• Graham Hacking Scala: Things I Love About IntelliJ IDEA: The Impossible is Possible – IDEA has a whole host of features which, to me, are bordering on mind-blowing. There are quite a few features in IDEA that are so impressive that I don't just think, "That's a clever idea. I'm glad they put that in."
• Johnson: vFabric Delivers the Promise of VMware’s Spring Acquisition | Javalobby – vFabric presents a simplified platform that has the development technologies of SpringSource combined with the deployment technologies of VMware
• VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps ( – Internet – Software – Hardware Systems – Virtualization ) – Project Horizon aims to provide access to various types of applications including software-as-a-service, legacy applications and mobile apps
• Verizon Business News: Verizon and VMware to Launch Enterprise-Class Hybrid Cloud Solution – At VMworld 2010 on Tuesday (Aug. 31), Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance
• Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard – PCWorld – As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability
• The Top 5 New Annotations in JPA 2 — Developer.com – In this article, we provide a reference list of the five most notable new annotations introduced in JPA 2, complete with code examples. We also highlight the changes made to existing JPA 1.x annotations in order to make them easier to use.
• InfoQ: Feeding the Agile Beast – Dean Stevens proposes a way of integrating the business value concept into everyday Agile activity in order to achieve a higher value for an enterprise.
• InfoQ: Standards and Open Source for Cloud Computing – OpenStack and Apache Deltacloud have similar goals – building lightweight REST APIs that allow cloud provider access via an HTTP network. OpenStack is more focused on public cloud service providers and Deltacloud is more focused on private clouds.
• Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man | Technology | Los Angeles Times – But no matter where in the world Laporte is situated, fans know where to find him.
• Errai – Errai is a framework for building GWT applications – Errai offers a set of components for building rich web applications using The Google Web Toolkit. The framework provides a unified federation and RPC infrastructure with true, uniform, asynchronous messaging across the client and server.

Daily del.icio.us for August 25th through September 1st

• InfoWorld preview: Visual Studio LightSwitch chases app dev Holy Grail | Developer World – InfoWorld – One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a businessperson to build his or her own application without needing a professional programmer. Microsoft's latest attempt at this is Visual Studio LightSwitch, now in its first beta test. LightSwitch uses several technologies to generate applications that connect with databases. It can run on a desktop or in a Web browser, and it can use up to three application layers: client tier, middle tier, and data access.
• Ruby on Rails 3.0 due this week | Developer World – InfoWorld – Rails 3.0 is influenced by the Merb framework, which enables performance improvements. Other capabilities due in 3.0 include cross-site scripting protection, JavaScript helpers, a router based on REStful declarations, and an Active Record chainable query language based on relational algebra.
• Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Tries to Build an Eco-Friendly House – WSJ.com – No one said it would be easy to build the greenest house on the block. Scott Adams on perplexing energy bills, ugly lawns and the true meaning of 'green'
• Businesses Add iPad to Their Briefcase – WSJ.com – Some Companies, Which Barred the iPhone, Build Apps for Tablet Computer and Give Apple Gadget to Employees
• Java Code Geeks: GWT Spring and Hibernate enter the world of Data Grids – Maximize Hibernate performance with the power of Infinispan Data Grid. A GWT, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, Infinispan integration tutorial.
• InfoQ: Deploying Java Applications on Amazon EC2 – Chris Richardson presents the details of deploying multi-tier Apache/Tomcat/MySQL applications on Amazon EC2, what it takes to access EC2, to deploy a web server, an application server, and a database, handling security, making a case for PaaS which does not require an administration effort.
• Amazon introduces reservation system for databases in its cloud | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld – Amazon Web Services has introduced Reserved Database Instances, a new way to pay for its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Monday.
• Spring 3.0 – Themes and Trends | Java Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – This talk discusses Spring as a modern annotation-oriented application framework, covering the component model trends as well as selected Spring 3.0 feature highlights.
• Oracle’s Android lawsuit: A Pandora’s box of serious evils | Intellectual property – InfoWorld – A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source
• Spring 3.0.4 is Now Available | SpringSource.org – Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.
• Primary CSS – 22 CSS layouts that always work – Primary is a simple CSS Framework, designed for Developers and Designers in order to make using CSS as easy as possible.

Daily del.icio.us for August 21st through August 25th

• It’s not you, it’s me: Microsoft kills IronRuby | Languages and standards – InfoWorld – With the departure of Jimmy Schementi, Microsoft's Ruby team is now down to one part-time developer.
• ShareTool 2.1 achievement unlocked: iTunes Home Sharing – Yazsoft has updated ShareTool, its remote network access tool, with a number of new features, not the least of which is iTunes Home Sharing
• Army Uses Agile, Social Networks to Bypass Bureaucracy and Get iPhone, Android Apps — Application Development Trends – The U.S. Army found a way to fight the sluggishness of traditional software development that's slowed even further by legendary government bureaucracy: go Agile.
• For Google, the Cloud Is Its Mobile Future – If there was any doubt that mobile and the cloud will eventually converge, Google is putting it to rest. At an event in San Francisco today, the company showed off two applications that leverage Google’s back-end infrastructure and its Android OS to bring a powerful new mobile user experience. The two apps are Voice Actions and Chrome2Phone.
• Microsoft could be a winner in Oracle’s patent attack over Java | ZDNet – I’d think there could be a whole lot of celebrating going on in Redmond today, the day after Oracle announced it is suing Google over alleged patent infringements involving Java in the Android mobile operating system.
• Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit – Miguel de Icaza – Today Oracle sued Google over Java patents and copyrights that they claim Google's Android OS infringes
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Taking the Idea of "Mobile Printing" to an Extreme | ZDNet – Check out this video tour of the new computer capabilities inside the cab of a prototype Ford truck:
• InfoQ: Adobe Acquires Java ECM Vendor Day Software – The merger is expected to complement Adobe’s moves into the web content management market by giving its Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR products an additional content platform to stand on
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for August 6th through August 15th

