• Vaadin Directory Opens its Doors – Blog – vaadin.com – Vaadin Directory is now open. Your are welcome to browse, download and try number add-ons that can make you Vaadin-based applications even better!
• gwt-mobile-webkit – GWT library to leverage HTML5 and Mobile WebKit features (specifically iPhone/iPod Touch) – This library contains GWT API's addressing the new HTML5 features which are supported by Mobile WebKit
• GWT is Flexible — an iPhone Demo | Clay Lenhart’s Blog – For me, the difference between GWT and Javascript is whether you want to work with a static language like Java, or a dynamic language like Javascript.  I assert, with little proof, that static languages are better
• gwt-cal – an open-source calendar widget similar to iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar, etc – gwt-cal is a web-based calendar component similar to iCal, Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar. It can be included in any Google Web Toolkit (GWT) web-application, and can be easily themed to resemble your favorite calendar tool.
• Google’s Chrome Leaves Another Hackathon Unscathed « The Firewall – Forbes.com – This year, researchers cracked Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, and Safari in minutes, winning $10,000 each, bragging rights and the hardware those applications were running on. But more notable is the one survivor of the competition's browser category: Google's Chrome.
• Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM): A guide to building security into software development – The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) is an open framework to help organizations formulate and implement a strategy for software security that is tailored to the specific risks facing the organization
• piriti – JSON and XML Mapper for GWT – Piriti (Maori for "bridge") is a JSON and XML mapper for GWT based on annotations and deferred binding. The following code snippets show the basic idea behind Piriti.
• Java-Clojure Interop: Calling Clojure From Java | Javalobby – Clojure is quickly becoming one of the more popular JVM languages because of its high performance and excellent handling of concurrency.  Rich Hickey's talk entitled "An Introduction For Java Programmers" is a great resource for Java programmers who are interested in learning Clojure.
• AppModuleUiBinder – gwt-mosaic – Using Application module & Actions with UiBinder. – Project Hosting on Google Code – The UiBinder framework allows you to build your applications as HTML pages with GWT widgets sprinkled throughout them (see Declarative Layout with UiBinder).<br />
  <br />
  This tutorial will show how to bind UiBinder declared elements with GWT Mosaic Actions using the Application module.
• How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App – I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.

Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through March 30th

• Usability, RIA, and GWT – 6 Questions to Ask your Users | Summa Blog – In conclusion, while definitely not an exhaustive list, I hope these questions at least sparked some thought as to what types of things you’ll want to ask your users and business owners prior to jumping into your GWT code
• Load Testing Relational Databases With JMeter – Apache JMeter is a performance testing tool which is entirely written in Java. Any application that works on request/response model can be load tested with JMeter. A relational database is not an exception: receives sql queries, executes them and returns the results of the execution.
• InfoQ: First Steps for Apache Pivot, Java-based RIA Framework – Pivot is defined as a modern RIA toolkit, based on Java2D and employs the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern. Pivot applications can be written using a combination of Java, JavaScript and XML (WTKX).
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks – Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you’ll go beyond the syntax—and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you’ll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book.
• Microsoft, Google eye Twitter-like services for work | Beyond Binary – CNET News – Microsoft, for example, is testing OfficeTalk, a microblogging service that's a sort of Twitter for businesses, while Google has been using an inside-the-company version of its Google Buzz feature to allow co-workers to share information with one another.
• For the Love of Vaadin: RIAs Done Right « Design By Gravity – Vaadin uses GWT as a presentation layer for the UI components in the web browser, but all your programming is in Java on the server side. You build up UI’s with layout managers, just like in Swing.
• Spotlight on Java Persistence 2.0, with Linda DeMichiel | Java.net – Linda begins with an historical presentation of the evolution of Java persistence, starting with its origins within EJB 3.0, the emergence of JPA 1.0, and now Java Persistence 2.0 (JSR 317).
• Java IDEs: the Blue Heeler, the Dachshund and the Labradoodle ~ C for Coding – Java, in my opinion, has the best IDEs of any language or platform bar none. Say what you want about the language but the IDEs are, on the whole, first rate. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps along the road however.
• Guice (pronounced ‘juice’) is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java – Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other contexts
• Flex 4 is Here! Go forth and build better software! – Flex 4 and its counterpart, Flash Builder 4, are now publicly available! We’ve also launched a new flex.org and added a ton of new Flex 4 samples in Tour de Flex!

Daily del.icio.us for March 22nd through March 26th

• Dynamic Charts with HTML5, Canvas, and Flotr for Prototype – HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool on http://finance.google.com/. The tool itself is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries.
• SpringSource tc Server 2.0 Adds VMware Virtualization to Commercial Tomcat — Developer.com – The new Spring edition of tc Server 2.0 also provides expanded integration with virtualization technologies from VMware (NYSE: VMW), enabling developers to deploy apps to both real and virtual environments
• Building a GAE+GWT application using the best practices, Part 1 « Reminiscential: of or pertaining to remembrance – In the next few blog posts, I’m going to present my experience building a simple (but non-trivial) web application using GWT and Google App Engine, while applying the best practices introduced by Ray Ryan in his excellent presentation at Google IO last year.
• Beanlib – Java Bean Library – Beanlib is a utility library for use with JavaBean. Beanlib for Hibernate in particular makes it easy for developers to reuse the same pojo classes for both persistence and data transfer objects
• gwt-html-editor – GWT WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor – This is a simple but sufficient for most cases WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor Widget fully (99% + JSNI) implemented with GW
• Ext.ux.Printer – A generic printing class that assists with the printing of any Ext.Component – Ext.ux.Printer is a small library that provides a generic way of printing Ext Components (Grids, Trees, etc).<br />
  It consists of the main Printer class, and a number of Renderers, which each provide support for a given type of <br />
  component.
• Announcing Ext JS 3.2 beta – Multisort, Transitions and Composite Fields — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing applications.
• Happiness is a Warm Cloud – Jay Pipes – Rackspace is also heavily invested in Cassandra, and sees integration of Drizzle and Cassandra as being a key way to add value to its platforms and therefore for its customers
• Spring – Dependency checking with @Required Annotation | Spring – The @Required Annotation is more flexible than dependency checking in XML file, because it can apply to a particular property only
• Ehcache 2.0 Gets More ‘Enterprisey’ Features | Javalobby – Ehcache 2.0 now supports fully-coherent distributed caching as a Hibernate Second-Level Cache, as well as directly through the Ehcache API, using one common JVM vendor-agnostic .jar file

