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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
Tags: ajax, architecture, blog, blogging, book, books, development, dom, economy, extjs, forms, framework, functional, grails, groovy, guitar, haskell, Humor, interesting, internet, java, javafx, javaone, javascript, json, learning, management, Music, opinion, plugin, programming, scheduling, sun, travel, tutorial, tutorials, uml, WordPress, xmlRelated posts
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Daily del.icio.us for February 8th through February 10th
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Microsoft is 2000 times less effective than Google; Yahoo Board seems to be insane - Microsoft is to Yahoo as Time Warner is to (correct answer) AOL. Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft's Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb. - This still seems like a real dumb idea, like a staggering drunk trying to prop himself on an unwilling and lame adversary who wouldn't mind seeing the drunk facedown on the pavement IDEA is Now Enterprisey - It’s official, JetBrains raised the price on IDEA. While they claim they have not raised prices in 5 years, this is not the complete story. Smoke and Ice: Um… Has anyone seen JBoss? - Ok, can anyone explain why JBoss seams to have dropped off the map? The 5.0 version of the JBoss Application Server has been in beta for over a year! What's going on? InfoQ: From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex - James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface. In the article, they outline the steps of updating the open source Pentaho Suite dashboard with a Web 2.0 dashboard: java.net: Query by Slice, Parallel Execute, and Join: A Thread Pool Pattern in Java - By combining all the above concepts, it is possible to abstract out a Thread Pool pattern in the JDK for your daily parallel processing solutions. This article will showcase code that can be built and run using the JDK along with your favorite database. IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » External Annotations - There are several cases when direct annotating code is not advisable: for example, project is shared between team members that use different IDEs, or you work with library classes. That does not mean you can’t make use of these annotations, though – w Getting Started with Grails - Infoq ebook - Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Many org Safari is about to get crazy fast | Computerworld Blogs - What's so interesting about this is that Safari is already a fast browser. While Microsoft's products are getting bulkier and slower, Apple's products are getting leaner and faster. 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog) - I wasn't going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
Tags: adobe, agile, ajax, annotations, apple, book, business, concurrency, database, development, download, ebooks, flex, framework, groovy, ide, idea, infoq, intellij, J2EE, java, javaee5.0, jboss, mac, microsoft, mna, obama, politics, programming, redhat, safari, spring, SQL, Struts, threading, threads, Web2.0, webkit, yahooRelated posts
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Daily del.icio.us for January 29th
InfoQ: Does TDD Really Ensure Quality? - Our main result is that Test-First programmers write more tests per unit of programming effort. In turn, a higher number of tests lead to proportionally higher levels of productivity. Thus through a chain effect, Test-First appears to improve productivity InfoQ: "Can I call you back about that?" Building Asynchronous Services using Service Component Architecture - This article discusses the need for asynchronous services when you build an application using a service-oriented architecture. Building asynchronous services can get complicated, but is made straightforward using Service Component Architecture (SCA). InfoQ: Case Study: Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex - In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective. InfoQ: Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck is interviewed about his new book, "Implementation patterns", the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns. Enterprise Java Community: Introducing Apache Wicket - When you're learning a new framework, it's helpful to gain an understanding of the terms concepts, then move on to how the pieces come together. Wicket has a few core concepts to master, but once you understand them, you'll find Wicket much more accessibl SpringSource Team Blog » Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement - Job listings are a good indicator of the true adoption of technologies. Sometimes these trends can have dramatic implications. Indeed.com shows that in November, 2007, Spring overtook EJB as a skills requirement for Java job listings. InfoQ: Flex Load Testing Tool Available to Enterprise RIA application - As InfoQ reported (Forester report), RIA is proliferating in enterprise