• YouTube – Google I/O 2010 – Architecting GWT apps – This session walks you through how teams at Google architect production-grade apps, from design to deployment, using GWT.
• that’s great… » Google IO – Architecting GWT Apps talk – Building on his talk from the previous year, he of course mentions the MVP (Model-View-Presenter) pattern. However, this time around, Spring’s Roo is used to build the apps,
• gwt-distcc – Project Hosting on Google Code – If your GWT compiles are getting really slow and your computer doesn't have as many CPUs as you have permutations, a distributed compiler can share the load with other computers.
• G.W.T. Sushi: The increasing importance of GWT – As we move towards the cloud, frameworks such as GWT, will increase in importance as the de-facto choice for cloud based web application programming.
• ongwt.com – HTML5 : the future of Microsoft ? – Is IE better than Firefox, Chrome or Safari ? I don’t care. What is important for me is that Microsoft is now in the battle, and this is very good for GWT
• Why people still use BlackBerrys – CNN.com – It's the smartphone everyone owns — and no one seems to like.
• Microsoft’s LightSwitch: Building business apps for Web, PCs and cloud | ZDNet – Microsoft is positioning LightSwitch as a way to build business applications for the desktop, the Web and the cloud
• FT.com / Technology – Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet – The tablet market is seen as the next battle ground in the mobile devices war that has pit myriad device makers and Microsoft, Google and Research in Motion against Apple.
• Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%. « Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks – Which probably explains why Red Hat has a billion dollars of cash in the bank, while Canonical is still continually reinventing itself to make any profits at all.
• Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel | The Economist – As the Wintel pair splits, computing will start to look different. Instead of being dominated by two monopolists, the market will be fought over by eight or nine more or less vertically integrated giants

Daily del.icio.us for July 30th through August 6th

• Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales – NYTimes.com – The growth rate of Kindle sales tripled after Amazon lowered the price of the device in late June to $189 from $259, Amazon said
• Buttonwood: A mirage, not a miracle | The Economist – Analysing the recent performance of the banking industry, he concludes that it has been "as much mirage as miracle".
• Dell offers free Web browser security tool – Computerworld – Dell, through its Kace unit, is making available free Web browser security software that works by creating a protective "sandbox" on the desktop to isolate the user's desktop from malware or other harmful actions that might be encountered browsing the Web.
• GWTP: A complete model-view-presenter framework to simplify your next GWT project. – At the heart of GWTP is a model-view-presenter architecture (MVP). Although this model has been lauded as one of the best approach to GWT development, it is still hard to find an out-of-the-box solution that supports all the requirements of modern web apps. GWTP aims to provide such a solution.
• OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges – OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform, which hopes to compete with several proprietary cloud platforms including those being developed by Microsoft and VMware. RackSpace is spearheading the project and is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers to the OpenStack project.
• Scripting News: Are WordPress themes necessarily open source? – Python is open source, is anyone saying that any app written in Python therefore must be
• InfoQ: New Java SDK For Amazon Web Services – Amazon has announced the new AWS SDK for Java this March. The aim of the new SDK is to simplify the development of java applications that are hosted on the Amazon EC2.
• Spring 3.0.3 is Now Available | SpringSource.org – Juergen Hoeller has announced that Spring 3.0.3 is now available. This minor release addresses over 100 minor issues and catches up with some recent third-party releases
• Closing the Tech Gap | The White House – What if senior management in an Agency – or anyone in the public – could identify and monitor the performance of IT projects just as easily as they could monitor the stock market or baseball scores?  That’s what the IT dashboard does  – and it’s changing the way government does business
• InfoQ: Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect – This article summarizes six learnings from 55 months as an architecture team lead at Skype. Some of them will be technical while some will focus on softer aspects of an architects work. But first, some context.

Daily del.icio.us for July 15th through July 19th

• 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks with $100 Credit Giveaway | Web.AppStorm – There are a multitude of ways to use Dropbox and a plethora of tricks to make your daily computing easier.
• DropboxAddons/Dropboxen – Dropbox Wiki – Dropboxen enables you to run multiple Dropbox clients concurrently by automatically launching multiple instances of Dropbox.exe as different Windows users so Dropbox will store the shared files in each unique Windows user directory.
• SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry | VentureBeat – SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can’t innovate in hardware anymore. The startup is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance but uses 75 percent less power and space than current servers.
• The Four Meta Secrets of Scaling at Facebook – You can get the code right, you can get the products right, but you need to get the culture right first. If you don't get the culture right then your company won't scale.
• Writing iPad/iPhone/iPod applications with Java and SWT? « EclipseSource Blog – Over the last couple of days, Jordi and I played a little with the Eclipse RAP protocol. We decided to develop a Cocoa Touch client for RAP using the iAd JavaScript library
• Red Hat’s CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld – Red Hat announced Cloud Access, which will let enterprises use their subscriptions to support either traditional on-premise servers or servers hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
• InfoQ: The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study – Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and the technical team, offering advice for each component of the enterprise. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then gradually moving to Kanban, explaining why Kanban makes more sense to them, what it offers over Agile and what are the benefits.
• dzone.com – Why Application Architecture Should Matter to Spring Developers – The Java language and the Spring framework combination have excellent support for application layering, where each layer is represented by a Spring or Java stereotype: @Controller, @Service, @Entity and @Repository.
• iPhone now as fragmented as Android | VentureBeat – A lot of people thought that the Nexus One was Google’s entry into the handset market. This was actually far from the truth. The Nexus One is the equivalent of the Java Reference Implementation or UNIX POSIX and X/Open: a baseline of what handset manufacturers would have to support in order to create a real Android handset
• Geotagging games: Location, location, location | The Economist – Gowalla and Foursquare are all about the location; because they do just that one thing, they do it well
• Dilbert’s Scott Adams on Betting on the Bad Guys in Investing – WSJ.com – I have a theory that you should invest in the companies that you hate the most. The usual reason for hating a company is that the company is so powerful it can make you balance your wallet on your nose while you beg for their product.