Daily del.icio.us for March 9th through March 13th

• Dynamic, typesafe queries in JPA 2.0 – A query for persistent Java™ objects is typesafe if a compiler can verify it for syntactic correctness. Version 2.0 of the Java Persistence API (JPA) introduces the Criteria API, which brings the power of typesafe queries to Java applications for the first time and provides a mechanism for constructing queries dynamically at run tim
• Build better Web applications with Google Sitebricks – Sitebricks is a lightweight framework that provides versatile tools for rapidly creating Web applications. It extends the Guice philosophy to the Web. Best of all, Sitebricks is still a young framework. You'll want to keep an eye on upcoming features and on the ecosystem developing around Sitebricks
• Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services – NetBeans IDE 6.5/6.7/6.8 Tutorial – This tutorial demonstrates the basics of using the NetBeans IDE to develop a JAX-WS web service. After you create the web service, you write three different web service clients that use the web service over a network.
• Gears API Blog: Hello HTML5 – If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5
• Spring Framework 3.0.1 released | SpringSource Team Blog – After two months of incorporating valuable feedback, it is my pleasure to announce the first Spring 3.0 maintenance release – addressing more than 170 reported issues
• RIM Unveils WebKit Internet Browser to Compete With IPhone – BusinessWeek – The WebKit browser will be available on BlackBerrys this year, Lazaridis said in an interview yesterday, declining to be more specific.
• Grafico: JavaScript Charting Library | W3Avenue – Grafico is a JavaScript charting library powered by Raphaël and Prototype. It is really flexible to implement; produces good, clean looking graphs; and is cross browser library that has been tested on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 6+.
• Book of Vaadin – vaadin.com – Book of Vaadin is a comprehensive documentation of Vaadin. It shows how to get started, gives a good overview of the features and tutors you through advanced aspects of the framework.
• Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven – Vaadin is an incredible powerful framework that solves many of the front-end difficulties developers have to deal with.
• Writing a URL Shortner in Java Struts2 & Hibernate.Create URL Shortner Struts2/Hibernate | ViralPatel.net – This is an attempt to create a simple URL shortner service in pure JEE with Struts2 and Hibernate

Daily del.icio.us for February 18th through February 21st

• Google releases new Google Voice for iPhone | Reuters – Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc's gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone.
• Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS – Today we are launching a new Google Voice mobile web app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices, harnessing the power of HTML5, a new web technology that makes it possible to run faster, richer web-based applications right in the browser.
• Ajax Simplifications in Spring 3.0 | SpringSource Team Blog – Spring 3 provides first-class Ajax support with JSON as part of the Spring MVC module. This includes support for generating JSON responses and binding JSON requests using the Spring MVC @Controller programming model in conjunction with the Jackson JSON processor
• IDC: Android to overtake iPhone, BlackBerry by 2013 | Electronista – Android will rise to be the second most used mobile OS in the world by 2013, according to a new IDC estimate
• Learn from my misery: Don’t buy a nook. – Massively Parallel Procrastination – Somewhat coincidentally, Amazon announced the Official Kindle SDK this week. If you want a hackable linux-based ebook reader with a great user experience and great customer support, buy a Kindle. (Yes, I make money if you click that link. Actually, if just four people buy Kindles because of this post, I end up with the $100 Barnes & Noble stiffed me.)
• Don’t Underestimate India’s Consumers – BusinessWeek – India's bottom-up private sector model, for all its chaos and bureaucracy, provides a stark contrast. While the nation badly needs infrastructure, its consumers are in a far better position to spend. India can now boast of an overwhelmingly independent middle class about 300 million strong, vs. China's 100 million to 200 million
• The Quants: Formula for a Meltdown – WSJ.com – In his new book, "The Quants," Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson suggests how this new breed of mathematicians and computer scientists took over much of the financial system—and the damage they inflicted in the 2007 meltdown
• Google Voice (by Google) – Google Chrome extension gallery – Notifies you of new messages and gives you quick access to calling and free SMS via Google Voice
• InfoQ: Doug Lea Discusses the Fork/Join Framework – Doug Lea talks to InfoQ about the evolution of the Fork/Join Framework, the new features planned for java.util.concurrent in Java 7, and the "Extra 166" package
• WordPress Foundation | – The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
• VMware Communities: VMware vCloud API – The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. The vCloud API allows for upload and download of vApps along with their instantiation, deployment and operation.
• Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.6 to Millions of Users :: The Mozilla Blog – Firefox 3.6 is more than 20 percent faster than Firefox 3.5 and includes extensive under the hood work to improve performance for everyday Web tasks such as email, uploading photos, social networking, and more. It also delivers new features like customizable browser themes called Personas, a ground-breaking Plugin updater, improved JavaScript performance, and enhancements to familiar favorites like the Awesome Bar for a better, more personal Web experience.
• Cloud and open source meet to test Web apps | Software, Interrupted – CNET News – With more applications being built for the Web, cross-browser testing is crucial to application performance. More than 2 million people have turned to an open-source, cross-browser testing platform called Selenium, to solve this problem.
• iSites Create your app right now. Revise on the fly. – iSites enables you to create and self-manage apps for multiple smart phones (iPhone, Android) from one place.
• Apache Pivot – Pivot applications are written using a combination of Java and XML and can be run either as an applet or as a standalone (optionally offline) desktop application

