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Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd
- Use XQuery from a Java environment - XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for
- Pragmatic Caching - a simple Cache Configuration Model for Spring « brain driven development - We’ve come up with a very pragmatic solution with a declarative style for cache configuration and a more programmatic style for handling caching behaviour. As always, the usefulness of such a solution depends on the given problem space and the surroundi
- Will open source save Sun? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - Another question for Sun will revolve around how much open-source software will be required to move the hardware and services needle. MySQL, with more than 70 million downloads, is a good candidate to jump-start movement in hardware and services. Will it
- InfoQ: SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE - The SpringSource Application Platform has been designed from the ground up to instead focus directly on supporting the widely used Spring Portfolio of open source projects. Specifically, the application server builds on the Spring Portfolio programming mo
- SpringSource - SpringSource Application Platform - SpringSource Application Platform is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications based on Spring, Apache Tomcat and OSGi-based technologies
- Adobe opens up Flash, but leaves out Google and Apple | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - In a well timed move today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and lifted restrictions on the use of Flash related specifications. The initiative is supported by several industry leaders including ARM, Intel, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm,
- Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails - We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java
- Google's Eric Schmidt - Exclusive Interview - All * Technology * News * Story - CNBC.com - CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!, online advertising growth rates, Google's
- Ext JS - Ext GWT v1.0 Beta 2 Released - Ext JS is pleased to announce the Ext GWT 1.0 beta2 release. This release includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes since the beta1 release and is a recommended upgrade for those using beta 1.
- Automation for the people: Hands-off load testing - Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people , automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the development cycle
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Daily del.icio.us for April 4th through April 6th
- Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Migration - This migration script will take all live files in a VSS project and migrate them to Subversion. Additionally, for those live files, all file history will be preserved. Without this, it wouldn't be a migration, merely an import.
- VisualSVN Server - All-in-one installer for Subversion and Apache - VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.
- Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows - When it comes to readily available, free source control, I don't think you can do better than Subversion at the moment. Allow me to illustrate how straightforward it is to get a small Subversion server and client going on Windows. It'll take all of 30 min
- JRuby 1.1 is out! - The Empty Way - The long awaited JRuby 1.1 is finally out. Working on it was fun, much more fun than I expected — so much to do, so many interesting things, so little time! It is a perfect mixture of Java and Ruby
- Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top - The New York Times - Compensation and accumulated wealth of 200 chief executives for large public companies that filed proxies for last year by March 28.
- Build a quad-core, 8-gig server for $900 - Or maybe that's just what I tell myself when I only have $1,000 bucks to spend. Either way, multi-core CPUs made powerful computers far more affordable. You can build a fine quad-core, 8-gig server within that budget
- My Essential Twitter Tools - If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.
Here are the tools that I’m using to improve my Twitter experience
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- Forbes.com - Dial D for Disruption - With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya.
- dangertree techblog » Blog Archive » Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #1 - In my last post, Dan Lewis responded with some counter-code from Google’s collections package. Instead of attempting to snap back with some witty technical retort, I challenged Dan to a code-off. Groovy collections vs. Google collections (in Java)
- Adam Bien's Weblog : Huge discussion about JavaDoc …and no one cares about Fat Clients - I really wondered about the discussion about JavaDoc - but actually no one complained about this statement "Therefore, a fat client with a local embedded database, such as Java DB, is the simplest possible solution — everything else is a workaround.".
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Migrating to EJB 3 with IntelliJ IDEA is Easy - IntelliJ IDEA has the full-blown support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). Supporting EJB specs from 1.x to 3.0 and leveraging it through all of its productivity-boosting features, from coding assistance to refactoring, IntelliJ IDEA stands for the weapon
- Gartner: Open source will quietly take over - ZDNet.co.uk - "By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms," predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a "stealth" impact for the technology in embedded form:
- Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly - Ext JS Forums - I'm happy to announce the first release of my (first) Ext JS extension - Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly which allows you to easily build printer friendly layouts and grids for your Ext JS pages.
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Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through April 3rd
- Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Immediately Eject a Specific USB Drive :: the How-To Geek - Using the built-in Windows dialog is more powerful and probably would suffice for most people, but for those of us that want complete control there's a small freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector.
