March 2009

Daily del.icio.us for March 24th through March 27th

March 27, 2009

JPivot – Home – JPivot is a JSP custom tag library that renders an OLAP table and let users perform typical OLAP navigations like slice and dice, drill down and roll up. It uses Mondrian as its OLAP Server. JPivot also supports XMLA datasource access. olap4j: Open Java API for OLAP – olap4j is designed [...]

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

March 24, 2009

NPR’s broadcast audience surges. Can it do the same online? | The Industry Standard – "At a time when newspapers, magazines and TV news continue to lose readers and viewers," writes Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi, "the audience for NPR's daily news programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, reached a record last year [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 14th through March 19th

March 19, 2009

Writing good unit tests, Part 1: Follow your GUTs – JavaWorld – Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it's clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are as important as high-quality production code, [...]

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Dell Adamo looks beautiful

March 16, 2009

Looks like DELL is getting ready to launch a beautiful 13-inch laptop called Adamo. Adamo is a latin word that means “to fall in love with” or “find pleasure in” and I can certainly see that after seeing the pictures that were leaked at SXSW. Picture by Brian Solis. More pictures on Flickr.

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Daily del.icio.us for March 11th through March 14th

March 14, 2009

State of the Art – Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows – NYTimes.com – If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing’s for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones. Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email « I’m Not Actually a Geek – This use case is [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 11th

March 11, 2009

Coding Horror: Why Can’t Error Messages Be Fun? – Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functionality as a [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 5th

March 5, 2009

The White House – Press Office – President Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer – Today, President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House. Java concurrency with thread gates – JavaWorld – The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for controlling thread concurrency, but many [...]

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