java.net: The Open Road: java.nio.file - Add on top of that sexier new I/O features, such as watch lists, true asynchronous I/O, and virtual file systems, and Java 7 may finally have a modern foundation for input and output on which the next generation of clients, servers, and desktop apps can b InfoQ: Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google - A retrospective on Google's first Scrum implementation. Jeff Sutherland visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed projects. Their strategy for inserting Scrum step by step into the Goo Coding Horror: Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? - It's a shame, because the best way to "beat" open source is to join 'em — to integrate with and ship open source components as a part of your product. Unfortunately, that's the one route that Microsoft seems hell bent on never following. Allway Sync: Free File Synchronization, Backup, Data Replication, PC Sync Software, Freeware, File Sync, Data Synchronization Software - Allway Sync uses innovative synchronization algorithms to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Allway Sync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy-to-use interface. InfoQ: Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring - In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code InfoQ: Google Releases Open Source Web Application Security Assessment Tool - Google has announced the open source release of one of their internal security tools "ratproxy". The proxy analyzes problems such as cross-site script inclusion threats, insufficient cross-site request forgery defenses, caching issues, cross-site scriptin Netflix Player source code released - Hack a Day - The Netflix Player continues to gain in popularity. Roku has finally released the GPL code for their Netflix Player. Just today Forbes published that Roku would roll out a software update allowing it to stream from other online services Build Ajax applications with Ext JS - Ext JS is a powerful JavaScript library that simplifies Async JavaScript + XML (Ajax) development through the use of reusable objects and widgets. This article introduces Ext JS, providing an overview of the object-oriented design concepts behind it Seymour Hersh On Covert Operations In Iran : NPR - Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh believes that the United States may be closer to armed conflict with Iran than previously imagined. He writes about Congress' funding of covert military operations in the upcoming issue of The New Yorker. Oracle reveals BEA roadmap | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-01 | By Paul Krill - The BEA Weblogic Server Java application server "becomes Oracle's strategic J2EE container," Kurian said. It has been integrated with Oracle technologies like Oracle TopLink for Java persistence and Oracle Coherence grid capabilities. InfoQ: Building Large AJAX Applications with GWT 1.4 and Google Gears - In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears. Topics discussed include an overview of GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT applicati Ext JS - Integrating Google Maps API With ExtJS - Theres no doubt that Google has some interesting and very useful JavaScript API’s - most of which I end up using over and over again. So why not package them up into an Ext component?
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Daily del.icio.us for June 1st through June 4th
Firefox 3 for developers - MDC - If you're a developer trying to get a handle on all the new features in Firefox 3, this is the perfect place to start. This article provides a list of the new articles covering features added to Firefox 3 InfoQ: Is Google Gears Positioned to Add Features to the Web? - There is no doubt that Rich Internet Applications remain a major battleground for the industry along with and complementary to Ad-based revenue models and cloud-computing. Will Gears take a similar path as Flash and become as much adopted by Web sites and Use Flex Builder 3 to create a JavaScript AIR application - I have tried today to create an AIR application. My tool of choice was Flex Builder 3 as I knew you can create AIR applications using it. Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here - We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world - How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multi Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library - Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics: DBSight: Instant Scalable Full-text database search platform/engine - Instead of weeks or even months to develop a full-text search for your data, if you know how to use DBSight, you can easily create the full-text search literally in minutes. Brain Freeze » Storing JasperReports in a database using iBATIS and Oracle 10g - This article shows how I solved the file system issue by storing JasperReports report definitions in a database. I’ll assume familiarity with the iBATIS “ORM” database framework since I am not showing a full iBATIS setup here. JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala - Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for the upcoming IntelliJ 8 release, as well as his views on IntelliJ's support for Flex and Scala. » HOW TO: Use JDBC Batching for 7-8X throughput gains - Using the batched statement capability of your JDBC driver can give you 7-8X throughput gains. Not only is batching significantly faster, it’ll save database CPU cycles and be easier on the network, too Why Java? Because it's everywhere. - The value of this enterprise capabilities is still very high, and in my opinion, it is one of the most important differentiators of Java. Once you know how to deal with it, it saves you lots of time in development and production. Roku's Netflix Player sells out | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - There's more proof that the Netflix Player is a hit. Start-up Roku, the company behind the device that enables Netflix subscribers to watch movies streamed from the Internet to their TVs, has run out of inventory two weeks after launching. InfoQ: Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development - Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX
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Daily del.icio.us for May 25th through May 28th
Nick Bradbury: Hospitals Are No Place for Sick People - My father is a wealthy, well-connected, fully-insured, brilliant man, and this all took place at what is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the country. If the healthcare system failed him, it will fail the rest of us, too. The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Erlang By Example - Learn how to write Erlang programs by sitting next to an experienced Erlang programmer as he builds an application from the ground up. In these screencasts, Kevin Smith incrementally builds a distributed chat system using Erlang Ext JS - Use Namespaces to organize your JavaScript code - Using namespaces will ensure your JavaScript code is safe from other code overwriting it in the global namespace. YUI 2.5.2 Released: Bug Fixes and Support for Upcoming Firefox and Opera Releases » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - The YUI development team released version 2.5.2 today; you can download the new release from SourceForge or configure your implementation using the YUI Configurator. This is a focused release that addresses several key bugs while providing support for Fir Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit - Over the years, Warren Buffett has recommended many books in a variety of venues about a variety of subjects. Continuing our ongoing series of books recommended by Buffett, here we highlight ten books that Buffett has recommended on investing. .htaccess Tutorials, htaccess Examples, Sample .htaccess Files - This is the index of my favorite apache HTTP (htaccess, mod_rewrite, httpd.conf) examples, solutions, ideas, htaccess tips, apache tricks and .htaccess sample files AJAX Libraries API - Google Code - The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libs. By using the Google AJAX API, your application has high speed, globaly available access to JavaScript open source libraries Google to preach Web 2.0 gospel to developers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Lighting a fire under Web 2.0 - App Engine and Gears together are centerpieces of Google's attempt to bring the Web alive, and we can expect some action there at the conference, too. Ext JS Ext.ux.Wiz (Wizardcomponent) - Ext.ux.Wiz is a user extension that helps you setting up wizards for your Ext JS project easily.
Guide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
Tags: accessibility, administration, ajax, apache, api, appengine, architecture, books, caching, CDN, cms, code, component, css, development, dreamweaver, economics, erlang, extjs, finance, financial, gears, google, healthcare, hospitals, howto, htaccess, investing, javascript, jquery, library, medicine, menus, money, offline, programming, prototype, screencast, standards, survey, sysadmin, tutorial, video, web, Web2.0, webdesign, yahoo, yuiGuide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
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Daily del.icio.us for April 6th through April 12th
louisgray.com: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire?: Silicon Valley Blog - As a blogger, I am a content creator. I don't want my content stolen, or reposted without attribution or under somebody else's name. But I am also a huge advocate of RSS and continuing to adapt where the conversation is being held Reports of Windows’ demise are greatly exaggerated | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com - It’s not news that Windows is huge and unwieldy. Many (probably most) of Microsoft’s own Windows developers would agree with that premise. But to suggest that Microsoft is burying its head in the sand and hoping its problems just go away is ridiculous Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundation upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web apps Hartija - Css Print Framework - To solve this problem I decided to make universal Cascading Style Sheets for web printing by uniting all best CSS printing practises into one. dtsn : Highlighting Forms [tutorial] - This is quite a well known but under used technique for highlighting your form elements without any JavaScript. By using the CSS property focus you can apply style to a form element when it is clicked, also know as focus. Cisco switch consolidates functions in the data center - Cisco Systems Inc. today announced the Nexus 5000 series of server access switches, which are designed to consolidate storage, networking and virtualization functions in data centers. The switch unifies Fibre Channel over Ethernet with data center Etherne Alfresco's sales up 320 percent, hits 30,000 active deployments | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - Yes, you can make lots of money with open-source software. Alfresco, a leading enterprise content management and collaboration vendor, just announced its 2007 financial results. The numbers speak for themselves: Google App Engine - Google Code - Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. The Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog: When Mashing Your Enterprise, It Pays To Have a Lot of Friends - There’s one thing we’ve always been certain about: no single vendor can address the entire enterprise mashup problem alone. It is critical to catalyze mashups in the enterprise with an ecosystem that surrounds those mashups, making them easier and mor GWT-Ext 2.0.3 released with charting, maps, portal and other goodies - GWT-Ext 2.0.3 has been released. This version is compatible with Ext 2.0.2 and GWT 1.5. The new features in this release are charts and maps plus all of the goodies already built in.
