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Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th
People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008 - The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is meaningless in the grand scheme of things JavaFX’s day in the Sun | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com - JavaFX has a LONG way to go especially when you look at Adobe’s RIA strengths and Microsoft’s very enthusiastic entry into the space. But I think JavaFX will be a breath of fresh air for people and will help in expanding the RIA footprint further Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-07 | By Paul Krill - Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Dell Expands Virtualization Offerings - Dell is adding to its virtualization portfolio by embedding Citrix XenServer into its hardware and expanding its services for customers investing in the technology. Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web - The continuing battle between Microsoft and Google will mean fierce competition – adding features, building data centers, cutting deals and spending money on speed and customer convenience Archiva - The Build Artifact Repository Manager - Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT. JavaOne 2008: Day One (So Far) - JavaOne 2008 Day One has started, of course, and it's an interesting show, with a lot of undercurrents about JavaFX (as expected) and multimedia - and mobile applications. There's a lot more, of course, and this thread is meant for people to add comments The day the music died [dive into mark] - This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on s Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 - GigaOM - Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2. Julien Lecomte’s Blog » JavaScript: The Good Parts - In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas extensively describes that good subset of the JavaScript language, occasionally warning to avoid the bad. I consider Douglas’ book a must-buy for anybody who’s serious about developing professional apps for the w
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Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 16th
Searchable javadocs - Javadocs are good but not great as they miss a key feature of being able to do a full text search. Enter Documancer - It allows you to point to the index.html Javadoc file of a given library and one can then run full text searches through the Javadocs DataCleaner - eobjects - DataCleaner is an open source project concerned with creating a data quality solutions for business and organizations wishing to measure and increase the quality of their data. DataCleaner includes functionality to profile and compare data, to validate da IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Announcing New Release of JetGroovy Plugin - We’re glad to announce the general availability of the new release of JetGroovy Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Version 1.5 brings yet more of IntelliJ IDEA´s smart, advanced features to Groovy and Grails developers HtmlUnit 2.1 Released « A Public Scratchpad - The HtmlUnit team is pleased to announce a new release of HtmlUnit. This latest version includes a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements, and sports excellent support for GWT, jQuery and Sarissa, decent support for Prototype and Dojo, and basic Enterprise 2.0: A Computer Security Nightmare? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - One conclusion, the report notes, is that users are routinely, and fairly easily, circumventing corporate security controls. And that is because traditional firewall technology was not meant to grapple with the diversity of Internet applications of recent Amazon's cloud computing will surpass its retailing business | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - Everyone else–Google and Microsoft–are working on their cloud computing services, but they are really in the first revision of their respective offerings. Amazon is ahead and tweaking It’s Only Software » 5 Minute Guide to Spring and Simple[r!] JDBC - I recently worked on a personal project to learn how one can write dead-simple plain old JDBC applications using only Spring Framework 2.5 without an ORM layer. Spring 2.5 has many features that provide some of the convenience of ORM libraries ajax, amazon, appengine, aws, bigtable, business, cloud, cloudcomputing, computing, data, database, design, development, ec2, enterprise2.0, firewall, google, grails, groovy, gwt, htmlunit, ide, idea, innovation, intellij, java, javadoc, jdbc, malware, opensource, profiling, programming, python, qa, s3, saas, search, security, software, spring, SpringFramework, SQL, storage, testing, tool, web, Web2.0, webservices
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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.
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Windows Vista source code - Windows Vista source code 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 26th through March 27th
Ext JS Ext.ux.YoutubePlayer - The Ext.ux. YoutubePlayer is a user extension that utilizes the Youtube Chromeless API. You can embed any Youtube video into Ext native controls and place it in your application. It's like a mediaplayer built on top of Ext JS and the Youtube API. InfoQ: Real World Web Services - In this presentation, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the p Microsoft and Sourcesense Partner to Contribute to Open Source, Apache POI to Support Ecma Office Open XML File Formats: Companies to collaborate on the development of open source solutions for the Microsoft Office product suite. - Microsoft and Sourcesense announced that the two companies will collaborate on the strategy, development and deployment of open source solutions for the MS Office. One of the initial goals is contributing to the development of a new version of Apache POI Watch Out - Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire - ReadWriteWeb - Adobe seems to "get it" - they know that software is moving online, but they're betting on the co-existence of both online software with their corresponding offline apps, like those built with Adobe AIR Brian Alvey: The Audacity of Code - Code in the face of difficulty. Code in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of code! GigaOM Interview: Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp. - GigaOM - Fresh from his Mix’08 keynote, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect and industry luminary, Ray Ozzie, spent some time on the phone with me, discussing everything from the company’s services strategy, to the economics of cloud computing, to the relev Cobra: Java HTML Parser - The all-Java Cobra HTML Toolkit includes a HTML DOM parser that can be used independently of the rendering engine. The following are some of its features: * It implements W3C HTML DOM Level 2 interfaces. It parses "street HTML", can be used in headless mo Coding Horror: Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? - I think sometimes programmers forget how much work it is to create software at large companies. What may seem like a no-brainer five line code change to us on the outside is perhaps five man-weeks of work once you factor in all the required process overhe Dabblers and Blowhards - As for the mystical connection between painters and programmers, the famous Lloyd Bentsen put-down keeps coming to mind…. You, sir, are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are goi Google's five-year plan to hit Enterprise continues (Cemaphore helps Google out) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - Enterprises will never move wholesale over to Gmail and Google’s other offerings. Users just don’t like that kind of change. There would be revolt at work, if CTOs tried to force it.
