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Daily del.icio.us for April 4th through April 6th
Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Migration - This migration script will take all live files in a VSS project and migrate them to Subversion. Additionally, for those live files, all file history will be preserved. Without this, it wouldn't be a migration, merely an import. VisualSVN Server - All-in-one installer for Subversion and Apache - VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console. Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows - When it comes to readily available, free source control, I don't think you can do better than Subversion at the moment. Allow me to illustrate how straightforward it is to get a small Subversion server and client going on Windows. It'll take all of 30 min JRuby 1.1 is out! - The Empty Way - The long awaited JRuby 1.1 is finally out. Working on it was fun, much more fun than I expected — so much to do, so many interesting things, so little time! It is a perfect mixture of Java and Ruby Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top - The New York Times - Compensation and accumulated wealth of 200 chief executives for large public companies that filed proxies for last year by March 28. Build a quad-core, 8-gig server for $900 - Or maybe that's just what I tell myself when I only have $1,000 bucks to spend. Either way, multi-core CPUs made powerful computers far more affordable. You can build a fine quad-core, 8-gig server within that budget My Essential Twitter Tools - If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.
Forbes.com - Dial D for Disruption - With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya. dangertree techblog » Blog Archive » Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #1 - In my last post, Dan Lewis responded with some counter-code from Google’s collections package. Instead of attempting to snap back with some witty technical retort, I challenged Dan to a code-off. Groovy collections vs. Google collections (in Java) Adam Bien's Weblog : Huge discussion about JavaDoc …and no one cares about Fat Clients - I really wondered about the discussion about JavaDoc - but actually no one complained about this statement "Therefore, a fat client with a local embedded database, such as Java DB, is the simplest possible solution — everything else is a workaround.". IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Migrating to EJB 3 with IntelliJ IDEA is Easy - IntelliJ IDEA has the full-blown support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). Supporting EJB specs from 1.x to 3.0 and leveraging it through all of its productivity-boosting features, from coding assistance to refactoring, IntelliJ IDEA stands for the weapon Gartner: Open source will quietly take over - ZDNet.co.uk - "By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms," predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a "stealth" impact for the technology in embedded form: Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly - Ext JS Forums - I'm happy to announce the first release of my (first) Ext JS extension - Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly which allows you to easily build printer friendly layouts and grids for your Ext JS pages.
Tags: ajax, Asterisk, blog, build, business, collections, compensation, computer, development, diy, ejb, extjs, fatclient, funny, future, gartner, google, grid, groovy, hardware, howto, Humor, ide, idea, innovation, intellij, J2EE, java, javadb, javadoc, javaee, javascript, jruby, Linux, lists, market, microsoft, networking, opensource, oss, phone, politics, printing, programming, reference, Ruby, scm, server, socialmedia, software, sourcecontrol, sourcesafe, subversion, svn, swing, technology, telephony, tools, twitter, Vista, vmware, voip, vss, web, windowsHere are the tools that I’m using to improve my Twitter experience
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Forbes.com - Dial D for Disruption - With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya. dangertree techblog » Blog Archive » Groovy vs. Google Collections: Round #1 - In my last post, Dan Lewis responded with some counter-code from Google’s collections package. Instead of attempting to snap back with some witty technical retort, I challenged Dan to a code-off. Groovy collections vs. Google collections (in Java) Adam Bien's Weblog : Huge discussion about JavaDoc …and no one cares about Fat Clients - I really wondered about the discussion about JavaDoc - but actually no one complained about this statement "Therefore, a fat client with a local embedded database, such as Java DB, is the simplest possible solution — everything else is a workaround.". IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Migrating to EJB 3 with IntelliJ IDEA is Easy - IntelliJ IDEA has the full-blown support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). Supporting EJB specs from 1.x to 3.0 and leveraging it through all of its productivity-boosting features, from coding assistance to refactoring, IntelliJ IDEA stands for the weapon Gartner: Open source will quietly take over - ZDNet.co.uk - "By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms," predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a "stealth" impact for the technology in embedded form: Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly - Ext JS Forums - I'm happy to announce the first release of my (first) Ext JS extension - Ext.ux.PrinterFriendly which allows you to easily build printer friendly layouts and grids for your Ext JS pages.Related posts
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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 February 22nd through February 25th