Daily del.icio.us for January 19th through January 26th

• JetBrains TeamCity Blog » Blog Archive » Yet another step to TeamCity 5.0 – TeamCity 5.0 is approaching inevitably and here we are with fresh EAP build.
  All major new features have been introduced already in previous EAPs, but still you’ll find lots of improvements and fixes to check
• Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox | Javalobby – Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun technologies. Glassfish, OpenOffice, NetBeans and VirtualBox were just some of the items mentioned. Here are some specifics on each project
• Java 5 dies – mourning a revolution – It is the 30th of October 2009, the day the music stopped. Or at least the music of Java 5. Today is the day that marks the End of Service for J2SE 5.0. No more general support or bug fixes for this edition. Time to move up to at least Java 6.
• InfoQ: Apache POI 3.5 Released with OOXML Support – Apache have released version 3.5 of POI, the Java library for working with Microsoft's document formats. POI previously supported Microsoft's OLE2 compound document formats as used in Office 97-2003 (versions 8.0 – 11). With POI 3.5 Apache have added support for Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard, the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007.
• Update a Running JavaEE Application | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – Next Maia EAP build includes new action that lets you quickly update a running JavaEE application after you changed its code. To invoke it, either press Ctrl+F10, or click this button on the Run tool window bar:
• Quietly Scheming » Blog Archive » What’s new in Flex 4: Out on Video – The full video of my session at MAX this year — “What’s new in Flex 4″ — is now available on adobe tv. Watch it here.
• Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart [PIC] – Is it worth switching to if you already carry an iPhone or another device? To provide some guidance, BillShrink has produced a detailed chart looking at Droid, iPhone, Palm Pre, and MyTouch 3G
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Survey shows iPhone threatens BlackBerry; Palm holds steady | Circuit Breaker – CNET News – Despite having more models of smartphones, RIM is facing serious competition from Apple, whose iPhone has 30 percent market share among those surveyed. That's an increase of 5 percentage points since June, when the new iPhone 3GS was released.
• Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal – O’Reilly Radar – This is great news not only for the use of open source software, but the validation of the open source development model. The White House's adoption of community-based software provides a great example for the rest of the government to follow
• Enterprise Java Community: SAML: It’s Not just for Web services – SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee
• Gojko Adzic » Mockito in six easy examples – Mockito is a fantastic mock library for Java. I’m fascinated by how easy it is to use, compared to other things out there both in the Java and .NET world. Here is everything you need to know to get started in six really easy examples.
• SpringSource Boosts Java Framework With Spring 3.0 — Application Development Trends – Spring 3.0 features full support for RESTful Web services and a new expression language. The new Developer Edition of the tc Server is designed to give developers visibility and information when debugging and performance tweaking their Spring apps.

Daily del.icio.us for October 21st through October 30th

• JavaScript Framework Matrix – Overview with functions and examples – The JavaScript Framework Matrix will give you an overview of popular JavaScript frameworks and their functions. There are various examples for the frameworks and every snippet contains links to the official documentation
• SpriteMe: Spriting made easy – SpriteMe is an open source project that helps web developers create sprites in a matter of minutes rather than hours.
• InfoQ: Book Review: Understanding SCA – Overall the book provides a complete introduction to SCA. If you are not familiar with the technology and you are building an SOA, it is certainly worth investing some of your time either to adopt the technology or implement some of its patterns.
• Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies
• Introduction to Google Collections | Benjamin Winterberg – The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework you already know and love.
• InfoQ: 3 Patterns from SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl – All of these patterns are considered fundamental to inventory governance in that they support and are influenced by the Service Discoverability principle, which actually shapes service meta information in such a manner that it can be effectively discovered and interpreted.
• SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready – After 20,000 lines of new code, over 5,000 new unit tests, and countless hours of effort by over 30 contributors, SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready. Try out the new code today and help us make the push to our final release. Join the HTML5 revolution.
• iPhone gets .Net app development | Developer World – InfoWorld – Leveraging Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows applications on non-Windows systems, Novell's MonoTouch 1.0 is a commercial software development kit that lets developers utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#
• thewojogroup’s simplecart-js at master – GitHub – A simple paypal shopping cart in 20kb that you can setup in minutes
• Hades – Trac – Hades is a utility library to work with Data Access Objects implemented with Spring and JPA. The main goal is to ease the development and operation of a data access layer in applications.

