Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd

March 2, 2010

GAEJ Experiments eBook « Google App Engine Java Experiments – I am pleased to announce to everyone that version 1.0 of the GAEJ Experiments eBook is now ready and published Microsoft: Don’t press F1 key in Windows XP – Ignore sites that nag to press the Help key, says zero-day bug advisory Technology Review: Putting [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for November 24th through December 2nd

December 2, 2009

Times Skimmer by The New York Times – The New York Times announced today the release of Times Skimmer, a new application for NYTimes.com that provides online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, making it easy to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the Web site. [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 2nd through October 13th

October 13, 2009

Debate Over H1N1 Vaccine? There Shouldn’t Be One – The pandemic flu vaccine is safe, effective, cheap (or free), and necessary. Unless you're allergic to eggs, when it becomes available in your area, make sure you get it, and make especially sure your kids do. Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA updated. Better JIRA filtering and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for August 4th through August 13th

August 13, 2009

Aaron Johnson – Java Class.forName(String className) and JDBC – The most common answer you’ll hear is that it loads the database driver, which, while technically true, is shallow. Where does it get loaded? How does it happen? And why? http://jazzy.sourceforge.net/ – What exactly is Jazzy? Well, for developers, it is a set of APIs (Application [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 7th through July 14th

July 14, 2009

InfoQ: FlexMonkey 1.0 Released – FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool for Flex and AIR applications. FlexMonkey provides for the capture, replay, and verification of Flex user interface functionality. FlexMonkey generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that can be run from the FlexMonkey application or included within a continuous integration environment. First Steps to Scala – [...]

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

June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 2nd through May 7th

May 7, 2009

Agile Architecture : Software & Technology @kirkk.com – Agile practices play a critical role in agile architecture. Test-driven development lends you the courage to undergo architectural evolution. Continuous integration accommodates architectural shifts by ensuring issues encountered while refactoring are identified and corrected quickly. Supplementing your up-front design approach with an emergent strategy emphasizing spikes or [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 7th through April 12th

April 12, 2009

How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links – Publishing 2.0 – There is so much misunderstanding flying around about the economics of content on the web and the role of Google in the web’s content economy that it’s making my head hurt. So let’s see if we can straighten things out. Performance [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 14th through March 19th

March 19, 2009

Writing good unit tests, Part 1: Follow your GUTs – JavaWorld – Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it's clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are as important as high-quality production code, [...]

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