• InfoWorld preview: Visual Studio LightSwitch chases app dev Holy Grail | Developer World – InfoWorld – One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a businessperson to build his or her own application without needing a professional programmer. Microsoft's latest attempt at this is Visual Studio LightSwitch, now in its first beta test. LightSwitch uses several technologies to generate applications that connect with databases. It can run on a desktop or in a Web browser, and it can use up to three application layers: client tier, middle tier, and data access.
• Ruby on Rails 3.0 due this week | Developer World – InfoWorld – Rails 3.0 is influenced by the Merb framework, which enables performance improvements. Other capabilities due in 3.0 include cross-site scripting protection, JavaScript helpers, a router based on REStful declarations, and an Active Record chainable query language based on relational algebra.
• Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Tries to Build an Eco-Friendly House – WSJ.com – No one said it would be easy to build the greenest house on the block. Scott Adams on perplexing energy bills, ugly lawns and the true meaning of 'green'
• Businesses Add iPad to Their Briefcase – WSJ.com – Some Companies, Which Barred the iPhone, Build Apps for Tablet Computer and Give Apple Gadget to Employees
• Java Code Geeks: GWT Spring and Hibernate enter the world of Data Grids – Maximize Hibernate performance with the power of Infinispan Data Grid. A GWT, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, Infinispan integration tutorial.
• InfoQ: Deploying Java Applications on Amazon EC2 – Chris Richardson presents the details of deploying multi-tier Apache/Tomcat/MySQL applications on Amazon EC2, what it takes to access EC2, to deploy a web server, an application server, and a database, handling security, making a case for PaaS which does not require an administration effort.
• Amazon introduces reservation system for databases in its cloud | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld – Amazon Web Services has introduced Reserved Database Instances, a new way to pay for its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Monday.
• Spring 3.0 – Themes and Trends | Java Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – This talk discusses Spring as a modern annotation-oriented application framework, covering the component model trends as well as selected Spring 3.0 feature highlights.
• Oracle’s Android lawsuit: A Pandora’s box of serious evils | Intellectual property – InfoWorld – A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source
• Spring 3.0.4 is Now Available | SpringSource.org – Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.
• Primary CSS – 22 CSS layouts that always work – Primary is a simple CSS Framework, designed for Developers and Designers in order to make using CSS as easy as possible.

Daily del.icio.us for August 21st through August 25th

• 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

• What I Saw at C.E.S. This Year, Part II – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com – As promised: here are a few goodies I saw at C.E.S. that are worth looking forward to
• Java EE and Flex: A compelling combination, Part 1 – JavaWorld – Adobe Flex is becoming a popular choice for generating the client side of enterprise Java applications. In this first of two articles, Dustin Marx demonstrates how Flex can help you deliver highly interactive user interfaces that access your Java EE application#039;s enterprise logic.
• Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets – If you’ve downloaded and installed Windows 7 Beta recently, I think you’ll enjoy this list of my thirty favorite secrets. Have fun!
• Adobe LiveCycle takes to the cloud | InfoWorld | News | 2009-01-11 | By Paul Krill – LiveCycle ES is a server-based offering combining data capture, document output, process management, and content services. It draws on PDF, Adobe Reader, and Flash in the creation and distribution of documents. Applications can run in a disconnected mode via the reader.
• Compass – Java Search Engine Framework – Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application
• JimNeath’s bort at master — GitHub – A base rails app featuring: RESTful Authentication, Will Paginate, Rspec amp;amp; Rspec-rails, Exception Notifier, Asset Packager, Cap Recipe (multi-stage). Put together by Fudge to remove the need for boring project setup.
• Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles – O’Reilly Radar – That#039;s why a time like this, when the bubble is bursting, is a great time to see how important it is to think about the big picture, and what matters not just to us, but to building a sustainable economy in a sustainable world
• ivan krsti? · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing – A “short squeeze” sounds inconspicuous enough; you wouldn’t tell it by Bloomberg’s language, but Merckle’s Volkswagen bet lost out to one of the most masterful hacks of the financial system in history.
• pastebud: copy and paste for the iPhone – pastebud enables round-trip copy and paste on your iPhone or iPod Touch, between the two applications that matter the most: Mail and Safari.
• To ban or not to ban: Bisphenol-A in food is OK with FDA but not with some scientists – Columbia Missourian – Professor of biological sciences Frederick vom Saal uses this laboratory in LeFevre Hall on the MU campus to study BPA. For more than a decade, vom Saal has denounced BPA as a toxin and threat to public health.

