- vmcNetFlix - Official Site - vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga
- The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac - The post is titled LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java, so to complete the picture I responded to the community with a message about how LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac.
- Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 | EcoGeek - In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.
- Jericho HTML Parser - Jericho HTML Parser is a powerful java library allowing analysis and manipulation of parts of an HTML document, including server-side tags, while reproducing verbatim any unrecognised or invalid HTML. It also provides high-level HTML form manipulation fun
- Software Sensation Inc. - jWebApp Web Application Framework, Install&Update, MemSL - Memory Structures Library - jPersist is an extremely powerful object-relational persistence API that is based on the Active-Record and Data-Mapper patterns. jPersist wraps JDBC functionality and can work with any relational database, and any type of connection resource
- Java Entrepreneur: We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer - Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite fra
- InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team - Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:
- How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days - Bill Gates - working for Microsoft - Bill Gates was amazingly technical, and he knew more about the details of his company's software than most of the people who worked on those details day in and day out.
- Unit testing with JUnit and EasyMock - Michael Minella - I hope this gives you a more in depth view into JUnit and EasyMock. Unit testing is something that once you get used to it, makes you code better, provides you with a safety net for future refactoring and protects you from being burned by API changes
- Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit | Javalobby - TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very rob
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- Databinder - Toolkit overview - Databinder is a Java programming toolkit for data–driven Web applications. It’s based upon the Wicket Web component framework and Hibernate object-relational mapping service.
- The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog - It is possible that Oracle could adopt an IBM-like strategy and keep both threads alive until things sort out, using ALBPM on top of Fusion as the straight BPMS offering, and the current ARIS+SOA Suite to support the apps business. In some ways that's the
- Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-06 | By Paul Krill - Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of RIAs that leverages Silverlight browser plug-in. The intent is to let developers continue using these languages on the client side without having to also in
- Sun bolsters SOA software with data management | InfoWorld | News | 2008-06-08 | By Paul Krill - Sun Microsystems is updating its SOA and business integration software Monday, adding a data management option and leveraging enterprise service bus capabilities based around the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification.
- Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management, Budget Planner and Tools, Online Financial Planning - Mint.com - Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management, Budget Planner and Tools, Online Financial Planning - Mint.com
- Json-lib 2.2.2 released - JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.
- Google's GWT continues to amaze and delight - If you have checked out GWT then I urge you to give it a whirl, you will never look at another framework in the same way again.
- eXo Platform (Enterprise WebOS) » Blog Archive » eXo Platform: The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint - With the launch of eXo WebOS flagship product as the new type of Enterprise Portals and all its incoming optional modules such as eXo Enterprise Content Managment (eXo ECM) and eXo Collaboration Suite (eXo CS), we have been able to build the only true alt
- The 3G iPhone: First Impressions | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD - Less than one year after it was introduced at a hefty $599 price, the 8 GB model of the iPhone will now be two-thirds cheaper, at just $199.
- Atlassian Developer Blog - Story Cards - Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this "agile" stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them … right.
- LinkedIn - A Professional Network built with Java Technologies and Agile Practices - Learn how Java™ and agile practices are employed in building large-scale consumer internet sites like LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network.
- Blogging Roller: LinkedIn: 99% Pure Java - Nick Lothian tweeted about this JavaOne presentation on LinkedIn. What's particularly interesting to me are the diagrams that explain how the LinkedIn architecture has evolved to scale up to 22 million users
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Daily del.icio.us for May 12th through May 16th
- James Clark's Random Thoughts: XML and JSON - I would like to offer a few thoughts about XML and JSON. My previous post came off much too dismissive of JSON. I actually think that JSON does have real value
- 13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness | Little Tutorials - UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it… in my mind. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don’t like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work
- Guitar Tutorials Rocket Up iTunes Podcast Charts | Listening Post from Wired.com - Modern guitarists have a new option when it comes to learning their instrument. Chord books and music lessons still sell, but for visual learners, the best option is probably the video tutorial. There are several online options, but we really like iVideos
- Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped on Dion Almaer's Blog - Well, more heavy hitting engineers are leaving. When the CTO of the client division moves on (to Adobe again, no less), we yet again have a reason to wonder what is happening at Sun.
- davber does IT » Groovy: Java++ by being Java– - Groovy is actually not a brand new language, but rather an extension of Java. The difference between this extension and that of, say C++ over C is that Groovy extends Java by simplifying constructs, ridding the developer of much of the repetitive rituals
- 12 Signs That The Recession Has Hit The Internet | command line idiot - The United States economy is in a funk. Food prices are up, oil is through the roof, real estate has collapsed, and credit is becoming scarce. Here are 12 signs to look for when the recession hits the Internet:
- Clearskys.net Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing StayPress - StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard vanilla installation of WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system
- Ext JS - Using the standard Panel title config to organize Ext JS form fields - Yesterday while working on our internal support system I had a desire to organize the fields on a form a little better. I didn’t want to use a FieldSet and add full wrapping or another layer of indention in my form code so I decided to give the standard
- Real World Haskell - Haskell is most likely quite different from any language you've ever used before. Compared to the usual set of concepts in a programmer's mental toolbox, functional programming offers us a profoundly different way to think about software
- ExtJS 2.1 and Java Demo - ExtJS Ajax Communication Best Practices - Ext JS Forums - I've been evaluating ExtJS 2.1 as the user interface for my client's next application. During my evaluation I've developed a demo (3 actually) that displays the powerful API of ExtJS
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Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 25th
- Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire - "The Clintons know that she can?t win this. But they?'re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win."