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Daily del.icio.us for January 30th through February 1st
Ext JS Blog - » IDEs, plugins and tools for Ext JS 2.0 - The Ext 2.0 API is very extensive and remembering all of the functions, properties or configs available is virtually impossible. The API documentation is very thorough, but it would be nice if IDEs would provide code assist options in JavaScript as they d Clockwork Objects » Adobe Flex: Styling the DataGrid header separators - Although the default alo theme in Flex can be easily styled through CSS (made especially easy using the Flex Style Explorer), there are elements such as separators between the column headers that cannot easily be styled. James Ward - RIA Cowboy » Blog Archive » Screencast: BEA Workshop + Adobe Flex Builder - Pieter Humphrey of BEA has posted a great screencast about using the BEA Workshop / Flex Builder bundle. He goes through a very in-depth demonstration of using all the great features of Workshop and Flex to build a RIA front-end for the Medrec Patient App Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library - Scripteka.com, the Prototype extensions repository and library. The intention is to provide a central place to organize plugins for the Prototype community. John Resig - The State of JSON - JSON2.js - Late last year Crockford quietly released a new version of his JSON API that replaced his existing API. The important difference was that it used a single base object (JSON) instead of extending all native object prototypes The Clever Monkey: Leap of Faith: Leaving Burton Group for Curl - It is at once a happy and sad day for me. I resigned from my position at Burton Group for a new position as Vice President of Developer Relations at Curl, Inc. My last day at Burton Group is February 1st; my first day at Curl is February 18th. InfoQ: Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast' - At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming InfoQ: New Scala Tutorials for Java Developers - Spiewak started his series, Scala for Java Refugees, in early January and his fourth part, Pattern Matching and Exception Handling was published today. Manageability - Top Five Java Technologies to Learn in 2008 - Software Technology will always been in constant flux. Change will always be inevitable. So as a Java developer you need to continue to groom your career by learning new techniques and technologies. Shifting Mind » Postalicious - Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, or Google Reader bookmarks to your blog
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Daily del.icio.us for January 17th
Introduction to Groovy, Part 3 - In this third installment ofIntroduction to Groovy (part 1, part 2) we will continue looking at some features of the Groovy language. Some you may find them on other languages, but some are exclusive to Groovy. PDFBox - Java PDF Library - PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. TagSoup home page - This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML Teflon Ted: Book Review: Dreaming in Code - I'm probably not the first (or the last) person to say Dreaming in Code is the Soul of a New Machine for my generation Thinking In Java: In today's world, what is the role of the Application Server? - Given the likes of Spring and Hibernate, how do people consume the Application Server? Is it all you can eat with JEE still delivering on the promise of writing business logic and letting the App server deal with the infrastructure? People Over Process » Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer - While at the Eclipse Runtime Summit, I had the chance to talk with Iona's Eric Newcomer (CTO of Iona, Co-Chair, Enterprise Expert Group, OSGi Alliance, and well respected coding guy) about the emergence of OSGi as a server-side, or enterprise technology Grails - Home - Grails aims to bring the "coding by convention" paradigm to Groovy. It's an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. How do you parse HTML in Java? - The Open Source HTML Parsers in Java page is useful in listing the HTML parsers that are out there. But it doesn't give much of a clue about which are the "best" in a given situation. In other words, how should one decide which HTML parser to use?
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Daily del.icio.us for January 14th
Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies. Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing. Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues. Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website. Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o
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Daily del.icio.us for January 13th through January 14th
Tweak your Ubuntu desktop with Ubuntu Tweak - Download Squad - Ubuntu Tweak makes it easy to customize your desktop environment and a handful of other settings like your startup session and power management settings. The utility runs on Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 and could make life a lot easier on Linux/Ubuntu newbies. Project Euler - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and prog Michael?s Random Thoughts » The Pitfalls of Java as a First Programming Language - A Response - Blaming the first language for a failure to design a good curriculum where other necessary languages are taught appropriately is a naïve argument that misses the point and isn?t helping anyone bobdc.blog: Scraping and linked data - Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one datejs - A JavaScript Date Library - Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing. Microsoft MIX07 - How to Make AJAX Applications Scream on the Client - A recent presentation by Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team, at MIX 2007 on Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client went into detail on how developers should approach the problem of making their applications perform well on HTML Purifier 3.0.0 released - HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are st A BigDecimal Cookbook for financial calculations - Computations that yielded amounts, quantities, adjustments, and many other things were generally done with little or no attention to the special precision and rounding concerns that arise when dealing with financial issues. Apache Lenya - Open Source Content Management (Java/XML) v2.0 - The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya. Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and Lightview - Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website. Best Color Tools For Web Designers - Determining the core color for a web project could be easy but finding the right alternatives to match the core can sometimes be difficult. That?s where the color tools play its roles. Color tools help you determine matching color or even suggest sets o HtmlUnit vs HttpUnit « A Public Scratchpad - If you?re using HttpUnit for legacy reasons, it?s a fairly solid package, but don?t expect to get much support. If you?re starting a new project and are trying to decide between these two frameworks, HtmlUnit wins hands down. It has the features,
