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Daily del.icio.us for June 15th through June 17th
InfoQ: Domain Driven Design and Development In Practice - Domain Driven Design (DDD) is about mapping business domain concepts into software artifacts. Most of the writings and articles on this topic have been based on Eric Evans' book "Domain Driven Design", covering the domain modeling and design aspects mainl InfoQ: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java - Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Sprin Prototype UI - Prototype UI is a javascript library based on Prototype (1.6) and Script.aculo.us (1.8). It's a library of User Interface components, based on a common fundation classes, which could be easily used by various web applications. Who's Going To Be The Web's Tim Russert? - Silicon Alley Insider - Tim Russert's death consumed a significant amount of my attention this weekend. I was saddened because I really liked him personally, even though only knew him via his work at NBC. More important, a big part of the reason I liked him, is that he educated Sekhar Vajjhala's Blog: Migrating WebLogic's JSP SimpleTag example to GlassFish - As I outlined in Migrate to GlassFish acitivities , I am migrating samples from different application servers to GlassFish to illustrate migration to GlassFish. Here, I selected the WebLogic's "JSP SimpleTag" sample to migrate to GlassFish. Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes - Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout. Quick Introduction To Agile Software Development - Enterprise Java Software Developer Station - Prerana Patil gives us a rapid overview of the core ideas of Agile Software Development. The article talks of the features of agile, when to adopt it and when not to. It then goes on to describe the agile process and the steps involved in adopting agile i Head On » Blog Archive » A Few Tips For Giving a Presentation on Lean - So, you are about to give a lecture on lean software development? Here are a few tips: InfoQ: Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ - InfoQ.com is a web app/portal implementation combining portal technology (JSR 170) and web development (WebWork, Spring, AspectJ). In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ. Seth's Blog: Email checklist - Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure: Datawocky: Why the World Needs a New Database System - The LAMP stack, with MySQL as the base, has transformed and democratized web application development. In a similar vein, I expect that we will see the emergence of a stack that democratizes large-scale data analytics applications. Aster Data could well be Datawocky: India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime - Then I read this TechCrunch post on the Twitter usage numbers and sympathy turned to bafflement - because I'm intimately familiar with SMS Gupshup, a startup in India that boasts usage numbers much, much higher than Twitter's, but has scaled without a gli
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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 February 6th through February 7th
uface - Google Code - UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse. cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 - This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website! Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information - Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 - GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials - Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries. Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT - The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - John Gruber does it again 
Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes
Tags: , , , , , ajax, ajaxian.com, article, collaboration, data, database, design, development, eclipse, ejb3.0, extension, extjs, flex, forms, gallery, google, grails, grails1.0, groovy, gui, gwt, hibernate, Humor, idea, image, intellij, java, javascript, jface, jpa, library, mapping, microsoft, news, ORM, persistence, programming, resources, spreadsheet, spring, survey, swing, swt, technology, tutorial, ui, web, Web2.0, webdesign, wicket, yahoo, zoom Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tesRelated posts
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 26, 2007 through Apr 27, 2007
The Dojo Offline Toolkit | The Dojo Toolkit - Dojo Offline is a free, open source toolkit that makes it easy for web applications to work offline. It consists of a JavaScript library bundled with your web page and cross-browser download that helps to cache your web application's UI for use offline. AllThingsD - AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It's a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats & different sources. mir.aculo.us - Prototype 1.5.1: Release candidate 3 - Prototype 1.5.1 is making steady progress and this should be the last release candidate before the final version?and we?ve already lots of stuff up our sleeves for 1.6.0 JD on EP: Open Flex links, 2 - There are many more posts and opinion now. I'll be linking here to ones where I learn a little something different. Links will be updated over the next few hours and presented in chronological order, oldest findings first. Adobe opensources Flex (Exclusive Videos with Adobe) « Scobleizer - Adobe is firing its guns in the Microsoft Silverlight vs. Flash war. Developers win. Adobe to Open Source Flex - Adobe announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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Books I'm currently reading
I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spent hours reading - Just sad when life and work get in the way. 
Books I am currently reading include:
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan… by Steve Coll
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
Enterprise Java 2 Security: Building Secure and Robust J2EE Applications by Marco Pistoia
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture by James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler
MySQL Tutorial by Luke Welling
Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons
WebLogic: The Definitive Guide by Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
Enterprise Java 2 Security: Building Secure and Robust J2EE Applications by Marco Pistoia
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture by James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler
MySQL Tutorial by Luke Welling
Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons
WebLogic: The Definitive Guide by Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh
Need a few 3-day weekends to catch up and finish these books.
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