Sunday, January 1, 2012

Create free online profile page

A personal web-page that's all about you. Create free online profile using about.me.
Using about.me services you can quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web.
This is my about.me profile.

Other then customizing and publishing your page you can also understand how many people see your profile, where they're coming from, and what they do on your page.

Create you online profile now.
URL: https://about.me/

Create a Panorama image

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. In most simple words its "wide format photography". The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

Above image is an example of panorama-image. Now its very easy to create these type of images.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

You can download its 32-bit version and 64-bit version.

Find more details on its native web-site.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Java is losing popularity

Despite the recent release of a major upgrade to the platform, Java is losing popularity based on the latest monthly assessment of programming languages by Tiobe Software.
The October edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, released Sunday, October 9, found that Java lost popularity in September, with an estimated 17.913 percent of developers using it as opposed to 18.761 percent in the previous month's index. Java still finished as the top language, but if the downward trend continues, the C language, ranked second with 17.707 percent of users, will be number one next month, Tiobe said.


Java has been tops in the index from 2001 until now with a few exceptions between mid-2004 and mid- 2005 and couple of months last year, when C took over, said Paul Jansen, managing director at Tiobe. He anticipates Java facing a long-term downward trend based on what he sees happening in the field. "This downward trend is probably caused by the fact that the Java language evolves too slowly compared to other languages, such as C#," Jansen said.
Rounding out the top 10 languages in Tiobe's index were C++, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, and JavaScript. Objective-C and Transact-SQL scored all-time highs, with usage rates of 6.245 percent and .909 percent respectively, while Assembly re-entered the top 20 by claiming the 19th spot. Visual Basic.Net jumped to the 25th spot after ranking 39th last month, while F# dropped from 23rd to 46th.

This would be a very bad news for "Open-source community" too as java is the largest supporter. Well we can just wish best for Java and Java developers.

Source: InfoWorld, Tiobe Programming Community index