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Daily del.icio.us for January 19th through January 20th
- 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 are a natural strategic fit", I would say that their two businesses are instead natural competitors for much of what BEA offers.
- The GigaSpaces Blog » Blog Archives » An Open Letter to BEA WebLogic Customers - A single product that handles messaging, business logic and transactional data through an open-source, commonly used programming model, so your developers can focus on what they do best: quickly deliver new applications and functionality to your business
- Trial By Fire: Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already - You become so involved in the idea of the product that you forget about what it's like to be a customer. You assume that it must be good because that's what the market share tells you.
- Java Authentication and Authorization - Free JAAS Book - This site contains the book I wrote sometime back about the Java Authentication and Authorization Service, or JAAS.
- Alfresco Press Releases - Alfresco Selected as One of Linux Magazine?s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008 - Alfresco Software today announced it has been named one of Linux Magazine?s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008
- Coderspiel / The right tool for the slob - How is it that some fancy-pants framework is always the right tool for an abstract job and PHP is the right tool for a real job?
- Java Thoughts: A Year of Wicket - I've been working with Wicket for almost a year. We've just released our first product that uses Wicket for the user interface, and so it seems like a good time to take stock. Here's the executive summary: Wicket rocks!
- Groovy not Enterprise-ready, you're kidding? - [ Guillaume Laforge ] - Groovy has been very stable and mature for a long time already. It is being used by many high-profile companies and institutions throughout the world with great success.
- The Impact of Culture on Innovation « The Abstract Truth - BEA eventually built a portal product and acquired another one, and an early opportunity to build a suite of now-indispensable products on top of WebLogic evaporated.
- JBoss (and possibly TomCat) should never have happened. « The Abstract Truth - BEA made a lot of mistakes. Letting JBoss out of the box was probably its biggest. While BEA was looking ?up? at its biggest competitor IBM, JBoss was busily undercutting BEA at the bottom end
- JBoss Matrix - A BEA-utiful Week - JBoss launched an innovators dilemma attack against BEA, not with a revolutionary product, but with a revolutionary business model, one that BEA couldn?t hope to copy without cannibalizing its existing revenue stream. BEA fell right into the trap.
- LatencyTOP - Measuring and fixing Linux latency - LatencyTOP is a Linux* tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the
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Daily del.icio.us for January 16th
- 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 | ZDNet.com - One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
- ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex - PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It's easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it's very powerful, it's not very friendly
- InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 - This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E
- InfoQ: Why Scala? - Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
- Ian's Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java - Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala
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Daily del.icio.us for January 15th
- 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. But my latest contract forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did. Here are some reasons that you may want to switch
- Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0 - The goal was to show how you can build an MVC application using Ext 2.0. We used a number of different patterns and components to accomplish something that can be used effectively in much larger applications than this little thing. It wasn?t necessary t
- google-feedserver - Google Code - Google FeedServer is an open-source Atom Publishing provider based on the Abdera Framework. Google FeedServer has chosen to implement simple backend data adapters that allow the developer to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a db
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Daily del.icio.us for January 14th
- Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies.
- Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog
- Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone
- bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one
- datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
- Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on
- HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st
- A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues.
- Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and
- Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
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Daily del.icio.us for January 13th through January 14th
- Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies.
- Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog
- Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone
- bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one
- datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
- Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on
- HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st
- A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues.
- Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and
- Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
- HtmlUnit vs HttpUnit « A Public Scratchpad - If you?re using HttpUnit for legacy reasons, it?s a fairly solid package, but don?t expect to get much support. If you?re starting a new project and are trying to decide between these two frameworks, HtmlUnit wins hands down. It has the features,
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Daily del.icio.us for January 2nd
Daily del.icio.us for for January 2nd:
- Redmond | Feature Article: Google's Secret Weapon - "Open source is a software capitalist's supreme tool," says Matt Asay, VP with Alfresco. It enables vendors to align closely with their customers & prospects while simultaneously undermining competitors' efforts to charge license fees for their own produc
- JavaScript: It?s Just Not Validation! - Colin Morris, author of Y-Validator, has written a piece on JavaScript: It?s Just Not Validation! which discusses JavaScript validation, and input assistance
- Runscanner: Free system utility to find all running programs on your computer - Runscanner is a free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. Runscanner will detect all programs that start automatically, including spyware, adware, and homepage hijackers.
