users to get the most out of their devices, software, and apps. The same is the case with the medical industry. Back in the day, there were blood pressure monitors, EKG machines, and whatnot. But, now, that thing has evolved into something no one expected. With a touch of a finger, you can get essential information related to your health metrics. And honestly, these…

Best HP Laptops for Remote Workers

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 Karan S

The nature of today’s workforce is changing with more flexible schedules and arrangements rising by the day due to the gig economy. And with this, the demand for new tools that can accommodate their needs has also skyrocketed. The rapid digitalization of industries has changed how work is being done. Globally, around 70% of professionals work remotely at least once a week, according to research from Switzerland-based IWG. Depending on which metrics you look at, the remote workforce in the US stands at around 5% for those who do so…

[1000+] Huge List of Open Source Android apps on Play Store

May 13, 2013May 13, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

Programming and developing good applications is always a challenge. The competition is huge, variety is huge, and developers continuously innovate to bring out best with new programming methodologies. In fast changing Android applications, you’ve to be competitive by adopting the best methodologies may it be the way you cache bitmaps [WeakReference], new ways of optimal listViews, CusrorLoaders, etc. You must catchup with Fast changing API and Android SDK and be on the edge. We often do that by experimenting with whats available in API documentation and then hop ver StackOverflow for solutions.…

HowTo: Develop Your First Google Glass App [Glassware]

April 16, 2013May 8, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

Google has raised curtains off it’s Glass revealing detailed Tech Specs. Along with the specs came the much awaited Mirror API - The API for Glass apps. So you had that killer app idea for Google Glass? Now its time for you to put those ideas into code! What’s Inside Google Glass Google Glass runs custom Android OS (based on rumors) abstracted from developers and users with a new Navigation friendly hands-free card interface. The device essentially has specs of a low-end smartphone: 16GB storage (12GB usable), 5MP camera, 720p…

Best Java Swing Look and Feel Themes | Top 10

October 4, 2009December 23, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

For Years, Java Swing has suffered from poor UI colors and designs. Since the support of Java to let people desing their own Themes, it has revamped those old boring UIs. When we talk about designing look and feel, we know it is about implementing different UI classes for different components. Today, we can use Synth look and feel, which allow us to customize the look and feel by writing an XML file. The other way is to use UIManager to load the L&F class directly from classpath. For which…

Develop Java Native-like WebApps on iPhone using PrimeFaces

September 21, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

iPhone SDK doesn’t support Java for the development code. Neither does Java runs on iPhone (though you can Compile, Run, Install Java apps on iPhone by jailbreaking). But there is just one legal way of developing applications in Java for the iPhone: using PrimeFaces. PrimeFaces is an Open Source library for JSF which lets you create a rich set of components and provide non-rendering JSF extensions to ease development on various webapps. Though not intended for iPhone alone, it serves iPohne webapps quiet efficiently. PrimeFaces basically has 3 components: UI,…

Vulnerabilities in HTML 5 and Future

September 13, 2009December 19, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

HTML 5 comes with alot of promise for the web. It has lot of new features that could make Web Browsers and Apps much more powerful than they ever were. Let’s go by an example. Try accessing Gmail on iPhone or Android phone, you will have notice some differences from what it used to be a month ago. The new thing worth noticing is the introduction of the offline access. Gmail went down, offline in September, but credits to Gears, Gmail was still up and running with select Browsers. On the other…

How To Write Google Chrome Extensions

September 11, 2009December 12, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Chrome 4 is long-lived Google’s dream. Till Chrome 3, Chrome had the inherited disadvantages which prevented it from replacing Firefox — The Extensions. Chrome 4 is not just developer friendly and Cloud sync enabled, It’s faster than ever. Chrome 4 is now the fastest browser on PC, MAC OS X. Before we begin the fun of creating an Extension on Chrome 4, Don’t forget to download Chrome 4.0.201.1 — Follow this link. Note: If you are not a developer you can download the extension directly from the “Installing Extension into Chrome 4.0″ near…

Will Oracle kill MySQL ? Why they Can’t and Why they Wouldn’t

September 5, 2009September 7, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun has been hit with a new hurdle. The European Commission(EU) won’t let Oracle proceed till it clearsout the new matter raised. EU is concerned that Oracle’s will terminate the open source MySQL project, a move that would have a detrimental impact on competition in the database market. In light of the resilience inherent in open source software, it’s unclear if such a maneuver would even be possible. A look at the Past Oracle has a good history when it comes to open source. In 2005,…

How to Install, Compile, Run Java Apps on iPhone

August 29, 2009August 31, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

So what if Apple will not allow Java to come on iPhone? We have a workaround living for a year now. But not many people know about it, and it’s scattered. But I`ll make it easy for you. Disclaimer- It’s illegal to jailbreak and blah blah, do it at you own risk. Here is an Easy Tutorial - Pre-requistes - You iPhone should be Jailbroken and “terminal” installed. You can follow the guide here. Step 1. Goto Cydia and search for “Java” and install it. The package is Approx. 12mb…

Java 7 What`s New, Performance Benchmark 1.5 1.6 1.7

August 29, 2009August 31, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Java is one of the language which has overhauled it’s underneath technology ground-up. Even though, the basic concept of running inside JVM holds good, the way JVM handles Objects, Memory management has completely been revamped. A lot changed over 1.4 to 1.5. There were critical compile-time improvements, Runtime smartness and with Java 6 more performance optimizations; Java 7 - the modularity. Let’s start discussing each aspect of Java 7 which makes it go Loud - Modularization - JSR 294 or Project Jigsaw JVM Support for dynamic languages More New I/O…

REST vs. SOAP - The Right WebService

August 24, 2009December 11, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Web Services are the key point of Integration for different applications belonging to different Platforms, Languages, systems. It wouldn’t be wrong if you call Web-services as the “Rendezvous point of the Business”. I’ve been using HTTP and SOAP since several years new. REST is rather new. SOAP revolutionized RPC and loose coupling beyond the restrictions posed by earlier protocols. However off late I have been giving APIs and interfaces considerable thought and am leaning a lot more towards simple HTTP based APIs with an XML or JSON response format as…

PreDevCamp Palm Pre’s first Developer Barcamp Worldwide

August 9, 2009September 24, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

After the work of few good people, the new formed Palm’s developer group launched a one day developers “camp” in 80 cities this Saturday. The group attracted fairly large no. of interested developers. More than 2000 developers had signed up for the PreDevCamps. PreDevCamp was organized by Dan Rumney, Greg Stevenson and Lisa Brewster. The volunteer, non-profit group is not affiliated with Palm or with the official Palm Developer Network. Sponsors currently include: BlueSwitch, PreCentral, O’Reilly, Zanox, and Adobe, with additional support from LittleSprings Design, Pivotal Labs and UE Architects. The Group intended…

AMD Releases reverse GPGPU, OpenCL SDK for x86 - Offload GPU to CPU

August 7, 2009September 24, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

We’ve heard of offloading CPU to execute intensively complex calculations to GPU (graphics processor unit). This finds application in Future web browsers with OpenGL, Graphics Applications, and all games. AMD has twisted the concept, that takes the GPGPU idea and flips it on its head. AMD has announced the industry’s first OpenCL SDK for x86 processors. Coders can now write to the graphics API and run the resulting code on an AMD or Intel processor. AMD has announced the release of the first OpenCL SDK for x86 CPUs, and it…