• Sencha offers HTML5 framework for mobile apps | Developer World – InfoWorld – Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript framework.
• GWTCanvas – Provides cross Browser Vector Graphics support in the spirit of the Javascript canvas element API. – Provides cross Browser Vector Graphics support in the spirit of the Javascript canvas element API.
• Supporting multi-touch events with GWT on mobile Safari | Just enough code to be dangerous – The goal is to be able to handle the touchstart, touchmove, touchend and touchcancel events provided by mobile Safari by writing standard GWT code
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Google Voice for iPhone – Official Google Mobile Blog – Today we’re taking the Google Voice experience on the iPhone to a whole new level with the launch of the official Google Voice for iPhone app.
• ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine – ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways.
• InfoQ: Burton Says SOA Is Rising From Ashes – Nearly two years after proclaiming that SOA was dead, the Burton group has changed their mind and now writes that SOA is set for a comeback.
• Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) – Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
• Apache declares war on Oracle over Java – Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon [1] other members of the JCP (Java Community Process) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use
• Google improves App Engine SDK | Developer World – InfoWorld – Google on Thursday began offering an offering an upgrade to its Google App Engine SDK with features for improved performance, monitoring, and maintenance.

Daily del.icio.us for November 9th through November 22nd

• Mockito – Pros, Cons, and Best Practices | Javalobby – You don't hear about EasyMock much any more, and Mockito seems to have replaced it in mindshare. And for good reason: it is better.
• HOWTO: Setting Up a New Ubuntu GNU/Linux Box for Java/CFML Development – Matt Woodward’s posterous – HOWTO: Setting Up a New Ubuntu GNU/Linux Box for Java/CFML Development
• Raible Designs | RE: Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over – Java EE 6 might be a better foundation to build upon, but it's certainly not going to replace frameworks
• Google’s guava java: the easy parts | Coppery Keen Claws – Google’s guava is one of the best, most useful all-purpose java libraries to come out in a long time. It’s surprising that it isn’t standard in most projects now
• What does IBM joining OpenJDK mean for Java? – Apache Asserts – This week IBM announced it would be supporting Oracle's OpenJDK. At first glance it seems like "Great!" Isn't it good that two big supporters of Java are getting behind a single open source project? Well, in my personal opinion, no. It is bad. Bad for Java. I'll try to explain why
• Spring Roo 1.1.0.RC1 Released | SpringSource.org – We're pleased to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.0.RC1. Spring Roo is a lightweight developer tool that makes it fast and easy to deliver instant results for Java developers. This new release almost 300 enhancements
• MyEclipse for Spring | Spring Development with MyEclipse | Spring Scaffolding | Spring Tutorial |||| – Google Web Toolkit (GWT) scaffolding generates ready-to-run GWT applications from existing artifacts such as database schemas, Java Beans and JPA entities. Within a matter of minutes, automatically create an application that contains a GWT front-end integrated with a Spring (Spring/JPA/Hibernate) back-end
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT 2.1 RC1 is now available – Building on the three previous milestones, we're happy to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of GWT 2.1. Along with the new components and features, we've solidified the Activities/Places, RequestFactory, Editor framework, and Cell-based widget APIs
• The PTO addresses Bilski and software patents | opensource.com – The Bilski majority  emphasized that abstract ideas are not patentable, and recognized that allowing patents for abstract ideas could hinder innovation.  Thus there's still room for discussion of the legal standard for when, if ever, there should be patents on software. 
• Project Voldemort – A distributed database – Voldemort is not a relational database – It is basically just a big, distributed, persistent, fault-tolerant hash table

Daily del.icio.us for October 11th through October 17th

• InfoQ: A Discussion with Josh Bloch on the Future of Java – I think it's fair to say that Java's had a hard couple of years. But I do not think the platform or the language are in decline. I think there is some danger of a decline, but I'm counting on Oracle and the Java community to prevent it.
• jQuery and or ExtJS » yet another coldfusion blog – Then there is ExtJS. UI maven, FLEX-ala-JS wonder, builder of UI components you could cut glass on. You could build an empire upon their grid component, templating via containers and XTemplate is a wonder, and its baked in extensibility and data "store" model is a dream.
• Video: Appholes | The Daily Show | Comedy Central – Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one, but now Apple is busting down doors in Palo Alto while Bill Gates rids the world of mosquitoes.
• If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life – If you write HTML for a living, and you don't know Zen Coding yet, you are missing out big time.
• Thoughts on Flash – I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.
• VMforce Provides Spring Cloud Platform | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware and Salesforce today announced a partnership to build an enterprise Java cloud called VMforce.
• SOA, 5 Years In – SOA provided us with a mechanism to build singly-focused, reusable services in a generic, adaptive fashion. As we move into the world of cloud – which is to network operations what SOA was to distributed computing – I think these lessons will be even more important.
• More about HTML5 and Chrome « Udayan Banerjee’s Blog – From The Other Side – I am glad that I had switched over to Chrome. Otherwise it would have taken me lot more effort to go through the site created by Marcin Wichary and modified by Ernest Delgado.<br />
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  If you want to get a feel of what is possible with HTML5 this is a good place to look at.
• Pojomatic – Pojomatic – Pojomatic provides configurable implementations of the equals(Object), hashCode() and toString() methods inherited from java.lang.Object
• ABOUT MTF | Meet The Facts : Meet The Press Needs Fact Checking – Who holds politicians accountable for the statements they make on television? According to host David Gregory: not Meet The Press. Fact checking is one of the primary functions of journalism, but Mr. Gregory has said that it's up to the viewers to determine fact from fiction.

