Firefox 3 for developers - MDC - If you're a developer trying to get a handle on all the new features in Firefox 3, this is the perfect place to start. This article provides a list of the new articles covering features added to Firefox 3 InfoQ: Is Google Gears Positioned to Add Features to the Web? - There is no doubt that Rich Internet Applications remain a major battleground for the industry along with and complementary to Ad-based revenue models and cloud-computing. Will Gears take a similar path as Flash and become as much adopted by Web sites and Use Flex Builder 3 to create a JavaScript AIR application - I have tried today to create an AIR application. My tool of choice was Flex Builder 3 as I knew you can create AIR applications using it. Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here - We're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world - How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure message passing, Erlang programs scales on multi Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library - Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics: DBSight: Instant Scalable Full-text database search platform/engine - Instead of weeks or even months to develop a full-text search for your data, if you know how to use DBSight, you can easily create the full-text search literally in minutes. Brain Freeze » Storing JasperReports in a database using iBATIS and Oracle 10g - This article shows how I solved the file system issue by storing JasperReports report definitions in a database. I’ll assume familiarity with the iBATIS “ORM” database framework since I am not showing a full iBATIS setup here. JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala - Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for the upcoming IntelliJ 8 release, as well as his views on IntelliJ's support for Flex and Scala. » HOW TO: Use JDBC Batching for 7-8X throughput gains - Using the batched statement capability of your JDBC driver can give you 7-8X throughput gains. Not only is batching significantly faster, it’ll save database CPU cycles and be easier on the network, too Why Java? Because it's everywhere. - The value of this enterprise capabilities is still very high, and in my opinion, it is one of the most important differentiators of Java. Once you know how to deal with it, it saves you lots of time in development and production. Roku's Netflix Player sells out | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - There's more proof that the Netflix Player is a hit. Start-up Roku, the company behind the device that enables Netflix subscribers to watch movies streamed from the Internet to their TVs, has run out of inventory two weeks after launching. InfoQ: Exadel’s Flamingo Project for Rapid Flex and Java Development - Exadel’s Flamingo project is a tool for bootstrapping RIA applications built with Java backends. The tool offers support for both Seam and Spring in the middle tier. On the presentation tier, Flamingo supports both Flex and JavaFX
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Daily del.icio.us for March 20th through March 21st
Mediator Pattern - The Mediator is a behavioral design pattern that provides a central hub to guide the interactions between many objects. According to Gamma et al, the intent of the Mediator pattern is to define an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact. John Resig - Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (SXSW) - Today, at SXSW, I hosted a panel discussion on the "Secrets of JavaScript Libraries." We set out to discuss the behind-the-scenes nitty-gritty code that powers the universal features of the most popular JavaScript libraries. IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Opening EAP for IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 - We’re glad to announce the availability of IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 first EAP. Some of the IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 features are now available for the first preview: Flex debugger, Improved Flex code editor, with new inspections, JavaScript debugger and much more. Creating a Simple Web Application Using a MySQL Database - This document describes how to create a simple web application that connects to a MySQL database server. It also covers some basic ideas and technologies in web development, such as JavaServer Pages™ (JSP), JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library™ (JSTL Ajaxian » Yahoo! releases new performance best practices - Stoyan Stefanov has been working with the Yahoo! engineers to find more best practices, and presented on a new batch: He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. We’ve categorized the optimizations into: server, content, coo GWT + Gears : The browser is the platform » SlideShare - GWT + Gears : The browser is the platform snippely - Adobe AIR application to organize snippets - Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize "snippets" in one convenient location Google Public Policy Blog: The end of the FCC 700 MHz auction - consumers whose devices use the C-block of spectrum soon will be able to use any wireless device they wish, and download to their devices any applications and content they wish. Consumers soon should begin enjoying new, Internet-like freedom to get the mo You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - It's doubly important to hire the best people. Mediocre hires hurt you twice: they get less done, but they also make you big, because you need more of them to solve a given problem. Cedric Champeau's Weblog : Weblog - Before criticizing, I must admit that Lucene is a very good high-performance full text search engine. However, it's development has been going very slow those late months, and I think Lucene will most likely not keep in touch with today's document proces [shell-fu:home]$ - Shell-fu is a place for all those little command line goodies that you come across and then can never find again when you need them. Hopefully we'll end up with a comprehensive and easily usable resource for anyone working with the shell
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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 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
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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.
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Daily del.icio.us for Jul 06, 2007
Dev2Dev Editor's Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble - The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download XHAB: Xavier Hanin's Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket - If you haven't already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should Full text search with Apache Lucene - I?m Mike - Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language. framework - Google Code - To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes. Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript - For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers.
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Daily del.icio.us for Jun 27, 2007 through Jul 06, 2007
Dev2Dev Editor's Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble - The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download XHAB: Xavier Hanin's Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket - If you haven't already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should Full text search with Apache Lucene - I?m Mike - Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language. framework - Google Code - To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes. Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript - For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers. GWT in Action: TheServerSide Tech Brief - Robert Hanson, co-author of the book GWT in Action, tells us about the Google Web Toolkit or GWT aims to simplify writing AJAX applications using a programming model that's already familiar to Java programmers. Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Introduction to AWS for Java Developers - This brief tutorial introduces you to Amazon Web Services from the eyes of a Java developer, walks through a simple example, and links to other helpful resources to get you started. Peter Laird's Blog: BEA WebLogic Portal + Swivel.com + Excel Spreadsheet = Enterprise Data Mashups - I have been showing how to build enterprise mashups using web technologies. This entry will diverge and show how a non-web technology, namely the spreadsheet, can power an enterprise data mashup. InfoQ: OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project - Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10
Tags: ajax, amazon, AquaLogic, aws, BEA, cache, ensemble, enterprise2.0, google, gwt, J2EE, java, javascript, jpa, kodo, lucene, mashup, openjpa, opensource, pathways, performance, persistence, programming, search, solr, tutorial, web, Web2.0, WebLogic, webservices, wicket