Daily del.icio.us for June 8th through June 14th

• DocIbatis2MyBatis – mybatis – Migration Steps when Switching from iBATIS to MyBatis – Project Hosting on Google Code – MyBatis is a direct fork of the iBATIS code. At the time of this writing, the code is identical, but there are no known plans to continue the iBATIS project within the Apache software foundation
• mybatis – New Home of the World’s Most Popular SQL Mapping Framework – New name, name software. MyBatis 3.0.1 is the GA release of the iBATIS 3.0 codebase.
• W3C cheatsheet – W3C cheat sheet is a compact, mobile-friendly Web application that allows to look up keywords in various W3C specifications, as well as to access various guidelines and best practices at the tip of the finger.
• PetClinic GWT application in less then 30 minutes – Blogs – EmForge – Yesterday I've read announce of new version of Spring-Roo 1.1.0M1 and found there at least 2 very interesting features: GWT & GAE support. And here is short instructions how to make PetClinic application in less then 30 minutes
• InfoQ: Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams – Roy Osherove discusses principles and practices that make teams more effective, successful and happy. Team topics covered: automating everything possible, buying/using/discarding tools, getting quick feedback, communicating without using meetings, building by feature not layer, code & tests reviewin
• VMware’s master plan for portable Java in the cloud | Developer World – InfoWorld – Redmonk analyst James Governor went as far as to declare "cloud [computing] is the new VMware." Naturally, then, the new VMware is cloud computing — and that puts Java square in its sights.
• Apache Tika – Content Analysis Toolkit – Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.
• A New Spin on Google Maps: Bike Routes – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com – Just in time for Bike-to-Work Week, May 17 to 21, Google has added bicycling directions to its Maps application.
• Google TV – Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.
• Google Partners With VMware — InformationWeek – The latest version of VMware's SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring Roo now work in conjunction with Google Web ToolKit and Speed Tracer. Google is also making new data presentation widgets available to help Java developers create applications that work in an office setting and on mobile devices, with their various screen form factors.

Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 23rd

• Introducing App Engine for Business – Google App Engine – Google Code – App Engine for Business enables you to build your enterprise applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. App Engine for Business provides all the ease of use and flexibility of App Engine with more power to manage enterprise use cases, more capable APIs, straightforward pricing and the SLAs and support you need for business-critical applications.
• Google Storage for Developers – Google Code – Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilitie
• Google Code Blog: Enabling Cloud Portability with Google App Engine for Business and VMware – New data presentation widgets in Google Web Toolkit speed development of traditional enterprise applications, increase performance and interactivity for enterprise users, and make it much easier to create engaging mobile apps with a fraction of the investment previously required.
• Official Google Blog: Google I/O 2010 Day 1: A more powerful web in more places – This week we’ll celebrate this ongoing evolution of the web and share some of our latest work in moving the web forward and keeping it open.
• Expanding the Cloud – Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage – All Things Distributed – Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy
• Five JavaScript Frameworks Comparison | TechnoForum – Ext JS is emerging as an “industry-strength” framework and is being increasingly used in the enterprise. Ext JS also supports a robust client-side data model and support for component model and design patterns.
• Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing | ZDNet – Given Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5 and its existing Google Voice service, the search giant appears to be collecting enough assets to give Skype and others competition on the consumer and business fronts. GIPS’s software can also be layered into Google Apps in multiple areas as a business collaboration tool.
• Marco.org – The iPad doesn’t need to do everything – Find the balance: use the iPad for what it does well, accept that it won’t be everything, and use other tools for the rest.
• Amazon Stealing the Cloud « SmoothSpan Blog – It’s still relatively early days, but Amazon’s competitors need to rev up pretty soon.  Amazon is stealing the Cloud at an ever-increasing rate.
• Foursquare Growing Like Crazy: Up To 600,000 Check-Ins Per Day – Foursquare, the hot mobile "check-in" app, has basically doubled in usage over the last two months
• Querydsl – Querydsl – Mysema Source – Querydsl is a framework which enables the construction of type-safe SQL-like queries. Instead of writing queries as inline strings or externalizing them into XML files they aren be constructed via a fluent API like Querydsl.
• The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Enemy Within – THE CYBER-SECURITY ELITES OF THE WORLD HAVE JOINED FORCES IN A HIGH-TECH GAME OF COPS AND ROBBERS, TRYING TO FIND CONFICKER’S CREATORS AND DEFEAT THEM. THE COPS ARE FAILING. AND NOW THE WORM LIES THERE, WAITING …
• Bill Maher Thinks The Government Would Work Better If It Was Run By Apple – “If we wanted a president that didn’t understand gizmos and doohickeys,” Maher reminded the President, America would have elected McCain and Palin. “McCain thinks an iPad is something women wear on their Xboxes once a month.”

Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 19th

• Cloud.com | The Power Behind Your Cloud – The Cloud.com CloudStack is a comprehensive, open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services by enterprises and service providers.
• Oracle one-ups VMware with Java virtualization – Gained with Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems, the new Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option combines the venerable WebLogic Server with the OS-free JRockit Virtual Edition technology. It also includes the new Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, for identifying and converting existing WebLogic workloads into collections of virtual appliances, or "assemblies."
• Android to Apple: Flash works great, just watch this video | DVICE – Google has an update coming for its devices in Android 2.2 that should be unveiled around May 19th, and Ryan Stewart, an "evangelist for Adobe," took it for a spin to show off some Flash goodies.
• Google, Verizon in Talks About a Rival to Apple’s iPad – Bloomberg – Google Inc. is in talks with Verizon Wireless to develop a tablet computer that would compete with Apple Inc.’s hit iPad. The tablet will run on Google’s Android operating system
• Mozilla’s Plans for Firefox 4: Faster, Sleeker Interface & Better Privacy Controls – Firefox 4 will feature a renewed emphasis on speed. Current projects like JägerMonkey will form the basis of these projects to make Firefox faster
• Fragmenting Linux is not the way to beat Apple | The Open Road – CNET News – In an attempt to copycat Apple's hardware-plus-software vertical approach to the mobile market, the Linux industry is fragmenting fast and risks undermining its best chance for beating the iPhone.
• Chrome for Open Source Software: Virtualized Java is the Real Deal – VMWare's acquisition of SpringSource has flung the virtualize Java door wide open. And, the biggest challenge we face is not technical. We need cross pollination of Java and virtualization talent.
• VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com – ReadWriteCloud – VMware is acquiring Gemstone, a Beaverton, Or.-based company that develops real-time caching and distributed database technologies that serves as an in-memory data fabric for masive data processing and transaction environments
• What iPads Did To My Family – Chuck’s Blog – I now have this strange love/hate relationship with Apple.  And I think it won't be long before I'm forced to make another trip back to the Apple store.
• Netflix migrating more infrastructure to Amazon Web Services | ZDNet – According to Amazon, Netflix, which has been using the e-commerce giant’s Web services for a year, will expand its usage and migrate more of its infrastructure to the cloud.

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

• Solving the Persistence Problem with Google AppEngine with SimpleDS – TheServerSide.com – SimpleDS provides a simple persistence framework for Google AppEngine that gets as little in the way as possible. It is barely a wrapper around Datastore APIs, providing mapping between Entity and Java classes
• Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (Exclusive Screenshots) – We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.
• The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash – Charlie’s Diary – I've got a theory, and it's this: Steve Jobs believes he's gambling Apple's future — the future of a corporation with a market cap well over US $200Bn — on an all-or-nothing push into a new mark
• InfoQ: Using DNS for REST Web Service Discovery – Service Discovery can be easily introduced to systems of RESTful Web services by leveraging standard DNS mechanisms as specified by DNS-SD. DNS based service discovery is readily available to anyone in any system environment given the ubiquitous availability of DNS nameserver and resolver implementations.
• Lift – The Simply Functional Web Framework – Home – Lift is the only new framework in the last four years to offer fresh and innovative approaches to web development. It's not just some incremental improvements over the status quo, it redefines the state of the art
• Interview With Lift Creator – On Foursquare, Scala, and Lift 2.0 | Javalobby – With the impending release of Lift 2.0, DZone contacted David Pollak, the creator of Lift, to talk about Scala, web development, Foursquare, and what to expect in Lift 2.0
• Apple Sells One Million iPads – Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore. 
• Chrome again beats Firefox in browser gain race – Computerworld – Chrome was the only browser to gain significant usage share last month, and it again trounced Firefox.
• Novell and Red Hat prevail in user-interface patent case | Open Source – InfoWorld – Two open-source-software companies successfully thwart a patent infringement case
• YouTube – President Obama and Jay Leno at White House Correspondents Dinner – President Obama and Jay Leno trade jokes at the 2010 White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.

Daily del.icio.us for May 2nd through May 5th

• skipfish – web application security scanne – Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes
• Google Releases Skipfish Application Security Scanner | threatpost – "Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes
• Raible Designs | What’s New in Spring 3.0 – This morning, I attended Rod Johnson's What's New in Spring 3.0 keynote at TSSJS. Rod ditched his slides for the talk and mentioned that this might be risky
• InfoQ: Industrial Strength Groovy – Paul King presents some of the tools helping one programming in Groovy: Cobertura – code coverage, CodeNarc – code style, EasyB – acceptance tests, GroovyDoc – documentation, GroovyMock/Spock – mocking and testing, Hudson – CI builds, Maven/Ant/Gant/Gradle – build files, OSGi – bundles, and Spring/Guice – dependency injection.
• PrettyTime – Elapsed Timestamp Formatting and Conversion for Java (Social, JSF2) | OcpSoft – PrettyTime is an OpenSource time formatting library. Completely customizable, PrettyTime creates human readable, relative timestamps
• Sonar 2.0 is Out | Javalobby – The Sonar team is pleased to announce Sonar 2.0.  The main feature in Sonar 2.0 consists of analyzing Design : Architecture and Object Oriented Metrics.
• Java Symposium keynote video – Red Hat’s Bob McWhirter on cloud in application delivery – SOA Talk – Red Hat's chief architect of cloud computing, Bob McWhirter said the cloud is the next logical step for application delivery in his keynote on cloud computing at TheServerSide Java Symposium.
• MySQL’s Marten Mickos becomes CEO of hybrid cloud startup Eucalyptus Systems | VentureBeat – Marten Mickos, former chief executive of open source database company MySQL, is moving to cloud computing startup Eucalyptus Systems, where he will serve as CEO
• Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash | Developer World – InfoWorld – The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems, both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies' Web strategies.
• The Secret to Having Happy Employees – You’re the Boss Blog – NYTimes.com – I have learned the long, hard and frustrating way that as a manager you cannot make everyone happy. You can try, you can listen, you can solve some problems, you can try some more. Good management requires training, counseling and patience, but there comes a point when you are robbing the business of precious time and energy.