Daily del.icio.us for January 11th through January 13th

• Java Entrepreneur: MySQL Co Founder plans to quit since current stay becomes unpleasant – I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organizations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to 'retire' from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.
• InfoQ: SOA Governance: An Enterprise View – This article observes SOA governance specifics from the enterprise perspective and illustrates them with several examples of SOA Governance policies.
• InfoQ: Martin Fowler: Can SOA Be Done With an Agile Approach? – In a recent article, Martin Fowler is trying to explore the applicability of evolutionary design – a practice commonly used in Extreme Programming (XP) – to SOA implementations.
• InfoQ: Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails – Project Kenai (pronounced Keen-Eye, according to Tim Bray) is a new project hosting platform from Sun. It integrates several source code management systems, forums, mailinglists, issue-tracking systems and wikis.
• InfoQ: Java In-Memory Persistence with Space4J – Space4J is a simple database system that will let you work with Java Collections in memory. Since memory is several orders of magnitude faster than disk for random access to data, Space4J provides better scalability for "real-time" web applications and systems that require performance.
• InfoQ: Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns – In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.
• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 15, 2008) – Alaskans Get It – Two women in Anchorage talk sense about Palin
• InfoQ: Granite Data Service 1.1.0 Released with new Features and Tools – Granite Data Services (GDS) 1.1.0 GA is released this week. Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe LiveCycle (Flex 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers
• Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API – Open – Code – New York Times Blog – The initial version of the Campaign Finance API offers overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. In addition, the API supports a contributor name search using any of the following parameters: first name, last name and ZIP code.
• First New York Times API is Live – Here’s Why it Matters – ReadWriteWeb – The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open – All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API. Also available is a database management program initially developed for internal use at the NY Times.
• Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama – The Daily Beast – The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat. Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.
• The Soyuz Spacecraft – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com – The basic design of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has not changed in some 40 years, though it has had numerous upgrades. The current version, known as Soyuz TMA, is expected to be the only means of taking astronauts to the International Space Station from 2010 to 2015
• FCC Clears Free Wireless Web – WSJ.com – A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers.

Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 16th

• 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

Daily del.icio.us for April 28th through May 2nd

• 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

Daily del.icio.us for January 15th

• alphaWorks Services | IBM Web Highlights | Overview – IBM Web Highlights is a social Web 2.0 application that allows quick creation, sharing, and discussion of Web snippets and Web pages. The snippets are in the form of highlights that can be independently created and then discussed between member.
• Top 3 SSIS Dataflow Mistakes – Brian Knight – There’s an old saying that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If the SSIS data flow is your hammer, too many people thing treat the components in the data flow like nails and don’t follow best traditional ETL practices
• [Component] CForm v1.0 « Flexed – CForm is all about creating data entry screens. This component allows developers to create standardized forms/CRUD screens in their applications. The CForm component is a Data Entry component that can be very useful
• Thin – A fast and simple web server « Marc-André Cournoyer?s blog – Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: the Mongrel parser, Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability and Rack
• http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=205100034 – The list of financial firms deploying Web 2.0 applications, both within the enterprise and externally, is growing. TD Ameritrade, Bear Stearns and Wells Fargo all have announced new 2.0 applications in the last few months.
• Amazon?s EC2 Open Source Firefox Plugin – Developers using Amazon?s EC2 API might find this interesting: Amazon has created an open source project on SourceForge for ElasticFox, their Firefox extension that lets you create and manage EC2 instances from a GUI in the browser.
• PragDave: Two New Groovy Titles – Just to prove we’re not totally Ruby-centric, we just took two books on Groovy into beta. Venkat has written Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer, a wonderful introduction to the language. And Scott Davis complements it with Gr
• Bruce Eckel: Java, Evolutionary Dead End – Bruce Eckel says that Java should not change much any more, that maybe “the right thing to do is just not add the feature at all (what fun is that?). That if you can’t do it right then maybe the language should stop growing and become stable.
• The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference – Developer Pills – So with no pre-compilation and caching for both SPs and SQL statments there is no advantage for SPs here, in some other databases the SPs compiled into C or C++ but this isn’t the case in SQL Server 7.0/2000.
• GWT Site » Getting started with GWT and Google Gears – Google Gears is a library that enables your web applications to work offline. Currently it consists of three modules: LocalServer for caching and serving up your web app resources (ie. html, javascript, images), a SQLite Database for storing offline data