information workplaces. One of challenges faces a maturing development platform for developing mission critical systems is to produce quality, scalable and well tested applications. » Printable Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards - The Gang of Four design patterns have been elegantly distilled into a quick reference guide suitable for printing on 8.5 x 11. Merging and branching in Subversion 1.5 - Java World - Branching and merging are two inherently related functions that are due for a long-awaited upgrade in Subversion 1.5 InfoQ: ExtJS Ecosystem Continues to Expand - New server-side tools are sprouting up around the ExtJS client-side Javascript framework. Community developed server-side support now exists for Java Enterprise Edition, Cold Fusion 8.0, Google Web Toolkit, and Ruby on Rails 2.0
Tags: actionscript, agile, ajax, apache, architecture, article, asynchronous, book, code, design, design+patterns, development, ejb, ext, extjs, flex, framework, gof, gwt, infoq, interview, java, javascript, kentbeck, merge, patterns, productivity, programming, quality, reference, ria, SCA, SOA, spring, SpringFramework, statistics, subversion, svn, tdd, testing, trends, tutorial, uml, video, web, webservices, wicketRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for January 19th through January 20th
Memcached 1.2.2 on RHEL/Centos using DAG rpms | MDLog:/sysadmin - This article will show how you can easily install memcached 1.2.2 and libevent 1.3b using DAG/rpmforge repository. Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Oracle and BEA: A Day of Reckoning for Portal Implementers - Despite Alfred Chuang's statement during the analyst call that "our two businesses are a natural strategic fit", I would say that their two businesses are instead natural competitors for much of what BEA offers. The GigaSpaces Blog » Blog Archives » An Open Letter to BEA WebLogic Customers - A single product that handles messaging, business logic and transactional data through an open-source, commonly used programming model, so your developers can focus on what they do best: quickly deliver new applications and functionality to your business Trial By Fire: Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already - You become so involved in the idea of the product that you forget about what it's like to be a customer. You assume that it must be good because that's what the market share tells you. Java Authentication and Authorization - Free JAAS Book - This site contains the book I wrote sometime back about the Java Authentication and Authorization Service, or JAAS. Alfresco Press Releases - Alfresco Selected as One of Linux Magazine?s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008 - Alfresco Software today announced it has been named one of Linux Magazine?s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008 Coderspiel / The right tool for the slob - How is it that some fancy-pants framework is always the right tool for an abstract job and PHP is the right tool for a real job? Java Thoughts: A Year of Wicket - I've been working with Wicket for almost a year. We've just released our first product that uses Wicket for the user interface, and so it seems like a good time to take stock. Here's the executive summary: Wicket rocks! Groovy not Enterprise-ready, you're kidding? - [ Guillaume Laforge ] - Groovy has been very stable and mature for a long time already. It is being used by many high-profile companies and institutions throughout the world with great success. The Impact of Culture on Innovation « The Abstract Truth - BEA eventually built a portal product and acquired another one, and an early opportunity to build a suite of now-indispensable products on top of WebLogic evaporated. JBoss (and possibly TomCat) should never have happened. « The Abstract Truth - BEA made a lot of mistakes. Letting JBoss out of the box was probably its biggest. While BEA was looking ?up? at its biggest competitor IBM, JBoss was busily undercutting BEA at the bottom end JBoss Matrix - A BEA-utiful Week - JBoss launched an innovators dilemma attack against BEA, not with a revolutionary product, but with a revolutionary business model, one that BEA couldn?t hope to copy without cannibalizing its existing revenue stream. BEA fell right into the trap. LatencyTOP - Measuring and fixing Linux latency - LatencyTOP is a Linux* tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the
Tags: advocacy, Alfresco, apache, article, authentication, BEA, book, business, centos, code, contentmgmt, debugging, development, ecm, enterprise, free, fud, gigaspaces, groovy, hibernate, history, J2EE, jaas, java, jboss, jruby, jsf, kernel, latency, Linux, lucene, memcached, microsoft, opensource, oracle, performance, portal, programming, rhel, search, security, software, spring, statistics, tapestry, Tomcat, tools, usability, Vista, WebLogic, wicket, windowsRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for January 3rd
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.