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

• Play framework ? Home – Finally a Java framework made by Web developers. Discover a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. Play focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures
• SimpleJPA – Java Persistence API for Amazon SimpleDB – SimpleJPA is a Java Persistence API (JPA) implementation for Amazon's SimpleDB. In other words, an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for Amazon's database in the cloud
• redis – A persistent key-value database with built-in net interface written in ANSI-C for Posix systems – Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets
• VMware: The Console: VMware hires key developer for Redis – As VMware continues its investments in the context of cloud computing, technologies such as Redis become key for future cloud based apps, whether private or public cloud, and the cloud infrastructure itself.
• NPR Creating New App and Web Site for Apple iPad | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD – the standoff between Apple (AAPL) and Adobe has prompted NPR to take on another engineering project at the same time: It is building a version of its Web site designed specifically for the iPad.
• Op-Ed Columnist – Taking On China and Its Currency – NYTimes.com – It’s time for America to confront China about the undervaluation of its currency, which is adding to the world’s economic problems at a time when those problems are already severe.
• Developing Android Applications with Java – O’Reilly Media – Learn to build mobile applications for the exciting new Android platform. In this dynamic, online workshop, you'll get up to speed on the basics of Android development, including the Android SDK and the Eclipse IDE
• Winstone: The Smaller, Faster, Lighter Servlet Container | CapTech Ventures Blogs – The Winstone project was born out of a desire for a servlet container without all of the bloat of a typical Java EE container. Weighing in at a paltry 167 KB for the "lite" version and 320 KB for the "full featured" version, it is one of the lightest weight servlet containers out there.  
• Unixmen – Digg says yes to NoSQL, bye to MySQL | Unixmen – After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database
• Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming @ Diggnation on Vimeo – Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming on the Internet at Diggnation Live case. As seen at SXSW 2010 at Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX!

Daily del.icio.us for March 14th through March 17th

• OrindaBuild Oracle Web Service Generator Features – OrindaBuild enables you to create Web Services for your existing Oracle database with minimal effort. OrindaBuild is integrated with Eclipse and works for both PL/SQL and SQL. Unlike other products OrindaBuild is designed specifically for Oracle and works with real world PL/SQL that involves records and arrays.
• Google App Engine for Java (GAE/J) – Tutorial – The article demonstrates also the usage of Google Eclipse Plugin for developing, running and debugging the Google App Engine application. The tutorial is based on Java 1.6 and GAE version 1.3.
• Flex 4 and Java Basics Video – Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java
• InfoQ: Facebook’s Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop – Ashish Thusoo and Namit Jain explain how Facebook manages to deal with 12 TB of compressed new data everyday with Hive’s help. Hive is an open source data warehousing framework built on Hadoop, allowing developers to perform analysis against large datasets using SQL.
• Design Patterns Uncovered: The Abstract Factory Pattern | Javalobby – The Abstract Factory is known as a creational pattern – it's used to construct objects such that they can be decoupled from the implementing system
• Intellij 9 and Gradle – The Rich Web Experience – One of the hidden gems of the Intellij 9 release is it's support for Gradle. Some of the information on the web is out of date and some features are not intuitive. This post will detail some of the nuances and follow it up with a wish list for the next update
• InfoQ: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring 3.0 – Rod Johnson, the founder of Spring and the general manager of the SpringSource division of VMware, talks to InfoQ about Spring 3.0, the influence of Google Guice on Spring, Spring.NET, and Spring's tc Server.
• The Zinger » 5 Signs You Need HTML5 Web Sockets (Part 1) – This series of 5 blog posts identifies five types of web applications that will benefit from HTML5 Web Sockets
• PragmaSQL Online – JiraTouch Features – JiraTouch is the most complete Jira client for IPhone, you can perform most Jira functionality with optimized screens for IPhone.
• Pragmatic Developer’s Blog – We have been busy developing our new baby JiraTouch for the last 3 months………..The only knowns were Jira and the C# language. I would like to share some of my observations in this blog post.
• The Rundown News Blog | Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate | Online NewsHour | PBS – A 33-year-old math and science whiz kid — working out of his house in California's Silicon Valley — may be revolutionizing how people all over the world will learn math
• Creating an application with maven2, jpa, springframework and intellij – Gridshore software engineering weblog – Creating an application with maven2, jpa, springframework and intellij
• SQL Server Programming Fundamentals :: BlackWasp Software Development – This is the first in a series of articles describing the use of Microsoft's SQL Server database management system (DBMS). The tutorial is aimed at software developers using SQL Server for data storage
• Twitter Blog: Measuring Tweets – Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that's an average of 600 tweets per second.
• The Bloom Box – 60 Minutes – CBS News – Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday? Lesley Stahl reports
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT 2.0) with Eclipse – Tutorial – This article describes how to develop a Web application with GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse .
• Google App Engine for Java: Part 3: Persistence and relationships – Data persistence is a cornerstone of scalable application delivery in enterprise environments. In this final article of his series introducing Google App Engine for Java™, Rick Hightower takes on the challenges of App Engine's current Java-based persistence framework
• Google App Engine for Java: Part 2: Building the killer app – In this second part of his three-part introduction to Google App Engine for Java, Rick Hightower takes you beyond the ready-made examples of Part 1 with a step-by-step guide to writing and deploying a simple contact-management application using App Engine for Java.
• Google App Engine for Java: Part 1: Rev it up! – In this article, you'll get an overview of why Google App Engine for Java could be the deployment platform for your next highly scalable killer app, then start using the Google Plugin for Eclipse to build two example apps: one based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and one based on the Java Servlet API.

