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Daily del.icio.us for May 2nd through May 4th
- Pearware Blog : Improving Java web site performance with asset caching - In this post, I’ll be talking about a solution I developed at my day job to improve the performance of our web site by allowing the browser to cache JavaScript, CSS, and image files
- Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times - We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House bedroom. I’m voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV
- The All-White Elephant in the Room - New York Times - Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives’ favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race.
- Headius: The Power of the JVM - The future is definitely looking awesome for dynamic languages on the JVM. And languages like Groovy and JRuby are proving it.
- How Has Functional Programming Influenced Your Coding Style? - Functional programming languages are enjoying a renaissance. Even if not intending to use a functional language for daily work, learning such a language can improve one's programming style
- Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor - (37signals) - Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-m
- Java Persistence 2.0 Early Draft Available - Linda DeMichiel's Blog - We've just released the Early Draft of the Java Persistence 2.0 specification, so I thought it would be a good time to report on some of the work we've been doing in the JSR 317 Expert Group.
- InfoQ: Flex, AIR and AS3 Flex Gain Code Coverage Utilities - Last month Joe Berkovitz announced the initial experimental release of Flexcover, an open-source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3
- For all you know, it's just another Java library - David Pollak's Blog - Bottom line… to anyone other than the folks with hands in the code and the folks who have to recruit and manage them, "For all you know, it's just another Java library."
- Common Solutions for T-SQL Problems - Home - Some of the Moderators, Answerers, and MVPs have gotten together to create a new resource to supplement the Forums; it's called SQLExamples. We just started it a few weeks ago so it's still very much in its infancy
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Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 16th
- Searchable javadocs - Javadocs are good but not great as they miss a key feature of being able to do a full text search. Enter Documancer - It allows you to point to the index.html Javadoc file of a given library and one can then run full text searches through the Javadocs
- DataCleaner - eobjects - DataCleaner is an open source project concerned with creating a data quality solutions for business and organizations wishing to measure and increase the quality of their data. DataCleaner includes functionality to profile and compare data, to validate da
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Announcing New Release of JetGroovy Plugin - We’re glad to announce the general availability of the new release of JetGroovy Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Version 1.5 brings yet more of IntelliJ IDEA´s smart, advanced features to Groovy and Grails developers
- HtmlUnit 2.1 Released « A Public Scratchpad - The HtmlUnit team is pleased to announce a new release of HtmlUnit. This latest version includes a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements, and sports excellent support for GWT, jQuery and Sarissa, decent support for Prototype and Dojo, and basic
- Enterprise 2.0: A Computer Security Nightmare? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - One conclusion, the report notes, is that users are routinely, and fairly easily, circumventing corporate security controls. And that is because traditional firewall technology was not meant to grapple with the diversity of Internet applications of recent
- Amazon's cloud computing will surpass its retailing business | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - Everyone else–Google and Microsoft–are working on their cloud computing services, but they are really in the first revision of their respective offerings. Amazon is ahead and tweaking
- It’s Only Software » 5 Minute Guide to Spring and Simple[r!] JDBC - I recently worked on a personal project to learn how one can write dead-simple plain old JDBC applications using only Spring Framework 2.5 without an ORM layer. Spring 2.5 has many features that provide some of the convenience of ORM libraries
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Daily del.icio.us for April 12th through April 13th
- Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync - This document describes a method for generating automatic rotating "snapshot"-style backups on a Unix-based system, with specific examples drawn from the author's GNU/Linux experience. Snapshot backups are a feature of some high-end industrial file server
- Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1) - In this article series, I’ll try to give you a step-by-step process to create an application with Flex/BlazeDS/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL architecture, all of that built with Maven.
- Saki’s Blog » Blog Archive » Simplest 3 Columns Layout with CSS - After experimenting with Designing a 3 columns web page using TableLayout
I have came with the solution that is, IMO, simplest possible: - Saki's Ext Examples Page - I have been actively helping on Ext Forums for some time and during this period I have found out that most effective help for members is to give them a well written running example that they can either modify for their purposes or it just gives them an an
- Saki’s Blog » Blog Archive » Writing a Big Application in Ext - I have decided to write this article for those users of Ext 2.x that have already grown up from having one HTML page with embedded script that creates one simple window or form, for those who are already decided that Ext is the way and for those who are f
- behind the times: 10 Best IDEA Inspections You're Not Using - Let's clarify. By "Best" I mean the ones I like. By "You're Not Using" I mean they aren't enabled by default. By "Inspections" I mean those little code warnings that IDEA gives you which can be configured under Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S) Errors (6).
- A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - There are plenty of options out there for data visualization, too. Google’s recently-announced Charts API is a great example, but there are a number of tools and services for creating charts and graphs as images and for making interactive visualizations
- Introducing Java 6 update 10 - Don't be fooled by its unassuming name: the upcoming Java 6 update 10 is a very different animal than the updates that preceded it. Java 6u10 pushes the envelope by adding more new features and functionality than in any previous Java programming language
- InfoQ: Spring Web Services 1.5 Released - After 6 months of work, Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been release. Based off contract-first development using SOAP service development, Spring-WS can be manipulated through XML to create document-driven Web services
- Sun Claims Big Leap with MySQL Upgrade Next Week - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - Among the advances in 5.1 are partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering. They are fairly standard features already offered by rivals IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, but they should help MySQL compete in environments where
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Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through April 3rd
- Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Immediately Eject a Specific USB Drive :: the How-To Geek - Using the built-in Windows dialog is more powerful and probably would suffice for most people, but for those of us that want complete control there's a small freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector.
