visualvm: Home - VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE pl Comparison of 2 Java Excel Apis on Large Workbooks/Worksheets - Ramblings of a Java Developer - Essentially what I did was to compare the Apache POI HSSF Api and the JExcelApi. iPhone: The New Personal Computer - ReadWriteWeb - Increasingly, desktops and laptops will be for professional computing. iPhone and its descendants will be our new personal computer. This is an exciting page in the history of our technology. It's the start of an era: ubiquitous, portable, personal comput Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas - A policy that favors sticky energy with multiple sources and that aggressively moves vehicles first toward dual-fuel mode and ultimately to running on just electricity provides the answer stevenf.com - Don't use FTP - FTP has served us well, but it's time to move on. You wouldn't use a 23 year old computer to do your work, so don't use a protocol from the same vintage. Demand modern transfer protocols from your host. How to Install Media Codecs for Flash, DVD, QuickTime (MOV), MP3, WMV, WMA, and ACC (MP4, M4A) Playback in Linux [Ubuntu Guide] : Zaphu - Due to copyrights, Ubuntu (currently Hardy Heron 8.04) is distributed without codecs to play many of the most prevalent media formats. This guide shows you how. Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com - Visiting Web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays, which routinely have 20-inch or larger screens. Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide - This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you'll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more. Political Irony › If today’s Congress presided during Watergate - If today’s Congress presided during Watergate TV Review - 'Generation Kill' - In ‘Generation Kill’ Comrades in Chaos Invade Iraq - Review - NYTimes.com - “Generation Kill,” an HBO seven-part mini-series about the invasion of Iraq that begins on Sunday, is bold, uncompromising and oddly diffident. Java Sorting: Comparator vs Comparable Tutorial - Computerized World - This article will discuss the java.lang.Comparator and java.lang.Comparable in details with a set of sample codes for further clarifications. theJavaJar.com - Groovy, Grails and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA - he JetGroovy plugin does a great job of exposing a new Groovy developer to an environment that most seasoned Java developers are already accustomed to.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 29th through May 31st
A Look Inside JBoss Rules | Javalobby - JBoss Rules is the production release of the Drools project, an expert system for declarative programming based around the Rete algorithm. During this talk, Mark Proctor, the lead on JBoss Rules covered the Drools basics, as well as the new features in 4. The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone - This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit "play" again and again. The Business Of IT: Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies - The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years David Card - No Way to Build an Operating System - MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn "reset" in 2004 was in large part the realization that WinFS was still not ready for primetime. My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage - IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Oracle and BEA - Welcome, Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Members - The Oracle Technology Network is happy to welcome members of the BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch communities. The OTN team, which now includes some of the very same people behind those BEA communities, is hard at work merging the best of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Ozzie: Open source is greatest threat to Microsoft | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a "tremendously strong competitor…open source was much more potentially disruptive" to Microsoft's business model. Ben Northrop - Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? - In the end, I'm not saying that programming to interfaces and not implementations isn't a good thing, just that it's a good thing less often than we think - in other words, it can't just be dogmatically applied. O'Reilly Media | Harnessing Hibernate - More than a reference, Harnessing Hibernate starts with basic configuration before moving on to demonstrate how to use Hibernate to accomplish practical goals. "If you follow along with the examples–which is easy–you'll have a working Hibernate-based pr InfoQ: Top 5 Ways to Reduce Flex Application Startup Time - Jun Heider has an excellent piece on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA site discussing a number of the options for minimizing the startup time of Flex applications, in hopes of helping developers reduce the amount of time that users see the ugly "Loading" dialog. Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report | CenterNetworks - Akamai is out today with their first "State of the Internet" report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 25th through May 28th
