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Do you think to be an open source committer?

Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

We widely use open source developer tools and libraries in our daily dev life. These open source things are driven by community. I am an open source fan. And I think I must contribute to some open source project. Umm yeah, before I become a contributor I must be an active user of that project. [...]

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Spoken on Google App Engine at a conference in UET

Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by Tahir Akram.

Today I had delivered a workshop on Developing Java Web Applications In Google App Engine. This workshop was the part of events of 3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies. It was organized by Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science , University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
I have presented following slides there. Also coded [...]

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The Open Source Frameworks I use

Posted on 25. Jul, 2007 by Tahir Akram.

Free and Open source frameworks are popular in Java developers, because they always come to make life easy. I am listing here the F&OS frameworks and libraries that I am using in my work. My this post is reply to The Codist.

Tomahawk – I have used some of tomahawk controls in JSF
Hibernate – with [...]

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Ten things every Java developer should know about UNIX

Posted on 08. Apr, 2007 by Tahir Akram.

 
One of the great things about Java is how multi-platform it really is. While cross platform glitches do occur, they are not really all that common. But since the law of unintended consequences is all pervasive, we now have the common sight of teams of developers building Java programs meant to run on Unix boxes [...]

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