Daily del.icio.us for September 9th through September 16th

• InfoQ: ActionScript 3 Site Framework – Fosfr – There are many different approaches to develop RIA based web sites. Flash sites are particular appealing to businesses or individuals involving in rich media contents. Fosfr is an ActionScript 3 site framework that is developed to build full Flash site. InfoQ interviewed Fosfr creator, Jeff DePascale, to learn more about the insights
• Video: Google Web Toolkit: An Introduction by TheServerSide.com – This session teaches you the basics of Google Web Toolkit, How to implement Ajax-enabled applications in Java, Internationalization, Hooking into the browser history mechanism, Remote procedure calls.
• InfoQ: REST is a style — WOA is the architecture. – Dion Hinchcliffe recently offered two related articles that explore relationships between Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and other technologies. The first deals with WOA and REST; the second looks at WOA and SOA. The main point of the first article: REST is a style and WOA is the architecture. The second article argues that WOA is really a highly complimentary sub-style of SOA and explores the implications of this simple observation.
• JavaFX squares off against AJAX | Developer World – InfoWorld – In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival.
• Google Translator Toolkit – Google Translator Toolkit is a new service that lets you translate documents by editing the translations automatically generated by Google. "Google Translator Toolkit allows human translators to work faster and more accurately, aided by technologies like Google Translate."
• The Joy of Less – Happy Days Blog – NYTimes.com – If you’re the kind of person who prefers freedom to security, who feels more comfortable in a small room than a large one and who finds that happiness comes from matching your wants to your needs, then running to stand still isn’t where your joy lies.
• Stephen Colbert Takes His Show on the Road to Baghdad – NYTimes.com – It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s head
• Gizmodo – iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide – apple iphone 3gs – The iPhone 3GS has a new processor built-in. Apple claims that it is up to two times faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster. It also consumes less, which has an impact on the improved battery life.
• Apple – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Enhancements and Refinements – Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes refinements, both big and small, to
  a wide range of applications, processes, and interface elements.
• Study Highlights SOA Herd Mentality — Application Development Trends – Gartner suggests that SOA adopters start small, identifying specific business benefits and focusing, as part of an iterative effort, on achieving them.

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

• State of the Art – Palm Gets It Right With Pre, Its New Smartphone – NYTimes.com – The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday, is an elegant, joyous, multitouch smartphone; it’s the iPhone remixed. That’s no surprise, really; its primary mastermind was Jon Rubinstein, who joined Palm after working with Steve Jobs of Apple, on and off, for 16 years. Once at Palm, he hired 250 engineers from Apple and elsewhere, and challenged them to out-iPhone the iPhone.
• agile @ Atlassian – Practical Insights Into Agile Software Development – We're not a "follow the rules" software company and we know there is no single recipe for practicing agile development. We were once hungry for practical tips, so we thought we should share our agile story…
• Flex, RIA | Adobe Labs – Adobe Flash Collaboration Service – Adobe Flash Collaboration Service allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before. And because Acrobat.com hosts the service, issues like deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of for you.
• Exchanges, Banks and Brokerages Start Tweeting by Wall Street & Technology – Exchanges, brokerages, banks and regulators are all jumping on the Twitter bandwagon and exploring new ways to reach out to their customers — and sometimes their foe.
• Adobe Releases Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst And The Flex 4 framework | IndicThreads – Adobe Systems has announced the beta availability of Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly named Adobe Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework.
• Common Java Cookbook – This collection provides expert tips for using Java-based utilities from projects such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, and Apache Velocity.
• InfoQ: Flex Open Source Data Visualization Framework: Axiis – A new open source addition to the Adobe Flex world is Axiis, a data visualization framework released in May under the MIT license. Data visualization is a term frequently used to describe graphical views of application data, such as charts and graphs.
• FasterXML – Faster, better open source XML and JSON parsing for the Java platform. – FasterXML is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the Jackson open source (ASL) JSON processor. Jackson provides three ways to consume/produce JSON with Java — JAXB-like object binding, StAX-like low-level streaming API, and a DOM-like tree model.
• State of the Art – Palm Gets It Right With Pre, Its New Smartphone – NYTimes.com – The star of this summer blockbuster is Palm. Over the years, this once-great company lost its talent for everything but making business blunders. Pundits were predicting Palm’s passing — but then the new Palm Pre appeared
• Ext JS – Ext JS 3.0 RC2 Release – Stable, Robust, and Enhanced – We are pleased to announce that the latest release candidate of Ext 3.0 is now publicly available.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for June 3rd through June 4th

• Pat Patterson : Superpatterns: Thomson Reuters on deploying OpenSSO Enterprise to a Global User Base – In the video, Chris explains how OpenSSO is on track to provide single sign-on across Thomson Reuters' Markets services to 330,000 users worldwide by the end of 2011
• OpenSSO – Overview, Stories and Roadmap – TheAquarium – wikis.sun.com – Sid and Ajay will present a technical overview of OpenSSO (Resource Center) and then will explain how it is being used in a real-world deployment. The presentation will end with a roadmap for the features in future releases of OpenSSO.
• Verizon uses OpenSSO in Very Large (Over 40M Users) Deployment – Dan reports on the use of OpenSSO, a Massive Verizon Wireless Deployment that has over 40,000,000 users, 1,000,000 logins per day, and peaks at 4,000 logins per minute. Additional details at the slides and recordings of the March 19th, Online Webinar, which is also available as a PodCast.
• 2009 Formula One season, wet & dry – The Big Picture – Boston.com – The 2009 Formula One World Championship season has held only 4 rounds so far (of a scheduled 17), and has experienced extremes of dry and wet weather already – heavy downpours in Malaysia and China, followed by dry desert heat of over 37 degrees C (100 F) in Bahrain
• Official Google Enterprise Blog: Sync Google Apps user accounts with your LDAP system – This new utility is a software component that helps maintain security by running behind the firewall and pushes directory information to Google Apps – including mailing lists, groups and user aliases – to match the organizational schema in the LDAP system.
• WebLogic Server – Oracle Wiki – WebLogic Wiki
• Java / Oracle SOA blog: Using the WebLogic deployment plan to change your ear / war for production – This is the first in a series of several articles that explore some of the new features in Apache Pivot 1.1. Pivot is a Java-based RIA toolkit that is currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. This article discusses Pivot's support for drag and drop.
• Exploring Apache Pivot 1.1, Part 1 | InsideRIA – This is the first in a series of several articles that explore some of the new features in Apache Pivot 1.1. Pivot is a Java-based RIA toolkit that is currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. This article discusses Pivot's support for drag and drop.
• With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) – The Yahoo! Query Language lets you query, filter, and join data across any web data source or service on the web. Using our YQL web service, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. YQL uses a SQL-like language because it is a familiar and intuitive method for developers to access data. YQL treats the entire web as a source of table data, enabling developers to select * from Internet
• In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips – WSJ.com – Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.
• Java Tips – The new Java Tips blog, which debuts today, will feature short, relevant tips, tricks, workarounds and introductory tutorials, from one Java developer to another.

