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Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th
Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com - One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm InfoQ: Integrate Flex with Spring Framework - A key to project success is creating an architecture that new developers can rapidly integrate themselves into and begin to be productive on day 1. Flex with Spring, iBATIS, & Cairngorm help me to quickly produce a patterned- based, repeatable architectur New Adventures in Software » Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement - “Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire.” - (Attributed to an unidentified Microsoft employee). SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions - I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Neal Ford Advises on Boosting Developer’s Productivity - Neal tells you how you can become more accustomed with the shortcuts, get used to using them in the daily routine, and demonstrates the magic of different key combinations while coding with IntelliJ IDEA. Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system Enterprise Java Community: Extending Spring LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper - This article explains how to extend Spring-LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper to access LDAP data through intuitive JavaBean operations. About - XML Hammer - The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation. Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings - LinuxWorld - Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both vendors added improvements on the desktop and the server. There were many areas of overlap, especially with virtualization. JasperReports: 3.0.0 released - JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.
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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 March 22nd through March 25th
SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place - Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful an Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 - There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though IE7 has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31% of all browsers out there (versus only 22 % for IE7 and 36.5 % for Firefox). Amazon's cloud computing service fuels startup's launch | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-25 | By Jon Brodkin, Network World - A startup called Elastra is launching Tuesday with software that helps customers build database management systems and other applications that can be deployed on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments to Grow 11 Percent in 2008, Market Could Fall Victim to Weaker Global Economy - Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 293 million units in 2008, up 10.9 percent from 2007 shipments of 264 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. However, analysts warned that growth could fall into single digits if global economic headwinds st Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense | Open Source | ZDNet.com - Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off - New York Times - For rickrolling, the duck was replaced with the 20-year-old Astley video, and in the last year it has become a hugely successful “meme,” the Internet’s word for an idea repeated across the Web. The video from yougotrickrolled.com has been viewed mor Roundtable: The state of open source | InfoWorld | News | March 24, 2008 | By Jason Snyder - Any endeavor rooted in community is bound to spark passionate debate. After all, without contention, how else to determine the best way forward? Since its emergence, open source has embodied this spirit. Part defiant, part self-reliant, and often outspoke ETL for Free-Form Data - SQL Server Central - Would you like to learn a handy little process for extracting, transforming and loading data fields from a free-form source like a web page or word processing document into something structured like a staging table? Asynchronous HTTP and Comet architectures - Java World - In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view of asynchronous HTTP, explaining its role in developing high-performance HTTP proxies and non-blocking HTTP clients, as well as the long-lived HTTP connections associated with Comet. Ext.ux.grid.RowActions - RowActions Plugin for Ext 2.x - Beta1 by Saki - RowActions plugin allows you to add icons in a grid that you want to bind actions to: delete row, edit row, whatever. It displays an icon and fires two events: beforeaction (return false to cancel) and action (here you put the action you want to execute) Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism - Loved this comment 
- I hadn't realized how unhappy I was until I watched Office Space and my wife said, "That seems like your job". I soon switched jobs
Tags: adobe, air, ajax, amazon, analysis, asynchronous, browser, browsers, business, calendar, campaign, comet, computer, data, database, datawarehouse, developer, development, ec2, etl, ext, extension, extjs, firefox, flash, flex, flex3, fortify, gartner, gears, GMail, google, googlegears, grid, guide, howto, httpclient, Humor, ibm, ide, ie, ie6, ie7, jasperreports, java, javascript, Linux, microsoft, mobile, mysql, offline, opensource, optimization, outlook, pc, plugin, pocketpc, reports, ria, rickrolled, s3, saas, sales, science, servlet, software, sqlserver, ssis, standards, sync, teamwork, tools, tutorial, ubuntu, video, web, Web2.0, webdesign, webdev, windows, xensource, xml, xsd, xsl - I hadn't realized how unhappy I was until I watched Office Space and my wife said, "That seems like your job". I soon switched jobsRelated posts
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Daily del.icio.us for March 4th through March 7th
