• InfoQ: Security vs. Security Architecture – Marc Stiegler presents popular but faulty security architectures used – Independence Day Evil Alien Architecture, the Gilded Cage, and Gone Phishin' – along with effective architectures emerging today.
• InfoQ: Leaner Programmer Anarchy – Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results.
• Eclipse offers hosted access to Web dev tools effort | Application Development – InfoWorld – The Orion platform is intended to move development to the Web and features an editor and client-side architecture using HTML5
• Enterprise software getting more mobile | Application Development – InfoWorld – A new survey finds that 73 percent of developers plan to extend enterprise applications to mobile devices in the next year
• Twitter Engineering: Improving Browser Security with CSP – Over the past few weeks we've been testing a new security feature for our mobile site. It is called a Content Security Policy, or CSP. This policy is a standard developed by Mozilla that aims to thwart cross site scripting (XSS) attacks at their point of execution, the browser
• Dropbox Could Generate $100 Million In Revenue This Year – Dropbox, the startup that makes cloud backup and syncing incredibly easy, is cash-flow positive, on track to generate $100 million in revenue this year and could be worth $1-2 billion
• Twitter Engineering: The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011 – Under the hood, Twitter is a complex yet elegant distributed network of queues, daemons, caches, and databases. Today, the feed and care of Twitter requires more than 200 engineers to keep the site growing and running smoothly
• YouTube – O’Reilly Webcast: Introduction to Apache CouchDB – In this webcast, J. Chris Anderson gives a technical overview and describes some of CouchDB's existing users, with plenty of time for audience-driven questions and answers.
• Stomp on Web Sockets – Stomp is a simple text-orientated messaging protocol. It defines an interoperable wire format so that any of the available Stomp Clients can communicate with any Stomp Message Broker to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among languages, platforms and brokers.
• Getting Response through GWT using Http Protocol – In this article, we will see how to use GWT to send a HTTPRequest to the server and update the response on the client side using Ajax.

Daily del.icio.us for March 21st through March 24th

• 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

• Google exec worries over ‘rudderless’ Java – open source, licensing, Java, Google, apache – PC World – The Java platform has "appeared rudderless for the last few years," said Google's chief Java architect, Josh Bloch, speaking Wednesday at the Red Hat Middleware 2020 virtual conference. "A malaise [has fallen] over the community and the end is not in sight."
• Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video – While an open-source VP8 could end concerns about H.264’s licensing issues and Theora’s quality, questions still remain about whether Google can provide a video standard on which everyone can agree
• Surprise, Surprise: Opera Mini iPhone App Gets Apple’s Stamp Of Approval – Good news for Opera (and its legions of fans around the world): the company has just announced that its mobile browser Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
• PBS | About PBS | NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMS PBS THE MOST TRUSTED AND UNBIASED SOURCE FOR NEWS – The American people have named PBS the most trusted and unbiased institution among nationally known organizations, the most trusted source of news and public affairs1 among broadcast and cable sources,1 and  the most educational media brand for children ages 2-82 according to new national polls.
• Please do not change your password – The Boston Globe – “Most security advice simply offers a poor cost-benefit trade-off to users,” wrote its author, Cormac Herley, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research.
• Java 1.7 – What’s new? Release date, code examples and performance – I have been reading quite a lot about Java 1.7. I have decided to regroup all I have discovered in this article so that I and maybe you, won't have to spend hours surfing the web to find all this information
• The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Functional Java – Functional programming is definitely a different mindset.  It seems to solve a good number of problems that we attempt to address using tactics like the Strategy pattern in normal OO Java
• .NET Java Interop Solutions; Grasshopper – The Visual Studio 2008, 2005 Plugin – At Mainsoft, we believe the fastest route for Visual Studio® developers to deploy applications on open systems is to extend existing .NET development skills to the Java™ EE platform
• Ajaxian » So all this is done in HTML5 by the way – The Web is so special as it isn’t owned by a single vendor. This means that this kind of crap can’t happen. One company can’t change the rules in one fell swoop. There isn’t that one company that can become misaligned with the interests of certain developers and Do Bad Things.
• gxtforms – Library for automating GXT forms generation – GXT Forms provides utility code to autogenerate GWT/GXT forms based on annotated Java Beans. This library is intended to complement the GXT library, making form generation and data binding just a bit easier.