Tags: 2007, ajax, amazon, apache, architecture, book, Cluster, clustering, code, culture, database, ec2, enterprise, Feeds, framework, google, gwt, history, hosting, interesting, J2EE, java, javascript, jbi, jsr311, Linux, lists, mysql, online, osgi, performance, programming, redhat, reference, saas, SCA, scalability, SOA, SQL, sun, Tomcat, tutorialRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for January 2nd
Daily del.icio.us for for January 2nd:
Redmond | Feature Article: Google's Secret Weapon - "Open source is a software capitalist's supreme tool," says Matt Asay, VP with Alfresco. It enables vendors to align closely with their customers & prospects while simultaneously undermining competitors' efforts to charge license fees for their own produc JavaScript: It?s Just Not Validation! - Colin Morris, author of Y-Validator, has written a piece on JavaScript: It?s Just Not Validation! which discusses JavaScript validation, and input assistance Runscanner: Free system utility to find all running programs on your computer - Runscanner is a free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. Runscanner will detect all programs that start automatically, including spyware, adware, and homepage hijackers. What Every Programmer Should See On YouTube? - Are you aware of the wealth of YouTube material available around Java, as well as programming in general? Everything's out there, courseware, technical presentations, Google talks, interviews, ad-hoc info sharing, and obscure tips and tricks Ajaxian » Ajaxian Roundup for December, 2007: It?s the end of the year as we know it - In 2007, the Web development community has jumped a lot, but at the same time, hasn?t changed at all. JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language - Douglas Crockord's Javascript site - Despite its popularity, few know that JavaScript is a very nice dynamic object-oriented general-purpose programming language. How can this be a secret? Why is this language so misunderstood? John Resig - Untold JavaScript Secrets - I might as well come right out and say it: I'm starting work on my second JavaScript book. What are the greatest untold secrets of JavaScript programming that you wish were thoroughly debunked and explained?
Tags: 2007, actionscript, advocacy, adware, ajax, ajaxian.com, article, book, books, business, css, freeware, google, gwt, ibm, java, javascript, jquery, language, microsoft, mozilla, opensource, programming, prototype, spyware, tips, tutorial, tutorials, utility, validation, video, webdesign, windows, youtubeRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Nov 02 through Nov 23, 2007
InfoQ: Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again - Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started. Enterprise Java Community: Spring Loaded Observer Pattern - This article describes an easy process of implementing the observer pattern in the Spring framework The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - An analysis of the Amazon Kindle only as Mark Pilgrim or maybe John Gruber can do:) Must read - very thought provoking InfoQ: Article: What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1: Annotation-Based Configuration - The newly released Spring 2.5 features annotation-driven dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath using annotations rather than XML for metadata, annotation support for lifecycle methods, a new web controller model for ma InfoQ: DDD: putting the model to work - This talk will outline some of the foundations of domain-driven design:How models are chosen and evaluated;How multiple models coexist;How the patterns help avoid the common pitfalls, such as overly interconnected models;How developers and domain experts JavaRanch Journal - November 2007 Volume 6 Issue 2 - Spring offers a few helper classes to do some scheduling in your app. In Spring 2.0, both the JDK's Timer objects and the OpenSymphony Quartz Scheduler are supported. Quartz is an open source job scheduling system that can be easily used with Spring. What is the Google Collections Library? - Kevin Bourrillion & Jared Levy are the two primary creators of the Google Collections Library, which aims to provide an extension to the Java Collections Framework. They discuss what the library is all about, its genesis, and how it will be useful to you. InfoQ: Scrum and XP from the Trenches - The tricky part to agile software development is that there is no manual telling you exactly how to do it. This book aims to give you a head start by providing a detailed down-to-earth account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP InfoQ: Starting Struts 2 - Struts2 is the latest manifestation of the popular Struts Java web application framework. Like its predecessor, its goals are to make web application development faster, easier and more productive than ever before. InfoQ: Homer's Odyssey or My Life as an Agile Consultant - In this offbeat presentation from Agile2006, Jean Tabaka compares impediments and obstacles encountered by an Agile mentor with those detailed in Homer's classic. TSS Video: Christian Bauer on JBoss Seam - In this presentation, Christian Bauer discusses how JBoss Seam simplifies the handling of stateful conversations, multi-window operations and concurrent, fine-grained Ajax requests & integrates Facelets, Hibernate, jBPM, Drools, Groovy, iText and Lucene. Seam 2.0 has been released - Seam 2.0 was released this week. JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by ntegrating Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), EJB3, Java Portlets and BPM. Asual | SWFAddress - Deep linking for Flash and Ajax - SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It's a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. Adobe - Developer Center : Designing for Flex ? Part 5: Designing content displays - Content displays are the key element of Flex application design. Application chrome exists only to support these displays, if indeed it must exist at all. Henrik Stahl's