Pearware Blog : Improving Java web site performance with asset caching - In this post, I’ll be talking about a solution I developed at my day job to improve the performance of our web site by allowing the browser to cache JavaScript, CSS, and image files Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times - We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House bedroom. I’m voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV The All-White Elephant in the Room - New York Times - Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives’ favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race. Headius: The Power of the JVM - The future is definitely looking awesome for dynamic languages on the JVM. And languages like Groovy and JRuby are proving it. How Has Functional Programming Influenced Your Coding Style? - Functional programming languages are enjoying a renaissance. Even if not intending to use a functional language for daily work, learning such a language can improve one's programming style Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor - (37signals) - Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-m Java Persistence 2.0 Early Draft Available - Linda DeMichiel's Blog - We've just released the Early Draft of the Java Persistence 2.0 specification, so I thought it would be a good time to report on some of the work we've been doing in the JSR 317 Expert Group. InfoQ: Flex, AIR and AS3 Flex Gain Code Coverage Utilities - Last month Joe Berkovitz announced the initial experimental release of Flexcover, an open-source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3 For all you know, it's just another Java library - David Pollak's Blog - Bottom line… to anyone other than the folks with hands in the code and the folks who have to recruit and manage them, "For all you know, it's just another Java library." Common Solutions for T-SQL Problems - Home - Some of the Moderators, Answerers, and MVPs have gotten together to create a new resource to supplement the Forums; it's called SQLExamples. We just started it a few weeks ago so it's still very much in its infancy
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Daily del.icio.us for January 27th through January 28th
Peter Ent: DataCalendar - The DataCalendar is a combination of DateChooser and DataGrid. Like the DateChooser, the DataCalendar displays a standard calendar with controls to navigate to another month and year. And like the DataGrid, the cells of the DataCalendar display data. Khomsan Ph. - VisualWget - Home - VisualWget is a download manager that use Wget as a core retriever to retrieve files from the web. You can think of VisualWget as a GUI front-end for Wget that give you all of Wget functionalities plus little management features such as download queue Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE . In the News | PBS - America's growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us. Here's a way to fix the problem — and we need to do it now. By Warren E. Buffett, Ext JS Blog - » Ext continues expansion, Now offers training and consulting services - Ext has been quietly offering services for some time now, basically working towards getting certain pieces in place before formalizing the Ext Professional Services division Ext JS Blog - » Ext continues expansion, Now offers training and consulting services - Ext has been quietly offering services for some time now, basically working towards getting certain pieces in place before formalizing the Ext Professional Services division CSS Reference - Welcome to the SitePoint CSS Reference! We?ve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available. To get started, try our handy search box, or click on one of the headings to browse that section of the reference InfoQ: Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers - Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon's EC2. Seth's Blog: Nickel and diming - Offering low marginal cost items for free is a shortcut to generating word of mouth, which is a lot cheaper than buying ads. Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application - In the first installment of his new monthly series Mastering Grails, Java expert Scott Davis introduces Grails and demonstrates how to build your first Grails application. The busy Java developer's guide to Scala: Functional programming for the object oriented - In this new series, Ted Neward introduces Scala, a programming language that combines functional and object-oriented techniques for the JVM. Along the way, Ted makes the case for why you should take the time to learn Scala ? concurrency, for one ? and
Tags: ajax, amazon, article, aws, business, business marketing service strategy Grails groovy java, calendar, Cluster, clustering, component, css, design, development, ec2, economics, economy, extjs, finance, flex, flex3, framework, grails, grid, groovy, howto, J2EE, java, javascript, jvm, language, library, marketing, money, MVC, politics, programming, reference, scala, service, sitepoint, strategy, training, tutorial, utilities, visualwget, warrenbuffett, Web2.0, webdesign, webdev, wget, windowsRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for January 26th