Daily del.icio.us for April 8th through April 13th

• Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer | Ubuntu – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer
• iSpectrum: Java for iPhone – FlexyCore is pleased to introduce iSpectrum to the Java community. Develop and debug your iPhone native application in Java under Eclipse IDE or port your existing applications or libraries to iPhone market. Enjoy!
• 5 Ways of effectively using Firebug to edit HTML, CSS – In this article, I’m sharing few of my tips and tricks to use Firebug effectively to speed up your web development.
• InfoQ: SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture – Booch attempts to bring more clarity to some basic concepts: enterprise, patterns, frameworks, architecture, SOA, development, architecture lifecycle, best practices, what they are and what the aren’t, emphasizing the role and importance of patterns.
• Op-Ed Contributor – Microsofts Creative Destruction – NYTimes.com – Internal competition is common at great companies. It can be wisely encouraged to force ideas to compete. The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence
• Twitter / Jonathan Schwartz: Today’s my last day at Sun … – Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku
• Make Your Web Site ‘Groovy’ – Forbes.com – For a company with a heavy investment in Java, Groovy should be a no-brainer. If you are starting out on an advanced Web site project, you should make a decision between PHP and Groovy
• Monitoring Tomcat with Java VisualVM – Matt Woodward’s posterous – One of the best kept secrets that's bundled with your Java 6 JDK is VisualVM. VisualVM is an absolutely fantastic, free monitoring tool for Java that you may not realize is right under your nose.
• Mockups To Go – A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups. – “Mockups To Go” (www.mockupstogo.net) is a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.
• Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast – HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

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

• 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

• Knowing Cache and Java Cache System « Caught By Java – Java Caching System (JCS) is a robust open source distributed caching system that is written in Java. It is a subproject of Apache Jakarta project.
• Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE (by Jeremy Zawodny) – It turns out that Chrome on Linux is DRAMATICALLY FASTER THAN FIREFOX!.
• SocialSafe: Get Your Facebook Data Out of Facebook – SocialSafe is an effective, fun new application enabling Facebook users to manage their Facebook data offline on their home computer.
• Google Voice Bookmarklet Generator – Want to use Google Voice on your iPhone more easily? This website will help you turn your contacts into bookmarklets that you can organize in folders within Safari. Then just tap on a bookmark to call!
• Jay-Z – Beasties tribute – covers "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" – Chunnel – Jay-Z replaced the Beastie Boys as a headliner of the ALL POINTS WEST FESTIVAL becuase of MCA's recent cancer diagnosis. Being the nice guy that Hov is, he opened his set paying tribute to the Beasties by basically performing a musical "get well soon" card to MCA in the form of a "No Sleep to Brooklyn" cover.
• Developer Evangelism – home of the Developer Evangelist Handbook – A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and translator between a company and both its technical staff and outside developers.
• JAX-WS, CXF and SAAJ on Oracle Weblogic 10.3 | Xebia Blog – JAX-WS webservices running on the CXF stack and the default Weblogic stack can now be deployed in the same Weblogic domain without getting in each others way.
• Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline – To be clear, Microsoft remains a very profitable company. However, they have never before reported year-over-year declines like this, nor fallen so short of projected earnings. Something is awry.
• Alter: Our Heath-Care System Is Just Fine As Is! | Newsweek Voices – Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com – Speaking of fair, it seems fair to me that cost-cutting bureaucrats at the insurance companies—not doctors—decide what's reimbursable. After all, the insurance companies know best.
• FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection – Dow Jones newswire reportsthat The Federal Communications Commission is looking into Apple’s rejection of Google Voice, and has sent letters to AT&T, Apple, and Google to find out what’s going on
• One Billion + You – We’re awed and amazed….to be celebrating one billion Firefox downloads. That’s one billion times in the last five years that you and the rest of the Mozilla community have made the choice to make the Web better.

