• Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy – Blog – Stack Overflow – That's why I’m pleased to announce that as of today, we have switched all of our search functionality network wide from SQL Server to Lucene, or more specifically, the Lucene.NET flavor.
• My Experiments on Technology: 10 things to become an outstanding Java developer – If you are a java developer and passionate about technology, you can follow the below things which makes you an outstanding Java developer.
• Java Code Geeks: Best Of The Week – 2011 – W05 – I would like to introduce a new JavaCodeGeeks idea with this post. Every Sunday we are going to provide a list of useful articles and tutorials from the week that passed. They can definitely serve your Sunday morning reading over coffee!
• jsoup Java HTML Parser, with best of DOM, CSS, and jquery – jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming – This book is the first book on programming as the core subject of a liberal arts education. Its main focus is the design process that leads from problem statements to well-organized solutions; it deemphasizes the study of programming language details, algorithmic minutiae, and specific application domains
• CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Three of CouchDB’s creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data.
• Java Image Processing Cookbook – This is a free e-book about digital image processing algorithms and functions with implementations in Java. Some examples use the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API
• On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness | Both Sides of the Table – It’s my belief that through exceptional leadership you attract great teams that do more than the sum of the parts
• Why Netflix Picked Amazon SimpleDB, Hadoop/HBase, and Cassandra « myNoSQL – The reason why we use multiple NoSQL solutions is because each one is best suited for a specific set of use cases
• Blogs for Development: How to add a SOAP header using jax-ws – In this article I will add a security header to the soap request. So I will create a class implementing the interface SOAPHandler and I will override the method handleMessage
• siena project · the scalable persistence tier for Java – Siena is a persitence API for Java inspired on the Google App Engine Python Datastore API

Daily del.icio.us for January 26th through January 30th

• vmcNetFlix – Official Site – vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga
• The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac – The post is titled LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java, so to complete the picture I responded to the community with a message about how LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac.
• Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 | EcoGeek – In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.
• Jericho HTML Parser – Jericho HTML Parser is a powerful java library allowing analysis and manipulation of parts of an HTML document, including server-side tags, while reproducing verbatim any unrecognised or invalid HTML. It also provides high-level HTML form manipulation fun
• Software Sensation Inc. – jWebApp Web Application Framework, Install&Update, MemSL – Memory Structures Library – jPersist is an extremely powerful object-relational persistence API that is based on the Active-Record and Data-Mapper patterns. jPersist wraps JDBC functionality and can work with any relational database, and any type of connection resource
• Java Entrepreneur: We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer – Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite fra
• InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team – Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:
• How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days – Bill Gates – working for Microsoft – Bill Gates was amazingly technical, and he knew more about the details of his company's software than most of the people who worked on those details day in and day out.
• Unit testing with JUnit and EasyMock - Michael Minella – I hope this gives you a more in depth view into JUnit and EasyMock. Unit testing is something that once you get used to it, makes you code better, provides you with a safety net for future refactoring and protects you from being burned by API changes
• Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit | Javalobby – TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very rob

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

• Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com – One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm
• InfoQ: Integrate Flex with Spring Framework – A key to project success is creating an architecture that new developers can rapidly integrate themselves into and begin to be productive on day 1. Flex with Spring, iBATIS, & Cairngorm help me to quickly produce a patterned- based, repeatable architectur
• New Adventures in Software » Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement – “Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire.” – (Attributed to an unidentified Microsoft employee).
• SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions – I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Neal Ford Advises on Boosting Developer’s Productivity – Neal tells you how you can become more accustomed with the shortcuts, get used to using them in the daily routine, and demonstrates the magic of different key combinations while coding with IntelliJ IDEA.
• Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture – Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system
• Enterprise Java Community: Extending Spring LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper – This article explains how to extend Spring-LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper to access LDAP data through intuitive JavaBean operations.
• About – XML Hammer – The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
• Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings – LinuxWorld – Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both vendors added improvements on the desktop and the server. There were many areas of overlap, especially with virtualization.
• JasperReports: 3.0.0 released – JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.

Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th

• Ext JS Ext.ux.YoutubePlayer – The Ext.ux. YoutubePlayer is a user extension that utilizes the Youtube Chromeless API. You can embed any Youtube video into Ext native controls and place it in your application. It's like a mediaplayer built on top of Ext JS and the Youtube API.
• InfoQ: Real World Web Services – In this presentation, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the p
• Microsoft and Sourcesense Partner to Contribute to Open Source, Apache POI to Support Ecma Office Open XML File Formats: Companies to collaborate on the development of open source solutions for the Microsoft Office product suite. – Microsoft and Sourcesense announced that the two companies will collaborate on the strategy, development and deployment of open source solutions for the MS Office. One of the initial goals is contributing to the development of a new version of Apache POI
• Watch Out – Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire – ReadWriteWeb – Adobe seems to "get it" – they know that software is moving online, but they're betting on the co-existence of both online software with their corresponding offline apps, like those built with Adobe AIR
• Brian Alvey: The Audacity of Code – Code in the face of difficulty. Code in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of code!
• GigaOM Interview: Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp. – GigaOM – Fresh from his Mix’08 keynote, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect and industry luminary, Ray Ozzie, spent some time on the phone with me, discussing everything from the company’s services strategy, to the economics of cloud computing, to the relev
• Cobra: Java HTML Parser – The all-Java Cobra HTML Toolkit includes a HTML DOM parser that can be used independently of the rendering engine. The following are some of its features: * It implements W3C HTML DOM Level 2 interfaces. It parses "street HTML", can be used in headless mo
• Coding Horror: Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? – I think sometimes programmers forget how much work it is to create software at large companies. What may seem like a no-brainer five line code change to us on the outside is perhaps five man-weeks of work once you factor in all the required process overhe
• Dabblers and Blowhards – As for the mystical connection between painters and programmers, the famous Lloyd Bentsen put-down keeps coming to mind…. You, sir, are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are goi
• Google’s five-year plan to hit Enterprise continues (Cemaphore helps Google out) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger – Enterprises will never move wholesale over to Gmail and Google’s other offerings. Users just don’t like that kind of change. There would be revolt at work, if CTOs tried to force it.

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

• Ajaxian » Firebug 1.1 and getfirebug.com – John J Barton has been working hard on Firebug 1.1, but the work has been in the dark a little unless you are paying attention.
• Showdown – Java HTML Parsing Comparison | Lumidant – However, the clear winner was HtmlCleaner. It was the only library to successfully clean 10/10 documents. None of the others were able to even make it past the first link I provided,
• Graeme Rocher’s Blog: Grails 1.0 is out the door! – We've put the finishing touches on Grails 1.0 and its out. Time to celebrate with some sleep.. enjoy!
• ted husted’s blog : Apache Struts Tops OpenLogic’s Open Source Leaders List with a 71% Share – Hibernate and Struts topped the list with more than 71 % of customers using each. JasperReports is the only newcomer to the list this year …
• Grails : Free PDF of Getting Started with Grails & Series for PHP Developers [cld.blog-city.com] – If you missed Michael Kimsal blog on how PHP developers can move to Grails then check out the following. Along the same lines, the book, Getting Started With Grails, is now available freely in PDF form. You can find out more information here.
• Application Development Trends – Lessons From a Yahoo Scrummaster – Yahoo has grown from its initial dotcom roots. Yahoo has more than 200 teams using agile development processes to create software for the highly volatile general-public Web application market.
• Adobe – Flex Flex Data Services – Flex Flex Data Services allows you to use spring components as remote object destinations and data management services assemblers using Flex Data Services.

Daily del.icio.us for February 3rd through February 6th

• Introduction to Groovy, Part 3 – In this third installment ofIntroduction to Groovy (part 1, part 2) we will continue looking at some features of the Groovy language. Some you may find them on other languages, but some are exclusive to Groovy.
• PDFBox – Java PDF Library – PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.
• TagSoup home page – This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML
• Teflon Ted: Book Review: Dreaming in Code – I’m probably not the first (or the last) person to say Dreaming in Code is the Soul of a New Machine for my generation
• Thinking In Java: In today’s world, what is the role of the Application Server? – Given the likes of Spring and Hibernate, how do people consume the Application Server? Is it all you can eat with JEE still delivering on the promise of writing business logic and letting the App server deal with the infrastructure?
• People Over Process » Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer – While at the Eclipse Runtime Summit, I had the chance to talk with Iona’s Eric Newcomer (CTO of Iona, Co-Chair, Enterprise Expert Group, OSGi Alliance, and well respected coding guy) about the emergence of OSGi as a server-side, or enterprise technology
• Grails – Home – Grails aims to bring the “coding by convention” paradigm to Groovy. It’s an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development.
• How do you parse HTML in Java? – The Open Source HTML Parsers in Java page is useful in listing the HTML parsers that are out there. But it doesn’t give much of a clue about which are the “best” in a given situation. In other words, how should one decide which HTML parser to use?

