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Ambi Calculator and Programming Language

January 12, 2009

I have created Ambi Calculator and Programming Language as a result of investigation about the possibility of a Reverse Polish Notation Language. Ambi operates in both Reverse Polish Notation and Polish Notation for arithmetic expressions. Ambi 0.4.0 is now released as an online Calculator and Programming Language.
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Vista with a touch of Ubuntu

January 7, 2009
Vista with a touch of Ubuntu

The image below captures my amazement.  A few days ago, I installed Virtualbox on my Vista machine and installed Ubuntu.  After a bit of tweaking I now have Vista and Ubuntu seamlessly working together on the same desktop!  Check it out! The installation of Virtualbox was easy and it seamlessly connected to the local...
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Lightweight Project Management

August 2, 2008

Good to be blogging again after a three month hiatus. The Work Breakdown Structure has caught my attention. The work breakdown structure is foundational to project management. My insight today is that the WBS could also be foundation to a task management tool. The beauty of the WBS is the way that it assists...
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Distributed Computing with the Browser

January 16, 2008

Recently, Subbu posted an interesting discussion of an xml analysis and presentation application – you can read it here: Distributed Computing with the Browser. This design scenario is a good illustration of the limitations of our current situation with programming . Our current situation is that while the WWW allows a programmer to ignore...
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HTC and Cloud and Grid Computing

January 11, 2008

The HyperText Computing (HTC) paradigm is not a “complete solution” to the challenges and opportunites afforded by Cloud and Grid computing — however this post argues that the HTC is part of the solution. My angle into this question is via a recent blog post. This is how Tim Foster, in a recent post...
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The HTC and Java Remote Method Invocation

January 10, 2008

Java Remote Method Invocation JRMI (White Paper) is a distributed computing capability for the Java Platform. Like the HTC it is designed to facilitate “write once run everywhere” and “code mobility”. Naturally it does it within the paradigm of Java Objects. The purpose of this post is to give a 30 second comparison of...
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Kazakh Keyboards

February 15, 2006

Kazakh Language Keyboards (KLK) is a package of Keyman 6.0 keyboards for typing Kazakh language texts under Windows 98/2000 and XP. Download The latest version of KLK may be found here . Please download, open the zip file and run KLK.exe to install. Free for personal use.
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