Generic types added in JDK 5.0 provided enhancement to type safety in Java. For example in using Collections, generic types allow restricting the type the collection would contain as opposed to pre-JDK5 wherein collection classes accept anything that extends from java.lang.Object (which means almost everything!).

I’ve been an Agile and Scrum twitter contributor for the past three months and I have read countless blogs and articles about Scrum and Agile Development. There’s this one Agile article that I want to share with you. This article is called Ten Principles of Agile Tester, but I’ll just pick my Top 7 from the list.

I noticed that every time my code will be reviewed by someone, they will ask me something about the purpose of a variable or the logic of the method or even the comments and so on. Because of that, I tend to do a lot of explaining for others to understand my code. I thought to myself, “Is my code really that chaotic?”

Ideyatech is proud to support and sponsor the recent 7^th National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium. It is a symposium organized by De La Salle University in cooperation with the Computing Society of the Philippines Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing.

Here’s an interesting story about why many companies struggle applying agile methodologies – the roots of anti-agile. Last month, I did the performance appraisal of Ellaine, a trainee hired from college 6 months ago. She graduated from a prestigious, traditional, all-girls school run by Nuns who values academic excellence, etc. The discussion…

After experiencing a number of production roll-outs, on both blade and rack mounted servers, I began to think about the advantages of one over the other. In general, blade servers sounded like a better approach, but it appears to be more of a marketing hype than reality.

It’s been 2 weeks since I installed Karmic Koala, the latest version of Ubuntu. After having to use Windows Vista and Mac Leopard for quite some time, here are some of my reviews and opinions on Karmic Koala in terms of system installation, speed performance, interface usability, software application and product reliability/security.

The property innerHTML are read-only for the following html objects: COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HEAD, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR and trying to update the value of their innerHTML property will give you ‘unknown runtime error’ in IE browser. Though creating child elements by DOM method can resolve this…