Daily del.icio.us for April 29th through May 1st

• Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Tries to Reassure His Troops in Email – Digits – WSJ – Though profit-minded Oracle is widely expected to cut Sun’s headcount sharply after the transaction, Schwartz insists in the message that Oracle realizes that Sun’s people are its greatest asset and will not harm it.
• Picking Letters, 10 a Day, That Reach Obama – NYTimes.com – He chooses 10 letters, which are slipped into a purple folder and put in the daily briefing book that is delivered to President Obama at the White House residence. Designed to offer a sampling of what Americans are thinking, the letters are read by the president, and he sometimes answers them by hand, in black ink on azure paper.
• Adobe in Push to Spread Flash Video Format to TVs – NYTimes.com – Now Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, will announce that Adobe is extending Flash to the television screen. He expects TVs and set-top boxes that support the Flash format to start selling later this year.
• Williams and Stone: The Twitter Revolution – WSJ.com – But Twitter is much more than a novel way to share updates of one's daily life with friends. It's now evolved into a powerful new marketing and communications tool. Regional emergency preparedness organizations are looking at Twitter as a way to reach millions of people during a disaster. NASA is using it to regularly update interested parties about the status of space shuttle flights. And one journalist solicited help from fellow Twitterers to get himself out of an Egyptian jail.
• Apache Pivot – Home – The Pivot development team is happy to announce the release of Apache Pivot version 1.1! Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform.
• Atlassian Stimulus Package Announced – For the next 5 days, get Confluence or JIRA for $5 for 5 users. All goes to Room To Read – The Goal: To raise $25k to build 5 libraries for children in the developing world in 5 days… all whilst helping stimulate startups and small teams with kick-ass tools.
• JSpring presentation: REST, the internet as a database? :: Andrej Koelewijn – I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“.
• Oracle Buys Sun – Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash
• The Algebra of Data, and the Calculus of Mutation » Lab49 Blog – With the spreading popularity of languages like F# and Haskell, many people are encountering the concept of an algebraic data type for the first time. When that term is produced without explanation, it almost invariably becomes a source of confusion. In what sense are data types algebraic
• SOASTA, Inc. – The Cloud Testing Authority – SOASTA has harnessed the immense power of Cloud Computing to become the leading provider of cloud testing, which businesses use to test the real-world performance of their web applications

Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 21st

• 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 promises to dramatically increase communications among employees. As we’re seeing with Twitter’s explosive growth, it takes time for people to grok why they should microblog. But once they “get it”, it takes off.
• A special report on entrepreneurship: Time for entrepreneurship | An idea whose time has come | The Economist – The triumph of entrepreneurship is driven by profound technological change. A trio of inventions—the personal computer, the mobile phone and the internet—is democratising entrepreneurship at a cracking pace. Today even cash-strapped innovators can reach markets that were once the prerogative of giant organisations.
• Amazon, Microsoft improve their cloud computing game | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-13 | By Bernard Golden, CIO.com – Amazon has introduced EC2 Reserved Instances, which allow you to obtain a reduced hourly fee for an upfront payment that varies according to which level of EC2 server you use.
• Cisco’s expected server splash raises data center ruckus | Business Tech – CNET News – Cisco Systems on Monday is widely expected to launch network servers in a move that will put it in the virtualization business and potentially at odds with players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
• ACM Queue: A Conversation with Alan Kay | Lambda the Ultimate – I fear — as far as I can tell — that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
• Your Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets – Now that you know the benefits of using a bookmarklet and how easy it is to add one to your own browser bookmarks, let me share some of my favorite bookmarklets that are both useful and powerful:
• Google Voice – Google Voice is a service that gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail that is easy as email, and many enhanced calling features like call blocking and screening, voicemail transcripts, call conferencing, international calls, and more.
• InfoQ: Debate: Prototype vs. jQuery – With Ajax dominating the Web development scene on the client-side, the question “which JavaScript/Ajax framework is the best” has become a common one. Glenn Vanderburg’s article which compares Prototype to jQuery caused diverse responses from industry experts Douglas Crockford and Dion Almaer.
• The Post Redirect Get Pattern – Andy Pemberton – There’s a long-standing, accepted pattern for handling form submissions in web applications; it’s usually called the post redirect get pattern. The goal of the pattern is to prevent the payload of a HTTP POST request from being stored in the browser history.