Daily del.icio.us for August 1st through August 4th

• jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – A while back, we wrote an article describing a technique we came up with to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology.
• InfoQ: Merapi Project Utilizes Java to Expand the Desktop Capabilities of Adobe Air – Merapi is a technology that can be used as a messaging bridge between applications that run in the Adobe Flash player or Adobe AIR and applications written in Java
• InfoQ: Introduction to Data Services – Data services are software services that encapsulate operations on key data entities of relevance to the enterprise
• InfoQ: Born To Cycle – Agile development is not about doing a set of practices, it's about a way of "being," it's about learning. How is this learning accomplished? By taking brief pauses after small experiments, even large problems can be solved. In a recent Harvard Business Review interview of Toyota's president, he observed, "…when 70 years of very small improvements accumulate, they become a revolution."
• InfoQ: Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Success – David Starr has looked at how and why an organization might want to measure things like: agility, craftsmanship, and organizational success. He found craftsmanship relatively easy to measure, while agility was the most difficult to measure in a useful way.
• InfoQ: Introduction to Virtual Service Oriented Grids – Virtual service-oriented grids have the capacity to fundamentally change the way business is conducted in much the same way that the Internet did by reinserting a middleman in the form of software, rather than human. The key to this paradigm shift lies in services, the abstraction of interoperability and reuse.
• SOA and TOGAF: A Good Fit? – Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a style of architecture and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an architecture framework. The combination sounds promising, but do they play well together
• Cay Horstmann’s Blog: Upgrading to Eclipse Galileo – I just installed Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)—it seemed a more attractive thing to do than actually getting my work done. Fortunately, I only need three Eclipse plugins right now. Here is how they fared with Galileo
• Clojure: Challenge your Java assumptions – JavaWorld – Clojure is a dynamic functional language for the JVM, recently released in version 1.0. Clojure offers a new set of programming techniques for robust code and rapid development. In particular, it has new solutions for multicore computing. Whether you make the shift to Clojure or stick to Java, learning about this new language will challenge your assumptions about the best way to design software.
• Why Microsoft is Losing Browser Share | Zoho Blogs – Why is Microsoft losing share? I would submit that it ultimately had to do with their fateful decision to tightly weld together the browser and the operating system. That must be the most bone-headed business decision in Microsoft's history

Daily del.icio.us for July 6th

• MockFtpServer – Home – The MockFtpServer project provides a mock/dummy FTP server implementations that can be very useful for testing of FTP client code. Two FTP Server implementations are provided, each at a different level of abstraction.
• InfoQ: Is PHP Ready for the Enterprise? – Although PHP boasts of being the most widely used environment for web application development, it has been traditionally considered as not suitable for the enterprise. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel regarding the evolution of the language/platform and its suitability in enterprise environments.
• Enterprise Integration Patterns with Spring | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – Patterns to be discussed include Message Channel, Message Endpoint, Channel Adapter, Content-Based Router, and more. After this session, you will have a clear understanding of how the Spring Integration API promotes the separation of concerns that is essential for producing maintainable, testable code.
• Using the Google Collections Library for Java (1 of 2) | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – In this session, you’ll learn how the open-source Google Collections Library builds on the excellent foundation of java.util, to provide more of the building blocks you need to do your job. You’ll see many examples of how your code can become simpler, safer, more flexible, and more powerful by adopting classes like ReferenceMap, Multimap, our immutable collections and many others.
• Kevin O’Neill hired by USC as basketball coach – Los Angeles Times – O'Neill has been head coach at Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern. He led Marquette to the NCAA tournament twice, reaching the Sweet 16 in 1994.
• YouTube – John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner – Humorist John Hodgman was the entertainment headliner at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner. Mr. Hodgman roasted the president for being a "nerd", referencing his place in popular culture and passion for comics and science fiction
• 10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Firebug – Nettuts+ – Firebug is one of the most popular tools used by web developers. In this article, we'll take a closer look at ten of its most attractive features.
• Full Weblogic Load-Balancing in EC2 with Amazon ELB – The Server Labs Blog – This is the latest post in the series on deploying a Weblogic cluster in Amazon EC2. Previous posts have shown how to create and configure a weblogic cluster using either standard Amazon EC2 images or RightScale ServerTemplates and RightScripts.
• Jeliot – a Java Program Visualization System | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – Jeliot 3 is a Program Visualization application. It visualizes how a Java program is interpreted. Method calls, variables, operation are displayed on a screen as the animation goes on, allowing the student to follow step by step the execution of a program.
• Are Pesticides Causing Parkinson’s Disease? | Environment | AlterNet – Scientists are closing in on an inescapable conclusion: Pesticides may be a cause of Parkinson's disease.
• Apache Stonehenge - – Stonehenge is a set of example applications for Service Oriented Architecture that spans languages and platforms and demonstrates best practise and interoperability.
• Key Developments At JavaOne — Application Development Trends – We've seen the steady transition of leadership by Sun to open source, and that's just going to continue to accelerate

Daily del.icio.us for June 17th through June 22nd

• 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

• Missing At WWDC: Steve Jobs, AT&T (AAPL, T) – Apple (AAPL) unveiled new MacBooks, a new Mac OS, a new iPhone OS, and a new iPhone at its Worldwide Developers Conference today. But two things were missing: Jobs & AT&T
• AT&T: The iPhone’s anchor | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – Today, that exclusive deal is the anchor that’s keeping the Apple and the iPhone from showing its true potential at redefining the mobile phone, smartphone and even handheld computer spaces.
• The Best Online Tools for Personal Finance – WSJ.com – Consumers are paying closer attention to what they buy, how much they save, and where they invest. These resources can be a huge help. Even better, most of them are free.
• Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog: Lean and Kanban Software Development Digest – Lean and Kanban software development adoption is growing. More and more companies setup Kanban Boards, limit WIP and eliminate Muda.