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer - Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from t Raible Designs | The future is now — Java development in 2008 - I agree that learning about JRuby and Groovy is a good way to be prepared for the future. [....] I do believe you can leverage these tools in your existing jobs and hopefully make your development life more efficient. InfoQ: Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project - The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene. IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: Dependency Analysis with DSM - DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix - a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project » Terracotta Server as a Message Bus - But I?m a guy that really likes simple. TC lets us make an entirely POJO system that runs beautifully in IntelliJ. A single ?container? type main program can run all our components in a single JVM simply by loading all our various Spring configs. What is Visual VM? - Visual VM is a new project whose goal is to provide monitoring and profiling tools for the JVM with a GUI. Visual VM is a standalone application (based on NetBeans platform :). GPDE Team Blog : JavaScript Memory Leak Detector - JavaScript Memory Leak Detector (download) is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code. It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory leaks in JavaScript code that runs in Internet Explorer. Ajaxian » Prototype 1.6.0.2 security and performance improvements - Prototype 1.6.0.2 is a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all 1.6.0 users. We?ve fixed 28 bugs and made over a dozen improvements to the code base, including performance improvements Ubuntu 7.10 VMware Image Download (English) - jars.de - Java und Technologie - An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) VMware Image is available here for download. This virtual Linux system with all its applications is usable out-of-the-box with the free VMware Player. Thus, it is perfect to test drive Ubuntu within Windows Dr. Dobb's | NetBeans 6.0: A First Look | January 24, 2008 - Sun Microsystems recently released NetBeans 6.0 which came with significant improvements, almost all in direct response to user requests. Even the developers who like NetBeans have posted complaints about its editor, especially when compared with Eclipse. AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Move Over, Seth Godin, Einstein?s Here - If I had to source Einstein quotes as chapter titles for a modern-day marketing book, here are the ones I?d likely pick. The beauty of these chapter titles is that they can live on their own, without the padding of excess words and long-winded narrative America's 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies - Forbes.com - We are back with a new group of 25 rapidly growing technology companies, 12 of which are repeats from our prior list. » Can Sun execute on its open source strategy? | Open Source | ZDNet.com - The question is, will open source be judged by the execution of Sun?s strategy?
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Daily del.icio.us for January 22nd through January 25th
Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet - Juriy Zaytsev just released a brand-new Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet that is a great time-saver for development and also makes a nice wall poster Tech's Bottom Line | Bill Snyder | InfoWorld | Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain't what it used to be | January 24, 2008 03:00 AM | By Bill Snyder - The market will see a convergence of closed and open source software such that the terms will eventually become meaningless from a research perspective Massive Java Update Includes Security Fixes - Security Fix - Sun has released another update to its Java software that brings some 370 bug fixes, including a number of security updates. Ext JS Blog - » Ext 2.0.1 Released - The Ext team is happy to announce the release of version 2.0.1 of Ext JS. This is a maintenance release that fixes several issues with the 2.0 release An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side - This article addresses the reasons OSGi has stepped into Java/SOA server-side initiatives, including its main benefits and constraints as Java vendors shift their SOA focus to OSGi. James Carr » Blog Archive » Making extJS More Accessible to Java Developers - I randomly came across ExtTLD this morning while sifting through my rss feeds, and I must say I am rather impressed. Ajax and XML: Ajax for forms - You can do so much with Ajax to enable HTML forms, and this article just scratches the surface. However, it should give you some ideas and practical examples of what you can do in your own applications with relatively easy modifications to your page code. ScalaTest 0.9 Released - Today I released a testing tool written in Scala, which can be used to test Scala/Java code. It is a tool for testing Scala code, but can also be used to get started programming in Scala, by writing tests in Scala for production code written in Java. Ext JS Blog - » Ext Growth and Server-Side Community Projects - An excellent barometer of a project?s growth and acceptance is the creation of community extensions that compliment the project. It?s demonstrative of how users are embracing Ext and in some cases, need to go past what the core framework provides
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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 16th
antennae - Google Code - Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex - PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It's easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it's very powerful, it's not very friendly InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 - This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E InfoQ: Why Scala? - Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. Ian's Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java - Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 30, 2007
