Now would be a good time for Google wish Oracle had not taken over and purchases Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems where the guys behind the Java Framework until Oracle took control. So what has Java got to do with the title of this article? Well, Java is the whole reason that Oracle has sued Google.

Here’s to introducing the wonderful world of Aton Toons. An African centered cartoon strip, animated clips and more that promises compromised humor like you have never seen it before. You wont find these on the Blender gallery, Well at least not yet anyway.

We are way into August already, how time passes by when you’ve got a million and one things to do. Unfortunately these things are keeping me away from my computer screen and you know what that means… less writing, less developing. More wasted moment and a pile of “wish I”s. Yeah so lets see what I have in store this issue.

There has always been the age old question of whether Assembly Language is any form is still relevant in this day and age. The answer to this question is a resounding yes. There are several necessary applications for Assembly Language today as I will explain below. So keep reading.

Lets examine the notion that SQLite can be a viable replacement for fopen(). To get your understanding, SQLite is an implementation of a database engine that is self contained, serverless, transactional and needs no configuration. On the Other hand fopen() is a function from the standard C library that opens a file for either reading and/or writing and returns a stream associated with that file.

Using CSS borders on your web pages should not at all be taken lightly. CSS borders hold a lot of power when it comes to making or breaking through in Web Design. Yes I am not really a designer so this just goes to show how easy Styling your next project well with CSS borders can make a huge difference yet it does not need to be a pain in the neck.

MariaDB, is the MySQL forked database Server that uses the Maria storage engine as the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine. The Maria storage engine is no longer called “Maria” but is now called “Aria”. Any future versions of MariaDB will now ship with the default storage engine named “Aria”.

In this continuation from this article about fun things to do with Google Chrome, I continue to add more interactive and graphic intense applications that you can tinker with to experience more of what HTML5 canvass has to offer. These features are not only restricted to Google Chrome but can be experienced using other browsers like Opera, Firefox, Safari and all major browsers that support HTML5 and have fast JavaScript Engines.

The first official Beta release of the Blender 2.5x series free open source 3D content creation suite is out. This is a release that is for the most part feature complete but not quite there. By feature complete I mean the inclusions of features from the complete Blender 2.4x series. Here is an overview of what Blender 2.53 Beta Release has to offer.

I cant say I have yet released any production quality projects using the Nokia Qt SDK just yet; however I have been getting my hands dirty with the Nokia Qt SDK for the past couple of week or more. From what I can see the Nokia Qt SDK is quite a piece of work. Here is what it has to offer.