  This collection of links will help you understand all that buzz around Lean/Kanban and decide whether it is worth trying.

• HOWTO: Connect to MySQL in SSIS | Idea Excursion – The MySQL team did just that with Connector/NET 6.0, their ADO.NET provider. This tool allows us to use the the ADO.NET connections in SQL Server Integration Services to easily connect to MySQL. This is a walk through on how to connect to MySQL with SSIS 2005 utilizing the Connector/NET 6.0 ADO.NET provider.
• 10 Essential SQL Tips for Developers – Nettuts+ – SQL is yet another essential language for developers wishing to create data-driven websites. However, many developers are unfamiliar with various aspects of SQL; so in this article, we'll analyze ten essential tips.
• InfoQ: Top 10 Changes in Flex 4 – This week, Adobe released their first official beta of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo. The release includes a number of major changes. This list gives a high level overview of the items that have changed in the latest version of the popular RIA framework.
• YouTube – Leo Laporte Blows up at Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang – June 6, 2009 – Leo Laporte calls out Mike Arrington of TechCrunch after Leo got mad at him for implying that his opinion of the Pre was effected by the fact he had a free review unit.
• Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Yesterday, June 4th, 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on student protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China
• Google Code Blog: Introducing Page Speed – Page Speed is a tool we've been using internally to improve the performance of our web pages — it's a Firefox Add-on integrated with Firebug. When you run Page Speed, you get immediate suggestions on how you can change your web pages to improve their speed.
• Spring 3.0 Jumps on Java – InternetNews.com – Version 3.0 of the open source Spring Java framework is nearing completion and is set to offer Java developers new capabilities to rapidly develop applications. SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson will detail the new capabilities of Spring 3.0 during the JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco.

Daily del.icio.us for June 4th through June 8th

• Easier testing with EasyMock – Join Elliotte Rusty Harold for a look at some hard unit tests made easy through mock objects — more specifically, the EasyMock framework. This open source library saves you time and helps make your mock-object code concise and legible.
• InfoQ: 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS – This article outlines the 13 reasons why Java programmers should learn Flex and BlazeDS. It talks about why Flex with BlazeDS is one of the best choices for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs)—from highly interactive websites to enterprise applications with Java back ends
• RubyMine Features :: Ruby on Rails IDE. Code editing, code completion, refactoring, ruby debugger. Best HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing support – JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities. Easy project configuration, integrated Ruby Gems manager, Rake support — it's got everything a Ruby developer needs in a development environment
• Google Launches Public Data Search & Charts During Wolfram Alpha Demo – Google promises to add public data for answers on prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires amongst others. Currently this data is coming from produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division, but Google does hope to bring in more public data sources.
• 10 Essential Firefox Plugins for the Infosec Professional | dmiessler.com – Shown below are the information security related plugins I recommend any infosec professional (or enthusiast) install upon spinning up a new Firefox instance.
• NPR: Power Hungry: Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid – The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic electricity consumption, has forced experts to critically examine the status and health of the nation's electrical systems.
• Op-Ed Columnist – To Tweet or Not to Tweet – NYTimes.com – I was here on a simple quest: curious to know if the inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention. (They’re not. They’re charming.) I sat down with Biz Stone, 35, and Evan Williams, 37, and asked them to justify themselves.
• The White House – Press Office – President Obama Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council – PCAST is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers who will advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the many areas where understanding of science, technology, and innovation is key to strengthening our economy and forming policy that works for the American people.
• Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy? – Companies are realizing that people are talking about them whether they like it or not. As a result, they’re deciding whether they should consider having a social media presence, and hence, a policy. A social media policy outlines for employees the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating in the online world.
• Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application for the iPhone – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application for the iPhone, according to Lexcycle’s blog.
• Raible Designs | Ajax Framework Analysis Results – Way back in January, I wrote about how my colleagues and I were evaluating Ajax frameworks to build a SOFEA-style architecture. To make our choice, we used the following process:

