Daily del.icio.us for July 20th through July 25th

July 25, 2008

Microsoft pledges love and money to open source | The Register – Microsoft is becoming a platinum member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), paying $100,000 annual membership. The move follows work between the two to support the Office Open XML file formats in Apache's POI project. Why India Will Beat China – An entrenched [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd

May 2, 2008

Use XQuery from a Java environment – XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Pragmatic Caching [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 26th through April 27th

April 27, 2008

What Programming Languages Should You Know? – David Chisnall suggests that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to selec MetaWidget: the ‘sweet [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 25th

April 25, 2008

Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire – "The Clintons know that she can?t win this. But they?'re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win." Thank you, Javascript – The Daily WTF – Javascript supports octal numbers. Any number starting with a zero is octal, even if it can't be an actual [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd

April 22, 2008

InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications – In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Flex is an open source application development framework for building rich Internet applications that run in the web with Flash Play InfoQ: IntelliJ [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 6th through April 12th

April 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for December 31st through January 1st

January 1, 2008

Daily del.icio.us for December 31st through January 1st: ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto – Stay tuned for more about Ruby conferences and why they suck, and why the Pickaxe book is what killed Ruby InformIT: Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005 > XQuery Advantages – Jesse Smith gives you a crash [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 23, 2007

December 23, 2007

BitNami :: BitNami Stacks – BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP or Ruby. All you need to do is download Sriram Krishnan: Amazon SimpleDB – Technical Overview [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 06, 2007 through Dec 08, 2007

December 8, 2007

The 53 Places to Go in 2008 – New York Times – What?s on your travel itinerary in the new year? From a new luxury hotel in Laos (where you can take in the view of ancient temples from a chaise lounge by the infinity pool) to the waterfront night clubs of Hvar Riding Rails: [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 01, 2007 through Dec 03, 2007

December 3, 2007

Setting up a GWT project in IntelliJ IDEA 7 – IntelliJ IDEA 7 has built in support (in the form of a bundled plugin) for GWT projects. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating a GWT project in IDEA 7. Marc’s Musings: Spreadsheet Component – I’m working on a spreadsheet like component [...]

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