• How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – These are notes gathered from talking with many friends at Facebook about how the company develops and releases software.
• InfoQ: IT And Architecture: Inside-Out Perspectives – The enterprise that understands the need for a coherent strategy within IT to meet the needs of the business, will invest in a business architecture consisting of a business activity model and a business information model
• InfoQ: JasperSoft 4 Released with Big Data Support – JasperSoft this week announced support for reporting against big data systems, including support for a variety of modes for reporting on Hadoop, several popular NoSQL databases, as well as three MPP analytic relational databases
• InfoQ: RESTful SOA or Domain-Driven Design – A Compromise? – Vaughn Vernon advocates using DDD’s strategic modeling patterns when integrating services in a RESTful SOA implementation, avoiding one of SOA’s pitfalls: focusing on services rather than the domain.
• InfoQ: How Facebook Ships Code – most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it’s just that they don’t have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there’s a QA department, it’s easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors.
• As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat – During periods of peak Internet use, a full fifth of all American bandwidth consumption is people watching movies on Netflix.com
• InfoQ: Book Excerpt and Interview: 100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered – A new "100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered " book by Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani provides a deep insight into SOA covering a wide spectrum of topics from SOA basics to its business and organizational impact, to SOA methods and architecture, to the future of SOA.
• InfoQ: Proving the Business Value of SOA – Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
• InfoQ: REST and the Web as a Platform, with Subbu Allamaraju – In this interview, Subbu Allamaraju talks about real life issues of RESTful architectures. He also describes a pragmatic approach of adopting the Web as an integration platform and shares his opinion on OAuth.
• InfoQ: Developing Social-Ready Web Applications – Craig Walls discusses social web applications, how to integrate them, how to provide social data in a RESTful and secure way, introducing Spring Social, a framework for developing social web apps.
• InfoQ: SOA Security in Practice – Nicolai M. Josuttis discusses various issues encountered when implementing SOA security: heterogeneity and debugging are problematic, ESB plays an important role, and costs involved.
• Left-Handedness Loses Its Stigma but Retains Its Mystery – NYTimes.com – Dr. Francks said he was "quite happy with the sentiment of reassuring people that left-handedness is not some weird disability." But, he added, "There’s no reason to go beyond that and say that left-handers are even more talented."
• Social objects in the enterprise: Part 3 – confused of calcutta – Enterprises are changing from being hierarchies of customers and products to networks of relationships and capabilities, that human and social capital are gaining in prominence
• Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Mobility Atrix 4G vs. Apple iPhone 4 | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld – Motorola's versatile new Android smartphone outshines the iPhone in some ways, but falls short overall

Daily del.icio.us for March 6th

• Some of Tomorrow’s Best Gadgets – There's some pretty sweet gear at this year's CES: tablets galore, smart cameras, cool phones, audiophile pr0n. Woot! This little trade show might have a future! Check out some of our favorites.
• Verizon iPhone to Debut With Unlimited Data Plan | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD – Sources close to Verizon tell me the carrier will offer the iPhone with an unlimited data plan (presumably the same $30 unlimited plan they offer for other smartphones)
• Could this be the year we get to ditch the cable box? — Engadget – TiVo, Google and Microsoft's approach seems more sound because they each attempt to aggregate all the sources into a single universally searchable interface
• How relevant will Analyst Firms like Gartner (with its MQ) and Forrester be in the next 10 years? – Quora – If I want to go spend $10 on a burrito in my neighborhood, I can find a restaurant with 585 Yelp reviews.

  If I want to spend $10m on a piece of enterprise software, I spend $5K on a report written by a single analyst a year ago?