Daily del.icio.us for April 27th through April 28th

• Terracotta Bolsters Java In-Memory Caching Platform — Application Development Trends – Terracotta 3.0 improves throughput of Java-based applications three-fold while reducing database loads by 60 percent compared to the previous version. Terracotta 3.0 also offers new APIs for cloud and grid-based applications, and management and developer interfaces.
• PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – public TV stations are taking more risks, and on Wednesday they introduced a fancy new video portal at PBS.org/video. It replaces a hodgepodge of sites, with different features, run by the producers of each of the network’s programs and by its member stations.
• Bluetooth 3.0 + HS gets official, adds speed with 802.11 – The new standard obviously catapults Bluetooth into a new dimension; rather than being good for nothing more than sending images from one phone to another or syncing a fitness module to a DAP, v3.0 is nimble enough to handle camcorder-to-HDTV, PC-to-PMP and UMPC-to-printer transfers. In fact, the inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers "at the approximate rate of 24Mbps
• Oracle expected to slash thousands of Sun Microsystems jobs – San Jose Mercury News – Coleman believes Oracle could shrink, sell or shut down Sun's high-end server products and storage business. "The servers are being dramatically squeezed by the next generation of servers and blades," a type of server, Coleman said. "Sun's storage business is not a leader and it's being squeezed by commodity storage" competitors.
• The True Cost of Amazon’s New Kindle – BusinessWeek – A teardown analysis of the Kindle 2 by market research firm iSuppli estimates the cost to build the device at $185.49, or about 52% of its retail price of $359.
• AppleInsider | End users, developers seen flocking to iPhone apps on wide scale – A mobile analytics firm has published new findings which show the iPhone taking the majority of the app market — especially when it comes to the sheer number of users. Examining 8 million users and 100 apps, researchers at Flurry hint that Apple's handset has a conspicuous market share lead among developers, the number of apps and the actual range of customers for those apps.
• Ubuntu 9.04 boots in 17.5 seconds! – So how fast did Ubuntu 9.04 boot with a solid-state drive? Really freaking fast. Like, “I can’t believe it’s already done” fast. Well, here, watch for yourself:
• The Community for Skyway Users, Developers, and Contributors – Featured Download – Similar to Grails, Skyway Builder allows developers to quickly scaffold a CRUD application, but unlike Grails, the generated code isn't Groovy – it's pure Java and Spring.
• Evolutionary Goo » Blog Archive » Larry Ellison’s Cloud Computing Comments Revisited – The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements
• byteonic.com » Comprehensive analysis on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems – Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on the several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis is listed below under each of the market segments.

Daily del.icio.us for April 21st through April 22nd

• InfoQ: Language Parity: Closures and the JVM – In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM. Topics covered include the JVM libraries, the challenges of running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper/shim libraries, ways of making the JVM more language-friendly, whether lambda expressions are too hard, the history of closures, and forking the JVM to support closures.
• The Role of Architect vs. The Role of the Software Architect, A Reality Check from Beautiful Architecture – O’Reilly FYI Blog – We recently released Beautiful Architecture, a beautiful new book with a lovely image of a nautilus shell gracing the cover. The collection of essays from more than a dozen of today#039;s leading software designers and architects illuminates the necessary ingredients for robust, elegant, and flexible architecture. Here John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, and David Weiss, Avaya Laboratories, grapple with the multiple definitions of architect.
• File Folder Unlocker (freeware): Unlock in use files – File amp; Folder Unlocker is a powerful yet easy-to-use system utility that gives you complete control over the locked files and folders on your computer. Like our other free utilities, File amp; Folder Unlocker is free for both commercial and non-commercial use
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3: Screenshots: Insight – Software – ZDNet Australia – RHEL 5.3 includes support for Intel#039;s latest chip architecture, Core i7, codenamed Nehalem. It also includes the Open Java Development Kit, an open-source implementation of Java SE 6 supported by Sun Microsystems. This inclusion is intended to support Red Hat#039;s Java application server, JBoss.
• 10 Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores – PC World – Instead of a quot;Genius Barquot; (as Apple provides) Microsoft will offer an Excuse Bar. It will be staffed by Microsofties trained in the art of evading questions, directing you to complicated and obscure fixes, and explaining it#039;s a problem with the hardware — not a software bug
• Saturday Night Live – Pelosi/Reid Open – Video – NBC.com – SNL Quote of the Day: quot;Maybe if we spent more money on schools amp; condoms, there wouldn#039;t be so many stupid people running around ruining our economy.quot; (via Reddit.com)
• "Google Devalues Everything It Touches" – Wall Street Journal Chief – Google devalues everything it touches. Google is great for Google but it#039;s terrible for content providers
• Obama’s BlackBerry brings personal safety risks | Surveillance State – CNET News – When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama#039;s quot;victoryquot; in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the U.S. president#039;s e-mail communications private from spies and hackers
• Introducing Outlook Live for schools – and cool new features for everyone – With Exchange 14, you can access OWA or Outlook Live with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. I have to say, I#039;ve been dying to tell you about this, especially after all the comments on our last video! Openness has always been part of Exchange#039;s DNA, which you can see from how we license Exchange ActiveSync to partners and competitors alike, in the variety of mobile phones we support, from the iPhone to Nokia phones to Windows Mobile, in our support for web services, and now in the browsers we support.
• Is the Relational Database Doomed? – ReadWriteWeb – In this post, we#039;ll look at the current trend of moving away from relational databases in certain situations and what this means for the future of the relational database.

