Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for December 18, 2010

Open Source Quality Management Platform: Sonar Review

Sonar has been a very popular quality management platform for quite some time now. The platform is billed as to continuously analyze and measure the code quality. If anyone is serious about maintaining code quality namely coding standards, best practices, complexity, and also monitor associated statistics such as the number of unit tests run and …. Read the original article  : Open Source Quality Management Platform: Sonar Review.

How to speed up compilation times in Linux / CentOS / RHEL / Fedora using Ramdisk, much faster than SSD / SAS

Compilation time is the time required by a compiler to successfully transform source code written in a programming language into an executable program. The time taken for compilation depends mainly on two important things- CPU speed i.e processor speed and the harddisk speed. Most of us are concerned about only the CPU speed performance … Original article on : How to speed up compilation times in Linux / CentOS / RHEL / Fedora using Ramdisk, much faster than SSD / SAS.

Facebook Announces ‘Hacker Cup’ in 2011

The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. Now, what are they looking for exactly? Exceptionally talented hackers?
Reportedly, People are free to apply and compete online and a final 25 will be flown to compete …. Read the original article  : Facebook Announces ‘Hacker Cup’ in 2011.

Top 5 File Compression (Lossless Compression) Software for Windows Today mainly based on Performance and Compression

These days not using a data compression software is almost unthinkable because not sometimes but almost every time size really matters. No don’t get me wrong, I am talking about the enormous size of files that tends to occupy a large amount of space on your hard disks. Whether you’re tight on space, or need … Read : Top 5 File Compression (Lossless Compression) Software for Windows Today mainly based on Performance and Compression.