Daily del.icio.us for February 21st through February 23rd

• Compare JavaScript frameworks – In this article, you will discover how JavaScript frameworks make it easier and faster to create highly interactive and responsive Web sites and Web applications
• Technobabble » Spring MVC 3.0 and JSR 303 (aka javax.validation.*) – The new annotated validation spec (jsr 303) is pretty slick, especially when used along side Spring MVC 3.0, and when backed by ejb3 entities. I’m pretty impressed with how easily it integrates with Spring MVC’s framework, and with how seamlessly error messages are passed to the form taglibs so they show up in your web forms.
• Google Code Blog: Announcing Google Chart Tools – Whether you need a simple line chart, an interactive Geo Map or a complex Motion Chart , Google can help you add live charts to your web page using our Chart and Visualization APIs. Both of these APIs are free and simple to use, however they each have distinct advantages
• Ajax Simplifications in Spring 3.0 | SpringSource Team Blog – Spring 3 provides first-class Ajax support with JSON as part of the Spring MVC module. This includes support for generating JSON responses and binding JSON requests using the Spring MVC @Controller programming model in conjunction with the Jackson JSON processor.
• Tomcat in the Cloud – Cloudcat | MuleSoft – MuleSoft has announced Cloudcat, a pre-configured Apache Tomcat image with MySQL on Linux, available from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GoGrid.
• Startup links VMware with Amazon to create secure cloud storage | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld – A storage startup called Nasuni is unveiling a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and connects customers to cloud platforms such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service, adding encryption to enhance security and several features to improve performance
• Amazon Web Services Blog: New Feature: Amazon S3 now supports Object Versioning – We've added beta support for Versioning across all Amazon S3 Regions. Versioning provides an additional layer of protection for your S3 objects. You can easily recover from unintended user errors or application failures. You can also use Versioning for data retention and archiving
• InfoQ: Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition – "Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, Tropicana, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
• edspencer’s Ext.ux.Exporter at master – GitHub – Exporter is a generic export class which takes any Ext.data.Store-based component (e.g. grids and similar) and exports the data in any format.

  Exporter works completely client-side. It uses a Formatter class to generate a document (.xls, .csv etc) and then redirects the user’s browser to a data url so that they can view or download it.

• ExtJS: How to Export DataGrid to Excel | Loiane Groner – This tutorial will walk through how to export data from ExtJS DataGrid directly to Excel.

Daily del.icio.us for February 8th through February 14th

• Google releases new Google Voice for iPhone | Reuters – Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc's gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone.
• Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS – Today we are launching a new Google Voice mobile web app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices, harnessing the power of HTML5, a new web technology that makes it possible to run faster, richer web-based applications right in the browser.
• Ajax Simplifications in Spring 3.0 | SpringSource Team Blog – Spring 3 provides first-class Ajax support with JSON as part of the Spring MVC module. This includes support for generating JSON responses and binding JSON requests using the Spring MVC @Controller programming model in conjunction with the Jackson JSON processor
• IDC: Android to overtake iPhone, BlackBerry by 2013 | Electronista – Android will rise to be the second most used mobile OS in the world by 2013, according to a new IDC estimate
• Learn from my misery: Don’t buy a nook. – Massively Parallel Procrastination – Somewhat coincidentally, Amazon announced the Official Kindle SDK this week. If you want a hackable linux-based ebook reader with a great user experience and great customer support, buy a Kindle. (Yes, I make money if you click that link. Actually, if just four people buy Kindles because of this post, I end up with the $100 Barnes & Noble stiffed me.)
• Don’t Underestimate India’s Consumers – BusinessWeek – India's bottom-up private sector model, for all its chaos and bureaucracy, provides a stark contrast. While the nation badly needs infrastructure, its consumers are in a far better position to spend. India can now boast of an overwhelmingly independent middle class about 300 million strong, vs. China's 100 million to 200 million
• The Quants: Formula for a Meltdown – WSJ.com – In his new book, "The Quants," Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson suggests how this new breed of mathematicians and computer scientists took over much of the financial system—and the damage they inflicted in the 2007 meltdown
• Google Voice (by Google) – Google Chrome extension gallery – Notifies you of new messages and gives you quick access to calling and free SMS via Google Voice
• InfoQ: Doug Lea Discusses the Fork/Join Framework – Doug Lea talks to InfoQ about the evolution of the Fork/Join Framework, the new features planned for java.util.concurrent in Java 7, and the "Extra 166" package
• WordPress Foundation | – The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
• VMware Communities: VMware vCloud API – The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. The vCloud API allows for upload and download of vApps along with their instantiation, deployment and operation.
• Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.6 to Millions of Users :: The Mozilla Blog – Firefox 3.6 is more than 20 percent faster than Firefox 3.5 and includes extensive under the hood work to improve performance for everyday Web tasks such as email, uploading photos, social networking, and more. It also delivers new features like customizable browser themes called Personas, a ground-breaking Plugin updater, improved JavaScript performance, and enhancements to familiar favorites like the Awesome Bar for a better, more personal Web experience.
• Cloud and open source meet to test Web apps | Software, Interrupted – CNET News – With more applications being built for the Web, cross-browser testing is crucial to application performance. More than 2 million people have turned to an open-source, cross-browser testing platform called Selenium, to solve this problem.
• iSites Create your app right now. Revise on the fly. – iSites enables you to create and self-manage apps for multiple smart phones (iPhone, Android) from one place.
• Apache Pivot – Pivot applications are written using a combination of Java and XML and can be run either as an applet or as a standalone (optionally offline) desktop application