Blog: BEA videos on YouTube - There are some short clips covering BEA technologies on YouTube. My favorite is the Predictable Java video. I wish my coffee machine was that well-behaved! Hybridizing HTML - How to create Flex forms within HTML pages to easily achieve cross-browser and cross-platform functionality. alphaWorks : IBM Personal Presenter : Overview - A simple, serverless means of producing and distributing rich media content consisting of video, audio, and slides from the originator's computer to multiple clients. Interface21 Team Blog » The Spring Web Flow 2.0 Vision - The goal of 2.0 is to evolve Spring Web Flow into a complete controller engine capable of handling all types of user interactions, stateless and stateful alike, with support for multiple view technologies and asynchronous event handling (Ajax) natively gwt-ext - Google Code - 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 xhtmlrenderer: The Flying Saucer Project - An XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 Renderer - The Flying Saucer team announces Release 8pre1 of the Flying Saucer 100% Java XHTML+CSS renderer, including support for table pagination, margin boxes, running elements, named pages, and more: It's Only Software » 5 Minute Guide to Spring and JMX - I recently augmented a Spring-based project to expose some of the Spring-managed beans via JMX. Spring makes this very easy, and even if you?ve never used JMX before, this quick tutorial will let you set up your Spring beans to be viewed (and edited!) t Android's SDK Now Available - Android, Google's mobile platform, is finally open to the developers. Now you can download the SDK and start to develop great applications in Java. Google launched a competition that offers $10 million awards for the most interesting apps Microsoft Sync Framework != Google Gears (even if the press wants to make it look that way) on Dion Almaer's Blog - saw Microsoft?s Answer to Google Gears popup in my news feed, along with Mary Jo?s piece itself: Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platform. Upgrading to Prototype 1.6: real world examples - Recently I have undertaken upgrading to Prototype 1.6.0. I will now show you some examples of what I?ve done, how I did it and why; you might find this writeup useful when doing the same in your application.
Tags: .NET, actionscript, adobe, advocacy, agile, ajax, amazon, android, annotation, architecture, BEA, book, books, browser, capture, code, collections, copyright, css, culture, DDD, design, design+patterns, development, drm, Drools, ebooks, ejb3, examples, ext, extjs, Facelets, flash, flex, flex2, flex3, form, forms, framework, free, gears, google, groovy, gwt, hibernate, html, infoq, iText, J2EE, java, javascript, jboss, jBPM, jmx, jsf, junit, kindle, library, lucene, methodology, microsoft, mpeg4, observer, offline, opensource, phone, presentation, programming, prototype, prototype.js, quartz, redhat, rtp, rtsp, scriptaculous, scrum, sdk, seam, seam2.0, spring, spring2.0, spring2.5, SpringFramework, Struts, struts2, swfobject, testing, tutorial, upgrade, video, Web2.0, webflow, WebLogic, xhtml, xpRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Aug 04, 2007 through Aug 09, 2007
New elements in HTML 5 - HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. Download Query Express - Query Express is a simple Query Analyzer look-alike, but being small and free it can be run where the SQL Server client tools are not installed or licensed. This makes it especially useful as a query tool for MSDE and SQL Express. It also connects to Orac Videocast: How to Succeed at Unit Testing by Agitar Software - In this Tech Talk Alberto Savoia, CTO of Agitar Software explains how his early experiences with agile development at Google turned him into an evangelist for unit and developer testing, but also made him realize that, without some automation, most develo Bill de hÓra: Tab switching with SiteMesh - Using SiteMesh and CSS selectors for menus - Here's another technique that uses the SiteMesh's decorator:getProperty tag and leverages CSS selectors instead of scripts. Introduction to scripting in Java, Part 2 - Java World - How will scripting affect the runtime performance, robustness, and maintainability of your Java applications? Find out more from Dejan Bosanac's 'Scripting in Java: Languages, Frameworks, and Patterns' AW book Building a better Zebra Table | geeks not nerds - Today while surfing I stumbled onto this site: Stripe your tables the OO way. After reading it, I realized that it was hopelessly overcomplicated for what it needed to do, so I thought I'd write a better one CSS Juice - Design, Tutorial, Showcase and more » 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design - Here is the list of online generator particularly for web 2.0 design In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don?t Feel Rich - New York Times - By almost any definition - except his own and perhaps those of his neighbors here in Silicon Valley, Hal Steger has made it. Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million Ext JS Blog - Ext v1.1 Released - The Ext team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Ext v1.1 for download. The 1.1 version includes the new stand-alone version of Ext, a lightweight HTML editor, a new Ext.Ajax utility class, enhancements to DateField and DatePicker HtmlUnit: Re-synchronize AJAX Calls for Simple, Deterministic Test Automation « Marc Guillemot?s blog - The upcoming release of HtmlUnit will contain a very large number of fixes and improvements (particularly for the JavaScript support of libraries like Prototype or GWT). An interesting new feature is the experimental AjaxManager that allows to easily cont Enterprise Java Community: JBoss Seam: A Deep Integration Framework - JBoss Seam is an open source "deep integration" framework that tries to have the best of both the Java EE and Spring worlds. It started out to address the design flaws between two key Java EE frameworks: JSF and EJB3.
