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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th
- Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.
- If we hired like we vote - If we hired like we vote
- Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online - But in that venture the Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably de
- InfoQ: Mocking Web Services - A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock web services for development and testing. Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB). Apache Synapse can be used to filter, transform, ro
- Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Death by Scheduling - The moral of the story is that if perception is reality, then the best way to manage perception is to make up stuff that you can honestly remember.
- InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture - As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more co
- Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet - GigaOM - So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet
- John Ferguson Smart's Blog: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better! - FingBugs uses more sophisticated analysis techniques than tools like PMD and Checkstyle, working at the bytecode level rather than with the source code, and is more focused on finding the most high priority and potentially dangerous issues.
- Pictures from JavaOne 2008 - Arun Gupta's Weblog - Take 11 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008. Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008.
- Google Web Security for Enterprise - Google Web Security for Enterprise service, powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. All web requests are scanned in real-time, rather than solely relying on stat
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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 January 3rd
Daily del.icio.us for for January 3rd:
- A Gentle Introduction to SQL - Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Deploying Distributed J2EE Applications Using Amazon EC2 - How do you configure your Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) servers to offer the scalability of Amazon EC2 to your applications? This tutorial explains the basic procedures for using Amazon EC2 to deploy distributed J2EE applications.
- redhat.com | Cloud Computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services
- InfoQ: Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology - Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architecture with Java Technology. Sun's target architecture is a composite application platform which is
- Ajaxian » Cool and useful GWT Solutions - David Geary and Rob Gordon have launched a companion Website to their book on GWT. The website uses GWT itself of course, and the most interesting section is the example code that they have made available:
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org) - For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007. After you're done with these, try the lists from 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 23, 2007
- BitNami :: BitNami Stacks - BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP or Ruby. All you need to do is download
- Sriram Krishnan: Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview - Structured storage was one of the missing pieces in Amazon's cloud services jigsaw puzzle (the other has to be the ability to host a site completely on EC2 without using dynamic DNS hacks) and Amazon is plugging that hole today with the launch of SimpleDB
- Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail - Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail (complete, postpone, and edit tasks), add new tasks (and connect them with your emails, contacts, and Google Calendar events), automatically add tasks for sta
- Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed - Recently there has been a lot of discussion about the concept of eventual consistency in the context of data replication. In this positing I would like to try to collect some of the principles and abstractions related to large scale data replication and t
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 05, 2007 through Oct 08, 2007
- Welcome to Tablecloth - Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love
- Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed - Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the ability to trade-off cost, consistency, durability and perform
- Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Thoughts on Amazon's Internal Storage System (Dynamo) - Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has a blog post entitled Amazon's Dynamo which contains the HTML version of an upcoming paper entitled Dynamo: Amazon?s Highly Available Key-value Store which describes a highly available, distributed storage system used in
- InfoQ: ExtJS Creator Jack Slocum Discusses Upcoming 2.0 Release - The ExtJS team recently released the alpha release of version 2.0. This comes roughly a month after a preview release of the framework. New features: Grouping and Summary of Tables, Scrolling Tabs, Anchor Layout, Tree Widget with Columns, Web Desktop
- Ajaxian » JSValidate: Form Validation Library - JSValidate is a simple library based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us to allow you to do form validation. You simply use special CSS classes to annotate your form and let the library do the rest.
- Ajaxian » A simple guide to using Firebug - Phil Rees has written up a nice introduction to Firebug, showing us how you can use Firebug to - Inspect custom stylesheets included by Google Mashup Editor
- Pieter Humphrey's Blog: Adobe and BEA announce bundle of Workshop Studio 10.1 + Adobe Flex Builder 2 - BEA Workshop Studio 10.1 with Adobe Flex 2 brings together world-class development for Rich Internet Applications, BEA WebLogic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement, as well as browser and server portable Java? applications.
- After Struts what? - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - Before we close and somewhat pass a judgement that use Seam as the framework of choice, there are two more options to consider - the web framework from Spring and the Google Web Toolkit.
- Icahn further raises BEA stake to 13.22 percent | News | Mergers/Acquisitions | Reuters - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn further boosted his stake in BEA Systems Inc (BEAS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to 13.22 percent, according to a regulatory filing.
- If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call [dive into mark] - Buy it for what it is, or don?t buy it at all. Your choices don?t get any more granular than that. Apple has been unwaveringly clear that the iPhone is theirs.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 27, 2007 through Sep 01, 2007
- Programming Resources, News and Ideas: Red Hat Developer Studio - Introduction - The beta version of Red hat Developer Studio has been released recently. RHDS is a based on eclipse with set of pre-configured tools from JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio. RHDS gives us out of box and 100% open source platform for enterprise-level….
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Building a Flex DataGrid - This week, we?ve got a nice one for all of you Adobe Flex aficionados. The boys over at Paranoid Ferret Productions have a good introduction on how to build one of the most useful of components, a DataGrid, Flex-style.
- Eulerian Technologies - DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous - DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous. You'll find here the code and instructions for a datepicker widget using Prototype and Scriptaculous librairies.
- Apache News Online: 24 August 2007 - Apache FOP 0.94 Released - The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the release of Apache FOP version 0.94. FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter.
- Apache News Online: 29 August 2007 - Apache OpenJPA 1.0.0 Released - The Apache OpenJPA community is pleased to announce the release of Apache OpenJPA version 1.0.0. Apache OpenJPA is a feature-rich implementation of the persistence part of Enterprise Java Beans 3.0, also known as the Java Persistence API (JPA)
- 10 Candidates for Extreme Makeover, Ticker-Edition « GigaOM - Sun Microsystems is changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA in order to better reflect the company?s role in new network infrastructure. Here?s 10 companies that we think could use an extreme ticker makeover.
- Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT 1.4 release and out of beta - It's a really big day for Google Web Toolkit: GWT 1.4 is now available — and, with more than a million downloads under our belt, GWT is no longer in beta!
- InfoQ: Availability & Consistency - When we move to distributed architectures for scalability, fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency
- InfoQ: Patrick Linskey discusses OpenJPA and the JPA specification - At The Spring Experience conference, InfoQ caught up with Patrick Linskey of BEA to discuss the current status of the Apache OpenJPA project. Linskey explains where OpenJPA came from, how it fits into the OR Mapping space, the features it provides
- Ajax programming with Struts 2 - Java World - In this article, Oleg Mikheev shows you how to use Struts 2, Dojo and JSON to display data in an Ajax-style table. In the process, he introduces some Ajax-friendly features of Struts 2, including its integration with WebWork, Guice & the Dojo toolkit.
- JLINQ: IBM's new paradigm for writing Java database applications - The project code named Java Language Integrated Query (JLINQ) gives database application developers an easy, GUI-based means to significantly increase productivity in both the design and implementation phases
- start - MUScoop Wiki - The primary purpose of this Wiki is to archive Marquette sports information and history. In time, this wiki will become the one-stop-shopping repository for records, player statistics and biographies and team results for all MU sports teams.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 11, 2007 through Aug 16, 2007
- Tutorials - Using Java Persistence API Within a Visual Web Application - Using NetBeans IDE 6.0 and the Visual Web tools, you can write applications that connect to database tables using the Java Persistence API (JPA) in addition to the Visual Web data provider components.
- Enterprise Java Community: Manage test data for integration tests using Spring and DBunit - This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import test data in the database using DBunit.
- How to Get the Best Performance Out of a Java Persistence Implementation : Enterprise Tech Tips - If you are switching over to the Java Persistence API, be aware of the numerous options and decisions you have to make to boost your application's performance. From Cache size, Pools to modes of operation, Rahul Biswas takes you through the steps. (via Th
- Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate - The first release candidate of Prototype 1.6.0 has arrived! The core team is continuing its tradition of bringing thoughtful incremental upgrades to the core APIs in addition to performance improvements and bug fixes. Keep reading for some of the highligh
- Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft | Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com - Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare?s huge IPO pop.
- 30 free HTML email templates - Campaign Monitor - Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we've done the hard work for you with these 30 free email templates.
- WebAppers Simple Javascript Progress Bar with CSS by WebAppers - WebAppers has created a simple Ajax Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS.
- Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1 - Has Hitachi achieved a perfect balance of speed and storage with its Deskstar 7K1000? We've tested it against nearly 20 competitors?including its closest 750GB rivals from Seagate and Western Digital?to find out
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Java Library for Amazon E-Commerce Service - Java Library for Amazon E-Commerce Service
- LiMo Foundation: Welcome - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform
- Erlang, the next Java - Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java. Its main problem is that there is no big company behind it
- Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell - New York Times - In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the copyrights for Unix OS.
- NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 09, 2007 through Aug 11, 2007
- LiMo Foundation: Welcome - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform
- Erlang, the next Java - Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java. Its main problem is that there is no big company behind it
- Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell - New York Times - In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the copyrights for Unix OS.
- NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
- How well do you know prototype? - Here, I've collected most common use cases that do NOT use all of prototype's capabilities and their simple solutions. I hope this will be a basic checklist to go through when developing for your next project
- Learning JavaFX Script, Part 1: An Introduction to JavaFX Script for Java Programmers - The JavaFX Script programming language (hereinafter referred to as JavaFX) is a declarative, statically typed scripting language from Sun. Because JavaFX Script is statically typed, it also has the same code structuring, reuse, and encapsulation features
- Real Web 2.0: Quick and dirty Web applications with bookmarklets - Bookmarklets are an important part of the Web 2.0 landscape, and they exemplify the qualities of Web 2.0 technology I tend to focus on in this column: transparency and openness.
- WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Launcher Appliance - WLS-VE is a combination of a Java application server (WebLogic Server) with a Java Virtual Machine that works with hypervisor software and provides only the set of operating system features that WebLogic Server needs to offer its full range of services.
- Arvind Jain's Blog: WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE) goes GA - With a single command, WLS instances can quickly be deployed onto VMware ESX-enabled resource pools, fully integrated and tuned to run within their own dedicated virtual machines… all without any 3rd party operating systems.
- yav - Javascript form validation tool - Yav is a SIMPLE, POWERFUL and CUSTOMIZABLE javascript-based form validation tool.
- New elements in HTML 5 - HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio.
- Download Query Express - Query Express is a simple Query Analyzer look-alike, but being small and free it can be run where the SQL Server client tools are not installed or licensed. This makes it especially useful as a query tool for MSDE and SQL Express. It also connects to Orac
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 30, 2007 through May 03, 2007
- InfoQ: WebWork (Struts 2) In Action - Patrick Lightbody does an overview of WebWork and the Struts merger, comparing to other web frameworks and explaining validation support, Ajax support, and how to achieve rapid development with WebWork/Struts 2.
- Lazycoder » Blog Archive » The Danger of Tight Coupling - The Danger of Tight Coupling - Funny funny video
- Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Administration and Infrastructure Architecture: Home - The standards and practices described here are the standarized tooling needed for mass customization within IT
- Peter Van Dijck's Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - I always love to read scaling discussions, especially about popular web apps, and there are loads of them out there. Here?s my overview of the best.
- Technology News: Commentary: Red Hat Gets Into Mischief - Red Hat said it plans to open source its Red Hat Network systems management offering as its integrates features from JBoss's Operations Network wares. What? More mischief! This could be potentially disruptive to CA, IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, et al.
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 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
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