facebook-java-api - Google Code - A Facebook API client implemented in Java - The purpose of this project is to provide a high-quality, more up to date version of the Facebook API client for Java developers, and to allow it to be maintained regularly over time. The Mythical 5% - So you must learn continuously and teach yourself new technologies, but it's not that simple. It's definitely good to learn more about programming, but you can't just learn more about programming The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American - Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?not on intelligence or ability?is key to success in school and in life O'Reilly — ActionScript 3.0: Is It Hard or Not? - The code doesn?t have to reside in classes. Variable datatypes don?t have to be declared, even in the strict compilation mode. The language is designed to provide as much or as little structure and flexibility as the task at hand requires. Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier - This list will grow as I find new tools. So if you know of some not on this list do post them in the comments. Simplify Your SQL with Variables and Derived Tables (or Common Table Expressions) - As with any programming language, it is important in SQL to keep your code short, clear and concise. Here are two quick tips that I find are very helpful in obtaining this goal. Webwereld | Six enterprise application trends to watch in 2008 - If 2007 was any indication of what's to come, the one thing companies using expensive enterprise applications-ERP, CRM and supply chain management systems-is that more change vendor alliances, pricing schemes and software innovation is on the way in 2008. Checklist/Tuning Guide for Optimizing the JRockit JVM - The goal of this document is to provide information for tuning the BEA JRockit JVM using a checklist approach. A lot of territory is covered, from esoteric command-line options to iterative performance testing Red Hat and Alfresco Join to Deliver an Open Source Enterprise Collaboration Solution - Red Hat and Alfresco have collaborated to build an integrated collaboration solution - The Red Hat/Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution is designed to bring advanced collaboration and social computing. InfoQ: An Introduction to the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools - clipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open source project based on the popular Eclipse IDE and is used to build and deploy reports in a Java/J2EE environment. InfoQ: Interview: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit - Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT. Apache News Online: 30 December 2007 - Apache Jetspeed 2.1.3 Released - The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.1.3 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal. Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard Generating JUnit Tests for Legacy Java Applications - Unit tests give us the confidence to change applications, even legacy applications that we didn't write ourselves. To avoid the drudgery of writing a test case for every edge and boundary, we can let JUnit Factory generate a large set of tests for us. IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.x Helps Avoid Conflicts - If somebody else has already modified the same file and has committed changes to the repository, IntelliJ IDEA detects the newer version in the repository and displays a banner on top of the editor
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 09, 2007 through Dec 11, 2007
iBatis vs Hibernate - Mark Richards — an Architect at IBM — talks about the decision criteria behind choosing iBatis or Hibernate for your Java persistence needs. InfoQ: The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution - The architecture of Composite Solution Platforms, as described in this paper, also offers a cleaner interface between SOA and BPM. It gives SOA the opportunity to build truly reusable services: the Resource Lifecycle Services which can be reused across pr InfoQ: What's New in Groovy 1.5 - Groovy, the Java-like dynamic language for the JVM, has reached the next major milestone with the 1.5 label. With it, come several interesting novelties that we will examine in this article InfoQ: AntiSamy 1.0 Released - Protecting web applications from malicious HTML and CSS - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is a major security issue facing developers. A new project on OWASP known as the "AntiSamy" project, aims to offer a comprehensive, policy driven, API that validates and sanitizes input, as well as providing user feedback on the Neal Ford on what JRuby has that Java doesn't - Neal Ford and Andrew Glover are both well respected Java developers, as well as big fans of Ruby. In this in-depth discussion, Ford talks about why he believes Ruby is the most powerful language you could be paid to program with today, and explains the pa InfoQ: Presentation: Werner Vogels on The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation - Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider. From an SOA perspective, it is interesting to note the degree to which Amazon.com has adopted a pragmatic approach to service-orientation, with a service as a cohesive unit o Tug's Blog: Working on a large XML or SOA project: think about "separation of concerns" - The same way that today we are using SSL accelerators to deal with SSL encryption/decryption, we can put XML appliance to deal with the intensive CPU processing operation: XML validations, transformation, Ws-Security enforcing point Henrik Stahl's Blog: How fragmented is my Java heap? - One major cause for long GC pause times is heap fragmentation. How problematic this for an application depends on its allocation pattern iBatis Tutorial - iBatis - Its low barriers to entry, transparent utilization of SQL, cleanly divided separation of responsibilities, and elegant integration with Spring, the strengths of iBATIS within today's computing environment are self-evident. In Relation To… JBoss Developer Studio 1.0 released - I'm proud to report that we released JBoss Developer Studio 1.0 (formerly known as Red Hat Developer Studio) earlier today. The feature highlights of the Developer Studio are: * Out-of-the-box configuration of Eclipse Web Tools, JBoss EAP incl. Seam * JBo Martin Fowler on GroovyOrJRuby - Currently there's quite a debate raging over the relative merits of Groovy and JRuby as scripting languages running on the Java