Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Small basic language tutorial – programming is fun!
Introduction It was probably in 1989 that I got a chance to work with computers. Our school had one of those machines (don’t remember what it was!) which came with pre-installed BASIC interpreter. Two things stand out in my mind – it had a color display and I could program games in it! From the [...]
Configuring Apache in front of JBoss Application Server Using mod_jk
Introduction Apache HTTP server is a highly reliable and proven open source/free web server. It is under development for over 15 years and is used extensively to host web sites. Since Apache is very popular and the source code is available, security experts are always looking for any vulnerability. This makes it one of the [...]
Pie Chart Drawing in iPhone Using Core Plot Library
Introduction to Core Plot Core Plot is an open source and free charting library for building iPhone and Mac applications. In this article I will show you how you can create a Pie Chart in an iPhone application using Core Plot. Once you learn the basics of Core Plot, it is quite easy to generate [...]
How to write a software requirements specification (SRS) document?
Introduction Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document usually contains a software vendor’s understanding of a customer’s software requirements. This document ensures that the software vendor and the customer are in agreement as to the features required in the software system being built. SRS is created after the initial requirement elicitation phase in which Software vendor interacts [...]
Using Subversion on Mac OS X for version control
Introduction For any type of software product development, version control is essential. This is true even when there is only one software developer working on the project (as in many of the iPhone/Android projects). Having a version control has the following advantages, An efficient incremental backup – A version control system only stores changes between [...]
JBoss application server production settings and performance tuning
Introduction JBoss AS is a Java application server widely used for Web application development, testing and production deployment. The community edition of JBoss is free and open source and is ideal for development and testing. The commercial edition known as JBoss enterprise application platform is the ideal choice for production hosting. However in many intranet [...]