Ext JS - Ext 2.2 Released - We are pleased to announce the release of Ext 2.2, a fully backwards-compatible maintenance release of Ext. This is a recommended upgrade for all Ext 2.x users as it not only adds many new components and examples, but also provides a host of important bug InfoQ: FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application - FxStruts is a free open source library that provides the same functionality as bean:write except that the output is in AMF or XML format. Simply point it to any plain Java object and you get Flex friendly AMF or XML output with ActionErrors and transactio Best enterprise open-source applications announced | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com - Infoworld does an annual review of the best enterprise open-source applications, called the BOSSies, and just announced the 2008 winners. An Infoworld editorial team makes the selections, so this isn't a matter of open-source projects rallying the troops My experience of coding a GWT webapp (~900 classes, ~20 GWT modules) - Google Web Toolkit | Google Groups - We put our GWT-based job site (http://www.careercommons.com) in production on Monday. This is a summary of my experience coding the whole thing in GWT. Not sure how useful this is for other people, but here it goes: Adam Bien's Weblog : Useful Explanation: "iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?", Strange Conclusion - iBatis is the most powerful, but not that simple. It comes with highest amount of XML-configuration, which has to be maintained during the whole lifecycle Greg Luck's WebLog: RESTful, resource-oriented caching now available in ehcache-server - I have just released ehcache-server-0.3, which includes a fully functional RESTful, resource-oriented implementation. The standalone-server has also been updated to 0.3. Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality - When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does. Alex Miller - Java 7 Prediction Update - I just realized due to a forum thread that it’s been about 7 months since I posted my Java 7 Predictions. So, it seems like a good time to update those predictions Neil Peart - Neil Peart's Top 10-Plus Fills - One of the reasons Neil Peart is so popular with other drummers is his creativity and how he approaches his fills. Lightstreamer on Firefox 3 - In this video I will show the seamless behavior of the "engine migration mechanism". Then, I will increase the number of tabs concurrently displaying real-time data. I will stop at 10 tabs, due to the CPU consumption of the screen recording software. Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter or personal transporter, intended to help people move about in public areas. Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the navigation system of Segway Case Study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop (Part 1) | Architects Zone - We found the evidence by using tools, most importantly: JMeter for load testing, JAMon for performance monitoring and JARep for performance reporting. With JMeter we can simulate user behavior and put a realistic load on the system. The JMeter test should Raible Designs | [OSCON 2008] Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails - Below is the presentation I'm delivering at OSCON today. Unfortunately, I had to remove slides on GWT and Flex to fit w/in the 45 minute time limit. Linux News: Applications: With New Alfresco App, Enterprise Content Management Takes the OSS Road - Alfresco Software announced Thursday the availability of Alfresco Labs version 3, an open source alternative to Microsoft's enterprise content management SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FD | IR Web Report - UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever. - Our mission with ØMQ ("ZeroMQ") is to build the fastest messaging ever. The way to get performance is to optimise the whole software and hardware stack together. So, we are developing ØMQ closely with major hardware firms iamdeepa on flex » Blog Archive » Where did the FlexBuilder Advanced Constraints UI go? - For Flex 3, the Advanced Constraints feature introduces the concept of ConstraintColumn and ConstraintRow objects that can be used to partition up absolute positioning containers. We broadened the constraint syntax to allow for controls to be constrained
Tags: adobe, ajax, Alfresco, amqp, architecture, asynchronous, blog, business, caching, centos, cms, collaboration, comet, communication, comparison, contentmgmt, crm, development, distributed, drummer, ecm, ehcache, ext, extjs, features, firefox, firefox3, flash, flex, flex3, flexbuilder, foss, framework, google, grails, gwt, hibernate, iBATIS, java, java7, javascript, JMeter, jpa, learning, lightstreamer, messaging, microsoft, motivation, Music, opensource, ORM, performance, persistence, presentation, process, programming, quality, quantity, raible, rails, redhat, reporting, rest, rhel, Ruby, rush, scalability, sec, segway, sharepoint, socialmedia, software, Struts, struts2, sugarcrm, testing, toyoto, tuning, webPosts tagged as:
firefox3
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
Tags: adobe, air, ajax, api, application, architecture, browser, business, cache, concurrency, css, database, design, desktop, development, economics, engine, enterprise, erlang, exadel, finance, firefox, firefox3, flex, flex3, fulltext, gears, google, hibernate, iBATIS, ide, infoq, integration, intellij, J2EE, jasper, jasperreports, java, javafx, javascript, jdbc, jruby, lucene, mozilla, netflix, offline, omnigraffle, opensource, oracle, performance, presentation, programming, python, realtime, ria, roku, Ruby, scala, scalability, seam2.0, search, spring, stock, templates, ui, video, web, webdesign, wireframe, yahooRelated posts
{ 0 comments }
Daily del.icio.us for May 18th through May 20th
Why the Roku Netflix Player is the First Shot of the Revolution - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - In the small, generic plastic box that is the new Netflix Player made by Roku, I think you can see the future of video. Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World - It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them onto two CDs, she told the clerk, a forgettable middle-aged guy in a forgettable office park in the Should we discard Interfaces? | Learning by Experience - Is a class that only has interfaces as dependencies easier to test then classes that have implementations as dependencies? Most of us are eager to say yes, but in fact, frameworks like EasyMock enable us to mock (non final) classes. Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails.org now powered by Grails - We've just launched a re-write of the Grails.org site in Grails. Previously the site was powered by Confluence (the Atlassian wiki), now in the spirit of eating ones own dog food it is a fully Grails powered site. IntelliJ Tips & Tricks - Listen to Neal Ford, the software architect at ThoughtWorks and a fabulous speaker, giving you some hints on improving productivity through the intensive use of keyboard shortcuts for carrying out various tasks while coding with IntelliJ IDEA. WEB4J - Minimalist Java Web Application Framework -> Criticisms of Spring, PHP, and Rails - The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president - Yahoo! News - Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource - The original web developer's resource has returned. Webmonkey has been completely redesigned, and we're ready to rock once more. Also, our entire content library is now hosted on a wiki, so every tutorial, reference page and code example is open for editi A conversation Clinton was having…: RE: Java haters, gtfo - Well everyone's favorite potty mouthed blogger is back, slinging poo and doing nothing much to help anything. That said, I've met Hani, and he's actually a pretty cool and down to earth guy. Firefox 3 RC 1 full review - Mozilla Links - A year and a half after the last major Firefox release, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here with a very long list of new features and improvements.
Tags: cheatsheet, code, css, design, development, easymock, f1, firefox, firefox3, formula1, grails, groovy, html, iBATIS, idea, intellij, iptv, java, netflix, obama, oo, ooad, politics, productivity, programming, racing, rails, roku, Ruby, Sports, spring, spring2.0, SpringFramework, strategy, streaming, sun, technology, tutorials, video, web, webdesignRelated posts
{ 0 comments }
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
Tags: adobe, agile, ajax, api, BEA, bookmarks, books, burton, controls, css, datagrid, del.icio.us, development, extensions, extjs, firefox, firefox3, flex, flex2, groovy, gwt, howto, ide, J2EE, java, javascript, jobs, johnresig, json, language, library, mozilla, osgi, plugin, plugins, presentation, programming, prototype, ria, scala, scriptaculous, technology, training, tutorial, video, WebLogic, widgets, WordPress, workshopRelated posts
{ 0 comments }