Daily del.icio.us for February 12th through February 13th

• Google: A little more like Microsoft every day | The Open Road – CNET News – I liked to think that third parties like Mozilla helped to ensure that Google would "not be evil." Time will tell if Google has the will power to keep itself honest.
• Adobe AIR powered cyn.in desktop fuses instant messengers and web based collaboration – AIR – The cyn.in desktop client is a beautiful new Adobe AIR application designed to improve collaboration between teams. The application, created by Cynapse, includes a variety of powerful features designed to make communication and collaboration easy between teams
• InfoQ: Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware – In this article Mak King describes advanced application of virtualization that goes far beyond server consolidation. Learn about the techniques and benefits behind putting your developers on virtual servers, all proving that virtualization is far from limited to commonplace consolidation. Additionally, and completely without a desire to be bandwagoners, the approach described in Mak's article is clearly "green computing."
• Google’s Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn – BusinessWeek – The mantra that's been flooding the Googleplex this year? 'Scarcity brings clarity,' explains Marissa Mayer, Google Vice-President
• How to choose a netbook | Small is beautiful | The Economist – The upshot is that netbooks are great as cheap, simple and small computers for performing basic tasks—especially if the pre-installed software does what you want it to.
• Code Snippets – Snipplr Social Snippet Repository – Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Did we mention it works with TextMate, too? It's code 2.0.
• Microsoft Web Platform – The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework.
• Reading between the lines of Red Hat’s Google Web Toolkit play | The Open Road – CNET News – In other words, Red Hat's work with GWT is a chance for Red Hat to cater to developers already-expressed desires for a Red Hat RIA story, but within the context of the enterprise
• joose-js – Google Code – Joose is a self-hosting meta object system for JavaScript with support for classes, inheritance, mixins, traits, method modifiers and more. Joose makes object-oriented programming with JavaScript easy, declarative and very productive. The Joose meta-object system is multi-paradigm.
• Key data center architect leaves Microsoft, headed for Amazon – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source – James Hamilton, one of the big brains behind Microsoft's data center strategy, has left the company, according to a note on his Microsoft home page. And we just confirmed that he's headed across town to Amazon.com, one of Microsoft's key rivals in the market for Web services and cloud computing.
• Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students – Since 1999, java.sun.com writers have interviewed Java developers from diverse backgrounds and solicited their advice for students. In this article, 11 top Java developers share the fruits of long experience
• JetBrains Delivers Meta Programming System Beta – JetBrains, maker of the popular IntelliJ IDEA Java tool set, announces the beta version of its Meta Programming System for application development. JetBrains' MPS encourages the use of DSLs and code generation. MPS also implements the Language-Oriented Programming paradigm for building enterprise applications