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Daily del.icio.us for January 9th
enunciate - Enunciate is a Web service deployment framework. It is not another Web service stack implementation. Rather, Enunciate leverages existing Web service technologies to provide a mechanism to build, package, deploy, and to clearly, accurately deliver your We Ryan Heaton's Blog: Web Service Programming for the Masses, Part I: Developing the Web Service API - This is the first part of a tutorial will walk you through developing a Web service API that could meet the requirements of all of the above-mentioned use cases. For the sake of clarity and brevity, we'll keep the operations simple, but by the time we're Bob Rhubart's Blog: The SOA Governance Prescription - A significant part of getting your SOA to do what it's supposed to do is getting the people involved in the SOA to do what they're supposed to do Pinaki Poddar's Blog: Slice: OpenJPA for Distributed Databases - Slice is a OpenJPA plug-in for horizontally-partitioned, distributed databases. As distributed databases are being increasingly common in enterprise IT ecosystem, I considered extending OpenJPA to transact against a set of databases instead of a a single Top 10 SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and DTS tips - Whether you plan to migrate SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) or run DTS packages in SQL Server 2005, this expert advice can help How to Dynamically and Iteratively Populate An Excel Workbook from SQL Server - SQL Server Central - In this article, I will show you how to create a new Excel output file and populate the file with discrete spreadsheets containing specific data from a database. We will Integration Services for the task Application Development Trends - SpringSource Offers Spring.NET 1.1 - SpringSource is offering the final release of Spring.NET 1.1. Spring.NET 1.1 supports the ASP.NET Framework for Web development. It enables dependency injection for pages, controls, modules and providers InfoQ: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit - Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT. Book Review: Google Web Toolkit Applications - Google Web Toolkit, by Ryan Dewsbury, is an excellent book for those looking to use GWT to good advantage, covering most areas of GWT functionality in exceptional detail. It covers software engineering, server integration, custom component composition, CS Adobe - Developer Center : Using BEA Workshop Studio and Java to create Flex-based RIAs - In this tutorial, I walk you through the steps to creating an RIA using Java for the back-end business logic and Flex for the front-end view of the application. I will use the BEA Workshop Studio (Flex Bundle) to create a simple Java mid-tier and a simple smarturls-s2 - Google Code - SmartURLs-S2 is a Struts 2 plugin that provides a rich set of convention based handling for web applications. In addition, it also provides a component framework for developing web application components in separate codebases and the deploying them into a Building Struts 2 Apps Without XML Gluecode - In this article, we jettison XML gluecode for "convention over configuration". Using the SmartURLs plugin for Struts 2, we can autowire Action classes to page templates with search-engine-optimized URIs. Embedding Flickr Photos - In this article, I'll explain how to fetch data from Flickr using a proxy client library and displaying the data in a Visual Web Application page. Atlassian Developer Blog - How to build an Atlassian plugin - There's a single command that will download Tomcat, install Confluence or JIRA, start them up, load sample data, then install your plugin for testing. And once you've started the application once, you can just leave it running while you uninstall and rein
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 30, 2007
facebook-java-api - Google Code - A Facebook API client implemented in Java - The purpose of this project is to provide a high-quality, more up to date version of the Facebook API client for Java developers, and to allow it to be maintained regularly over time. The Mythical 5% - So you must learn continuously and teach yourself new technologies, but it's not that simple. It's definitely good to learn more about programming, but you can't just learn more about programming The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American - Don't tell your kids that they are. 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 O'Reilly — ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not? - The code doesn?t have to reside in classes. Variable datatypes don?t have to be declared, even in the strict compilation mode. The language is designed to provide as much or as little structure and flexibility as the task at hand requires. Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier - This list will grow as I find new tools. So if you know of some not on this list do post them in the comments. Simplify Your SQL with Variables and Derived Tables (or Common Table Expressions) - As with any programming language, it is important in SQL to keep your code short, clear and concise. Here are two quick tips that I find are very helpful in obtaining this goal. Webwereld | Six enterprise application trends to watch in 2008 - If 2007 was any indication of what's to come, the one thing companies using expensive enterprise applications-ERP, CRM and supply chain management systems-is that more change vendor alliances, pricing schemes and software innovation is on the way in 2008. Checklist/Tuning Guide for Optimizing the JRockit JVM - The goal of this document is to provide information for tuning the BEA JRockit JVM using a checklist approach. A lot of territory is covered, from esoteric command-line options to iterative performance testing Red Hat and Alfresco Join to Deliver an Open Source Enterprise Collaboration Solution - Red Hat and Alfresco have collaborated to build an integrated collaboration solution - The Red Hat/Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution is designed to bring advanced collaboration and social computing. InfoQ: An Introduction to the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools - clipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open source project based on the popular Eclipse IDE and is used to build and deploy reports in a Java/J2EE environment. InfoQ: Interview: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit - Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT. Apache News Online: 30 December 2007 - Apache Jetspee