Tags: aigle, ajax, book, career, css, database, design, development, ejb3.0, ext, extjs, framework, freeware, generator, google, groovy, html, html5, htmlunit, java, javascript, jboss, jruby, jsp, junit, library, programming, reference, scripting, seam, silicon, sitemesh, spring, SpringFramework, SQL, sqlserver, tab, tdd, Tech, testing, tools, unit-testing, valley, web, Web2.0, webdesign, webdev, wysiwyg, zebraRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Jul 30, 2007 through Aug 03, 2007
InfoQ: System Integration Testing Using Spring - When it comes to system integration testing Spring adds real value. In this session, Rod Johnson discusses: integration testing and the support that Spring provides for it, issues around testing the persistence layer, testing web applications. InfoQ: BEA and Oracle incorporate Sun's Project Tango - In a recent article, Sun's director for SOA products, Kevin Schmidt mentioned the fact that both Oracle and BEA have incorporated Sun's Web Services stack, Project Tango. Tango is MS .NET 3.0 interop InfoQ: Using Java to Crack Office 2007 - With Office 2007, no third-party libraries are necessary-a Java application can now read and write any Office 2007 document, because Office 2007 documents are now nothing more than ZIP files of XML documents known as the OpenXML Welcome to jXLS - jXLS is small and easy-to-use Java library for generating Excel files using XLS templates. Also jXLS can be used to read XLS files and populate Java beans with spreadsheet data according to XML configuration file How To Read / Write Excel Spreadsheet From Java - Both JExcelAPI and Jakarta POI (HSSF) are open source software to read & write data from / to Excel spreadsheet even on non-Microsoft platforms. In my tests HSSF came out to be the clear leader and recommended solution because of robustness and features. Eloquent JavaScript - Eloquent JavaScript is a hyper-book providing a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-17.txt - The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format. F1 News - Grandprix.com - One of the big problems with the ongoing Stepneygate Affair is that there is a huge amount of hearsay, but not a great deal of fact YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - We're pleased to announce the release of YUI version 2.3.0. This release features six new additions to the library as well as a new skinning architecture and a new visual treatment for most of our UI controls - plus 250 enhancements and bug fixes Greg the Architect : Episodes - Find out what happens when Greg tries to swallow three different SOA pitches in one day. Will he save the day, or will Greg have to chuck the project? Dr. Dobb's | Java Message Service | July 2, 2007 - SOAP-based web-service development continues to grow, and uses XML and HTTP to remove the implementation details from remote procedure calls. But while SOAP has broken new ground in distributed computing, message-oriented middleware such as the Java Messa Plans for the Rich Web Application Backplane - Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standard 10 things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA successfully by SpencerUresk - I decided to share a few things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA in a large project with a complicated database setup OpenJPA no longer requires bytecode processing - Historically, OpenJPA required that you either run a post-compilation tool or run your application with a javaagent. The latest build of OpenJPA removes this restriction by providing various levels of support for unenhanced classes.
Tags: .NET, ajax, api, architect, atom, BEA, book, css, database, excel, f1, ferrari, formulaOne, framework, free, hibernate, hssf, integration, java, javaee, javascript, jexcel, jms, jpa, kodo, library, mclaren, messaging, microsoft, office, openjpa, opensource, openxml, oracle, persistence, poi, presentation, programming, racing, rfc, SOA, specification, spring, SpringFramework, testing, tibco, tutorial, video, W3C, web, Web2.0, webdev, xml, yahoo, yuiRelated posts
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
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