Daily del.icio.us for December 11th through December 16th

• Flex Charts with Google Charts and Eastwood Charts – The concept behind Google Chart API (and hence applies to Eastwood Chart Servlet as well) involves providing data for chart generation to the chart provider via HTTP URL parameters and getting an image (PNG) as a response.
• How to Integrate Spring 2.x with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) – This post explains how to manage your GWT server-side services with Spring and Spring MVC, and to inject Spring beans into them.
• Comet Daily » Blog Archive » Oracle, BEA, and Bayeux – Developers from BEA contributed efforts towards defining the Bayeux protocol, and it’s great to see them ship this update to WebLogic. They also have a tutorial available, Using the HTTP Publish-Subscribe Server, providing detailed information for WebLogic users.
• Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
• Database vendors add Google’s MapReduce – LinuxWorld – Greenplum and Aster Data Systems, two startups involved in large-scale data analysis, announced this week that their products will support MapReduce, a programming technique originally developed by Google for parallel processing of large data sets across commodity hardware
• Back To School: Expand Your Brain with Evernote – Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernote to remember everything for the rest of your life–or at least until the end of the semester.
• InfoQ: Oracle delivers first new release of the WebLogic App Server since BEA acquisition – Oracle has announced the release of WebLogic Server 10g R3 which is the first release of BEA’s Application Server since its acquisition by Oracle earlier this year. This version adds support for Java SE 6, Spring, Comet, improved Operations Control, FastSwap Deployment and more.
• Virtual worlds | If you build it… | Economist.com – Google’s launch of Lively, in July, seemed to have great potential. But in the weeks since it opened its virtual doors, Lively has remained surprisingly lifeless, hosting a dwindling number of users and prompting a string of negative reviews.
• Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center? | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – The traditional data center won’t disappear overnight, but it will almost certainly shrink on a regular basis from now on
• Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost – Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1
• BlackBerry – BlackBerry Developer Program | BlackBerry Java Development Environment Downloads – The BlackBerry Java Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE) is a fully integrated development environment and simulation tool for building Java Micro Edition (Java ME) applications for Java based BlackBerry smartphones
• Home | Spot.us – "Spot Us" is a nonprofit that allows an individual or group to take control of news by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists
• Amazon EBS – Elastic Block Store has launched – All Things Distributed – With the launch of the Elastic Block Store we complete an important milestone in offering a complete suite of storage solutions as part of the Amazon Infrastructure Services
• Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Bring Us Your Data – As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and available to all EC2 users. EBS gives you persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2
• Greg Luck’s WebLog: IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks! – IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week. IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated

Daily del.icio.us for August 20th through August 26th

• Ext JS – Ext 2.2 Released – We are pleased to announce the release of Ext 2.2, a fully backwards-compatible maintenance release of Ext. This is a recommended upgrade for all Ext 2.x users as it not only adds many new components and examples, but also provides a host of important bug
• InfoQ: FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application – FxStruts is a free open source library that provides the same functionality as bean:write except that the output is in AMF or XML format. Simply point it to any plain Java object and you get Flex friendly AMF or XML output with ActionErrors and transactio
• Best enterprise open-source applications announced | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News.com – Infoworld does an annual review of the best enterprise open-source applications, called the BOSSies, and just announced the 2008 winners. An Infoworld editorial team makes the selections, so this isn't a matter of open-source projects rallying the troops
• My experience of coding a GWT webapp (~900 classes, ~20 GWT modules) – Google Web Toolkit | Google Groups – We put our GWT-based job site (http://www.careercommons.com) in production on Monday. This is a summary of my experience coding the whole thing in GWT. Not sure how useful this is for other people, but here it goes:
• Adam Bien’s Weblog : Useful Explanation: “iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?”, Strange Conclusion – iBatis is the most powerful, but not that simple. It comes with highest amount of XML-configuration, which has to be maintained during the whole lifecycle
• Greg Luck’s WebLog: RESTful, resource-oriented caching now available in ehcache-server – I have just released ehcache-server-0.3, which includes a fully functional RESTful, resource-oriented implementation. The standalone-server has also been updated to 0.3.
• Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality – When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does.
• Alex Miller – Java 7 Prediction Update – I just realized due to a forum thread that it’s been about 7 months since I posted my Java 7 Predictions. So, it seems like a good time to update those predictions
• Neil Peart – Neil Peart’s Top 10-Plus Fills – One of the reasons Neil Peart is so popular with other drummers is his creativity and how he approaches his fills.
• Lightstreamer on Firefox 3 – In this video I will show the seamless behavior of the "engine migration mechanism". Then, I will increase the number of tabs concurrently displaying real-time data. I will stop at 10 tabs, due to the CPU consumption of the screen recording software.
• Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter or personal transporter, intended to help people move about in public areas. Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the navigation system of Segway
• Case Study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop (Part 1) | Architects Zone – We found the evidence by using tools, most importantly: JMeter for load testing, JAMon for performance monitoring and JARep for performance reporting. With JMeter we can simulate user behavior and put a realistic load on the system. The JMeter test should
• Raible Designs | [OSCON 2008] Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails – Below is the presentation I'm delivering at OSCON today. Unfortunately, I had to remove slides on GWT and Flex to fit w/in the 45 minute time limit.
• Linux News: Applications: With New Alfresco App, Enterprise Content Management Takes the OSS Road – Alfresco Software announced Thursday the availability of Alfresco Labs version 3, an open source alternative to Microsoft's enterprise content management
• SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FD | IR Web Report – UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today
• zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever. – Our mission with ØMQ ("ZeroMQ") is to build the fastest messaging ever. The way to get performance is to optimise the whole software and hardware stack together. So, we are developing ØMQ closely with major hardware firms
• iamdeepa on flex » Blog Archive » Where did the FlexBuilder Advanced Constraints UI go? – For Flex 3, the Advanced Constraints feature introduces the concept of ConstraintColumn and ConstraintRow objects that can be used to partition up absolute positioning containers. We broadened the constraint syntax to allow for controls to be constrained

