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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 take [...]

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

June 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 14th through May 21st

May 21, 2009

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 – 64 Bit – This AMI comes with Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 Update 2 and Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 software pre-installed and configured for the 64 Bit platform.
Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband – Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, explains in [...]

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My New Birthday Present

May 17, 2009

My brother is awesome and not only because he buys me the best geeky birthday present. For my birthday this year, he bought me a new DELL XPS desktop with the latest Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 is a quad-core processor with hyper-threading that appear as 8 separate processors to the [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 9th through May 14th

May 14, 2009

State of the Art – With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – NYTimes.com – When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.
Google Open Source Blog: Introducing WebDriver – WebDriver takes a different approach to solve the same problem [...]

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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 3rd through April 7th

April 7, 2009

Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes – Forbes.com – In the interest of exploring Sun's value to history students, if not its shareholders, we asked analysts and industry watchers where Sun went wrong.
Protovis – A graphical toolkit for visualization – Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 24th through March 27th

March 27, 2009

JPivot – Home – JPivot is a JSP custom tag library that renders an OLAP table and let users perform typical OLAP navigations like slice and dice, drill down and roll up. It uses Mondrian as its OLAP Server. JPivot also supports XMLA datasource access.
olap4j: Open Java API for OLAP – olap4j is designed to [...]

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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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Daily del.icio.us for March 11th through March 14th

March 14, 2009

State of the Art – Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows – NYTimes.com – If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing’s for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones.
Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email « I’m Not Actually a Geek – This use case is what [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 11th

March 11, 2009

Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? – Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functionality as a [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 23rd through February 25th

February 25, 2009

The Rise and Fall of Dynamic Languages | Ruby Zone – In this interview, Ruby programmer and consultant Rick DeNatale provides his perspective on the fall and rise of dynamic languages, including Smalltalk and Ruby. Rick#039;s work through the years has given him a unique and low-level perspective of what works and why.
DRY CRUD DAOs [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 19th through February 22nd

February 22, 2009

Vodori’s Blog » Using TinyMCE with other JavaScript toolkits – TinyMCE is not only the best WYSIWYG editor there is, but also one of the best designed overall frameworks. However, it’s got one terrible flaw — if you try to integrate it with any other JS library you will eventually find yourself drowning in [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 13th through February 17th

February 17, 2009

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat – good coders code, great reuse – Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful. Some of its features include port scanning, [...]

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

February 13, 2009

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, [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 8th through February 9th

February 9, 2009

These are my links for February 8th from 15:29 to 19:17

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Daily del.icio.us for February 4th through February 7th

February 7, 2009

These are my links for February 4th through February 7th:

Fonera 2.0 Smart Router Connect Devices | Business 2.0 Press – The La Fonera 2.0 is a new smart wireless internet router that will let you connect a plethora of devices to access the internet from the router easily, anything from a printer, to hard drives, laptops, mp3 players, to other USB devices
The importance of Composition | Code of Doom – In this article, I really want to discuss the importance of composition. I feel as programmers, many of us find inheritance easier and we often use it without thinking about the repercussions it may bring to us.
Mitchell’s Blog » Blog Archive » The European Commission and Microsoft – Last month the European Commission stated its preliminary conclusion that “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
From Java to Java EE: Seven Principles of Lean Software Development – Lean Software Development has its roots in Toyota Production System and it helps software organizations optimize their processes and production methods in order to deliver their products to the market much faster and with better quality
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash – Lean Software Development presents a set of thinking tools based on
lean thinking that leaders continue to find useful for understanding agile software development.
InfoQ: VMware Open Sources the View Client – VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing the client for non-x86 devices using operating systems other than Windows XP or Linux.
Better Null Handling Strategies for Java | Code Monkeyism – Uploaded a presentation on “Better Null Handling Strategies for Java” to SlideShare
Outside the Box() » Springing Around with ExtJS – To finally scratch that itch, and move further along the Spring amp; ExtJS path, I turned my demo project into a basic template. The zip archive that you can grab at the bottom is a fully-configured Spring web application, including Tiles, Spring Security, Spring MVC, custom JSON view, Transactions and a Datasource.
Announcing This Year’s IDEAL Plugins! | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – We’re glad to announce the winners of the 3rd JetBrains IDEAL Plugin Contest!
First of all we want to thank everyone who participated for their efforts and, of course, the plugins they have submitted. It was really exciting to examine every last submission. JetBrains staff, and especially the Contest Jury, had many pleasant and memorable moments reviewing and judging them all.
Announcing the Article Search API – Open Blog – NYTimes.com – The Article Search API is a way to find, discover, explore, have fun and build new things. We’ve accumulated quite a few blocks/articles over the last 28 years — all of them tagged and labeled with loving care. So if you’ve ever wanted to do any of these things:

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Daily del.icio.us for January 22nd through January 27th

January 27, 2009

These are my links for January 22nd through January 27th:

Open source Java projects: Terracotta – JavaWorld – In this Open source Java projects installment, Steven Haines introduces Terracotta, an enterprise Java clustering solution. Find out why Terracotta, unlike traditional clustering solutions, doesn#039;t make you sacrifice an iota of reliability in the name of performance
It's Time for GE to Lose its Triple-A – Finance Blog – Felix Salmon – Market Movers – Portfolio.com – In any case, no company with half a trillion dollars of liabilities can sensibly have a triple-A rating in this market: GE is simply too leveraged to justify such a thing. Which is maybe why, at $12.55 a share, the stock is at its lowest level since 1996.
GoEverywhere: Symantec's SAAS Workspace in the Cloud – Symantec launches its GoEverywhere SAAS online workspace into beta. The cloud computing platform, intended as an alternative to software from Microsoft and several startups, lets users aggregate and access Web applications from one Webtop screen. Symantec applies its data storage and security magic to provide a repository that allows single sign-on access.
naked capitalism: Guest Post "Lessons From India" – Let#039;s take a lesson from India: Immediately fire CEOs and boards of failed companies
Google Gears—A Great Tool to Enhance Web Applications – InsideRIA – Gears is a big step forward in developing rich Internet applications. Many people are comparing Gears with HTML5. However, Gears is not a successor to HTML5; it’s more of a predecessor
Obama’s Black-Ops BlackBerry – Digits – WSJ.com – It appears that President Barack Obama gets to keep his BlackBerry after all, but some experts are questioning whether the Research In Motion device will provide enough security for the president.
Web Design Resources I Use – The following list contains the content, tools and resources I use to create websites. Content is updated regularly… and I have a large backlog of more free resources to add
Capital investement for developers – keep yourself marketable! | JavaWorld's Daily Brew – Software developers need to invest in their own productivity as well, in their own way. A developer skilled in an out-of-date technology, but ignorant of modern evolutions, may find his or her marketability limited in the future. On the other hand, a developer with up-to-date, well-honed skills will have a much brighter future, and be more likely to cope with hard times
Office of Science Technology Policy – The Office of Science and Technology Policy advises the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. The office serves as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major policies, plans and programs of the Federal Government.
Intel Slashes Processor Prices Up to 48% – Tom's Hardware – Intel has cut prices for some of its chips by a substantial amount. With reductions of up 48 percent, the company Sunday cut prices of its Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium dual-core, Celeron and Xeon chips.
The White House – Blog Post – President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address – Yesterday, President Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, calling for a quot;new era of responsibility.quot; Watch the video here:

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Daily del.icio.us for January 13th through January 15th

January 15, 2009

Relevance Blog : Why I still prefer Prototype to jQuery – jQuery is a very nice piece of work, and makes some common tasks easier than their Prototype equivalents. Where it’s good, it’s very good indeed. But its design is uneven, and its scope is limited. For me, at least, Prototype is still the tool [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 4th through January 9th

January 9, 2009

The storage solution Sun should have built | unixville – The HP MediaSmart Server EX485 is a diminutive low-power device that provides backup and storage service for all your home computers. It runs Windows Home Server, uses commodity hardware and supports Mac & iTunes, all while providing space for 4 internal drives
ThinkUI SQL Client – [...]

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