  There has to be a better way

• Do We Need a Yelp for the Enterprise? – Last month Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The report positioned AT&T, Rackspace, Savvis, Terremark and Verizon as the leaders
• Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring in your Service Tier | SpringSource Team Blog – This post will introduce developers to the options available in the Spring framework for building a better service tier
• 10 Productivity Enhancing CSS and CSS3 Tools and Generators | CreativeFan – With the advent of CSS3, there are also now some CSS3 tools and also some CSS3 generators that can create gradients for you, as well as provide WYSIWYG visuals
• New Gadgets at C.E.S. – Slide Show – NYTimes.com – Motorola, which has fought its way back into the cellphone market, is now taking on Apple’s iPad with the Xoom tablet. It uses the newest version of Google’s Android operating system, called Honeycomb, which is designed to make it easier to interact with a touch-screen tablet.
• Effective Clustered Indexes – This article will present all the attributes that I believe make up an efficient clustered index key
• Gartner raises IT spending forecast for 2011 | ZDNet – Gartner on Thursday said it raised its global IT spending forecast to $3.6 trillion in 2011, up 5.1 percent from 2010. Gartner’s previous outlook called for IT spending growth of 3.5 percent for 2011.
• Daring Fireball: Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design – The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI

Daily del.icio.us for January 7th through January 9th

• InfoQ: Juergen Hoeller on the Past and Future of Spring – Juergen Hoeller explains the past and future of the Spring framework: how it will make use of Java 7 features like Fork/Join, work with JEE6 and PaaS platforms, and much more.
• Mockito – Screencasts for Stubbing, Verifying, and Argument Matching | Javalobby – We're rolling out Mockito and trying to raise our testability at work and I'm set to give a presentation/training session tomorrow to a few new team
• W3C Releases Best Practices for Mobile Web Apps – International Web standards body, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a new standard for developers of mobile Web applications. The document, published as a W3C Recommendation, is titled "The Mobile Web Application Best Practices"
• InfoQ: Using REST for SOA – Stefan Tilkov makes a case for using REST in an enterprise SOA solution showing how to implement tricky features like encapsulation, transactions, stateful communication, reliable messaging, notifications, and security
• SOA Makes Its Home in Financial Services Arena CIO.com – The death of SOA has been much exaggerated according to a new report. Forrester analyst Jost Hoppermann said that in financial services companies, SOA is very much alive and is being increasingly deployed within the industry
• JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again – JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans.
• How to install Memcached Server on Windows as Service | JournalDev – In my earlier posts, I explained how to install memcached server on *nix and Mac OS systems. Today I will explain how to install memcached server on Windows operating system.
• TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index – The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors
• Four Reasons We Choose Amazon’s Cloud as Our Computing Platform – Letting Amazon focus on data center infrastructure allows our engineers to focus on building and improving our business. Amazon calls their web services “undifferentiated heavy lifting,” and that’s what it is.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for December 14th through December 15th

• 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.

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• Google: We want Chrome to grow the Web | The Open Road – CNET News – This is why we should be cheering Google's entry into the browser market–even if we ultimately want Firefox to win. Perhaps especially if we want Firefox to win.
• Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity – Opera is attempting to take advantage of the rise of social networking (the verb) and bake it into the browser, as a personal extension to one’s computing experience. They accomplish this by embedding what amounts to a web server in the browser, and making it possible to share files, music and photos and to post notes or chat directly with your friends
• An App, the GoodGuide, Aids in Careful Shopping – NYTimes.com – These days, every skin lotion and dish detergent on store shelves gloats about how green it is. How do shoppers know which are good for them and good for the earth?
• The Best iPhone Apps for Kids – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com – Say you were faced with a 3-year-old child on the verge of full meltdown — which iPhone apps would distract and delight him enough to avoid mayhem?
• Iran’s Disputed Election – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Following up from last Friday's entry about Iran's Presidential Election, Tehran and other cities have seen the largest street protests and rioting since the 1979 Iranian Revolution
• Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts | Webware – CNET – With Acrobat.com, Adobe is coming a little late to a game that Google, Zoho and ThinkFree have been running for years, and that Microsoft is set to join very soon. What may make the difference is that Adobe can work these products very deeply into other pieces of its software. Whether that ends up being a liability compared to competing solutions that remain Web-only is unclear.
• Mozilla Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself – One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites, time of the day and days you navigate most, how you access sites.
• Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | Technology | Reuters – Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3 million from Twitter followers who clicked through its posts to its Web sites to make purchases
• BBC NEWS | Technology | No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe – Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer.
• Performance, Scalability and Architecture – Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) » Interoperability is more than just talking with each other – Microsoft and Sun recently announced their Open Source Project Stonehenge at the JavaOne conference. Stonehenge is a reference implementation that shows how to bridge the two major development platforms Java and .NET using Web Services

