Thanks to Mahindra, Sunny and Tejinder for their regular contributions to Linkorma. As a tribute to them, I’ve decided to place their great contributions before my own! 
Anand
Mahindra Gupta
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The unwritten laws of technology -http://www.pcworld.com/article/169388/you_must_obey_the_unwritten_laws_of_technology.html
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Try Open Source Software Risk-free
http://www.click2try.com/ -
Cheat sheets for web developers
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/30-handy-cheat-sheets-and-reference-guides-for-web-professionals/ -
Microsoft and GPL violations
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/ -
A company attempts to secure the weakest link in IT
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23008/ -
The amazing world of version numbers
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/14/version-numbers/ -
How to run better. (Warning… geek quotient <= 0)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/ -
The innards of C#’s yield command
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/ -
How to write fast code
http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html -
Five best free system restore tools for when things go wrong…
http://lifehacker.com/5303067/five-best-free-system-restore-tools -
The Bing toolbox for geeks and nerds alike
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/06/26/bing-offers-toolbox-for-webmasters-developers-advertisers -
Making the web faster
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html -
The Web’s most dangerous keywords to search for
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3457&tag=nl.e539 -
ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production… then why is debug=true
http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2006/04/13/575364.aspx -
memcpy() to be “banished” by Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/15/microsoft_banishes_memcpy/
Sunny Shah
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General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU -
IBM Delivers Smart Open-Source Compiler (The boys in blue aren’t dead yet!)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/IBM-Delivers-Smart-OpenSource-Compiler-695460/?kc=EWKNLLIN07072009STR2 -
Drag & Drop Distance tool to find distance between two cities based on Google maps.
http://www.marsrutai.info/directions.htm -
Google voice…
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10272937-2.html -
Opera turns your computer into a server (but that’s only part of the equation)
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/06/16/opera-turns-your-computer-into-a-server
Tejinder Singh Hanspal
- India’s 10 most trustworthy companies
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/mar/10sld1-indias-ten-most-trustworthy-companies.htm - Biometrics beaten, securing Wi-Fi routers, Exchange-Firefox, Corporate Netbooks…
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090302/edit01.shtml - Tata Housing presents Bangalore’s first green building
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090302/market03.shtml - The Web is more dangerous, and the U.S. is the biggest culprit
http://gcn.com/articles/2008/12/10/the-web-is-more-dangerous-and-us-is-biggest-culprit.aspx - Consolidating Servers Does Not Mean Less Work
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3808946 - Cut Costs, Beat Recession With Cloud Computing
http://www.cxotoday.com/India/News/Cut_Costs_Beat_Recession_With_Cloud_Computing/551-99919-912.html - Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher than you
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/super-rugged-latitude-e6400-xfr-is-tougher-than-you/ - Hackers Target Xbox Live Accounts
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Target-Xbox-Live-Accounts-105361.shtml - Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700813.aspx - Using a Least-Privileged User Account
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700846.aspx - Is That a Web Server in Your Pocket?
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3821766 - Vista — The Most Secure Enterprise OS?
http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3823111 - Net connection: The top 10 countries
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/apr/07slide1-net-connection-the-top-10-countries.htm - Warning! Future innovations are leaving the US
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/mar/09sde1-future-innovations-are-leaving-the-us.htm - The importance of data and its protection
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090511/technology02.shtml - e-mail through SMS
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090518/technology01.shtml - Google Pushes to Unseat Microsoft Exchange
http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3824246/Google+Pushes+to+Unseat+Microsoft+Exchange.htm - Microsoft Starts Planning Internet Explorer 9
http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3819521 - Writing in the air: Next mobile revolution
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/jun/17/writing-in-the-air-could-be-next-mobile-revolution.htm - Security beyond guns, guards and gates
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090706/market01.shtml - Top 20 Highest Engaged Social Networking Countries
http://www.devilsworkshop.org/top-20-highest-engaged-social-networking-countries/ - Microsoft’s Mega Datacenters Coming Online
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3827586/Microsofts+Mega+Datacenters+Coming+Online.htm - IBM Discovers Encryption Scheme That Could Improve Cloud Security, Spam Filtering
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/IBM-Uncovers-Encryption-Scheme-That-Could-Improve-Cloud-Security-Spam-Filtering-135413/ - Access Internet From Mobile Using Computers Internet Connection
http://www.devilsworkshop.org/access-internet-from-mobile-using-computers-internet-connection/ - Offline Gmail to access email without internet
http://www.tothepc.com/archives/offline-gmail-to-access-email-without-internet/ - How to Improve IT Cyber-Security with Visual Analytics
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/How-to-Improve-IT-Cyber-Security-with-Visual-Analytics/ - Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Exploit Warning
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/102424/microsoft-issues-zero-day-exploit-warning.html - Microsoft may have known about critical IE bug for months
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135259/Microsoft_may_have_known_about_critical_IE_bug_for_months
For those that have managed to scroll down this far, hope you enjoy some of my picks! – Anand
- Building an application in the cloud
http://www.cirrious.com/Research/Azure/tabid/58/Default.aspx - Anatomy of Linux process management
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-process-management/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01Linux-Proc-die&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grlnxw01 - Active Template Library Security Update for Developers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/ee309358.aspx - Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc278098.aspx - Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-iphone/ - Sony’s free e-book player and 1 million free books…
http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/ - How Microsoft Made PHP Suck Less on Windows
http://www.itworld.com/development/73001/how-microsoft-made-php-suck-less-windows - How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229 - VC10: Next Generation Buffer Overrun Protection with /GS++
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Louis-Lafreniere-Next-Generation-Buffer-Overrun-Protection-gs/ - Microsoft’s Axum Parallel Programming Language Advances
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsofts-Axum-Parallel-Programming-Language-Advances-156800/ - Mozilla Labs Jetpack – Intro & Tutorial
http://vimeo.com/4752576 - NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html - Outlook Sender’s Time Zone (free plugin)
http://www.ablebits.com/outlook-sender-timezone/index.php - PHP 5.3 Accelerates PHP
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3827756/PHP+53+Accelerates+PHP.htm - Ramp up your IT skills with Microsoft.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx - IIS7 Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit - Safe Unlinking in the Kernel Pool
http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/05/26/safe-unlinking-in-the-kernel-pool.aspx - The State of MySQL
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7342 - VC10: C++ Gets Squiggles!
http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/06/01/c-gets-squiggles.aspx - Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Windows-7-Graphics-Architecture-Overview-Part-1/ - Inside the Windows Vista Kernel Part 3. (Note: No need to read Part 1 and 2 beforehand)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.04.vistakernel.aspx - The finer details of SSH
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=security&seqNum=336&ns=15583 - Secure Email with OpenPGP
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=security&seqNum=334 - Infosys Creates Cloud-Based Solution for Auto Dealers using SQL Data Services
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000002880