- What Every Programmer Should See On YouTube? - Are you aware of the wealth of YouTube material available around Java, as well as programming in general? Everything's out there, courseware, technical presentations, Google talks, interviews, ad-hoc info sharing, and obscure tips and tricks
- Ajaxian » Ajaxian Roundup for December, 2007: It?s the end of the year as we know it - In 2007, the Web development community has jumped a lot, but at the same time, hasn?t changed at all.
- JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language - Douglas Crockord's Javascript site - Despite its popularity, few know that JavaScript is a very nice dynamic object-oriented general-purpose programming language. How can this be a secret? Why is this language so misunderstood?
- John Resig - Untold JavaScript Secrets - I might as well come right out and say it: I'm starting work on my second JavaScript book. What are the greatest untold secrets of JavaScript programming that you wish were thoroughly debunked and explained?
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Daily del.icio.us for Nov 25, 2007 through Nov 26, 2007
- The Ultimate Web UI Framework - I was searching for a framework that would allow me to create rich user interfaces that are very interactive and responsive and don't load the server too much. After examining some favourite frameworks I've decided for a few that I'd like to try.
- Giles Bowkett: Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't) - Ruby was designed to make you feel good. Even Rubyists who want to explain why Ruby makes them feel good often fail to mention that it was expressly designed for that exact purpose. Neal does this in his podcast.
- Why Ruby on Rails Has Become a Popular "Next Platform" - This article is offered as an introduction to Ruby on Rails for Java developers, offering some basic insight into the evolution of Ruby and Rails and its expanding role in enterprise application development
- Java tips: Ten Common Misconceptions about Grails - s is usually the case with anything "new" there?s a lot of FUD and confusion out there with people who have not used Grails yet, that may be stopping them using it
- Comparing Java Web Frameworks - a Belgian Java User Group initiative - Matt Raible presents at the Belgian Java Users Group and compares the current state of affair in the world of Java Web frameworks
- Granite Data Services - Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe LiveCycle(Flex 2) Data Services for J2EE application servers
- Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Color Theory for web designers - The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you
- UI-patterns.com - User Interface Design Patterns - The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice.
- Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
- Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Color Theory for web designers - The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you
- UI-patterns.com - User Interface Design Patterns - The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice.
- Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
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Daily del.icio.us for Nov 02 through Nov 23, 2007
- InfoQ: Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again - Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started.
- Enterprise Java Community: Spring Loaded Observer Pattern - This article describes an easy process of implementing the observer pattern in the Spring framework
- The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - An analysis of the Amazon Kindle only as Mark Pilgrim or maybe John Gruber can do:) Must read - very thought provoking
- InfoQ: Article: What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1: Annotation-Based Configuration - The newly released Spring 2.5 features annotation-driven dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath using annotations rather than XML for metadata, annotation support for lifecycle methods, a new web controller model for ma
- InfoQ: DDD: putting the model to work - This talk will outline some of the foundations of domain-driven design:How models are chosen and evaluated;How multiple models coexist;How the patterns help avoid the common pitfalls, such as overly interconnected models;How developers and domain experts
- JavaRanch Journal - November 2007 Volume 6 Issue 2 - Spring offers a few helper classes to do some scheduling in your app. In Spring 2.0, both the JDK's Timer objects and the OpenSymphony Quartz Scheduler are supported. Quartz is an open source job scheduling system that can be easily used with Spring.
- What is the Google Collections Library? - Kevin Bourrillion & Jared Levy are the two primary creators of the Google Collections Library, which aims to provide an extension to the Java Collections Framework. They discuss what the library is all about, its genesis, and how it will be useful to you.