Daily del.icio.us for January 7th

Daily del.icio.us for December 31st through January 1st:

• ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto – Stay tuned for more about Ruby conferences and why they suck, and why the Pickaxe book is what killed Ruby
• InformIT: Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005 > XQuery Advantages – Jesse Smith gives you a crash course on XQuery methods and how you can use them in certain situations to retrieve and update XML data stored in your SQL Server 2005 database
• Open source and the corporate elephant | InfoWorld | News | 2007-12-12 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service – More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for projects, programmers and employers alike.
• base2 – Google Code – base2 is a lightweight library that irons out all the annoying differences in JavaScript implementations. It provides the additional functionality from JavaScript 1.6+ that only Mozilla browsers implement. It also adds some features from ES4
• How to create a theme for Roller 4.0 – In part one I explained how to create a theme directory and add the required template and resource files. Now I’ll wrap things up by explaining what goes into a theme.xml theme definition file and how to deploy your new theme.
• Law Blog – WSJ.com : The Law Blog 2007 Year-End Quiz! – We thought we?d say goodbye to 2007 with a little year-end quiz touching on some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the year in law.
• Automatic blog posts from your Google Reader Shared items « Tzetze Fly – by Dan Woolley – Below is a Ruby script I wrote that does just that. It consumes an Atom feed of your Google Reader Shared Items, formats them, and automatically posts them to your WordPress blog using their XML-RPC interface
• Alfresco Press Releases – Quark And Alfresco Announce New Partnership – This new partnership will enable Quark and Alfresco to provide cost-effective end-to-end content management and publishing solutions based on open standards ? enabling seamless integration with an organization?s existing business system.

Daily del.icio.us for December 31st through January 1st

• » Microsoft creates GWT clone | Ed Burnette?s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com – If Volta had been released two years ago it would have been revolutionary. At this point, though, Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe. Volta also sends a confusing message to .NET developers targeting the browser
• Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA – This plugin allow developers to have complete control over their Amazon EC2 infrastructure. Available from IntelliJ IDEA official plugin repository
• Home | Email Standards Project – The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email
• Alagad: Data Warehousing Part 2 Dimensional Modeling – Dimensional modeling is a somewhat abstract principle and one that is very requirement specific; needing to be created for specific business-organizational user needs.
• Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 released | Springframework.org – I’m pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 has been released and includes support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security for the client-side and Java 1.4, @Endpoint component scanning, and more.
• The 53 Places to Go in 2008 – New York Times – What?s on your travel itinerary in the new year? From a new luxury hotel in Laos (where you can take in the view of ancient temples from a chaise lounge by the infinity pool) to the waterfront night clubs of Hvar
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done! – Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that?s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes. We?ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean
• PayPal Says Linux Grid Can Replace Mainframes — Linux — InformationWeek – A Linux grid is the power behind the payment system at PayPal
• Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications – The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy in-between the web servers and the end-user’s browser. This proxy captures the web apps JavaScript code as it is being sent to a browser and rewrites the code to insert extra instrumentation code
• Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API – Google Code – The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. It returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, labels

