First impressions with the Amazon Kindle

I recently received a new Amazon Kindle as a gift, and was very positively surprised by the product. It provides an intuitive way to read books, and even better, it provides online access to lots of content. The first form of online content is, of course, the Amazon kindle store. The primary reason why Amazon…

Links for Wednesday 3

Here is a list of the links that I found more interesting today: Something I suspected for long: language doesn’t matter for scalability http://tinyurl.com/6l8ay9 Company applications for the iphone fund were found with Google search:http://ad.vu/6fj3 More best practices in php http://ad.vu/z88v  Another perspective of government help (from WSJ) http://ad.vu/4vc  A fun application for the bailout :-) http://ad.vu/67n  A nice…

Editing multiple files in a single buffer

It is a fact of programming that software written in modern programming language is divided into multiple files. That is all programmers use text editors such as vim, emacs, and eclipse, that have facility to work with and move easily between files.  With all these facilities, however, there are times when what you really want…