- Thank you, Javascript - The Daily WTF - Javascript supports octal numbers. Any number starting with a zero is octal, even if it can't be an actual octal number. In certain languages, like Perl, trying to use a non-octal number as an octal number results in an error. In other languages, like Jav
- Screencast #1 - Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ | Elastic Grid Blog - Here is a screencast demonstration the use of the Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
- a little madness » Ext Discovers Step 2 of the Slashdot Business Model? - The saddest part about this is that the Ext team really have built a fantastic library, and a vibrant community around it. The library had all the hallmarks of an open source success story. Now, however, Ext have committed the cardinal sin of an open sour
- Application Development Trends - SpringSource Enterprise Edition Now Live - The new SpringSource Enterprise Edition product is specifically designed to support large organizations, providing enterprise-class tools and features. The product aims to meet enterprise requirements by being "certified, warranted and indemnified,".
- Sun looks to free up the rest of Java | The Industry Standard - By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated ve
- Windows Server 2008 Now 'PHP Ready' - Microsoft and Zend have worked together on Zend Core, Zend's tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now certified for Windows Server 2008.
- InfoQ: Comparing JEE Servers - When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, and came up with surprising results
- Ext JS - Blog - Ext JS is pleased to announce the latest release of the Ext JS toolkit and the introduction of a new product, Ext GWT 1.0 (beta 1). The Ext JS version has been updated to 2.1 and includes new components, performance improvements, bug fixes and more.
- Ajaxian » Ext JS 2.1 Released - Ext JS 2.1 has been released. In this point release the featured changes are: Full REST support, Added Ext.StatusBar Component and Samples, Ext.Slider Component and Samples, Example to demonstrate Remote Loading of Component Configs, Grid Filtering Sample
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Daily del.icio.us for January 21st
- OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups - Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you've come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic. There's no overarching design or scheme of things, it's just a bucket of tools with some glue poured in
- MySQL Storage Engines - Programming - SoftwareProjects - One of the greatest things about MySQL, other than being free, widely supported and fast, is the flexibility of choosing different storage engines for different tables.
- JLisa - A Rule Engine for Java - JLisa is a powerful framework for building business rules accessible to Java and it is compatible with JSR94 V, the JavaTM Rule Engine API
- ExtTLD - Simplify ExtJS for JEE - Jaroslav Benc has created ExtTLD, a JSP taglib generator that creates Ext JS components from your Java projects, using XML syntax
- What server-side Java web framework will be the next for 2008? | Java Zone - Arguably, Struts 1.x is end of life. There are plenty of other Java server-side web frameworks: JSF (the standard), Wicket, Tapestry, Struts 2, Echo, Spring MVC, etc. Do you have any market data on what developers are adopting after Struts 1.x?
- Java on Grails - What would happen if the special Objects within Grails could not only teleport across Classloaders and past the Java-Groovy boundary, as many Groovy Objects have done in the past, but also teleport across that boundary with their powers intact? …
- John Resig - Programming Book Profits - As I begin working on my second book I've gone back and realized that there's a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing my first book way back in March of 2006
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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 for January 3rd:
- A Gentle Introduction to SQL - Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Deploying Distributed J2EE Applications Using Amazon EC2 - How do you configure your Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) servers to offer the scalability of Amazon EC2 to your applications? This tutorial explains the basic procedures for using Amazon EC2 to deploy distributed J2EE applications.
- redhat.com | Cloud Computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services
- InfoQ: Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology - Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architecture with Java Technology. Sun's target architecture is a composite application platform which is
- Ajaxian » Cool and useful GWT Solutions - David Geary and Rob Gordon have launched a companion Website to their book on GWT. The website uses GWT itself of course, and the most interesting section is the example code that they have made available:
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org) - For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007. After you're done with these, try the lists from 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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Daily del.icio.us for Jun 02, 2007 through Jun 06, 2007
- filehippo.com Update Client - filehippo.com - The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.
- I'm moving to Finland
| Economist.com - But American workers have perhaps the most to feel aggrieved about: theirs is the only rich-world country that does not give any statutory paid holiday - Red Hat Magazine | Squid in 5 minutes - There are many great tools that Squid has to offer, but when I need to redirect http traffic to a caching server for performance increases or security, squid?s my pick. Squid has built in proxy and caching tools that are simple, yet effective.
- Coding Horror: The Best Code is No Code At All - The fundamental nature of coding is that our task, as programmers, is to recognize that every decision we make is a trade-off. To be a master programmer is to understand the nature of these trade-offs, and be conscious of them in everything we write
- Google kicks offline Web apps into gear | CNET News.com - The goal of Google Gears is to create a single, standardized way to add offline capabilities to Web applications. The initial code is aimed at JavaScript Ajax-style Web applications. It runs on IE & Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
- How to build the world's best paper planes | Lifeandhealth | Life and Health - Get designs for the world's best paper planes plus tips from aviation experts on how to make them fly faster and longer
- Christophe Coenraets » Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears - The demo is a Flex-based Sales Force Automation application that uses Gears to save data to a local SQLite database while offline, and automatically synchronizes back with the server when you reconnect to the network.
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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