Daily del.icio.us for April 25th through May 2nd

• Images of NASA’s Future – The New York Times Science Slide Show Slide 1 of 12 – The next-generation system of space vehicles at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been called quot;Apollo on steroidsquot; because of its resemblance to vehicles from the early days of the United States space program.
• Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization | The Open Road – CNET News – In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems#039; market capitalization for the first time.
• 75 New Adobe AIR JavaScript Code Samples Available – Adobe AIR Team Blog – Adobe platform evangelist Kevin Hoyt announced on his blog that he has made available the source code for 75 Adobe AIR code samples built using JavaScript. This is a fantastic way to get up to speed on AIR#039;s API#039;s
• Google As Economic Barometer – Forbes.com – The Internet giant#039;s earnings report on Thursday gives a reading on the economy. Investors searching Google#039;s fourth-quarter earnings may see clues about the state of the Internet ad business, the economy and the future of the company itself.
• whitehouse.gov Website Code – You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET.
• ActiveRecord JavaScript Library Announced AIR Support – Adobe AIR Team Blog – For developers creating Ajax applications using Adobe AIR, this means they can persist JavaScript objects and data using pure JavaScript syntax. All the underlying SQL commands are simplified into higher level APIs that are more natural feeling for JavaScript developers
• Technology – President Obama and Vice President Biden understand the immense transformative power of technology and innovation and how they can improve the lives of Americans
• Why I often prefer Prototype too on Dion Almaer’s Blog – For me, Prototype is the right balance for many of my projects. I still enjoy playing and using others when the project calls for them, and I am ignoring the huge number of other great frameworks (YUI, GWT, MooTools, Ext, SproutCore, Cappucino, man I could go on forever here).
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Offers Customers New Features and Capabilities – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supports larger x86-64 systems. The number of supported physical CPUs is increased to 126, while maximum memory is increased to 1TB. Virtual server CPU and memory limits have been increased to 32 and 80GB respectively – far higher than competing virtualization products.
• InfoQ: Article: Getting Started With Spring Integration – In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.
• Hillary Clinton Mouthing Along To Presidential Oath | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Network news cameras covering Barack Obama#039;s inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office

Daily del.icio.us for January 20th through January 21st

• 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 octal number. In certain languages, like Perl, trying to use a non-octal number as an octal number results in an error. In other languages, like Jav
• Screencast #1 – Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ | Elastic Grid Blog – Here is a screencast demonstration the use of the Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• a little madness » Ext Discovers Step 2 of the Slashdot Business Model? – The saddest part about this is that the Ext team really have built a fantastic library, and a vibrant community around it. The library had all the hallmarks of an open source success story. Now, however, Ext have committed the cardinal sin of an open sour
• Application Development Trends – SpringSource Enterprise Edition Now Live – The new SpringSource Enterprise Edition product is specifically designed to support large organizations, providing enterprise-class tools and features. The product aims to meet enterprise requirements by being "certified, warranted and indemnified,".
• Sun looks to free up the rest of Java | The Industry Standard – By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated ve
• Windows Server 2008 Now ‘PHP Ready’ – Microsoft and Zend have worked together on Zend Core, Zend's tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now certified for Windows Server 2008.
• InfoQ: Comparing JEE Servers – When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, and came up with surprising results
• Ext JS – Blog – Ext JS is pleased to announce the latest release of the Ext JS toolkit and the introduction of a new product, Ext GWT 1.0 (beta 1). The Ext JS version has been updated to 2.1 and includes new components, performance improvements, bug fixes and more.
• Ajaxian » Ext JS 2.1 Released – Ext JS 2.1 has been released. In this point release the featured changes are: Full REST support, Added Ext.StatusBar Component and Samples, Ext.Slider Component and Samples, Example to demonstrate Remote Loading of Component Configs, Grid Filtering Sample

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