Daily del.icio.us for June 12th through June 17th

• Optional Annotations – The JAX-WS programming model uses a number of optional annotations for adding details about your service, such as the binding it uses, to the Java code.
• Ibatis Tutorial: Aggregation with groupBy – This tutorial builds on the knowledge from the Ibatis Inheritance Tutorial. As such the configuration and schema won't be repeated here for brevity.

  The next feature I will introduce is dynamic grouping.

• Jester – the JUnit test tester. – Jester finds code that is not covered by tests. Jester makes some change to your code, runs your tests, and if the tests pass Jester displays a message saying what it changed. Jester includes a script for generating web pages that show the changes made that did not cause the tests to fail.
• Add-on Collector :: Add-ons for Firefox – Discover more of the best add-ons and organize your favorites in easy-to-manage collections. Subscribe to see how the collections you admire grow, and fans follow when you manage and update your own collections.
• How the new smartphones stack up [PIC] – How the new smartphones stack up [PIC]
• Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection – In just 220 milliseconds, two endpoints on the Internet came together, provided enough credentials to trust each other, set up encryption algorithms, and started to send encrypted traffic. And to think, all of this just so Bob can buy milk
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar – Today we're excited remove another key barrier to enterprise adoption of Google Apps with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook lets you use Microsoft Outlook seamlessly with Google Apps Premier or Education Editions.
• Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself : NPR – This is the story of how obscure psychological research into human decision-making first revolutionized economics and now appears poised to remake the relationship between the government and its citizens.
• Fox & Friends’ Lingerie Football Romp | The Daily Show | Comedy Central – "Fox & Friends" thinks Sacha Baron Cohen's ass in Eminem's face is disgusting, but a lingerie football romp is the best thing on TV.
• Red Hat’s Fedora 11: So easy you’ll forget it’s Linux | The Open Road – CNET News – This is, in fact, Fedora 11's biggest selling point: it just works. And fast, too: from powering on to logging in takes 20 seconds or less. Beat that, Windows!

Daily del.icio.us for June 9th through June 12th

• 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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  • louisgray.com: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners’ Ire?: Silicon Valley Blog – As a blogger, I am a content creator. I don't want my content stolen, or reposted without attribution or under somebody else's name. But I am also a huge advocate of RSS and continuing to adapt where the conversation is being held
  • Reports of Windows’ demise are greatly exaggerated | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com – It’s not news that Windows is huge and unwieldy. Many (probably most) of Microsoft’s own Windows developers would agree with that premise. But to suggest that Microsoft is burying its head in the sand and hoping its problems just go away is ridiculous
  • Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundation upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web apps
  • Hartija – Css Print Framework – To solve this problem I decided to make universal Cascading Style Sheets for web printing by uniting all best CSS printing practises into one.
  • dtsn : Highlighting Forms [tutorial] – This is quite a well known but under used technique for highlighting your form elements without any JavaScript. By using the CSS property focus you can apply style to a form element when it is clicked, also know as focus.
  • Cisco switch consolidates functions in the data center – Cisco Systems Inc. today announced the Nexus 5000 series of server access switches, which are designed to consolidate storage, networking and virtualization functions in data centers. The switch unifies Fibre Channel over Ethernet with data center Etherne
  • Alfresco’s sales up 320 percent, hits 30,000 active deployments | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs – Yes, you can make lots of money with open-source software. Alfresco, a leading enterprise content management and collaboration vendor, just announced its 2007 financial results. The numbers speak for themselves:
  • Google App Engine – Google Code – Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
  • The Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog: When Mashing Your Enterprise, It Pays To Have a Lot of Friends – There’s one thing we’ve always been certain about: no single vendor can address the entire enterprise mashup problem alone. It is critical to catalyze mashups in the enterprise with an ecosystem that surrounds those mashups, making them easier and mor
  • GWT-Ext 2.0.3 released with charting, maps, portal and other goodies – GWT-Ext 2.0.3 has been released. This version is compatible with Ext 2.0.2 and GWT 1.5. The new features in this release are charts and maps plus all of the goodies already built in.