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

• 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 bizarre race conditions as multiple “threads” all compete for the same window.onLoad place
• Apache News Online: 22 February 2009 – Apache POI 3.5 beta 5 now available – The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5
  beta 5, our latest beta including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.
• Configuring Spring Security with Active Directory in 5 easy steps | Eneset Technology – In this article I tried to give as much details as possible about configuring Spring Security with Active Directory. I provided a sample project to be used as a starting point for your own application
• Digital Domain – Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big – NYTimes.com – Jeff Atwood, a co-founder of Stack Overflow, said: “I have no beef with Google. I like Google. But I’m concerned. If you project this trend forward four years, just follow the graph. A world in which there is no competition strikes me as unhealthy.”
• Ubuntu now has ‘cloud computing inside’ | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News – That being said, the Ubuntu crew is in my view the Apple of Linux, and will likely change the game not through the infrastructure itself, but the user experience they introduce to building and managing clouds.
• Flex vs. Silverlight: The Elephant in the Room « The Effect Generator – In contrast, Silverlight has been built from the ground up with more ambitious targets in mind: fully fledged applications.
• Microsoft Visual Studio to boost SharePoint | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-20 | By Paul Krill – Developers building solutions based on Microsoft#039;s SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual Studio 2010 development environment, which will feature templates and an extensibility API, a Microsoft official said in a blog on Thursday.
• FRONTLINE: inside the meltdown: watch the full program | PBS – On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. quot;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,quot; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
• Asynchronous processing support in Servlet 3.0 – JavaWorld – Even as a mid-level API ensconced in modern UI component-based Web frameworks and Web services technologies, the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will have groundbreaking impact on Java Web application development
• Asynchronous HTTP Comet architectures – JavaWorld – 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.
• The BalusC Code: FileServlet supporting resume and caching – To enable download resumes, the server have to send at least the Accept-Ranges, ETag and Last-Modified response headers to the client along with the file.

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

• 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:

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

• Lincoln’s second inaugural address – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation#039;s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
• Cairngorm – Cairngorm – Confluence – Cairngorm is the lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR. A collaboration of recognized design patterns, Cairngorm exemplifies and encourages best-practices for RIA development
• Selecting the Right Flex Application Framework | Summa Blog – The Flex community is divided between Adobe’s Cairngorm and Cliff Hall’s PureMVC, with strong arguments from both sides. However, your answer may just lie in the “it depends” space.

  This post aims to help you make that decision. It includes analysis of Cairngorm, PureMVC, and the new kid on the block, asfusion’s Mate.

• InfoQ: Pair Programming vs. Code Review – Pair programming and code review are each practices that improve the quality of software, as well as promote knowledge sharing. When the Agile vs. Lean, XP vs. Scrum, and vi vs. Emacs debates get slow, developers have been known to debate the merits of pair programming vs. code review. Theodore Nguyen-Cao described code reviewers as chickens, and paired programmers as pigs.
• InfoQ: Presentation: Kent Beck: Trends in Agile Development – In this presentation, Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming, shows the synergies between business and Agile development. The reason Agile is becoming more popular every day is because it responds to the business needs as they evolve.
• terraza de aravaca: JPA implementations comparison: Hibernate, Toplink Essentials, Openjpa, Eclipselink – This article is a response to the lack of information on the net about the performance differences among the 4 most well known Java Persistence API (JPA) implementations: Toplink Essentials, EclipseLink, Hibernate and OpenJPA
• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows – This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools.
• Farata Systems » Enterprise Development with Flex – first rough cuts – This groundbreaking book shows Flex developers exactly what’s required to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the enterprise. Part of the popular Adobe Developer Library co-published by O’Reilly and Adobe, Enterprise Development with Flex goes well beyond Flex tutorials and product documentation to suggest best practices, compare frameworks and tools, and offer efficient techniques for developing enterprise RIAs
• Choices Narrowed for First U.S. CTO – BusinessWeek – President-elect Obama has two executives in mind for the top technology job, one from Cisco and one from Washington, D.C. Both were born in India
• Welcome to WordPress.tv « Blog « WordPress.tv – To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations
• John Goerzen on Why You Should Learn Haskell – O’Reilly Broadcast – John Goerzen is a co-author of Real World Haskell. In a recent interview with O#039;Reilly, he explained how the book came to be, the special magic which makes Haskell worth learning, and how to change your mindset to make learning possible.
• iFlyz grips your gadgets while uFlyz | Crave – CNET – To use the iFlyz, you attach your phone or media player to the suction cup, clamp it to a seat tray in either the stowed and locked position or unlocked and down position, and adjust the flexible gooseneck to the ideal viewing angle. It works with gadgets including the iPhone, Zune, and iPod.
• Xpress Suite Adds Automatic Java to iPhone Conversion | JAVA Developer’s Journal – Javaground announced a new component of its Xpress Suite allowing developers to automatically generate a native iPhone program from a Java source code.
• Felipe Gaucho’s Blog: Servlet 3.0 Unleashed – The specification of Servlet 3.0 was approved by the Public Review Ballot and it was also endorsed by the Java EE Executive Committee (EC).