- Thermal Reaction: Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song - Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song
- Ext JS Blog - » Implementation Spotlight: Jama Contour - Contour is a fully web-based requirements management application, sports a complete Ext-based user interface from top to bottom. It’s easily one of the most sophisticated and visually polished Ext applications we’ve seen yet
- Ajax on the network side - Java World - Making the most of Ajax doesn't end with beautiful code: you also need a solid network infrastructure that won't choke when client calls surge. This article introduces Ajax basics, offers tips for optimizing, monitoring, and securing Ajax applications
- SpringSource Team Blog » What's New in Spring Web Services 1.5? - Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released and itincludes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code changes - some configuration, and you're off! The JMS integrates with Spring's Message-Driven POJO model
- 451 CAOS Theory » Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow - One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there ha
- Spring to get upgraded with REST | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-27 | By Paul Krill - The planned 3.0 version of Spring will have significant enhancements with respect to Web technologies and it will have comprehensive support for RESTful Web services. Also planned for Spring 3.0 is unification in the programming model between Spring Web F
- Janice J. Heiss's Blog: The Story of Ruby, JRuby, and Rails at Sun - Sun is making Ruby and Rails faster and enhancing functionality through JRuby which allows Ruby to enter enterprises where Ruby and/or Rails have never entered as Ruby developers gain access to the Java APIs and the Java community.
- Techno Paper: CRUD application using Ext and Java - I have the CRUD application built on Ext and Java. I have used Java as my server side and Oracle XE to store my data. You can use any server side technology and persistence technology
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Daily del.icio.us for March 22nd through March 25th
- SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place - Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful an
- Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 - There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though IE7 has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31% of all browsers out there (versus only 22 % for IE7 and 36.5 % for Firefox).
- Amazon's cloud computing service fuels startup's launch | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-25 | By Jon Brodkin, Network World - A startup called Elastra is launching Tuesday with software that helps customers build database management systems and other applications that can be deployed on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
- Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments to Grow 11 Percent in 2008, Market Could Fall Victim to Weaker Global Economy - Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 293 million units in 2008, up 10.9 percent from 2007 shipments of 264 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. However, analysts warned that growth could fall into single digits if global economic headwinds st
- Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense | Open Source | ZDNet.com - Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server.
- The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off - New York Times - For rickrolling, the duck was replaced with the 20-year-old Astley video, and in the last year it has become a hugely successful “meme,” the Internet’s word for an idea repeated across the Web. The video from yougotrickrolled.com has been viewed mor
- Roundtable: The state of open source | InfoWorld | News | March 24, 2008 | By Jason Snyder - Any endeavor rooted in community is bound to spark passionate debate. After all, without contention, how else to determine the best way forward? Since its emergence, open source has embodied this spirit. Part defiant, part self-reliant, and often outspoke
- ETL for Free-Form Data - SQL Server Central - Would you like to learn a handy little process for extracting, transforming and loading data fields from a free-form source like a web page or word processing document into something structured like a staging table?
- Asynchronous HTTP and Comet architectures - Java World - In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view of asynchronous HTTP, explaining its role in developing high-performance HTTP proxies and non-blocking HTTP clients, as well as the long-lived HTTP connections associated with Comet.
- Ext.ux.grid.RowActions - RowActions Plugin for Ext 2.x - Beta1 by Saki - RowActions plugin allows you to add icons in a grid that you want to bind actions to: delete row, edit row, whatever. It displays an icon and fires two events: beforeaction (return false to cancel) and action (here you put the action you want to execute)
- Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism - Loved this comment - I hadn't realized how unhappy I was until I watched Office Space and my wife said, "That seems like your job". I soon switched jobs
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Daily del.icio.us for March 4th through March 7th
- Software bugtraps | Software that makes software better | Economist.com - Jonathan Pincus, an expert on software reliability who recently left Microsoft Research to become an independent consultant, has observed that “the key issues [in programming] relate to people and the way they communicate and organise themselves.”
- FAQ - Grid - Ext JS Forums - Here is some lessons learned / compiled questions from some of the repetitive questions posted in the forums about grids. Typically people ask the same line of questions (I guess they don't search the forums) and the responses are typically fairly similar
- Google Calendar Sync: Getting Started - Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You'll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency. Staying on top of your Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlo
- Data Warehousing - I'm going to explain OLTP, data warehousing, and OLAP. Kiss that ghetto post-doc goodbye and watch big companies line up to pay you $300/hour to romance their most critical data.
- Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation - Wired How-To Wiki - You've just download the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu Linux and it didn't cost you a thing. You breezed through the installation and a brand new desktop is staring you in the face — now what?