  
  
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  • Zimbra’s new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs – It's very cool. You should give it a spin. This is the best e-mail "client" ever built…largely because of its successful marriage of the Web with the desktop. In the future, all applications will be like this–or should be.
  • Ext Road Map – Our goals for 2008 are to continue improving the 2.x version line by adding new components and enhancing some of the existing areas of functionality in Ext as shown below. Looking ahead to 3.0, there are some big new areas that we'll be getting into. In a
  • The Making of MarkMail: Announcing an Informal Partnership with Codehaus – We're happy to announce we've developed an informal partnership with Codehaus to load all their mail archives and receive automatic notification of new Codehaus lists as they get created.
  • A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) – A few weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) came by Yahoo to talk to a bunch of Yahoo! bloggers about the current and future state of WordPress. After the meeting, I sat down with him for our Developer Spotlight series on YDN Theater to catch u
  • Andres Almiray’s Weblog : Weblog – JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.
  • The State of BPM: Top-Five Trends | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog – The results show a number of interesting trends indicating that CIOs and business leaders are focused on improving their processes. Existing customers described how they expect to get their ROI from their BPM implementations, and most expect to see ROI ov
  • Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T | Crave : The gadget blog – The new AT&T plan allows all customers 2 free hours per day, with a $3.99 fee for additional 2-hour chunks of time. Monthly subscriptions will cost $19.99 and will enable access to other AT&T hot-spot locations in addition to Starbucks.
  • Anthony Park :: 100% Geek Content by Volume » New Vista Media Center Plugin – MyNetflix (beta) – I’ve kept this pretty quiet, but I’ve been working on a new Media Center plugin for a little while now. It is now ready for beta testing, and I’ve decided to run a public beta for this one. MyNetflix features * View your Netflix queue * Browse movie
  • Humanized > Our Products > Enso Launcher – Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
  • Martin Wolf : Advanced Java 5 Generics – Here's an article about a few of the more subtle aspects of Java 5 Generics. This is hardly the 1st article about this particular subject, but none of them explain it quite the way I would have wanted to see it when I was wrestling with this issue myself.
  • Panopticon: The Power of Pre-Attentive Processing – Our visualization software is easy to use and is a great way to explore large datasets, identify outliers and find hidden patterns.

  
  
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  • 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we?ll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises
  • Ext JS impressions | CodeUtopia – I?ve been using Ext in an widget I?m working on. This is something Ext works for very well, since a widget will run outside the browser?s traditional page model anyway. You could have three column layouts with resizable column sizes, keyboard suppo
  • Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose? | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – In the following we present an overview of most popular web application frameworks; we cover both server-side (PHP, Java, C#, Ruby) and client-side approaches (JavaScript, CSS).
  • Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 – ScottGu’s Blog – Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I’ve done myself in the past.
  • Buy Amazon stock now! – Does Henry Blodget never learn? Wonder if Eliot Spitzer is around If you don’t know who Henry Blodget is, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget
  • script.aculo.us – downloads – This is a bugfix release that bumps script.aculo.us to version 1.8.1. Mainly, this release contains some important bug fixes and optimizations in Prototype, fixes cursor keys in autocompleting text fields for IE and Safari plus fixes an issue with Effect.
  • Ajaxian » GWT Videos from GWT Conference Available – Pearson put on a GWT Conference that had a lot of great content. Fortunately, video cameras were running, and the video has been edited and posted

  
  