Daily del.icio.us for January 15th through January 19th

• Google: A little more like Microsoft every day | The Open Road – CNET News – I liked to think that third parties like Mozilla helped to ensure that Google would "not be evil." Time will tell if Google has the will power to keep itself honest.
• Adobe AIR powered cyn.in desktop fuses instant messengers and web based collaboration – AIR – The cyn.in desktop client is a beautiful new Adobe AIR application designed to improve collaboration between teams. The application, created by Cynapse, includes a variety of powerful features designed to make communication and collaboration easy between teams
• InfoQ: Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware – In this article Mak King describes advanced application of virtualization that goes far beyond server consolidation. Learn about the techniques and benefits behind putting your developers on virtual servers, all proving that virtualization is far from limited to commonplace consolidation. Additionally, and completely without a desire to be bandwagoners, the approach described in Mak's article is clearly "green computing."
• Google’s Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn – BusinessWeek – The mantra that's been flooding the Googleplex this year? 'Scarcity brings clarity,' explains Marissa Mayer, Google Vice-President
• How to choose a netbook | Small is beautiful | The Economist – The upshot is that netbooks are great as cheap, simple and small computers for performing basic tasks—especially if the pre-installed software does what you want it to.
• Code Snippets – Snipplr Social Snippet Repository – Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Did we mention it works with TextMate, too? It's code 2.0.
• Microsoft Web Platform – The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework.
• Reading between the lines of Red Hat’s Google Web Toolkit play | The Open Road – CNET News – In other words, Red Hat's work with GWT is a chance for Red Hat to cater to developers already-expressed desires for a Red Hat RIA story, but within the context of the enterprise
• joose-js – Google Code – Joose is a self-hosting meta object system for JavaScript with support for classes, inheritance, mixins, traits, method modifiers and more. Joose makes object-oriented programming with JavaScript easy, declarative and very productive. The Joose meta-object system is multi-paradigm.
• Key data center architect leaves Microsoft, headed for Amazon – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source – James Hamilton, one of the big brains behind Microsoft's data center strategy, has left the company, according to a note on his Microsoft home page. And we just confirmed that he's headed across town to Amazon.com, one of Microsoft's key rivals in the market for Web services and cloud computing.
• Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students – Since 1999, java.sun.com writers have interviewed Java developers from diverse backgrounds and solicited their advice for students. In this article, 11 top Java developers share the fruits of long experience
• JetBrains Delivers Meta Programming System Beta – JetBrains, maker of the popular IntelliJ IDEA Java tool set, announces the beta version of its Meta Programming System for application development. JetBrains' MPS encourages the use of DSLs and code generation. MPS also implements the Language-Oriented Programming paradigm for building enterprise applications

Daily del.icio.us for December 11th through December 16th

• Microsoft takes dead aim at WordPress… | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | – This new release from Microsoft sounds promising. Based on the description and feature list, it’s a direct competitor for WordPress:
• YUI Doc: A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog – We’re pleased today to release the first public version of YUI Doc, a python-based documentation tool that generates API documentation for JavaScript code. YUI Doc was developed by Adam Moore, one of the principal engineers on the YUI project since its inception, to support YUI’s API-level documentation.
• Adobe Collaborates with SpringSource for Enhanced Flex / Spring Integration : Christophe Coenraets – Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it is working with SpringSource to simplify the development and deployment of rich enterprise Java(TM) applications through a collaboration that will provide integration between the Adobe(R) Flash(R) and SpringSource platforms
• Appcelerator Titanium puts more Web apps on your desktop | Webware – CNET – The line between Web and desktop apps is getting fuzzier Tuesday, with the preview release of Appcelerator Titanium, platform designed to turn Web app developers into desktop and mobile phone developers.

  Appcelerator, which makes an open source Web app framework, is targeting Titanium at Web developers who want to bite off a chunk of the desktop market while still using their HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills

• Developing iPhone Applications using Java | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – In this presentation we introduce an Open Source Java-to-Objective-C cross-compiler as well as a Java-based implementation of the Cocoa library. With the help of these tools, iPhone applications can be written in pure Java.
• Haus News – XStream 1.3.1 released – The XStream development team would like to announce the new XStream maintenance version 1.3.1. XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

  The release contains some bug fixes, some minor enhancements and support of new JDKs

• Let’s talk about Python 3.0 – Python 3.0 is and was developed to be a practical language. The changes which break compatibility with Python 2.x are in many ways small and may seem insignificant at first glance, but small changes have big effects, and a cleaned-up, less-soul-tarnishing Python is, in my opinion, a goal which justifies a few breaks between major versions.
• Marketplace Whiteboard – explaining the financial crisis » Lab49 Blog – Series of videos that explain various financial concepts (such as asset-backed securities, margin calls, CDO’s, etc) as well as aspects of the financial crisis (such as “fallout”, CDS problems, and the credit crisis) in simple terms
• Using the SQLite Database Access API in AIR… Part 3: Annotation-Based ORM Framework : Christophe Coenraets – In this third version, we use a mini Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework that leverages the Flex support for class annotations to entirely eliminate manually-written SQL statements
• Devices for Developers – Android – The Android Dev Phone 1 is a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device that is designed for advanced developers. The device ships with a system image that is fully compatible with Android 1.0, so you can rely on it when developing your applications. You can use any SIM in the device and can flash custom Android builds that will work with the unlocked bootloader

Daily del.icio.us for December 6th through December 9th

• InfoQ: Pressure and Performance – The CTO’s Dilemma – In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann during Agile 2008, Diana Larsen and Jim Shore talk about patterns observed in CTOs' activity. CTOs emerge as real people caring for other people in their organization, and are put under a lot of pressure and constraints.
• Apple – iPhone – iPhone Your Life – Once you own an iPhone, you discover that it’s more than a phone. It’s a way of life. Take a look at some ideas to help you get the most out of your iPhone, wherever you go.
• JavaScript Table Sorter – Web Development Blog – This JavaScript table sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7KB. It includes alternate row formatting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition and selective column sorting. It will currently sort strings, numbers and currency
• JavaScript Table Sorter | Ajaxonomy – This JavaScript table sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7KB. It includes alternate row formatting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition and selective column sorting. It will currently sort strings, numbers and currency.
• Tour de Flex | Flex.org – Rich Internet Application Development – Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more
• Explore over 200 Flex and AIR samples with the new Tour de Flex application – AIR – James Ward announced a new desktop application powered by Adobe AIR called Tour de Flex exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more. James has been working on this project along with fellow Adobe employees Christophe Coenraets, Greg Wilson and others.
• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google – Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google
• Ext JS – Ext CDN – Custom Builds, Compression, and Fast Performance – We are pleased to announce that Ext has partnered with CacheFly, a global content network, to provide free CDN hosting for the Ext JS framework. Cachefly’s globally distributed network and aggressive caching accelerate the delivery of web content like JavaScript and CSS, making for an even faster Ext experience.
• WTFramework bookmarklet – Oskar Krawczyk – blog.olicio.us – Ever wondered which JavaScript framework was used on a specific website but was too lazy to check the source code for the answer? Fear no more WTFramework is here.
• JCS – Java Caching System – JCS is a distributed caching system written in java. It is intended to speed up applications by providing a means to manage cached data of various dynamic natures. Like any caching system, JCS is most useful for high read, low put applications. Latency times drop sharply and bottlenecks move away from the database in an effectively cached system