- Thermal Reaction: Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song - Tom Gleeson - You're Beautiful - take on James Blunt Song
- Ext JS Blog - » Implementation Spotlight: Jama Contour - Contour is a fully web-based requirements management application, sports a complete Ext-based user interface from top to bottom. It’s easily one of the most sophisticated and visually polished Ext applications we’ve seen yet
- Ajax on the network side - Java World - Making the most of Ajax doesn't end with beautiful code: you also need a solid network infrastructure that won't choke when client calls surge. This article introduces Ajax basics, offers tips for optimizing, monitoring, and securing Ajax applications
- SpringSource Team Blog » What's New in Spring Web Services 1.5? - Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released and itincludes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code changes - some configuration, and you're off! The JMS integrates with Spring's Message-Driven POJO model
- 451 CAOS Theory » Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow - One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there ha
- Spring to get upgraded with REST | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-27 | By Paul Krill - The planned 3.0 version of Spring will have significant enhancements with respect to Web technologies and it will have comprehensive support for RESTful Web services. Also planned for Spring 3.0 is unification in the programming model between Spring Web F
- Janice J. Heiss's Blog: The Story of Ruby, JRuby, and Rails at Sun - Sun is making Ruby and Rails faster and enhancing functionality through JRuby which allows Ruby to enter enterprises where Ruby and/or Rails have never entered as Ruby developers gain access to the Java APIs and the Java community.
- Techno Paper: CRUD application using Ext and Java - I have the CRUD application built on Ext and Java. I have used Java as my server side and Oracle XE to store my data. You can use any server side technology and persistence technology
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Daily del.icio.us for February 22nd through February 25th
- flexlib - Google Code - The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.
- dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » WindowShade component added to FlexLib - A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels i
- Ajaxian » Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched - Continuing their march into the RIA space, Adobe announced today the official release of AIR v1.0 and Flex 3.0. Adobe has taken the beta off of the wrapper as their have released both AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0.
- Mobile Desktop at Improv Everywhere - For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops
- Ext JS Blog - » Simple Tasks v2 - Multiple lists, NativeWindows and Reminders - In collaboration with Adobe, one of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR a
- Thanks Zed; Syntax matters; no more dumping stuff in Java; Quit pimple pimping Ruby; Scala warning - Can we just get some decent support for Groovy? No instead Sun invests in Ruby via JRuby. DOH! Groovy looks a lot like Java. It is much easier to get started with it. The syntax does not make developers want to hurl. Why is Sun investing so much money in
- The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur - Forbes.com - Vembu is a rare species in India these days. As far as I know, he's one of the very few entrepreneurs who has been able to execute on the premise of building software "products" and/or software-as-a-service out of India.
- John Resig - How JavaScript Timers Work - JavaScript engines only have a single thread, forcing asynchronous events to queue waiting for execution. setTimeout and setInterval are fundamentally different in how they execute asynchronous code.
- jsunit-ext - ExtJS based test runner for JSUnit based javascript unit tests - jsunit-ext is a custom test runner built using ExtJS javascript library in order to provide a better user interface and certain features missing in default runner of jsunit while not requiring any change in tests which have already been written.
- Codedependent - Java Swing guy joins Adobe - I've recently joined Adobe Systems to work on the Flex SDK. Much of the material I write will be about Flex, Flash, AIR, ActionScript, and related technologies, although I also intend to have non-technology-specific pieces as interesting graphics software
- Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org - This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6. The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to…
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Daily del.icio.us for February 2nd through February 3rd
- Adobe Labs - BlazeDS - The BlazeDS Release Candidate was released on February 1, 2008. BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Flex and AIR app
- Marcel Overdijk's Blog: Code by convention with Flex and Spring - What this means is that Flex clients can communicate with Java objects deployed on the server. BlazeDS contains a Java Adapter which forms the infrastructure to make this possible. With Jeff Vroom's Spring Integration you can even use Spring beans to comm
- Concern mounts over rising troop suicides - CNN.com - Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day.
- My videos from Davos « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - I made quite a few videos on Qik last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites, not necessarily in order of importance. I marked the must watch videos.
- Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Could a combination of (MSFT & YHOO) take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions
- Summation: The Power of Great People (why “good enough” won’t cut it) - In markets characterized by winner takes-all - increasingly true in a globalized world - you need the very best; “good enough” will no longer cut it when against intense competition. These are the people that build great and lasting companies.
- Design Patterns and Refactoring - sourcemaking.com - Design Patterns and Refactoring
- Pure Css Data Chart | Css Globe - Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let's say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol' css?
- The war on Grails is really a war on Spring | Groovy Zone - Ruby is perhaps a more flexible language than Groovy (and that's an arguable point, folks, and one which I really don't care to get into), but Ruby also runs on a less-flexible and less-scalable and less-supported platform than Groovy. I dunno that this m
- kemelyon » FlexReport - FlexReport is a client-side report generation component. It allows you to easily generate, preview and print reports based in mxml/as3 templates.
- generatedata.com - Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of forma
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Daily del.icio.us for January 26th
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer - Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from t
- Raible Designs | The future is now — Java development in 2008 - I agree that learning about JRuby and Groovy is a good way to be prepared for the future. [....] I do believe you can leverage these tools in your existing jobs and hopefully make your development life more efficient.