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  • Dev2Dev Editor’s Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble – The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download
  • XHAB: Xavier Hanin’s Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket – If you haven’t already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should
  • Full text search with Apache Lucene – I?m Mike – Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language.
  • framework – Google Code – To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes.
  • Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript – For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers.
  • GWT in Action: TheServerSide Tech Brief – Robert Hanson, co-author of the book GWT in Action, tells us about the Google Web Toolkit or GWT aims to simplify writing AJAX applications using a programming model that’s already familiar to Java programmers.
  • Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Introduction to AWS for Java Developers – This brief tutorial introduces you to Amazon Web Services from the eyes of a Java developer, walks through a simple example, and links to other helpful resources to get you started.
  • Peter Laird’s Blog: BEA WebLogic Portal + Swivel.com + Excel Spreadsheet = Enterprise Data Mashups – I have been showing how to build enterprise mashups using web technologies. This entry will diverge and show how a non-web technology, namely the spreadsheet, can power an enterprise data mashup.
  • InfoQ: OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project – Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10

  
  
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  • Peter Laird’s Blog: BEA WebLogic Portal + Swivel.com + Excel Spreadsheet = Enterprise Data Mashups – I have been showing how to build enterprise mashups using web technologies. This entry will diverge and show how a non-web technology, namely the spreadsheet, can power an enterprise data mashup.
  • InfoQ: OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project – Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10
  • CodePress – Real Time Syntax Highlighting Editor written in JavaScript – CodePress is web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it’s being typed in the browser.
  • java.net: An (Almost) CPU-Free MVC Pattern with Ajax – RAJAX is a Java library, a tag library, and two JavaScript files. It works by using runtime reflection to take any class that extends the RAJAX base class and transform it into an Ajaxified JavaScript object
  • Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.5.1.1 bug fix release – Prototype 1.5.1.1 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release that prevents crashes with versions 1.3 and 2.0.x of the Safari browser. We urge everyone using Prototype 1.5.1 to upgrade to this latest release.

  
  
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  • Bob’s Unit Testing Best Practices – Testing Digitally – Having used Agile programming methods for a number of years now. I have come across some best practices for unit testing that I would like to share with you.
  • O’Reilly Open Books Project – O’Reilly has published a number of Open Books–books with various forms of "open" copyright–over the years.
  • Ajaxian – YUI Version 2.2.0 Released – YUI 2.2.0 has been released one year after YUI was released into open source.
  • Yahoo! UI Library: DataTable – The DataTable control provides a simple yet powerful API to display screen-reader accessible tabular data on a web page. Notable features include sortable columns, pagination, scrolling, row selection, resizeable columns, and inline editing.
  • Jump Start Your AJAX Development with the Google Web Toolkit – The Unofficial Google Wiki – A free wiki from Wikia – The Google Web Toolkit addresses the development of an AJAX application in a very methodical manner
  • NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 – Tutorials – Using Hibernate With the NetBeans Visual Web Pack – This tutorial shows you how to use the Hibernate framework in a NetBeans Visual Web Pack project. It also shows how to wrap back end data with Option arrays and ObjectListDataProvider objects for binding to JavaServer Faces components.
  • James Ward?s Blog – Blog Archive – Faster Flex Applications: Shrink Your RSLs – Here is what you need to do if you want to have size optimized RSLs
  • rebelutionary: Enterprise Wikis Replace Shared Drives – Confluence & WebDAV – A lot of people talk about wikis ‘replacing’ email – which I think is too broad a statement – but very few people focus on the impact wikis have on shared drives
  • Red Hat endorses KVM virtualization | CNET News.com – Red Hat, the dominant Linux seller, will include KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) in the next version of its Fedora Linux v7
  • Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design – Tantek’s Thoughts – Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures

  
  
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  • Amazon Web Services Blog: S3 Infinidisk for EC2
    The S3InfiDisk for EC2 takes the form of a mountable Linux file system, creating an infinite storage disk for EC2 instances. The file systems can be mounted on any running EC2 instance, with data cached in local RAM and on the instance’s hard disk
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  • Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
    Enterprise 2.0 platforms can provide highly general purpose, freeform, do-it-yourself (DIY) tools that have the potential to solve an entire group of related and overlapping problems in collaboration, knowledge management, SOA adoption, self-service IT, a
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  • Toshiba’s high-end Vista tablet | Crave : The gadget blog
    Portege R400 is a beautifully crafted convertible tablet laptop with built-in EV-DO, and a small LED readout on the front edge that shows the time, battery level, and wireless signal strength. It can also alert you to new e-mail messages while the lid is
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