Tip<Java>: Minimise potential bug by quantifying local variable with underscore

Veteran programmers surely encounter such situation where they spend countless hours tracking down a hard-to-fin bug that that is due to local variable having the same name as the instance/static variable in a class. In such case, the local variable will take precedent over instance variable which may not be the intention of the programmer. [...]

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Review<Song>: Kiss me Goodbye, my One & Only Forever Love

Geezer:  (LB2) for All Songs: Forever Love | Kiss Goodbye | 唯一 |  一首简单的歌 | 不要害怕 |  愛的就是你 | Mary says |  雪人

 

Wong Li Hong is a popular Taiwanese singer who  creatively combines the western and eastern music to create his own instinctive style of rap and love ballade.

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UI<App>: Pinnacle Mobile Media Converter

Main
This is a intuitive design where the steps are guided by top-down sequence. User can view the video that is selected for the source.
Notice too the emphasis on the START button.

Packaging

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UI<App>: Xara3D

Xara3D is a simple but yet powerful word logo design software with extremely real-time preview of effect. The object can directly manipulated by the mouse. The are two rows of button bars. On top is the standard menu which replicate all the functions found in the left toolbar and Outlook bar.

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Welcome to GeekyUI

GeekyUI is setup to capture some of the interesting and innovative GUI design for inspiration and learning. There is basically no shortcut in learning GUI screen layout and interaction design, and it takes experience and constant refinement to get a simple UI that at least alleviate much of complexity. One of the most effective way [...]

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History of Software

Software.

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Useful Open Source Projects

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Tip<Java>: Printing selected text of JTextArea

Swing is a very powerful Java GUI toolkit and rank among the best GUI toolkits in the market. Despite its early negative reputation as being slow and buggy, Swing has come a long way since its inception a decade ago. Each iteration of Java incorporates noticeably improvement of Swing in term of performance, stability, power [...]

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Deezer’s playlist finally return !

At last, kudos to that the playlist has once again regain its full functionality and usefulness ! Since the beginning of the year, Deezer has changed the playlist component that is almost unusable since it cannot play individual song and moreover many songs like Scorpions can no longer play due to disagreement with [...]

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Tip<Java>: Using block label as Goto

Many experienced programmer will lament that GOTO is a bad practice that result in Spaghetti code. Generally a GOTO statement is accompanied by a label argument that been placed within the same method and invoking GOTO will return to the preceding statement where the LABEL is located. GOTO can be a very effective tool in [...]

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