Emerging Technologies Blog

Thursday, February 09, 2012

The benefits of telecommuting

ATT's Networking Exchange Blog has an interesting article and infographic about the benefits of telecommuting. Regarding the positive implications on energy, resources, environment, cost reduction for companies as well as overall job satisfaction it seems this is really going to become mainstream.

Burning More Calories is Good, but Burning More Fuel is Not! [Infographic]

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Google Chrome Browser for Android

Cool news! Chrome is now available for Android 4.0 phones!

You can install it from this link: Chrome for Android Beta

Introducing Chrome for Android Beta

Google Chrome Is Now Available For Android (And It’s Fantastic)

Google Chrome para Android

Now I have a real good reason to buy an ICS device! :-P

Do you need to monitor your Mobile App?

An interesting article about monitoring mobile applications based on their different types and the implications on SLA. Worth reading if you are building online mobile applications and need to decide about the better strategy for them.

Do you need to monitor your Mobile App?

Monday, January 30, 2012

Android Malware increases

An interesting news reports that several malware applications have infected something nearly 5 million Android phones. I think this is something that will becoming more and more usual as Android grows to become the dominant platform.

It seems it is time to Google think more about the "platform security" and find ways to improve it...

Massive Android malware op may have infected 5 million users

Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users

New Android malware infects up to five million handsets

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Cool 2011 in Review: Android - by Mashable

2011 in review - Android

Samsung Galaxy Note hits 1 million units shipped

Galaxy Note is an interesting Android™ 2.3(Gingerbread) device featuring a Pen SDK that can be used to develop some cool applications - S Pen SDK

You can get the full specs for this device here Galaxy Note and here Samsung Galaxy Note

Friday, December 30, 2011

The new C Programming language (C11, or C1x) published

It defines and clarifies:

-the representation of C programs;
-the syntax and constraints of the C language;
-the semantic rules for interpreting C programs;
-the representation of input data to be processed by C programs;
-the representation of output data produced by C programs;
-the restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming implementation of C.

It does not have:

-the mechanism by which C programs are transformed for use by a data-processing system;
-the mechanism by which C programs are invoked for use by a data-processing system;
-the mechanism by which input data are transformed for use by a C program;
-the mechanism by which output data are transformed after being produced by a C program;
-the size or complexity of a program and its data that will exceed the capacity of any specific data-processing system or the capacity of a particular processor;
-all minimal requirements of a data-processing system that is capable of supporting a conforming implementation.

ISO/IEC 9899:2011 is designed to promote the portability of C programs among a variety of data-processing systems.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Galaxy Nexus now available in the U.S.

Starting today, Galaxy Nexus by Samsung will be available in the U.S. on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network.

Visit google.com/nexus to buy it online, or go to your nearest Verizon Wireless, Best Buy, Costco or Radio Shack store.

Galaxy Nexus is also available through our carrier partners in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. Soon, it will be available in Australia, France, Russia, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere!

Change JVM parameters for NetBeans

To change the JVM parameters for NetBeans so that it runs better (in case you have hardware), go to Netbeans installation directory and find the netbeans.conf file inside the /etc dir:

C:\NetBeans-7.0.1\etc\netbeans.conf

Open the file netbeans.conf and find netbeans_default line:

netbeans_default_options="-J-server -J-Xss4m -J-Xms256m -J-XX:PermSize=64m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Duser.language=en -J-Duser.region=US"

I changed mine to include some additional JVM parameters. Also, note that I changed the mode from -client to -server (it runs better in my notebook's hardware I guess :-).

So the new JVM parameters are:

-J-server -J-Xms128m -J-Xmx512m -J-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -J-XX:+UseParNewGC -J-XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 -J-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -J-XX:NewSize=64m -J-XX:MaxNewSize=64m -J-XX:+DisableExplicitGC -J-XX:PermSize=64m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=256m

The complete line:

netbeans_default_options="-J-server -J-Xms128m -J-Xmx512m -J-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -J-XX:+UseParNewGC -J-XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 -J-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -J-XX:NewSize=64m -J-XX:MaxNewSize=64m -J-XX:+DisableExplicitGC -J-XX:PermSize=64m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Duser.language=en -J-Duser.region=US"

Enjoy the better performance! :-D

How to change NetBeans language (locale)

I am not used to any IDE in Portuguese (my native language) so I do not like to use the NetBeans interface in Portuguese.

So, in order to change that:

Go to Netbeans installation directory and find the netbeans.conf file inside the /etc dir:

C:\NetBeans-7.0.1\etc\netbeans.conf

Open the file netbeans.conf and find netbeans_default line and just add "-J-Duser.language=en -J-Duser.region=US" at the end of this line and restart NetBeans.

netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss4m -J-Xms256m -J-XX:PermSize=64m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Duser.language=en -J-Duser.region=US"

That is it! :-D