- Adobe Floating on AIR - eWeek - At the Adobe Engage 08 event in San Francisco Feb. 25, eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft spoke with Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch about AIR and a host of other issues.
- Google Gears on Mobile Devices - Google Gears API - Google Code - Google Gears is now available on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices. Google Gears works in exactly the same way on a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device as it does on a desktop PC. If you've already written an application that uses Google Gears, your application wil
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Daily del.icio.us for February 8th through February 10th
- Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Microsoft is 2000 times less effective than Google; Yahoo Board seems to be insane - Microsoft is to Yahoo as Time Warner is to (correct answer) AOL.
- Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft's Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb. - This still seems like a real dumb idea, like a staggering drunk trying to prop himself on an unwilling and lame adversary who wouldn't mind seeing the drunk facedown on the pavement
- IDEA is Now Enterprisey - It’s official, JetBrains raised the price on IDEA. While they claim they have not raised prices in 5 years, this is not the complete story.
- Smoke and Ice: Um… Has anyone seen JBoss? - Ok, can anyone explain why JBoss seams to have dropped off the map? The 5.0 version of the JBoss Application Server has been in beta for over a year! What's going on?
- InfoQ: From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex - James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface. In the article, they outline the steps of updating the open source Pentaho Suite dashboard with a Web 2.0 dashboard:
- java.net: Query by Slice, Parallel Execute, and Join: A Thread Pool Pattern in Java - By combining all the above concepts, it is possible to abstract out a Thread Pool pattern in the JDK for your daily parallel processing solutions. This article will showcase code that can be built and run using the JDK along with your favorite database.
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » External Annotations - There are several cases when direct annotating code is not advisable: for example, project is shared between team members that use different IDEs, or you work with library classes. That does not mean you can’t make use of these annotations, though – w
- Getting Started with Grails - Infoq ebook - Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Many org
- Safari is about to get crazy fast | Computerworld Blogs - What's so interesting about this is that Safari is already a fast browser. While Microsoft's products are getting bulkier and slower, Apple's products are getting leaner and faster.
- 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog) - I wasn't going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
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Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th
- uface - Google Code - UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse.
- cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 - This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!
- Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information - Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.
- GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 - 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 right out of the box
- Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials - Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries.
- Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT - The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code
- Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - John Gruber does it again
- Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the
- mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes
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Daily del.icio.us for February 2nd through February 3rd
- Adobe Labs - BlazeDS - The BlazeDS Release Candidate was released on February 1, 2008. BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Flex and AIR app
- Marcel Overdijk's Blog: Code by convention with Flex and Spring - What this means is that Flex clients can communicate with Java objects deployed on the server. BlazeDS contains a Java Adapter which forms the infrastructure to make this possible. With Jeff Vroom's Spring Integration you can even use Spring beans to comm
- Concern mounts over rising troop suicides - CNN.com - Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day.
- My videos from Davos « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - I made quite a few videos on Qik last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites, not necessarily in order of importance. I marked the must watch videos.
- Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Could a combination of (MSFT & YHOO) take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions
- Summation: The Power of Great People (why “good enough” won’t cut it) - In markets characterized by winner takes-all - increasingly true in a globalized world - you need the very best; “good enough” will no longer cut it when against intense competition. These are the people that build great and lasting companies.
- Design Patterns and Refactoring - sourcemaking.com - Design Patterns and Refactoring
- Pure Css Data Chart | Css Globe - Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let's say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol' css?
- The war on Grails is really a war on Spring | Groovy Zone - Ruby is perhaps a more flexible language than Groovy (and that's an arguable point, folks, and one which I really don't care to get into), but Ruby also runs on a less-flexible and less-scalable and less-supported platform than Groovy. I dunno that this m
- kemelyon » FlexReport - FlexReport is a client-side report generation component. It allows you to easily generate, preview and print reports based in mxml/as3 templates.
- generatedata.com - Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of forma
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Daily del.icio.us for January 21st
- OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups - Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you've come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic. There's no overarching design or scheme of things, it's just a bucket of tools with some glue poured in
- MySQL Storage Engines - Programming - SoftwareProjects - One of the greatest things about MySQL, other than being free, widely supported and fast, is the flexibility of choosing different storage engines for different tables.
- JLisa - A Rule Engine for Java - JLisa is a powerful framework for building business rules accessible to Java and it is compatible with JSR94 V, the JavaTM Rule Engine API
- ExtTLD - Simplify ExtJS for JEE - Jaroslav Benc has created ExtTLD, a JSP taglib generator that creates Ext JS components from your Java projects, using XML syntax
- What server-side Java web framework will be the next for 2008? | Java Zone - Arguably, Struts 1.x is end of life. There are plenty of other Java server-side web frameworks: JSF (the standard), Wicket, Tapestry, Struts 2, Echo, Spring MVC, etc. Do you have any market data on what developers are adopting after Struts 1.x?
- Java on Grails - What would happen if the special Objects within Grails could not only teleport across Classloaders and past the Java-Groovy boundary, as many Groovy Objects have done in the past, but also teleport across that boundary with their powers intact? …
- John Resig - Programming Book Profits - As I begin working on my second book I've gone back and realized that there's a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing my first book way back in March of 2006