Software bugtraps | Software that makes software better | Economist.com - Jonathan Pincus, an expert on software reliability who recently left Microsoft Research to become an independent consultant, has observed that “the key issues [in programming] relate to people and the way they communicate and organise themselves.” FAQ - Grid - Ext JS Forums - Here is some lessons learned / compiled questions from some of the repetitive questions posted in the forums about grids. Typically people ask the same line of questions (I guess they don't search the forums) and the responses are typically fairly similar Google Calendar Sync: Getting Started - Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You'll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency. Staying on top of your Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlo Data Warehousing - I'm going to explain OLTP, data warehousing, and OLAP. Kiss that ghetto post-doc goodbye and watch big companies line up to pay you $300/hour to romance their most critical data. Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation - Wired How-To Wiki - You've just download the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu Linux and it didn't cost you a thing. You breezed through the installation and a brand new desktop is staring you in the face — now what? Adobe Floating on AIR - eWeek - At the Adobe Engage 08 event in San Francisco Feb. 25, eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft spoke with Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch about AIR and a host of other issues. Google Gears on Mobile Devices - Google Gears API - Google Code - Google Gears is now available on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices. Google Gears works in exactly the same way on a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device as it does on a desktop PC. If you've already written an application that uses Google Gears, your application wil
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Daily del.icio.us for February 17th through February 22nd
java.sun.com interview: A Conversation With Cay Horstmann - Cay Horstmann, a computer science prof at San Jose State, Java Champion, and author of some respected books on JSF and Java in the enterprise makes some provocative points in an interview on java.sun.com, InfoQ: GWT-Ext 2.0 Released: An Interview with Sanjiv Jivan - InfoQ.com had a chance to chat with Sanjiv Jivan, the creator and primary developer behind GWT-Ext, to get his perspective on the 2.0 release: YUI 2.5.0 Released — Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - The YUI Team just released version 2.5.0 of the library. We’ve added six new components — Layout Manager, Uploader (multi-file upload engine combining Flash and JavaScript), Resize Utility, ImageCropper, Cookie Utility and a ProfilerViewer Control USAspending.gov - Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the government is really doing with your money. API for Static Maps - For those who don't need all the complexity of Google Maps API or can't use JavaScript in a specific context (for example, in a mobile website), there's a new Static Maps API. Similar to the recently-launched API for charts, this API lets you generate map Analyze This: Hoaxer Haunts Earnings Calls - WSJ.com - Mr. Herrick is giving analysts another reason to look forward to a big conference many of them plan to attend in Boca Raton, Fla. next week. Says Mr. Faucher: "One of the big questions is, will Joe Herrick from Gutterman Research show up?" New Version of SalesBuilder using LiveCycle Data Services : Christophe Coenraets - I have often felt that we needed a more real-life/complex sample application to adequately demonstrate LiveCycle Data Services, and specifically the Data Management Service. So, I wrote a new version of Salesbuilder that uses LCDS to persist data at the s Flex cookbook beta - Building an HTML, CSS, AJAX capable AIR Browser (Standalone Application) - The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) uses the Webkit HTML engine. As such, most of the complexity of using HTML in your applications is hidden. This simple demo loads up a webpage that has CSS and AJAX to demonstrate the capabilities. Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity: Is Groovy like Java? - Groovy has some extremely powerful features and libraries that can really make your life on the JVM blissful. Groovy's integration with Java is top notch, which means that you can always fall back to Java when you need Java specific features AIR Inspector and Aptana Update | Kevin Hoyt - The AIR Introspector is designed to let you debug your application. By adding a single SCRIPT tag to your application, and hitting F12 on your keyboard, you’ll be presented with a new window that loaded with information about your application
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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 Dec 01, 2007 through Dec 03, 2007
Setting up a GWT project in IntelliJ IDEA 7 - IntelliJ IDEA 7 has built in support (in the form of a bundled plugin) for GWT projects. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating a GWT project in IDEA 7. Marc's Musings: Spreadsheet Component - I'm working on a spreadsheet like component for AgileAgenda that I might end up turning into a general-purpose flex component at some point. Tech Per: 10 Tips on JPA Domain Modelling - This post is a collection of tips on what I think is good advice, when domain modelling in Java with JPA as ORM mapping technology. Scal v0.2 Documentation | Scal - Scal is a simple, javascript calendar/date picker based on the Prototype js library Ext JS Blog - » Extended Filtering Using the Grid Filter Plugin - Steve Skrla has created the Grid Filter plugin which has quickly become one of the most popular user extensions in the Ext community Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date Library with a ton of syntactic sugar Apache Home - MarkMail - MarkMail is a free service for searching mailing list archives, with huge advantages over traditional search engines. Each email is stored internally as an XML document, and accessed using XQuery. Christophe Coenraets » Interactive Bubble Pipeline: Another Hybrid (HTML/Flex) Example - When you move bubbles, the Flex application invokes a JavaScript method to update the Projected Revenue which is displayed in plain HTML on the page. 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
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