Daily del.icio.us for Dec 08, 2007 through Dec 09, 2007

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

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

• The Ultimate Web UI Framework – I was searching for a framework that would allow me to create rich user interfaces that are very interactive and responsive and don’t load the server too much. After examining some favourite frameworks I’ve decided for a few that I’d like to try.
• Giles Bowkett: Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn’t) – Ruby was designed to make you feel good. Even Rubyists who want to explain why Ruby makes them feel good often fail to mention that it was expressly designed for that exact purpose. Neal does this in his podcast.
• Why Ruby on Rails Has Become a Popular “Next Platform” – This article is offered as an introduction to Ruby on Rails for Java developers, offering some basic insight into the evolution of Ruby and Rails and its expanding role in enterprise application development
• Java tips: Ten Common Misconceptions about Grails – s is usually the case with anything “new” there?s a lot of FUD and confusion out there with people who have not used Grails yet, that may be stopping them using it
• Comparing Java Web Frameworks – a Belgian Java User Group initiative – Matt Raible presents at the Belgian Java Users Group and compares the current state of affair in the world of Java Web frameworks
• Granite Data Services – Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL’d), alternative to Adobe LiveCycle(Flex 2) Data Services for J2EE application servers
• Color Wizard – Color Scheme Generator – Color Theory for web designers – The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you
• UI-patterns.com – User Interface Design Patterns – The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps – especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice.
• Statistical Data Mining Tutorials – The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
• Color Wizard – Color Scheme Generator – Color Theory for web designers – The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you
• UI-patterns.com – User Interface Design Patterns – The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps – especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice.
• Statistical Data Mining Tutorials – The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.

Daily del.icio.us for Nov 25, 2007 through Nov 26, 2007

• BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise > Enterprise Applications > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions – BEA Systems injected wikis, mashups, and social computing into enterprise computing with the addition to its AquaLogic product line earlier this week of Pages, Ensemble and Pathways
• macaroni – ted husted’s blog : Weblog – Since its release in June 2001, Apache Struts (struts.apache.org) has become the most popular web framework for Java. Six years later, by any objective measure, Struts is still Java’s most popular web framework.
• Marc Nuri’s Happy Coding Blog » Getting started with JasperReports // Reporting in Java (Part I) – This is the first of a series of articles to get you started with JasperReports. In first place, JasperReports is one of Java’s reporting engines. It’s very powerful and has lots of features that makes it comparable to Crystal Reports.
• ActiveObjects: An Easier Java ORM – ActiveObjects is a Java ORM based on the concept of interface proxies. The whole idea behind it is that you shouldn?t have to write any more code than absolutely necessary
• Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes (via DZone) – See the solutions to some of the most common HTML/CSS bugs in Internet Explorer, covers margins appearing larger, minimum height, and [if IE] tag fixes, aswell as how to fix the CSS lightbox flash transparency bug

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 20, 2007

• BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise > Enterprise Applications > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions – BEA Systems injected wikis, mashups, and social computing into enterprise computing with the addition to its AquaLogic product line earlier this week of Pages, Ensemble and Pathways
• macaroni – ted husted’s blog : Weblog – Since its release in June 2001, Apache Struts (struts.apache.org) has become the most popular web framework for Java. Six years later, by any objective measure, Struts is still Java’s most popular web framework.
• Marc Nuri’s Happy Coding Blog » Getting started with JasperReports // Reporting in Java (Part I) – This is the first of a series of articles to get you started with JasperReports. In first place, JasperReports is one of Java’s reporting engines. It’s very powerful and has lots of features that makes it comparable to Crystal Reports.
• ActiveObjects: An Easier Java ORM – ActiveObjects is a Java ORM based on the concept of interface proxies. The whole idea behind it is that you shouldn?t have to write any more code than absolutely necessary
• Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes (via DZone) – See the solutions to some of the most common HTML/CSS bugs in Internet Explorer, covers margins appearing larger, minimum height, and [if IE] tag fixes, aswell as how to fix the CSS lightbox flash transparency bug
• InfoQ: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald – Keith Donald goes in depth on Spring Web Flow, which solves the problem of orchestrating control navigations within a web application in Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF. Keith talks about how to design workflows in web apps and technical details
• Bill Roth’s Blog: ** Workshop 10.1 Available: Workshop and Studio Merged! ** – I am pleased to announce that the code lines BEA Workshop and Workshop Studio have been merged. The result is BEA Workshop 10.1, now available for download