virtual machine. Curious minds want to know - which of these languages will win this upcoming language war? Martin Fowler on GroovyOrJRuby - Currently there's quite a debate raging over the relative merits of Groovy and JRuby as scripting languages running on the Java virtual machine. Curious minds want to know - which of these languages will win this upcoming language war? » Microsoft creates GWT clone | Ed Burnette?s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com - If Volta had been released two years ago it would have been revolutionary. At this point, though, Microsoft is playing catch-up with Google and Adobe. Volta also sends a confusing message to .NET developers targeting the browser Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA - This plugin allow developers to have complete control over their Amazon EC2 infrastructure. Available from IntelliJ IDEA official plugin repository Home | Email Standards Project - The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email Alagad: Data Warehousing Part 2 Dimensional Modeling - Dimensional modeling is a somewhat abstract principle and one that is very requirement specific; needing to be created for specific business-organizational user needs. Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 released | Springframework.org - I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 has been released and includes support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security for the client-side and Java 1.4, @Endpoint component scanning, and more.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 09, 2007 through Aug 11, 2007
LiMo Foundation: Welcome - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform Erlang, the next Java - Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java. Its main problem is that there is no big company behind it Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell - New York Times - In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the copyrights for Unix OS. NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard. How well do you know prototype? - Here, I've collected most common use cases that do NOT use all of prototype's capabilities and their simple solutions. I hope this will be a basic checklist to go through when developing for your next project Learning JavaFX Script, Part 1: An Introduction to JavaFX Script for Java Programmers - The JavaFX Script programming language (hereinafter referred to as JavaFX) is a declarative, statically typed scripting language from Sun. Because JavaFX Script is statically typed, it also has the same code structuring, reuse, and encapsulation features Real Web 2.0: Quick and dirty Web applications with bookmarklets - Bookmarklets are an important part of the Web 2.0 landscape, and they exemplify the qualities of Web 2.0 technology I tend to focus on in this column: transparency and openness. WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Launcher Appliance - WLS-VE is a combination of a Java application server (WebLogic Server) with a Java Virtual Machine that works with hypervisor software and provides only the set of operating system features that WebLogic Server needs to offer its full range of services. Arvind Jain's Blog: WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE) goes GA - With a single command, WLS instances can quickly be deployed onto VMware ESX-enabled resource pools, fully integrated and tuned to run within their own dedicated virtual machines… all without any 3rd party operating systems. yav - Javascript form validation tool - Yav is a SIMPLE, POWERFUL and CUSTOMIZABLE javascript-based form validation tool. 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
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 2007
The 90th percentile: MyFaces: The emperor has no clothes - My last project is going into production in a couple of weeks, and it has been implemented using JSF. I started with JSF in good faith: it should be stable by now, it is blessed by Sun and included as the de facto web framework in JEE 5. James Ward's Blog » Blog Archive » My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures - A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge. rakaz - Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files - Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files. Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast - The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We?ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick. lightWindow - Another decent lightbox Javascript library (via Ajaxian) - After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-04-16 | By Andrew Binstock - IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson?s Response to Alex Payne?s Interview [dive into mark] - LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style. 
Wordpress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott Back - There?s no good reason for Wordpress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web. Java Community News - BEA Releases JRockit R27.2 with Java 6 Support - BEA's latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects. Enomalism : XEN Virtualized Server Management Console: Amazon EC2 Migration - The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment. Everybody Hates Don Imus - Frank Rich's brilliant column - Even in that short span, there?s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate Dev2Dev Online: Open Source and BEA - BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment?combining the best of open source and commercial software?provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit « - Over the years, I?ve accumulated a variety of tools that don?t take up much space but that come in handy when an emergency comes along. On the average day, I don?t need any of these - but when I do, I?m happy to have them. Here are my suggestions
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