Unfortunately, when I checked the Calendar application from our Google Apps Standard, the link was not there. I then checked the original Google hosted Calendar application and saw the link there.

I wonder when this will be available in Google Apps, or maybe this is already available in the Business Edition? Please let me know if you are able spot this new feature in any of your Google Apps site.

I have been used to clicking that little “Show Desktop” icon on the bottom left of the screen in Windows and was looking for an equivalent on my Mac.

Fortunately, there is! But it’s not an icon that you would click but some keyboard shortcuts you need to type. For me pressing fn F10 did the trick.

You can find more Expose tips on this page.

MANILA, Philippines – At least three congressmen are proposing that public school teachers and government nurses be entitled to a monthly salary of at least P25,000.

Taken from philstar.com.

We encountered a problem when we needed to convert one of our routines for writing out a binary file. We were using Java’s DataOutputStream.writeUTF(String) method and had a hard time trying to write binary data in PHP.

After much research on the web, we found a method in PHP called pack(). Below is our PHP implementation of Java’s DOS.writeUTF(String).

	public static function writeUTF($string) {
		$utfString = utf8_encode($string);
		$length = strlen($utfString);
		print(pack("n", $length));
		print($utfString);
		flush();
	}

We don’t claim this to be the exact equivalent of the method, but it gets the job done and the receiving end of the file was able to parse the binary file properly with the new PHP implementation with no modifications to the client code.

Please checkout the pack() documentation for more details.

Then CTRL-B and CTRL-F should do the trick.

Got this from the Mac forums at macworld.com.

Here’s what you need to have:

* Internet access (to download Windows 7 RC and get updates)
* A PC with these system requirements:
o 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
o 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
o 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
o DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Ubuntu 9 also is now available for download and was reported to be “as slick as Windows 7 and Mac OS X”.

I wonder when we can see a preview of Snow Leopard…

Hope you can visit the EAF Properties site some time and see if it fits your needs.

As always, comments and suggestions are most welcome.

Thank you in advance!

Algorithms ~ Sanjoy Dasgupta

Groovy in Action ~ Dierk Koenig

Effective Java (2nd Edition) (Java Series) ~ Joshua Bloch

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2Ee Technology ~ Mark/ Roberts, Simon Cade

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O’Reilly)) ~ Dan Pilone

You can send me an SMS at 0915-426-3848 for inquiries. If you do not get any replies, that means the books are already gone with the wind. :)

RFS: Trying to raise funds for the upcoming iPhone/iPod touch.

Thanks.

SitePoint is well known for their book: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

More details on The Bushfire Relief Sale site.

This is the same tool that the authors used to insert the Groovy code samples into the book’s draft written as an MS Word document.

You can read more about COM Scripting and Groovy from Codehaus.