Daily del.icio.us for January 19th through January 26th

• Generate a self-signed SSL Certificate with OpenSSL | *.hosting – Occasionally it may be necessary to generate a self-signed SSL certificate. This could be for internal websites, or for other internal uses that may require secure encrypted network transmissions. We decided to post this guide for everyone to use, since using the guide as a reference may hopefully be useful to those of you out there
• Google Collections Library: 1.0-final! – Google Collections Library – The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework.
• InfoQ: Re-thinking Lean Service – Taiichi Ohno discovered some counter-intuitive truths as he developed the Toyota System. Similar counter-intuitive truths wait to be discovered by leaders of service organisations. When they are understood and applied, service organisations' performance is transformed to levels that, to the current mind-set, would be considered unachievable.
• InfoQ: SpringSource’s Ben Alex talks about Spring Roo, Spring Shell and Spring Security 3.0 – Dr Ben Alex, The Project Lead of the Spring Roo code generator project, discusses using Roo on an existing project, building custom templates and add-ons for Roo, and how its capabilities compare to other productivity tools such as Grails.
• sesawe.net – English – Sesawe is a global alliance dedicated to bringing the benefits of uncensored access to information to Internet users around the world
• iPhone App Developers | PointAbout – PointAbout allows you to quickly mobilize the content you’re already publishing, like RSS & XML feeds, APIs and HTML content. Our AppMakr.com service builds native mobile applications in minutes instead of months, across multiple phone platforms without any ramp-up time and no need for proprietary programming expertise.
• jLinq – LINQ for JSON – jLinq is a fully extensible Javascript library that allows you to perform LINQ style queries on arrays of object.
• Querying JPA Entities with JPQL and Native SQL – Learn how to take advantage of the Java Persistence query language and native SQL when querying over JPA entities.
• Spring Module OXM – A new feature of Spring Framework 3.0 | united-coders.com – I think the Spring OXM module is absolutely usable. It is a nice way to keep the code independent from the underlying marshalling technology. And there are a lot more ways to use Spring OXM. At this time the Castor project, Apache XMLBeans, JiBX, XStream and JAXB is supported
• JD | Java Decompiler – The “Java Decompiler project” aims to develop tools in order to decompile and analyze Java 5 “byte code” and the later versions.
• As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His – If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
• Grails – 1.2 Release Notes – SpringSource are pleased to announce the 1.2 release of the Grails web application development framework. Grails is a dynamic web application framework built on Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh
• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof – good coders code, great reuse – If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I’d call lsof the Swiss Army Knife of Unix debugging.
• 100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools | TuVinhSoft .,JSC – Below are some open source/free tools that can help you with security testing as well as tools that will keep your system secure. Please use these tools ONLY for good.
• YouTube – Google Web Toolkit 2.0 New Features – This video provides an overview of new features in Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool which enables developers to produce highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps
• Ext JS 3.1: Massive memory improvements, TreeGrid, and more – On behalf of the Ext Team, I am extremely excited to announce the final release of Ext JS 3.1. With this release we rededicate ourselves to making Ext JS the best it can be, in both features and performanc
• InfoQ: Amazon RDS: MySQL Database as a Cloud Service – Amazon recently added a new MySQL database offering to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform named Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which works just like a traditional MySQL installation
• InfoQ: Whats New in Spring 3.0 – Arjen Poutsma reviews Spring Framework 2.5 and takes a look at Spring 3.0 – Java 5+, Spring Expression Language, REST support, Portlet 2.0, declarative model validation, early support for Java EE 6 – and the roadmap ahead.
• Spring Framework 3.0 goes GA | SpringSource Team Blog – After a long ride, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring 3.0 GA (.RELEASE) is finally available (download page)! All of SpringSource is celebrating – join the party
• Pivotal Tracker – Free Lightweight Agile Project Management – Tracker is a free, award winning, agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
• Agile software development, the principles. Principle 11 – The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
• Using Linux – Linux Administration Basics – Linode Library – This document presents a collection of common issues and useful tips for Linux system administration. Whether you're new to system administration or have been maintaining systems for some time, we hope these tips are helpful regardless of your background or choice in Linux distributions
• JAX-WS 2.2/Metro 2.0/Java EE6/GlassFish V3 Released | Java.net – We are pleased to announce the release of JAX-WS 2.2 and JAX-WS 2.2 RI. RI is also included in Metro 2.0. As Metro 2.0 is bundled in GlassFish v3, you don't require any separate installation step. On the servlet containers like Tomcat, you follow the installation instructions in the bundle.
• Metro 2.0 released | Java.net – Metro 2.0 has been released. Here is an overview of the new features

Daily del.icio.us for December 12th through January 5th

• Times Skimmer by The New York Times – The New York Times announced today the release of Times Skimmer, a new application for NYTimes.com that provides online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, making it easy to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the Web site.
• Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld: Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy – WSJ.com – Immigrants have not only founded big, well-known companies. Foreign-born residents made up just 12.5% of the U.S. population in 2008. But nearly 40% of technology company founders and 52% of founders of companies in Silicon Valley
• GraniteDS Projects with IntelliJ IDEA 9 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – GraniteDS technology allows to create enterprise web applications with Flex at client side and Java at server side. With IntelliJ IDEA you can develop GraniteDS projects with complete coding assistance both for Flex and Java, compile, deploy, run, and debug both client and server side in just few clicks!
• Journal of Eivind Uggedal: VPS Performance Comparison – Summarizing the benchmarks gives us one clear winner: Linode. 32-bit gave the best results on the Unixbench runs while 64-bit was fastest on the Django and database tests
• Paul Buchheit: So I finally tried Wave… – I don't know what Google has planned for Wave or Gmail, but if I were them I would continue improving Wave, and then once it's ready for the whole world to use, integrate it into Gmail
• synergy-plus – Project Hosting on Google Code – Synergy+ (synergy-plus) lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, without special hardware. All you need is a LAN connection. It's intended for users with multiple computers, where each system uses its own display. It's a little like having a 2nd or a 3rd desktop…
• It’s Thanksgiving: Here is what we have been cooking up for Ehcache « Greg Luck’s Blog – Once again, as with the OpenJPA ehcache provider can take you all the way along the scale continuum. We should have this released in the next week
• JPA Under The Hood – Understanding the Dynamics of Your JPA Framework Performance, Scalability and Architecture – Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) – I recently gave a talks on the behaviour of different JPA frameworks at W-JAX(Germany) and TheServerSide Java Symposium (Prague). The goal of my experiment was to compare different JPA frameworks regarding their runtime characteristics
• New language features in Java 7 « JoeJag :: Tech – I’m just back from the Devoxx conference in Antwerp. An update was given on the new language changes that will be in Java 7. The JDK currently has a release date of September 2010.
• Douglas Crockford: “The JavaScript Programming Language” « DR. Blog – One of the best sources to learn JavaScript from – the language creator! Here is the entire lecture

