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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th
- Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.
- If we hired like we vote - If we hired like we vote
- Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online - But in that venture the Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably de
- InfoQ: Mocking Web Services - A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock web services for development and testing. Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB). Apache Synapse can be used to filter, transform, ro
- Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Death by Scheduling - The moral of the story is that if perception is reality, then the best way to manage perception is to make up stuff that you can honestly remember.
- InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture - As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more co
- Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet - GigaOM - So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet
- John Ferguson Smart's Blog: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better! - FingBugs uses more sophisticated analysis techniques than tools like PMD and Checkstyle, working at the bytecode level rather than with the source code, and is more focused on finding the most high priority and potentially dangerous issues.
- Pictures from JavaOne 2008 - Arun Gupta's Weblog - Take 11 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008. Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008.
- Google Web Security for Enterprise - Google Web Security for Enterprise service, powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. All web requests are scanned in real-time, rather than solely relying on stat
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Daily del.icio.us for April 4th through April 6th
- Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Migration - This migration script will take all live files in a VSS project and migrate them to Subversion. Additionally, for those live files, all file history will be preserved. Without this, it wouldn't be a migration, merely an import.
- VisualSVN Server - All-in-one installer for Subversion and Apache - VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.
- Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows - When it comes to readily available, free source control, I don't think you can do better than Subversion at the moment. Allow me to illustrate how straightforward it is to get a small Subversion server and client going on Windows. It'll take all of 30 min
- JRuby 1.1 is out! - The Empty Way - The long awaited JRuby 1.1 is finally out. Working on it was fun, much more fun than I expected — so much to do, so many interesting things, so little time! It is a perfect mixture of Java and Ruby
- Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top - The New York Times - Compensation and accumulated wealth of 200 chief executives for large public companies that filed proxies for last year by March 28.
- Build a quad-core, 8-gig server for $900 - Or maybe that's just what I tell myself when I only have $1,000 bucks to spend. Either way, multi-core CPUs made powerful computers far more affordable. You can build a fine quad-core, 8-gig server within that budget
- My Essential Twitter Tools - If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.
Here are the tools that I’m using to improve my Twitter experience
- Windows Vista source code - Windows Vista source code
- Forbes.com - Dial D for Disruption - With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya.
- dangertree techblog » Blog Archive » Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #1 - In my last post, Dan Lewis responded with some counter-code from Google’s collections package. Instead of attempting to snap back with some witty technical retort, I challenged Dan to a code-off. Groovy collections vs. Google collections (in Java)
- Adam Bien's Weblog : Huge discussion about JavaDoc …and no one cares about Fat Clients - I really wondered about the discussion about JavaDoc - but actually no one complained about this statement "Therefore, a fat client with a local embedded database, such as Java DB, is the simplest possible solution — everything else is a workaround.".
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Migrating to EJB 3 with IntelliJ IDEA is Easy - IntelliJ IDEA has the full-blown support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). Supporting EJB specs from 1.x to 3.0 and leveraging it through all of its productivity-boosting features, from coding assistance to refactoring, IntelliJ IDEA stands for the weapon
- Gartner: Open source will quietly take over - ZDNet.co.uk - "By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms," predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a "stealth" impact for the technology in embedded form:
- Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly - Ext JS Forums - I'm happy to announce the first release of my (first) Ext JS extension - Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly which allows you to easily build printer friendly layouts and grids for your Ext JS pages.
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Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through April 3rd
- Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Immediately Eject a Specific USB Drive :: the How-To Geek - Using the built-in Windows dialog is more powerful and probably would suffice for most people, but for those of us that want complete control there's a small freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector.
