January 2008

Daily del.icio.us for January 29th

January 29, 2008

InfoQ: Does TDD Really Ensure Quality? – Our main result is that Test-First programmers write more tests per unit of programming effort. In turn, a higher number of tests lead to proportionally higher levels of productivity. Thus through a chain effect, Test-First appears to improve productivity InfoQ: “Can I call you back about that?” Building [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 27th through January 28th

January 28, 2008

Peter Ent: DataCalendar – The DataCalendar is a combination of DateChooser and DataGrid. Like the DateChooser, the DataCalendar displays a standard calendar with controls to navigate to another month and year. And like the DataGrid, the cells of the DataCalendar display data. Khomsan Ph. – VisualWget – Home – VisualWget is a download manager that [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 26th

January 26, 2008

Shadowbox.js Media Viewer – Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from t Raible Designs | The future is now — Java development in 2008 – I agree that learning about [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 22nd through January 25th

January 25, 2008

Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet – Juriy Zaytsev just released a brand-new Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet that is a great time-saver for development and also makes a nice wall poster Tech’s Bottom Line | Bill Snyder | InfoWorld | Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain’t what it used to be | January 24, 2008 03:00 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 21st

January 21, 2008

OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] – comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups – Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you’ve come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic. There’s no overarching design or scheme of things, it’s just [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 19th through January 20th

January 20, 2008

Memcached 1.2.2 on RHEL/Centos using DAG rpms | MDLog:/sysadmin – This article will show how you can easily install memcached 1.2.2 and libevent 1.3b using DAG/rpmforge repository. Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Oracle and BEA: A Day of Reckoning for Portal Implementers – Despite Alfred Chuang’s statement during the analyst call that “our two businesses [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 18th

January 18, 2008

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 – JRuby – Codehaus – JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 17th

January 17, 2008

Introduction to Groovy, Part 3 – In this third installment ofIntroduction to Groovy (part 1, part 2) we will continue looking at some features of the Groovy language. Some you may find them on other languages, but some are exclusive to Groovy. PDFBox – Java PDF Library – PDFBox is an open source Java PDF [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 16th

January 16, 2008

antennae – Google Code – Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 15th

January 15, 2008

Graeme Rocher’s Blog: Grails Making Java Developers Forget about Rails – Another 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails from Graeme Rocher. rain city digest: 10 Reasons to Switch from Rails to Grails – After spending a few years really enjoying Rails it was difficult to bring myself to even try groovy and grails. [...]

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