• InfoQ: The Joy of Testing – John Hughes shows how to explore the possible bugs of a code by creating a series of tests in Erlang and using multiple test frameworks, discovering the faults through successive tests and evaluating the frameworks while doing it.
• InfoWorld review: Top Java programming tools – IntelliJ is an excellent IDE that shows how superior craftsmanship can produce commercial products that compete successfully with free competitors
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Algorithms from the Book. – Theoretical Computer Science – Stack Exchange – Theoretical Computer Science is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love Theoretical Computer Science.
• Programming for Dummies: Dissatisfied, Some Wall Street Technologists Flee for Start-Up Life | The New York Observer – There are certain coping mechanisms that make life on Wall Street more bearable for creatively inclined engineers. Some develop iPhone apps in their spare time; some attend hack-a-thons after hours
• CheckThread.org =CheckThread is a static analysis tool for catching Java concurrency bugs at compile time – CheckThread is a static analysis tool for catching Java concurrency bugs at compile time
• Collaboration, IT-style: How to do it right – If companies set up the right ingredients — bringing talented people together and challenging them in an environment in which "spontaneous innovation can happen" — then IT employees will excel
• Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware • The Register – Oracle's cloud-in-a-box runs a version of Oracle's WebLogic Server – bought with BEA Systems and engineered to work with all the multiple servers, cores, storage and gallons of networking – in conjunction with the former BEA's JRockit virtual machine.
• The new Oracle: Bigger and badder than ever – Dan Gillmor – Salon.com – If Ellison wants to be the Apple of the enterprise, he's set out an ambitious goal. This will remain interesting to watch
• powermock – PowerMock is a Java framework that allows you to unit test code normally regarded as untestable. – PowerMock is a framework that extend other mock libraries such as EasyMock with more powerful capabilities. PowerMock uses a custom classloader and bytecode manipulation to enable mocking of static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, removal of static initializers and more.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for September 20th through September 28th

• LocalCooling – Free Power Management Tool to Optimize Energy Savings – LocalCooling is a 100% FREE power management tool, from Uniblue Research Labs, that allows users to optimize their energy savings in minutes and as a result reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Type-safe Builder Pattern in Java « Michid’s Weblog – Recently I read this rather fascinating post about a Type-safe Builder Pattern in Scala. When Heinz Kabutz mentioned the builder pattern in his latest issues of the The Java Specialists’ Newsletter I decided to try to come up with a type safe version for Java.
• leejeok: Setup Java, Tomcat, MySQL on Ubuntu (JSP Hosting) – This tutorial will lead you to setup a simple JSP hosting on Ubuntu machine. You may want to consider this as a basic setup to host any of your web application which developed using Java – JSP or Servlet, Tomcat and MySQL
• InfoQ: Spring 2.5: New Features in Spring MVC – This article is the second part of a three-part series exploring annotations introduced in Spring 2.5. It covers annotations support in the Web layer. The final article will highlight additional features available for integration and testing.
• jetlang – Message based concurrency for Java – Jetlang provides a high performance java threading library. The library is based upon Retlang. The library is a complement to the java.util.concurrent package introduced in 1.5. The library should be used for message based concurrency similar to event based actors in Scala. The library does not provide remote messaging capabilities. It is designed specifically for high performance in-memory messaging.
• keyczar: Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography – Google Code – Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for devlopers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys
• Linux.com :: Using free software for HTTP load testing – A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites.
• Op-Ed Columnist – Eight Strikes and You’re Out – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com – Senator McCain did not show up for the crucial vote on July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has missed all eight votes over the last year
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4 Takes Off – Good news, everyone! We’re happy to announce the release of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4! Though this is a regular maintenance release, we have some cool stuff (besides performance improvements and bug-fixes — things you can typically find in any maintenance release) up our sleeve for you: Reworked Ruby, JRuby and Rails support, Way better smart Maven integration, Version control with Subversion 1.5
• Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register – Despite being a canon of Java engineering, Hadoop is actually pretty useful, if you've got a problem it can solve.

Daily del.icio.us for August 11th through August 15th

• Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Microsoft is 2000 times less effective than Google; Yahoo Board seems to be insane – Microsoft is to Yahoo as Time Warner is to (correct answer) AOL.
• Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb. – This still seems like a real dumb idea, like a staggering drunk trying to prop himself on an unwilling and lame adversary who wouldn't mind seeing the drunk facedown on the pavement
• IDEA is Now Enterprisey – It’s official, JetBrains raised the price on IDEA. While they claim they have not raised prices in 5 years, this is not the complete story.
• Smoke and Ice: Um… Has anyone seen JBoss? – Ok, can anyone explain why JBoss seams to have dropped off the map? The 5.0 version of the JBoss Application Server has been in beta for over a year! What's going on?
• InfoQ: From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex – James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface. In the article, they outline the steps of updating the open source Pentaho Suite dashboard with a Web 2.0 dashboard:
• java.net: Query by Slice, Parallel Execute, and Join: A Thread Pool Pattern in Java – By combining all the above concepts, it is possible to abstract out a Thread Pool pattern in the JDK for your daily parallel processing solutions. This article will showcase code that can be built and run using the JDK along with your favorite database.
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » External Annotations – There are several cases when direct annotating code is not advisable: for example, project is shared between team members that use different IDEs, or you work with library classes. That does not mean you can’t make use of these annotations, though – w
• Getting Started with Grails – Infoq ebook – Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Many org
• Safari is about to get crazy fast | Computerworld Blogs – What's so interesting about this is that Safari is already a fast browser. While Microsoft's products are getting bulkier and slower, Apple's products are getting leaner and faster.
• 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog) – I wasn't going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.

Daily del.icio.us for February 8th through February 10th

• Howstuffworks “How Sudoku Works”
  In this article, we’ll find out what a sudoku puzzle entails, how to go about solving one and where the concept originated
  (tags: sudoku reference howto game entertainment)
• crazybob.org: Hard Core Java: ThreadLocal
  Use a thread local variable (where each thread has a separate value) when you want to carry a value along without explicitly passing it from method to method down the call stack, and when appropriate, remember to explicitly clear the value in a finally bl
  (tags: java howto article thread threadlocal)
• Sztywny Blog – Stiff asks, great programmers answer
  I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for variuos things they created. Coming out with question was a 5 minute job for me – these are things I would ask about if I could speak with them p
  (tags: programming interview book rails Ruby management linux java blog)

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 23, 2006