- Thermal Reaction: Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song - Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song
- Ext JS Blog - » Implementation Spotlight: Jama Contour - Contour is a fully web-based requirements management application, sports a complete Ext-based user interface from top to bottom. It’s easily one of the most sophisticated and visually polished Ext applications we’ve seen yet
- Ajax on the network side - Java World - Making the most of Ajax doesn't end with beautiful code: you also need a solid network infrastructure that won't choke when client calls surge. This article introduces Ajax basics, offers tips for optimizing, monitoring, and securing Ajax applications
- SpringSource Team Blog » What's New in Spring Web Services 1.5? - Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released and itincludes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code changes - some configuration, and you're off! The JMS integrates with Spring's Message-Driven POJO model
- 451 CAOS Theory » Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow - One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there ha
- Spring to get upgraded with REST | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-27 | By Paul Krill - The planned 3.0 version of Spring will have significant enhancements with respect to Web technologies and it will have comprehensive support for RESTful Web services. Also planned for Spring 3.0 is unification in the programming model between Spring Web F
- Janice J. Heiss's Blog: The Story of Ruby, JRuby, and Rails at Sun - Sun is making Ruby and Rails faster and enhancing functionality through JRuby which allows Ruby to enter enterprises where Ruby and/or Rails have never entered as Ruby developers gain access to the Java APIs and the Java community.
- Techno Paper: CRUD application using Ext and Java - I have the CRUD application built on Ext and Java. I have used Java as my server side and Oracle XE to store my data. You can use any server side technology and persistence technology
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Daily del.icio.us for March 22nd through March 25th
- SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place - Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful an
- Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 - There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though IE7 has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31% of all browsers out there (versus only 22 % for IE7 and 36.5 % for Firefox).
- Amazon's cloud computing service fuels startup's launch | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-25 | By Jon Brodkin, Network World - A startup called Elastra is launching Tuesday with software that helps customers build database management systems and other applications that can be deployed on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
- Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments to Grow 11 Percent in 2008, Market Could Fall Victim to Weaker Global Economy - Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 293 million units in 2008, up 10.9 percent from 2007 shipments of 264 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. However, analysts warned that growth could fall into single digits if global economic headwinds st
- Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense | Open Source | ZDNet.com - Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server.
- The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off - New York Times - For rickrolling, the duck was replaced with the 20-year-old Astley video, and in the last year it has become a hugely successful “meme,” the Internet’s word for an idea repeated across the Web. The video from yougotrickrolled.com has been viewed mor
- Roundtable: The state of open source | InfoWorld | News | March 24, 2008 | By Jason Snyder - Any endeavor rooted in community is bound to spark passionate debate. After all, without contention, how else to determine the best way forward? Since its emergence, open source has embodied this spirit. Part defiant, part self-reliant, and often outspoke
- ETL for Free-Form Data - SQL Server Central - Would you like to learn a handy little process for extracting, transforming and loading data fields from a free-form source like a web page or word processing document into something structured like a staging table?
- Asynchronous HTTP and Comet architectures - Java World - In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view of asynchronous HTTP, explaining its role in developing high-performance HTTP proxies and non-blocking HTTP clients, as well as the long-lived HTTP connections associated with Comet.
- Ext.ux.grid.RowActions - RowActions Plugin for Ext 2.x - Beta1 by Saki - RowActions plugin allows you to add icons in a grid that you want to bind actions to: delete row, edit row, whatever. It displays an icon and fires two events: beforeaction (return false to cancel) and action (here you put the action you want to execute)
- Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism - Loved this comment - I hadn't realized how unhappy I was until I watched Office Space and my wife said, "That seems like your job". I soon switched jobs
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Daily del.icio.us for February 22nd through February 25th
- flexlib - Google Code - The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.
- dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » WindowShade component added to FlexLib - A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels i
- Ajaxian » Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched - Continuing their march into the RIA space, Adobe announced today the official release of AIR v1.0 and Flex 3.0. Adobe has taken the beta off of the wrapper as their have released both AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0.
- Mobile Desktop at Improv Everywhere - For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops
- Ext JS Blog - » Simple Tasks v2 - Multiple lists, NativeWindows and Reminders - In collaboration with Adobe, one of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR a
- Thanks Zed; Syntax matters; no more dumping stuff in Java; Quit pimple pimping Ruby; Scala warning - Can we just get some decent support for Groovy? No instead Sun invests in Ruby via JRuby. DOH! Groovy looks a lot like Java. It is much easier to get started with it. The syntax does not make developers want to hurl. Why is Sun investing so much money in
- The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur - Forbes.com - Vembu is a rare species in India these days. As far as I know, he's one of the very few entrepreneurs who has been able to execute on the premise of building software "products" and/or software-as-a-service out of India.