flexlib - Google Code - The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2. dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » WindowShade component added to FlexLib - A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels i Ajaxian » Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched - Continuing their march into the RIA space, Adobe announced today the official release of AIR v1.0 and Flex 3.0. Adobe has taken the beta off of the wrapper as their have released both AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0. Mobile Desktop at Improv Everywhere - For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops Ext JS Blog - » Simple Tasks v2 - Multiple lists, NativeWindows and Reminders - In collaboration with Adobe, one of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR a Thanks Zed; Syntax matters; no more dumping stuff in Java; Quit pimple pimping Ruby; Scala warning - Can we just get some decent support for Groovy? No instead Sun invests in Ruby via JRuby. DOH! Groovy looks a lot like Java. It is much easier to get started with it. The syntax does not make developers want to hurl. Why is Sun investing so much money in The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur - Forbes.com - Vembu is a rare species in India these days. As far as I know, he's one of the very few entrepreneurs who has been able to execute on the premise of building software "products" and/or software-as-a-service out of India. John Resig - How JavaScript Timers Work - JavaScript engines only have a single thread, forcing asynchronous events to queue waiting for execution. setTimeout and setInterval are fundamentally different in how they execute asynchronous code. jsunit-ext - ExtJS based test runner for JSUnit based javascript unit tests - jsunit-ext is a custom test runner built using ExtJS javascript library in order to provide a better user interface and certain features missing in default runner of jsunit while not requiring any change in tests which have already been written. Codedependent - Java Swing guy joins Adobe - I've recently joined Adobe Systems to work on the Flex SDK. Much of the material I write will be about Flex, Flash, AIR, ActionScript, and related technologies, although I also intend to have non-technology-specific pieces as interesting graphics software Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org - This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6. The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to…
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Daily del.icio.us for January 6th
Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008! - It's been two months since we launched Google Presentations and already we've got new toys! We've been listening to your feedback and working hard to get you new features as quickly as possible Amazon Web Services Blog: Increasing Amazon S3 Data Transfer Performance - The Amazon S3 team is now beta-testing support for an important low-level networking feature which has the potential to significantly increase the performance of large data transfers to and from S3, particularly (but not limited to) for long distance data Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint's grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Whether you prefer 8, 10,16 or 24 columns in your design, this generator now enables you that flexibility with Blueprint. The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry - Asustek is the most hated company in the industry. Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Palm hate Asustek because the company can give us something they can't: A super cheap, flexible, powerful mobile computer. At $299, why would anyone not buy one?
Tags: amazon, apple, asus, aws, bandwidth, computer, css, DELL, design, development, economics, eeepc, framework, google, hardware, innovation, integration, laptop, layout, Linux, microsoft, office, powerpoint, presentation, s3, services, slideshow, storage, technology, Web2.0, webdesign, webservicesRelated posts
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 Jetspeed 2.1.3 Released - The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.1.3 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal. Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard Generating JUnit Tests for Legacy Java Applications - Unit tests give us the confidence to change applications, even legacy applications that we didn't write ourselves. To avoid the drudgery of writing a test case for every edge and boundary, we can let JUnit Factory generate a large set of tests for us. IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.x Helps Avoid Conflicts - If somebody else has already modified the same file and has committed changes to the repository, IntelliJ IDEA detects the newer version in the repository and displays a banner on top of the editor
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Daily del.icio.us for Feb 19, 2007
These are my links for Feb 19, 2007:
