Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Aggregate fruit

An aggregate fruit, or etaerio, develops from a flower with many simple pistils. An exemplar is the raspberry, whose simple fruits are termed drupelets as each is like a small drupe attached to the receptacle. In few bramble fruits (such as blackberry) the receptacle is extended and part of the ripe fruit, making the blackberry an aggregate-accessory fruit. The strawberry is as well an aggregate-accessory fruit, only one in which the seeds are limited in achenes. In all these examples, the fruit develops from a single flower with many pistils.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Operator Overloading in C++

Operating overloading allows you to pass different variable types to the same function and make different results. Operator overloading is common-place between many efficient C++ programmers. It allows you to make use of the same function name, but as different functions.

If this sound confuse, then just consider it like this: you can use the same function name for as many functions as you like, but you *must* pass different variable types to all function.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

What is W3C's Editor/Browser?

Amaya is an open source software task hosted by W3C. Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to generate and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are faultlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in uniform surroundings. This follows the original idea of the Web as a space for collaboration and not simply a one-way publishing medium.

Work on Amaya begins at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a fully-featured Web client. The most important motivation for developing Amaya was to give a framework that can incorporate as many W3C technologies as possible. It is used to reveal these technologies in action while taking advantage of their grouping in a single, consistent environment.

Amaya begins as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to hold XML and a growing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited concurrently in compound documents.

Amaya contains a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Cashew


The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is a tree in the peak plant family of Anacardiaceae. The plant is occupant to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is mainly grown in hot climates for its cashew "nuts" (see below) and cashew apples.

It is a little evergreen tree growing to 10-12 m tall, with a small, frequently irregularly-shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally set, rubbery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4-22 cm long and 2-15 cm wide, with a smooth margin. The flowers are 0shaped in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, sharp petals 7-15 mm long.