Nick Bradbury: Hospitals Are No Place for Sick People - My father is a wealthy, well-connected, fully-insured, brilliant man, and this all took place at what is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the country. If the healthcare system failed him, it will fail the rest of us, too. The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Erlang By Example - Learn how to write Erlang programs by sitting next to an experienced Erlang programmer as he builds an application from the ground up. In these screencasts, Kevin Smith incrementally builds a distributed chat system using Erlang Ext JS - Use Namespaces to organize your JavaScript code - Using namespaces will ensure your JavaScript code is safe from other code overwriting it in the global namespace. YUI 2.5.2 Released: Bug Fixes and Support for Upcoming Firefox and Opera Releases » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - The YUI development team released version 2.5.2 today; you can download the new release from SourceForge or configure your implementation using the YUI Configurator. This is a focused release that addresses several key bugs while providing support for Fir Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit - Over the years, Warren Buffett has recommended many books in a variety of venues about a variety of subjects. Continuing our ongoing series of books recommended by Buffett, here we highlight ten books that Buffett has recommended on investing. .htaccess Tutorials, htaccess Examples, Sample .htaccess Files - This is the index of my favorite apache HTTP (htaccess, mod_rewrite, httpd.conf) examples, solutions, ideas, htaccess tips, apache tricks and .htaccess sample files AJAX Libraries API - Google Code - The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libs. By using the Google AJAX API, your application has high speed, globaly available access to JavaScript open source libraries Google to preach Web 2.0 gospel to developers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Lighting a fire under Web 2.0 - App Engine and Gears together are centerpieces of Google's attempt to bring the Web alive, and we can expect some action there at the conference, too. Ext JS Ext.ux.Wiz (Wizardcomponent) - Ext.ux.Wiz is a user extension that helps you setting up wizards for your Ext JS project easily.
Guide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
Tags: accessibility, administration, ajax, apache, api, appengine, architecture, books, caching, CDN, cms, code, component, css, development, dreamweaver, economics, erlang, extjs, finance, financial, gears, google, healthcare, hospitals, howto, htaccess, investing, javascript, jquery, library, medicine, menus, money, offline, programming, prototype, screencast, standards, survey, sysadmin, tutorial, video, web, Web2.0, webdesign, yahoo, yuiGuide your users through a set of cards, collecting needed informations, an only let them pass through if each and every submitted value validates against the Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : CSS Menu Writer debuts - Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.
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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 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 January 30th through February 1st
Ext JS Blog - » IDEs, plugins and tools for Ext JS 2.0 - The Ext 2.0 API is very extensive and remembering all of the functions, properties or configs available is virtually impossible. The API documentation is very thorough, but it would be nice if IDEs would provide code assist options in JavaScript as they d Clockwork Objects » Adobe Flex: Styling the DataGrid header separators - Although the default alo theme in Flex can be easily styled through CSS (made especially easy using the Flex Style Explorer), there are elements such as separators between the column headers that cannot easily be styled. James Ward - RIA Cowboy » Blog Archive » Screencast: BEA Workshop + Adobe Flex Builder - Pieter Humphrey of BEA has posted a great screencast about using the BEA Workshop / Flex Builder bundle. He goes through a very in-depth demonstration of using all the great features of Workshop and Flex to build a RIA front-end for the Medrec Patient App Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library - Scripteka.com, the Prototype extensions repository and library. The intention is to provide a central place to organize plugins for the Prototype community. John Resig - The State of JSON - JSON2.js - Late last year Crockford quietly released a new version of his JSON API that replaced his existing API. The important difference was that it used a single base object (JSON) instead of extending all native object prototypes The Clever Monkey: Leap of Faith: Leaving Burton Group for Curl - It is at once a happy and sad day for me. I resigned from my position at Burton Group for a new position as Vice President of Developer Relations at Curl, Inc. My last day at Burton Group is February 1st; my first day at Curl is February 18th. InfoQ: Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast' - At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming InfoQ: New Scala Tutorials for Java Developers - Spiewak started his series, Scala for Java Refugees, in early January and his fourth part, Pattern Matching and Exception Handling was published today. Manageability - Top Five Java Technologies to Learn in 2008 - Software Technology will always been in constant flux. Change will always be inevitable. So as a Java developer you need to continue to groom your career by learning new techniques and technologies. Shifting Mind » Postalicious - Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, or Google Reader bookmarks to your blog
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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 18th