- InfoQ: Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project - The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: Dependency Analysis with DSM - DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix - a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project
- » Terracotta Server as a Message Bus - But I?m a guy that really likes simple. TC lets us make an entirely POJO system that runs beautifully in IntelliJ. A single ?container? type main program can run all our components in a single JVM simply by loading all our various Spring configs.
- What is Visual VM? - Visual VM is a new project whose goal is to provide monitoring and profiling tools for the JVM with a GUI. Visual VM is a standalone application (based on NetBeans platform :).
- GPDE Team Blog : JavaScript Memory Leak Detector - JavaScript Memory Leak Detector (download) is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code. It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory leaks in JavaScript code that runs in Internet Explorer.
- Ajaxian » Prototype 1.6.0.2 security and performance improvements - Prototype 1.6.0.2 is a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all 1.6.0 users. We?ve fixed 28 bugs and made over a dozen improvements to the code base, including performance improvements
- Ubuntu 7.10 VMware Image Download (English) - jars.de - Java und Technologie - An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) VMware Image is available here for download. This virtual Linux system with all its applications is usable out-of-the-box with the free VMware Player. Thus, it is perfect to test drive Ubuntu within Windows
- Dr. Dobb's | NetBeans 6.0: A First Look | January 24, 2008 - Sun Microsystems recently released NetBeans 6.0 which came with significant improvements, almost all in direct response to user requests. Even the developers who like NetBeans have posted complaints about its editor, especially when compared with Eclipse.
- AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Move Over, Seth Godin, Einstein?s Here - If I had to source Einstein quotes as chapter titles for a modern-day marketing book, here are the ones I?d likely pick. The beauty of these chapter titles is that they can live on their own, without the padding of excess words and long-winded narrative
- America's 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies - Forbes.com - We are back with a new group of 25 rapidly growing technology companies, 12 of which are repeats from our prior list.
- » Can Sun execute on its open source strategy? | Open Source | ZDNet.com - The question is, will open source be judged by the execution of Sun?s strategy?
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Daily del.icio.us for January 21st
- OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups - Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you've come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic. There's no overarching design or scheme of things, it's just a bucket of tools with some glue poured in
- MySQL Storage Engines - Programming - SoftwareProjects - One of the greatest things about MySQL, other than being free, widely supported and fast, is the flexibility of choosing different storage engines for different tables.
- JLisa - A Rule Engine for Java - JLisa is a powerful framework for building business rules accessible to Java and it is compatible with JSR94 V, the JavaTM Rule Engine API
- ExtTLD - Simplify ExtJS for JEE - Jaroslav Benc has created ExtTLD, a JSP taglib generator that creates Ext JS components from your Java projects, using XML syntax
- What server-side Java web framework will be the next for 2008? | Java Zone - Arguably, Struts 1.x is end of life. There are plenty of other Java server-side web frameworks: JSF (the standard), Wicket, Tapestry, Struts 2, Echo, Spring MVC, etc. Do you have any market data on what developers are adopting after Struts 1.x?
- Java on Grails - What would happen if the special Objects within Grails could not only teleport across Classloaders and past the Java-Groovy boundary, as many Groovy Objects have done in the past, but also teleport across that boundary with their powers intact? …
- John Resig - Programming Book Profits - As I begin working on my second book I've gone back and realized that there's a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing my first book way back in March of 2006
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Daily del.icio.us for January 18th
- The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 - JRuby - Codehaus - JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby
- Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 - I've been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months.
- Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application - Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn't just a simple "me too" port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java.
- Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress - Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you
- Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 - CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained - In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs.
- Firefox DataAnalytics Help center - DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price?
- Anyterm - SSH via web - Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert - from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access
- Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 - Java World - In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations.
- Sun To Acquire MySQL - Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say "Data is the Intel Inside" of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0
- Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won't need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.
- Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers - "JasperReports for Java Developers" proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners
- GWT vs. FLEX - This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies.
- The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer - Forrester Research - Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard
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Daily del.icio.us for January 16th
- antennae - Google Code - Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te
- Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
- ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex - PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It's easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it's very powerful, it's not very friendly
- InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 - This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E
- InfoQ: Why Scala? - Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
- Ian's Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java - Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala
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Daily del.icio.us for January 15th
- Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails Making Java Developers Forget about Rails - Another 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails from Graeme Rocher.
- rain city digest: 10 Reasons to Switch from Rails to Grails - After spending a few years really enjoying Rails it was difficult to bring myself to even try groovy and grails. But my latest contract forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did. Here are some reasons that you may want to switch
- Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0 - The goal was to show how you can build an MVC application using Ext 2.0. We used a number of different patterns and components to accomplish something that can be used effectively in much larger applications than this little thing. It wasn?t necessary t
- google-feedserver - Google Code - Google FeedServer is an open-source Atom Publishing provider based on the Abdera Framework. Google FeedServer has chosen to implement simple backend data adapters that allow the developer to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a db