Daily del.icio.us for November 18th through November 22nd

• The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer – BusinessWeek – Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound
• Wikimedia Ubuntu migration FAQ – Meta – There's been some recent news coverage about Wikimedia's ongoing migration of servers to Ubuntu Linux. While much of the coverage is fairly straightforward and fact-based, there are some common questions and misconceptions I've seen in comments.
• Linux Ecosystem worth $25 billion – InternetNews:The Blog – Sean Michael Kerner – The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion
• Open Web Podcast – Episode 5: Ryan Stewart of Adobe – Ryan Stewart of Adobe joined us for episode 5 of the Open Web Podcast. We really want to be pragmatic Open Web citizens, so thought it would be good to hear from Ryan and get his point of view on what Adobe, and he, are thinking with respect to the Web as a-whole
• Ajaxian » Dojo 1.2 Final Release – Pete Higgins released Dojo 1.2 the first version under his command. There are a ton of subtle improvements such as
• Ajaxian » The bane and choice of Rich Text Editors – Stuart Atkinson has kindly done a roundup of the state of rich text editors, and it covers
• High Performance Web Sites :: Runtime Page Optimizer – The Runtime Page Optimizer (RPO) is an exciting product from Aptimize. RPO runs on a web server applying performance optimizations to pages at runtime, just before the page is sent to the browser
• FancyUpload for Flash 10 » digitarald:Harald K – I developed and tested all day to release a FancyUpload version that works in Flash 9 and 10 (Kodus to Anders Rasmussen and his conversion to AS3). The code is now commited to github,
• Newer Technology Universal Drive Adapter -… (U2NV2SPATA) at OWC – The "Swiss Army Knife" of Disk Connectivity…Turns Any Bare Drive Into An External Storage Solution!!
• The Return of Terry Tate – Office Linebacker and his election specials – http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen/dp/0262032937
• Ruminations of a Programmer: Memcached and Terracotta : Alternatives or Complementary ? – Can we conclude that for read-only (mostly) usecases, use memcached, while, for read-write usecases, use Terracotta to obtain transparent durability to the persistent store. Rather than alternatives, the two technologies are complementary.
• Colin Powell endorses Obama – CNN.com – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat's "ability to inspire" and the "inclusive nature of his campaign."
• The Great GWT Roundup | Javalobby – Over the past two months or so we here at the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently published the last in the series and I thought that it would be a good idea to create a sort of index of all of these articles.
• Washington Wire – WSJ.com : Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri – Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event. The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues.

Daily del.icio.us for October 18th through October 20th

• Clemens Vasters, Bldg 42 : Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name “BizTalk Services” R12 Release – BizTalk Services is the code-name for a platform-in-the-cloud offering from Microsoft. Currently in development, BizTalk Services provides Messaging, Workflow, and Identity functionality to enable disparate applications to connect quickly and easily.
• Success Soul » Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for Living a Happy and Simple Life – I’m an avid admirer of simplicity, but I’m an even bigger fan of the man who has mastered the greatness by living and breathing simplicity amid an ocean of wealth.
• AppleInsider | iPhone 3G’s final build price: just $174.33 – With roughly $50 in licenses for patents and other intellectual property factored into the price and an assumed unsubsidized cost of $499 for an 8GB model of the celllphone, Apple is thought to be getting as much as $300 in subsidies from AT&T for each cu
• InfoQ: An Introduction to Lean Thinking – Lean software development, which we hear a lot about these days, may be still a bit of a mystery for people who come to Agile via Scrum or XP. Earlier this year, at an Open Party, Ning Lu of ThoughtWorks China offered an introduction
• Ext Javascript Library for beginners, ext-perience Ext » Blog Archive » In Place / Inline Editing with Ext, ExtJS Inline editor – I found an inline editing tutorial using prototype which after reading seemed very easy and very simple to replicate using Ext. I have Googled this topic in the past but found nothing… so I decided to follow this tutorial and port it to ExtJs.
• iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you? – Java World – In this article we introduce and compare two of the most popular open source persistence frameworks, iBATIS and Hibernate. We also discuss the Java Persistence API (JPA)
• Continuous Integration: Was Fowler Wrong? – While rereading Martin Fowler's paper, Continuous Integration, it struck me that its approach to Continuous Integration (CI) is fundamentally flawed. Fowler, like most of the CI community, seems to argue that CI is about building rather than testing
• WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6 – I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS
• Flex 4 (Gumbo) Available for Download – InsideRIA – The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it's now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption
• Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun’s flagship Unix servers | The Register – Salesforce.com is chucking out the last of it Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire servers this week, ending one of Sun's most bragged about relationships.

Daily del.icio.us for July 14th through July 16th