- InfoQ: Scrum and XP from the Trenches - The tricky part to agile software development is that there is no manual telling you exactly how to do it. This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP
- InfoQ: Starting Struts 2 - Struts2 is the latest manifestation of the popular Struts Java web application framework. Like its predecessor, its goals are to make web application development faster, easier and more productive than ever before.
- InfoQ: Homer's Odyssey or My Life as an Agile Consultant - In this offbeat presentation from Agile2006, Jean Tabaka compares impediments and obstacles encountered by an Agile mentor with those detailed in Homer's classic.
- TSS Video: Christian Bauer on JBoss Seam - In this presentation, Christian Bauer discusses how JBoss Seam simplifies the handling of stateful conversations, multi-window operations and concurrent, fine-grained Ajax requests & integrates Facelets, Hibernate, jBPM, Drools, Groovy, iText and Lucene.
- Seam 2.0 has been released - Seam 2.0 was released this week. JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by ntegrating Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), EJB3, Java Portlets and BPM.
- Asual | SWFAddress - Deep linking for Flash and Ajax - SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It's a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state.
- Adobe - Developer Center : Designing for Flex ? Part 5: Designing content displays - Content displays are the key element of Flex application design. Application chrome exists only to support these displays, if indeed it must exist at all.
- Henrik Stahl's Blog: BEA videos on YouTube - There are some short clips covering BEA technologies on YouTube. My favorite is the Predictable Java video. I wish my coffee machine was that well-behaved!
- Hybridizing HTML - How to create Flex forms within HTML pages to easily achieve cross-browser and cross-platform functionality.
- alphaWorks : IBM Personal Presenter : Overview - A simple, serverless means of producing and distributing rich media content consisting of video, audio, and slides from the originator's computer to multiple clients.
- Interface21 Team Blog » The Spring Web Flow 2.0 Vision - The goal of 2.0 is to evolve Spring Web Flow into a complete controller engine capable of handling all types of user interactions, stateless and stateful alike, with support for multiple view technologies and asynchronous event handling (Ajax) natively
- gwt-ext - Google Code - GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree's with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more
- xhtmlrenderer: The Flying Saucer Project - An XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 Renderer - The Flying Saucer team announces Release 8pre1 of the Flying Saucer 100% Java XHTML+CSS renderer, including support for table pagination, margin boxes, running elements, named pages, and more:
- It's Only Software » 5 Minute Guide to Spring and JMX - I recently augmented a Spring-based project to expose some of the Spring-managed beans via JMX. Spring makes this very easy, and even if you?ve never used JMX before, this quick tutorial will let you set up your Spring beans to be viewed (and edited!) t
- Android's SDK Now Available - Android, Google's mobile platform, is finally open to the developers. Now you can download the SDK and start to develop great applications in Java. Google launched a competition that offers $10 million awards for the most interesting apps
- Microsoft Sync Framework != Google Gears (even if the press wants to make it look that way) on Dion Almaer's Blog - saw Microsoft?s Answer to Google Gears popup in my news feed, along with Mary Jo?s piece itself: Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platform.
- Upgrading to Prototype 1.6: real world examples - Recently I have undertaken upgrading to Prototype 1.6.0. I will now show you some examples of what I?ve done, how I did it and why; you might find this writeup useful when doing the same in your application.
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 20, 2007 through Apr 25, 2007
- Spring 2.0.1 and BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 Integration - Over a year ago we described the integration the Spring framework 1.2.x with WebLogic Server 9.2. Since then we have certified further versions of Spring and WebLogic Server culminating in the combination of WebLogic Server 9.2 against Spring 2.0. Both th
- Google Code - Updates: Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL - The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during cr
- Coding Horror: Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? - The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It's part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business.
- Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown - This past week, I switched from programming in Ruby to programming in Python. Why did I do that? Well, that?s a story with a bunch of background.
- HandBrake - HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
- The Healthcare IT Guy ยป Resume Driven Development (RDD) - This concept, which I call RDD (resume driven development), is very real and it?s actually a fairly widespread problem.
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