- John Resig - How JavaScript Timers Work - JavaScript engines only have a single thread, forcing asynchronous events to queue waiting for execution. setTimeout and setInterval are fundamentally different in how they execute asynchronous code.
- jsunit-ext - ExtJS based test runner for JSUnit based javascript unit tests - jsunit-ext is a custom test runner built using ExtJS javascript library in order to provide a better user interface and certain features missing in default runner of jsunit while not requiring any change in tests which have already been written.
- Codedependent - Java Swing guy joins Adobe - I've recently joined Adobe Systems to work on the Flex SDK. Much of the material I write will be about Flex, Flash, AIR, ActionScript, and related technologies, although I also intend to have non-technology-specific pieces as interesting graphics software
- Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org - This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6. The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to…
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Daily del.icio.us for February 17th through February 22nd
- java.sun.com interview: A Conversation With Cay Horstmann - Cay Horstmann, a computer science prof at San Jose State, Java Champion, and author of some respected books on JSF and Java in the enterprise makes some provocative points in an interview on java.sun.com,
- InfoQ: GWT-Ext 2.0 Released: An Interview with Sanjiv Jivan - InfoQ.com had a chance to chat with Sanjiv Jivan, the creator and primary developer behind GWT-Ext, to get his perspective on the 2.0 release:
- YUI 2.5.0 Released — Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - The YUI Team just released version 2.5.0 of the library. We’ve added six new components — Layout Manager, Uploader (multi-file upload engine combining Flash and JavaScript), Resize Utility, ImageCropper, Cookie Utility and a ProfilerViewer Control
- USAspending.gov - Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the government is really doing with your money.
- API for Static Maps - For those who don't need all the complexity of Google Maps API or can't use JavaScript in a specific context (for example, in a mobile website), there's a new Static Maps API. Similar to the recently-launched API for charts, this API lets you generate map
- Analyze This: Hoaxer Haunts Earnings Calls - WSJ.com - Mr. Herrick is giving analysts another reason to look forward to a big conference many of them plan to attend in Boca Raton, Fla. next week. Says Mr. Faucher: "One of the big questions is, will Joe Herrick from Gutterman Research show up?"
- New Version of SalesBuilder using LiveCycle Data Services : Christophe Coenraets - I have often felt that we needed a more real-life/complex sample application to adequately demonstrate LiveCycle Data Services, and specifically the Data Management Service. So, I wrote a new version of Salesbuilder that uses LCDS to persist data at the s
- Flex cookbook beta - Building an HTML, CSS, AJAX capable AIR Browser (Standalone Application) - The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) uses the Webkit HTML engine. As such, most of the complexity of using HTML in your applications is hidden. This simple demo loads up a webpage that has CSS and AJAX to demonstrate the capabilities.
- Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity: Is Groovy like Java? - Groovy has some extremely powerful features and libraries that can really make your life on the JVM blissful. Groovy's integration with Java is top notch, which means that you can always fall back to Java when you need Java specific features
- AIR Inspector and Aptana Update | Kevin Hoyt - The AIR Introspector is designed to let you debug your application. By adding a single SCRIPT tag to your application, and hitting F12 on your keyboard, you’ll be presented with a new window that loaded with information about your application
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Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th
- uface - Google Code - UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse.
- cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 - This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!
- Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information - Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.
- GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 - GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box
- Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials - Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries.
- Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT - The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code
- Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - John Gruber does it again
- Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the
- mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes
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Google vs. MicrosoftYahoo
Nothing sums up my opinion about the Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo better than this cartoon from MSNBC. The cartoon was created by Daryl Cagle for msnbc.com and used for the story entitled Why Google will remain the king of search. Guess nobody at Microsoft read the Peanut Butter manifesto.
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Daily del.icio.us for January 14th
- Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies.
- Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog
- Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone
- bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one
- datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
- Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on
- HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st
- A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues.
- Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and
- Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
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Daily del.icio.us for January 13th through January 14th
- Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies.
- Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog
- Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone
- bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one
- datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
- Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on
- HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st
- A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues.
- Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and
- Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.
- Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
- HtmlUnit vs HttpUnit « A Public Scratchpad - If you?re using HttpUnit for legacy reasons, it?s a fairly solid package, but don?t expect to get much support. If you?re starting a new project and are trying to decide between these two frameworks, HtmlUnit wins hands down. It has the features,