Census Mashups Using StrikeIron Web Services and Yahoo Maps in Flex 2 - Census Dashboard Mashup is a mashup using StrikeIron's Zip Code Information Web Service, StrikeIron's Population Demographics By ZIP Code Web Service and Yahoo Maps to give detailed information for a specific US zip code. I find it to actually be a really Sun Updates Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 is a package which allows parsing HTML pages into a Java Document object. Wonder how it stacks up against HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/) dmiessler.com | study | lsof - lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application chalain: So Beautiful, So Disturbing - She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night. Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things - Engadget - When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably got a a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives Raible Designs | Slick looking Confluence sites - Wicket and Cayenne have nice looking websites backed by Confluence. Wicket has a Writing documentation page that explains how it works. Upselling your architecture - The Pragmatic Architect - As an architect, you'll probably need to present to different audiences at different levels. When you do, it's worth thinking about whether you need to upsell your architecture or not. MyEclipse Delivers Tools to IntelliJ IDEA Users - Developers using IDEA are now able to utilize the MyEclipse Visual HTML Designer, XML Editor, Database Explorer and Image Editor SNAPs directly in their own environment. IntelliJ IDEA: Inspections by Sections … - Static code analysis doesn't just improve your code quality, it can also teach you some cool ideas and best practices about programming Java Power Tools: Home - "Java Power Tools" is about software tools and techniques that can contribute to improving the SDLC which includes build tools such as Maven and Ant, CI tools, code quality tools, testing tools, collaborative tools, source version control, and more! Rod Johnson » Sun's GlassFish Embracing Spring - I think part of what's making Sun more relevant in the enterprise Java space is that they are now more plugged into what's happening in the wider world, and are willing to take the input on board and act on it
Tags: Adaptavist, apache, architecture, book, books, codeanalysis, codereview, computer, confluence, css, dapper, design, development, drive, evangalize, flash, flex, flex2, funny, glassfish, google, hardware, howto, htmlcleaner, htmlparser, Humor, ide, idea, intellij, intellij_idea, J2EE, java, javaee, jax-ws, Linux, lsof, maps, mashup, mozilla, myeclipse, opensource, parser, plugins, programming, raible, reference, research, SOA, spring, spring2.0, SpringFramework, statistics, storage, strikeiron, sysadmin, technology, theme, tips, tool, tools, toread, tutorial, unix, upsell, Vista, Web-Services, webservices, wicket, wiki, windows, xhtml, xml, yahooRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Feb 17, 2007 through Feb 19, 2007
These are my links for Feb 17, 2007 through Feb 19, 2007:
Census Mashups Using StrikeIron Web Services and Yahoo Maps in Flex 2 - Census Dashboard Mashup is a mashup using StrikeIron's Zip Code Information Web Service, StrikeIron's Population Demographics By ZIP Code Web Service and Yahoo Maps to give detailed information for a specific US zip code. I find it to actually be a really Sun Updates Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - Java Mozilla HTML Parser 1.0.1 is a package which allows parsing HTML pages into a Java Document object. Wonder how it stacks up against HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/) dmiessler.com | study | lsof - lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application chalain: So Beautiful, So Disturbing - She gets out of bed and stretches, perfect curves sliding under silky lingerie and momentarily making me forget about breakfast, meatloaf, and whoever it was I was married to before last night. Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things - Engadget - When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably got a a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives Raible Designs | Slick looking Confluence sites - Wicket and Cayenne have nice looking websites backed by Confluence. Wicket has a Writing documentation page that explains how it works. Upselling your architecture - The Pragmatic Architect - As an architect, you'll probably need to present to different audiences at different levels. When you do, it's worth thinking about whether you need to upsell your architecture or not. MyEclipse Delivers Tools to IntelliJ IDEA Users - Developers using IDEA are now able to utilize the MyEclipse Visual HTML Designer, XML Editor, Database Explorer and Image Editor SNAPs directly in their own environment. IntelliJ IDEA: Inspections by Sections … - Static code analysis doesn't just improve your code quality, it can also teach you some cool ideas and best practices about programming Java Power Tools: Home - "Java Power Tools" is about software tools and techniques that can contribute to improving the SDLC which includes build tools such as Maven and Ant, CI tools, code quality tools, testing tools, collaborative tools, source version control, and more! Rod Johnson » Sun's GlassFish Embracing Spring - I think part of what's making Sun more relevant in the enterprise Java space is that they are now more plugged into what's happening in the wider world, and are willing to take the input on board and act on it Is Bruce Eckel Right? Maybe not. at Simon?s Blog - Bruce Eckel has written an interesting piece about Java and user interfaces. I?d recommend that you read it, as it?s pretty thought-provoking. The Fishbowl: Job Satisfaction - We spend a lot of time at work. If we?re not doing something that we?re passionate about, that gives us some kind of fulfillment, we?re wasting a big part of our lives. BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » A day at NPR - I've thoroughly enjoyed my day at NPR. Smart people, but then that?s obvious. Coding Horror: The cost of leaving your PC on - So leaving my server on is costing me $200 / year, or $16.68 per month. My home theater PC is a bit more frugal at 65 watts. Using the same formulas, that costs me $81 / year or $6.75 per month. The Future Won?t Be Statically Typed « Skunk Works - I'm more and more convinced that statically typed languages will come to an end, replaced by duck typing based languages
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