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 15, 2007 through Jul 20, 2007

• Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart – Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart
• Ajaxian – Slider.js – Prototype based Carousel – Bruno Bornsztein has created Slider.js, a carousel widget that flips between content, based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us.
• techno.blog(“Dion”): I’m a Ruby on Rails – You know that the Mac ad campaign is doing well when you get parodies left right and center. The latest is Rails vs. Java. It is of course gratuitous and silly…. but it’s fun
• Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog – In essence, we decided to innovate, not litigate.
• Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents – May 28, 2007 – So if Microsoft ever sued Red Hat for patent infringement, OIN might sue Microsoft in retaliation, trying to enjoin distribution of Windows. It’s a cold war, and what keeps the peace is the threat of mutually assured destruction: patent Armageddon
• Ajaxian – Rich Text Controls: Tiny MCE 2.1.1 and Control.TextArea – Ryan Johnson has created a new control: Control.TextArea. This is a very different tool, as it isn’t about WYSIWYG functionality, but rather building toolbar based text areas that wrap simple text.

Daily del.icio.us for May 13, 2007 through May 17, 2007

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

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

• Spring 2.0.1 and BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 Integration – Over a year ago we described the integration the Spring framework 1.2.x with WebLogic Server 9.2. Since then we have certified further versions of Spring and WebLogic Server culminating in the combination of WebLogic Server 9.2 against Spring 2.0. Both th
• Google Code – Updates: Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL – The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during cr
• Coding Horror: Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? – The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business.
• Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don’t work, then its bound to drizzown – This past week, I switched from programming in Ruby to programming in Python. Why did I do that? Well, that?s a story with a bunch of background.
• HandBrake – HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
• The Healthcare IT Guy » Resume Driven Development (RDD) – This concept, which I call RDD (resume driven development), is very real and it?s actually a fairly widespread problem.

Daily del.icio.us for Apr 20, 2007 through Apr 25, 2007

• The 90th percentile: MyFaces: The emperor has no clothes – My last project is going into production in a couple of weeks, and it has been implemented using JSF. I started with JSF in good faith: it should be stable by now, it is blessed by Sun and included as the de facto web framework in JEE 5.
• James Ward’s Blog » Blog Archive » My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures – A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge.
• rakaz – Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files – Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.
• Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast – The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We?ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
• lightWindow – Another decent lightbox Javascript library (via Ajaxian) – After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose
• Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-04-16 | By Andrew Binstock – IT’s rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete
• Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson?s Response to Alex Payne?s Interview [dive into mark] – LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style.
• WordPress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott Back – There?s no good reason for WordPress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance
• Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight – Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
• Java Community News – BEA Releases JRockit R27.2 with Java 6 Support – BEA’s latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects.
• Enomalism : XEN Virtualized Server Management Console: Amazon EC2 Migration – The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.
• Everybody Hates Don Imus – Frank Rich’s brilliant column – Even in that short span, there?s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate
• Dev2Dev Online: Open Source and BEA – BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment?combining the best of open source and commercial software?provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit « – Over the years, I?ve accumulated a variety of tools that don?t take up much space but that come in handy when an emergency comes along. On the average day, I don?t need any of these – but when I do, I?m happy to have them. Here are my suggestions

Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 2007

• video.onflex.org – video.onflex.org is maintained by Mike Chambers and Ted Patrick of Adobe. It is focused on providing videos about developing with Adobe Flex, ActionScript and Apollo.
• How to Use Java at a Startup – Cardsharp on Software – The embarrassment of riches in the Java Open Source movement makes it a slam dunk for startups. The fact that you can find an Open Source framework for every conceivable use means that you can focus on your core business instead of on plumbing
• InfoQ: JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information – CIO JP Rangaswami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pill
• Ajaxian » Compressed versions of Prototype – John-David Dalton has spent some time compressing Prototype in a couple of ways to keep your download time to a minimum.
• jsjuicer – jsjuicer is a free tool for safely reducing the size of your JavaScript files. Reducing the size and number of the JavaScript files included in a web page will enable it to load faster

Daily del.icio.us for Mar 10, 2007 through Mar 15, 2007