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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?
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 09, 2007 through Sep 16, 2007
OpenXML4J - Office Open XML API for Java - OpenXML4J is a Java implementation of the ECMA-376 : Office Open XML File Format. It provides developers with a set of classes to create innovative solutions with the Open XML file format. BEA upgrades app server with SOA, Web 2.0 capabilities | InfoWorld | News | 2007-09-12 | By Paul Krill - A publish-and-subscribe engine within WebLogic Server will provide live updates to AJAX and Flex clients. The engine offers a persistent connection to a rich client. Eval of copies of WebLogic Server will be featured with Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials - Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. What the Hell Is Microsoft Doing with My Computer? - we know that Microsoft automatically updates Windows XP SP 2 systems without your knowledge or permission. Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says — Copyright — InformationWeek - Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the Computer and Communications Industry Association. java.net: JAX-WS Web Services Without Java EE Containers - One justification for including JAX-WS 2.0 as part of Java SE 6.0 instead of Java EE 5 is that web service delivery with JAX-WS 2.0 does not require a container. This article shows how to use the JAX-WS class javax.xml.ws.Endpoint to publish web services Serena Software Offers Free Mashup Composer Enabling Business People to Solve Business Problems Without Programming - Serena Software today announced the launch of Serena Mashup Composer for the point-and-click creation of Business Mashups. Serena Mashup Composer makes it easy to visually design Business Mashups that automate common business activities (via Dion Almaer) Apache Directory releases: LDAP Server 1.5, Studio 1.0 toolset - Apache has announced the release of Apache Directory Server 1.5.1, and Apache Directory Studio 1.0, a toolset for use with any LDAP solution but with special integrations with Apache Directory Server. Directory Server 1.5.1 is an implementation of LDAP v3 Spring Framework 2.1 turns into Spring Framework 2.5! - I'm pleased to announce that the 2.1 milestones will seamlessly turn into Spring Framework 2.5 as the upcoming major release! Spring 2.5 is scheduled for final release in October InfoQ: Spring 2 and Beyond - Spring 2.0 takes POJO-based development to a new level of sophistication. The themes of Spring 2.0 are simplicity and power: it makes existing tasks even easier, while extending the power of Spring to new areas. In this session,
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Network Neutrality: Why it really matters?
Let's hope Congress does the right thing and adds in adequate protection to guarantee Network Neutrality as life without it could really suck. Can you imagine a world where people who use Verizon as their ISP not being able to get to Google as Microsoft is paying Verizon to make MSN the preferred search engine. So all traffic to Google could be blocked or QOS'd down to a trickle. Can you imagine using a 4 MBps Internet connection where your connection to Google or other sites is a trickle of 56 Kbps? Can you imagine your Skype call sounding like crap because you are using AT&T as an ISP and they would rather sell you their VoIP services?
It's funny how the Telecommunication companies essentially want to blackmail content providers and consumers. When I surf to Google or Flickr or Digg or Live.com, I am using my local Internet connection that I pay for - Sites like Google, Flickr and Digg also pay for the bandwidth they use and so the consumer is paying to get to the provider and the provider is paying to connect to the Internet. But my ISP now wants to give one company priority on their networks over another, for a price. Sounds pretty shady, doesn't it?
Can you imagine how this would just totally kill innovation on the Internet? If we don't get Network Neutrality, innovative companies like YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us and countless others would have never been able to launch as they wouldn't have been able to pay the Telecom companies extortion. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo would be able to afford it but new upstarts would be left out and can you imagine a world where there is no real competition? Look at Microsoft and Internet Explorer - After Netscape died, Microsoft essentially disbanded the IE team and didn't add any new features in the browser for almost 6 years. Competition is critical and fuels innovation and without competition, we have stagnation and the consumer suffers.
Web2.0 or Bubble2.0, depending on your perspective has largely been made possible by the ubiquity of the high-speed Internet access. Even Al Gore, the creator of the Internet has spoken up on this issue. At a recent speech, Al Gore said "Freedom of communication is an essential prerequisite for the restoration of the health of our democracy. It is particularly important that the freedom of the Internet be protected against either the encroachment of government or the efforts at control by large media conglomerates." (Via FreePress.net)