Daily del.icio.us for July 27th through August 5th

• Windows Home Server update available | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | – Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server, which includes a fix for the rare but serious data corruption bug and also adds support for x64 Vista clients, is now available as a public beta. – FINALLY!!
• State of the Art – Grocery Shopping Made Easy – NYTimes.com – A new countertop appliance called the Ikan is a $400 device designed to eliminate trips to the grocery store. The hardware component is a bulbous bar code scanner, dressed up in Any-Décor White and mounted on a countertop stand, an undercabinet bracket o
• Red Hat Partners With Amazon.com On SaaS | MSPmentor – Red Hat has inked a SaaS partnership with Amazon.com to offer JBoss middleware as a hosted service. Red Hat disclosed that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is now available within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
• Windows Programming Using Java – Windows Programming Using Java is for programmers who want to extend Java's capabilities on Windows XP and/or Vista, but aren't sure where to start. One of the drawbacks of Java's portability is that many Java programmers have limited knowledge of Windows
• 10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock – Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.
• And the fastest browser is… | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News.com – Weak developers write code that limps on anything but Windows. Great developers write code that ports well to diverse platforms.
• Will business buy the new iPhone? – Jun. 19, 2008 – Apple is taking a new corporate-friendly tact with the iPhone as it tries to convince companies that it means business about meeting their needs.
• BEA Welcome and Oracle’s Middleware Strategy Briefing – Join Oracle executives for an informative briefing that will explore how the addition of BEA products to Oracle Fusion Middleware creates a best-in-class combination, advances a common vision, and reinforces Oracle's middleware strategy.
• Adobe AIR and Flex – SQLConnection – Adobe added the ability to use local databases when they created AIR. In this quick tutorial I am going to show how to create a database file and open a connection to it. The code is very simple so let's jump right into it.
• Creating Themes for BIRT – ThemesWiki – In this tutorial you will learn about how to create Styles and Themes that can be used to create a consistent appearance for your Reporting Projects. This becomes important later on when you have large Report Projects with a large number of reports, and y

Daily del.icio.us for June 18th through June 22nd

• Firefox 3 for developers – MDC – If you're a developer trying to get a handle on all the new features in Firefox 3, this is the perfect place to start. This article provides a list of the new articles covering features added to Firefox 3
• InfoQ: Is Google Gears Positioned to Add Features to the Web? – There is no doubt that Rich Internet Applications remain a major battleground for the industry along with and complementary to Ad-based revenue models and cloud-computing. Will Gears take a similar path as Flash and become as much adopted by Web sites and
• Use Flex Builder 3 to create a JavaScript AIR application – I have tried today to create an AIR application. My tool of choice was Flex Builder 3 as I knew you can create AIR applications using it.
• Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here – We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information.
• InfoQ: Erlang – software for a concurrent world – How do you program a multicore computer? Easy – do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multi
• Design Stencils – Yahoo! Design Pattern Library – Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics:
• DBSight: Instant Scalable Full-text database search platform/engine – Instead of weeks or even months to develop a full-text search for your data, if you know how to use DBSight, you can easily create the full-text search literally in minutes.
• Brain Freeze » Storing JasperReports in a database using iBATIS and Oracle 10g – This article shows how I solved the file system issue by storing JasperReports report definitions in a database. I’ll assume familiarity with the iBATIS “ORM” database framework since I am not showing a full iBATIS setup here.
• JetBrains’ Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala – Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for the upcoming IntelliJ 8 release, as well as his views on IntelliJ's support for Flex and Scala.
• » HOW TO: Use JDBC Batching for 7-8X throughput gains – Using the batched statement capability of your JDBC driver can give you 7-8X throughput gains. Not only is batching significantly faster, it’ll save database CPU cycles and be easier on the network, too
• Why Java? Because it’s everywhere. – The value of this enterprise capabilities is still very high, and in my opinion, it is one of the most important differentiators of Java. Once you know how to deal with it, it saves you lots of time in development and production.
• Roku’s Netflix Player sells out | Tech news blog – CNET News.com – There's more proof that the Netflix Player is a hit. Start-up Roku, the company behind the device that enables Netflix subscribers to watch movies streamed from the Internet to their TVs, has run out of inventory two weeks after launching.
• InfoQ: Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development – Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX

Daily del.icio.us for June 1st through June 4th