Daily del.icio.us for January 17th

• Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids – More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?not on intelligence or ability?is key to success in school and in life
• An Open Letter to the OpenDS Community and to Sun Microsystems – cn=Directory Manager – If Sun is unable to ensure that their middle management is on the same page as the senior management setting the open source strategy and the engineers making it happen, then it won?t take too many more incidents to start to question Sun?s true intent
• Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids – More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?not on intelligence or ability?is key to success in school and in life
• An Open Letter to the OpenDS Community and to Sun Microsystems – cn=Directory Manager – If Sun is unable to ensure that their middle management is on the same page as the senior management setting the open source strategy and the engineers making it happen, then it won?t take too many more incidents to start to question Sun?s true intent
• Manage RSS feeds with the Rome API – Java World – In this article John Ferguson Smart shows you how to use the Rome API to read and process RSS feeds in any format. You’ll also learn how to set up an RSS feed to deliver build reports in a continuous integration environment, using Continuum as your CI ser
• Velocity or FreeMarker? – Java World – In this article, Jeroen van Bergen explains where template engines fit into your application architecture and shows you some of the operations common to all template engines. Finally, he compares the two leading Java template engines, Velocity and FreeMar
• John Resig – The World of ECMAScript – The World of ECMAScript is a full map detailing everything that exists within the world of ECMAScript (with JavaScript, ActionScript, and JScript being its most-famous implementations)
• .NET Community News Forum – Microsoft Releases .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 – Microsoft released today the latest version of its .NET runtime, including many enhancements to the C# language, as well as a major update to its developer tools suite.
• Enterprise Java Community: Design to Unit Test – The key to writing good unit tests starts with a good design. Design should facilitate unit testing. A design thought out on solid design principles like creating clean interfaces, composing objects correctly, using dependencies properly help writing test
• Rails Yet To Make Dent in the Enterprise – The eardrum-rupturing buzz around Ruby on Rails among Web developers is understandable. So why is this free, open, easy-to-use, passionately advocated Web-app framework having such a hard time gaining serious traction in the enterprise?
• HTML V5 and XHTML V2 – While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different.

Daily del.icio.us for Nov 27, 2007 through Dec 01, 2007

• XML.com: XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1 – Javolution and Woodstox are the winners of the StAX parsers. Woodstox has the advantage of being JSR 173 conforming StAX parser, which makes it usable for more applications.
• Google AJAX Search API Blog: Introducing the AJAX Feed API FeedControl – This morning we added a new class to the Google AJAX Feed API designed to allow you to more easily add a collection of feeds to your pages. The FeedControl is pretty simple:
• Java FX – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Java FX is a new extension to Java that gives developers a consistent experience for building rich web/desktop apps all the way down to to handheld device applications with Interactivity, animation and ease of use that rivals Ajax, Flash and Silverlight
• JavaOne 2007, Day One: Making Web Apps Easy – Today, JavaOne 2007 showcased a complete open source technology stack that lets you develop and deploy web applications quickly and easily, including JRuby, Rails, NetBeans, and Glassfish.
• Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java | CNET News.com – "Javafx should be the sweet spot for Java. It’s kind of tragic that Sun screwed up so badly with the applet performance and browser incompatibility in the late 1990s," said Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton Group. "JavaFX Script has an oppor
• Sun’s JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight | InfoWorld | News | 2007-05-07 | By Paul Krill – JavaFX Script is a scripting language focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd. It is a means of creating visually impactful, high-performance, dramatic Web and network-facing artifacts or experiences that run all the way from the deskt

Daily del.icio.us for May 09, 2007 through May 11, 2007

These are my links for Feb 19, 2007:

• Census Mashups Using StrikeIron Web Services and Yahoo Maps in Flex 2 – Census Dashboard Mashup is a mashup using StrikeIron’s Zip Code Information Web Service, StrikeIron’s Population Demographics By ZIP Code Web Service and Yahoo Maps to give detailed information for a specific US zip code. I find it to actually be a really
• Sun Updates Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 is a package which allows parsing HTML pages into a Java Document object. Wonder how it stacks up against HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/)
• dmiessler.com | study | lsof – lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that’s just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application
• chalain: So Beautiful, So Disturbing – She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night.
• Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things – Engadget – When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably got a a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives
• Raible Designs | Slick looking Confluence sites – Wicket and Cayenne have nice looking websites backed by Confluence. Wicket has a Writing documentation page that explains how it works.
• Upselling your architecture – The Pragmatic Architect – As an architect, you’ll probably need to present to different audiences at different levels. When you do, it’s worth thinking about whether you need to upsell your architecture or not.
• MyEclipse Delivers Tools to IntelliJ IDEA Users – Developers using IDEA are now able to utilize the MyEclipse Visual HTML Designer, XML Editor, Database Explorer and Image Editor SNAPs directly in their own environment.
• IntelliJ IDEA: Inspections by Sections … – Static code analysis doesn’t just improve your code quality, it can also teach you some cool ideas and best practices about programming
• Java Power Tools: Home – "Java Power Tools" is about software tools and techniques that can contribute to improving the SDLC which includes build tools such as Maven and Ant, CI tools, code quality tools, testing tools, collaborative tools, source version control, and more!
• Rod Johnson » Sun’s GlassFish Embracing Spring – I think part of what’s making Sun more relevant in the enterprise Java space is that they are now more plugged into what’s happening in the wider world, and are willing to take the input on board and act on it

Daily del.icio.us for Feb 19, 2007

These are my links for Feb 17, 2007 through Feb 19, 2007:

• Census Mashups Using StrikeIron Web Services and Yahoo Maps in Flex 2 – Census Dashboard Mashup is a mashup using StrikeIron’s Zip Code Information Web Service, StrikeIron’s Population Demographics By ZIP Code Web Service and Yahoo Maps to give detailed information for a specific US zip code. I find it to actually be a really
• Sun Updates Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 is a package which allows parsing HTML pages into a Java Document object. Wonder how it stacks up against HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/)
• dmiessler.com | study | lsof – lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that’s just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application
• chalain: So Beautiful, So Disturbing – She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night.
• Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things – Engadget – When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably got a a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives
• Raible Designs | Slick looking Confluence sites – Wicket and Cayenne have nice looking websites backed by Confluence. Wicket has a Writing documentation page that explains how it works.
• Upselling your architecture – The Pragmatic Architect – As an architect, you’ll probably need to present to different audiences at different levels. When you do, it’s worth thinking about whether you need to upsell your architecture or not.
• MyEclipse Delivers Tools to IntelliJ IDEA Users – Developers using IDEA are now able to utilize the MyEclipse Visual HTML Designer, XML Editor, Database Explorer and Image Editor SNAPs directly in their own environment.
• IntelliJ IDEA: Inspections by Sections … – Static code analysis doesn’t just improve your code quality, it can also teach you some cool ideas and best practices about programming
• Java Power Tools: Home – "Java Power Tools" is about software tools and techniques that can contribute to improving the SDLC which includes build tools such as Maven and Ant, CI tools, code quality tools, testing tools, collaborative tools, source version control, and more!
• Rod Johnson » Sun’s GlassFish Embracing Spring – I think part of what’s making Sun more relevant in the enterprise Java space is that they are now more plugged into what’s happening in the wider world, and are willing to take the input on board and act on it
• Is Bruce Eckel Right? Maybe not. at Simon?s Blog – Bruce Eckel has written an interesting piece about Java and user interfaces. I?d recommend that you read it, as it?s pretty thought-provoking.
• The Fishbowl: Job Satisfaction – We spend a lot of time at work. If we?re not doing something that we?re passionate about, that gives us some kind of fulfillment, we?re wasting a big part of our lives.
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » A day at NPR – I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my day at NPR. Smart people, but then that?s obvious.
• Coding Horror: The cost of leaving your PC on – So leaving my server on is costing me $200 / year, or $16.68 per month. My home theater PC is a bit more frugal at 65 watts. Using the same formulas, that costs me $81 / year or $6.75 per month.
• The Future Won?t Be Statically Typed « Skunk Works – I’m more and more convinced that statically typed languages will come to an end, replaced by duck typing based languages

Daily del.icio.us for Feb 17, 2007 through Feb 19, 2007