Daily del.icio.us for November 24th through December 2nd

• Servlet 3.0: A Sneak Preview – Apart from the addition of functionalities such as filters and web application events, the Servlet specification—one of the key Java APIs for web application development—has not undergone any major changes since its introduction. However, the specification has remained robust, and the release of the new Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will affect a major change in the way developers build Java web applications.
• Service Oriented Architecture Reference Architecture – This document specifies the OASIS Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture. It follows from the concepts and relationships defined in the OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture. While it remains abstract in nature, the current document describes one possible template upon which a SOA concrete architecture can be built.
• Will it play in App Engine – Google App Engine for Java | Google Groups – A list of technologies, frameworks, etc that are currently supported under Google AppEngine. JAX-WS is missing and is considered a MUST-HAVE for me.
• wro4j – Web Resource Optimizer for Java – The purpose of wro4j project is to reduce the number of requests needed to load a page and the amount of data to transfer to clients, achieving drastic improvement of loading times. The resources can be benefit also from minification and compression.
• Code, Coffee : weblog, Beta – "’Spring Enterprise Recipes,’ from Apress" – In the large, this book is a gentle, but comprehensive introduction to the best-of-breed solutions for tomorrow's architecture using Spring and other lightweight, powerful tool
• Sandboxie – Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing – Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
• Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic – According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S
• Schauderhaft » The Software Development is like the Evolution of Life – Software development has been compared to many things. I’d like to propose another comparison: Evolution.
• A Java geek » Thoughts on Java logging and SLF4J – In this post, I will ramble on logging in Java, how it was done in the old days and what can a library like SLF4J can bring
• Building Java Applications with Windows Azure :: Sessions :: Microsoft PDC09 – Come learn how to build large-scale applications in the cloud using Java, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will cover using Apache Tomcat and Java in Windows Azure.

Daily del.icio.us for November 23rd through November 24th

• Seth’s Blog: "Notice me" – Attention is fine, as long as you have a goal that is reached in exchange for all this effort. Far better than being noticed………..
• thread-weaver – Project Hosting on Google Code – Thread Weaver is a framework for writing multi-threaded unit tests in Java. It provides mechanisms for creating breakpoints within your code, and for halting execution of a thread when a breakpoint is reached. Other threads can then run while the first thread is blocked. This allows you to write repeatable tests for that can check for race conditions and thread safety
• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – It's true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises.
• Cloud computing: Clash of the clouds | The Economist – The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others
• Home – IntelliJ Open-Source Project - Confluence – This is the home for the open-source project
  IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition − the leading Java and Groovy IDE
  built on the IntelliJ Platform.
• UNetbootin – Homepage and Downloads – UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.
• Hibernate Validator 4 unleashed – Hibernate Validator let's you declare constraints on your domain model using annotations like @NotNull or @Size and returns the list of constraint failures found in an object graph. Instead of duplicating constraint declarations in various application layers, constraints are centralized on your domain model and shared by all layers and frameworks: declared once, validate anywhere if you will.
• Second Level Caching for Hibernate with Terracotta « My Adventures in Coding – Overall we have found Terracotta to be a useful tool. It requires very little effort to update an existing project using Spring/Hibernate to use it. Terracotta offers more than just Second Level Caching, but also handles queuing of writes and ensuring data is written to the SOR (System or Record) in the event the database is not available for a brief period.
• Who Has the Most Web Servers? « Data Center Knowledge – Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European hosts 1&1 Internet and OVH have more than Rackspace.
• soa-manifesto.org – A formal declaration of the principles, intentions and ambitions of service-orientation and the service-oriented architectural mode

Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 17th

• JavaScript Framework Matrix – Overview with functions and examples – The JavaScript Framework Matrix will give you an overview of popular JavaScript frameworks and their functions. There are various examples for the frameworks and every snippet contains links to the official documentation
• SpriteMe: Spriting made easy – SpriteMe is an open source project that helps web developers create sprites in a matter of minutes rather than hours.
• InfoQ: Book Review: Understanding SCA – Overall the book provides a complete introduction to SCA. If you are not familiar with the technology and you are building an SOA, it is certainly worth investing some of your time either to adopt the technology or implement some of its patterns.
• Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies
• Introduction to Google Collections | Benjamin Winterberg – The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework you already know and love.
• InfoQ: 3 Patterns from SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl – All of these patterns are considered fundamental to inventory governance in that they support and are influenced by the Service Discoverability principle, which actually shapes service meta information in such a manner that it can be effectively discovered and interpreted.
• SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready – After 20,000 lines of new code, over 5,000 new unit tests, and countless hours of effort by over 30 contributors, SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready. Try out the new code today and help us make the push to our final release. Join the HTML5 revolution.
• iPhone gets .Net app development | Developer World – InfoWorld – Leveraging Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows applications on non-Windows systems, Novell's MonoTouch 1.0 is a commercial software development kit that lets developers utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#
• thewojogroup’s simplecart-js at master – GitHub – A simple paypal shopping cart in 20kb that you can setup in minutes
• Hades – Trac – Hades is a utility library to work with Data Access Objects implemented with Spring and JPA. The main goal is to ease the development and operation of a data access layer in applications.

Daily del.icio.us for September 9th through September 16th