From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Daily del.icio.us for May 29th through May 31st

May 31, 2008

A Look Inside JBoss Rules | Javalobby – JBoss Rules is the production release of the Drools project, an expert system for declarative programming based around the Rete algorithm. During this talk, Mark Proctor, the lead on JBoss Rules covered the Drools basics, as well as the new features in 4.
The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 25th through May 28th

May 28, 2008

Nick Bradbury: Hospitals Are No Place for Sick People – My father is a wealthy, well-connected, fully-insured, brilliant man, and this all took place at what is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the country. If the healthcare system failed him, it will fail the rest of us, too.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th

May 24, 2008

Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com – One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm
InfoQ: Integrate [...]

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Pink Princess

May 22, 2008

To help celebrate my first Father's Day, my wife got me one of the most special present I've ever gotten! She got me a Pink Princess Flowering Crab Apple tree to celebrate my first year as a father to our beautiful daughter Katie. The Pink Princess is a Malus or a miniature Crab [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 18th through May 20th

May 20, 2008

Why the Roku Netflix Player is the First Shot of the Revolution – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog – In the small, generic plastic box that is the new Netflix Player made by Roku, I think you can see the future of video.
Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 18th

May 18, 2008

Google Doctype – Documenting the Open Web – Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library
Testability Explorer – TestabilityExplorer.org records the testability scores for many [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 12th through May 16th

May 16, 2008

James Clark's Random Thoughts: XML and JSON – I would like to offer a few thoughts about XML and JSON. My previous post came off much too dismissive of JSON. I actually think that JSON does have real value
13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness | Little Tutorials – UML lost the programmers. There is [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th

May 12, 2008

Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain – Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.
If we hired like [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th

May 7, 2008

People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX – Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? – JavaOne 2008 – The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 2nd through May 4th

May 4, 2008

Pearware Blog : Improving Java web site performance with asset caching – In this post, I’ll be talking about a solution I developed at my day job to improve the performance of our web site by allowing the browser to cache JavaScript, CSS, and image files
Who Will Tell the People? – New York Times – [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd

May 2, 2008

Use XQuery from a Java environment – XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for
Pragmatic Caching – [...]

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