The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 - JRuby - Codehaus - JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 - I've been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months. Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application - Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn't just a simple "me too" port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java. Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress - Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 - CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained - In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs. Firefox DataAnalytics Help center - DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price? Anyterm - SSH via web - Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert - from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 - Java World - In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations. Sun To Acquire MySQL - Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say "Data is the Intel Inside" of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0 Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won't need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source. Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers - "JasperReports for Java Developers" proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners GWT vs. FLEX - This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies. The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer - Forrester Research - Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard
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Daily del.icio.us for January 17th
Introduction to Groovy, Part 3 - In this third installment ofIntroduction to Groovy (part 1, part 2) we will continue looking at some features of the Groovy language. Some you may find them on other languages, but some are exclusive to Groovy. PDFBox - Java PDF Library - PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. TagSoup home page - This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML Teflon Ted: Book Review: Dreaming in Code - I'm probably not the first (or the last) person to say Dreaming in Code is the Soul of a New Machine for my generation Thinking In Java: In today's world, what is the role of the Application Server? - Given the likes of Spring and Hibernate, how do people consume the Application Server? Is it all you can eat with JEE still delivering on the promise of writing business logic and letting the App server deal with the infrastructure? People Over Process » Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer - While at the Eclipse Runtime Summit, I had the chance to talk with Iona's Eric Newcomer (CTO of Iona, Co-Chair, Enterprise Expert Group, OSGi Alliance, and well respected coding guy) about the emergence of OSGi as a server-side, or enterprise technology Grails - Home - Grails aims to bring the "coding by convention" paradigm to Groovy. It's an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. How do you parse HTML in Java? - The Open Source HTML Parsers in Java page is useful in listing the HTML parsers that are out there. But it doesn't give much of a clue about which are the "best" in a given situation. In other words, how should one decide which HTML parser to use?
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Daily del.icio.us for January 7th
alphaWorks Services | IBM Web Highlights | Overview - IBM Web Highlights is a social Web 2.0 application that allows quick creation, sharing, and discussion of Web snippets and Web pages. The snippets are in the form of highlights that can be independently created and then discussed between member. Top 3 SSIS Dataflow Mistakes - Brian Knight - There's an old saying that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If the SSIS data flow is your hammer, too many people thing treat the components in the data flow like nails and don't follow best traditional ETL practices [Component] CForm v1.0 « Flexed - CForm is all about creating data entry screens. This component allows developers to create standardized forms/CRUD screens in their applications. The CForm component is a Data Entry component that can be very useful Thin - A fast and simple web server « Marc-André Cournoyer?s blog - Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: the Mongrel parser, Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability and Rack http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=205100034 - The list of financial firms deploying Web 2.0 applications, both within the enterprise and externally, is growing. TD Ameritrade, Bear Stearns and Wells Fargo all have announced new 2.0 applications in the last few months. Amazon?s EC2 Open Source Firefox Plugin - Developers using Amazon?s EC2 API might find this interesting: Amazon has created an open source project on SourceForge for ElasticFox, their Firefox extension that lets you create and manage EC2 instances from a GUI in the browser. PragDave: Two New Groovy Titles - Just to prove we're not totally Ruby-centric, we just took two books on Groovy into beta. Venkat has written Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer, a wonderful introduction to the language. And Scott Davis complements it with Gr Bruce Eckel: Java, Evolutionary Dead End - Bruce Eckel says that Java should not change much any more, that maybe "the right thing to do is just not add the feature at all (what fun is that?). That if you can't do it right then maybe the language should stop growing and become stable. The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference - Developer Pills - So with no pre-compilation and caching for both SPs and SQL statments there is no advantage for SPs here, in some other databases the SPs compiled into C or C++ but this isn't the case in SQL Server 7.0/2000. GWT Site » Getting started with GWT and Google Gears - Google Gears is a library that enables your web applications to work offline. Currently it consists of three modules: LocalServer for caching and serving up your web app resources (ie. html, javascript, images), a SQLite Database for storing offline data
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