Why the Roku Netflix Player is the First Shot of the Revolution - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - In the small, generic plastic box that is the new Netflix Player made by Roku, I think you can see the future of video. Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World - It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them onto two CDs, she told the clerk, a forgettable middle-aged guy in a forgettable office park in the Should we discard Interfaces? | Learning by Experience - Is a class that only has interfaces as dependencies easier to test then classes that have implementations as dependencies? Most of us are eager to say yes, but in fact, frameworks like EasyMock enable us to mock (non final) classes. Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails.org now powered by Grails - We've just launched a re-write of the Grails.org site in Grails. Previously the site was powered by Confluence (the Atlassian wiki), now in the spirit of eating ones own dog food it is a fully Grails powered site. IntelliJ Tips & Tricks - Listen to Neal Ford, the software architect at ThoughtWorks and a fabulous speaker, giving you some hints on improving productivity through the intensive use of keyboard shortcuts for carrying out various tasks while coding with IntelliJ IDEA. WEB4J - Minimalist Java Web Application Framework -> Criticisms of Spring, PHP, and Rails - The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president - Yahoo! News - Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource - The original web developer's resource has returned. Webmonkey has been completely redesigned, and we're ready to rock once more. Also, our entire content library is now hosted on a wiki, so every tutorial, reference page and code example is open for editi A conversation Clinton was having…: RE: Java haters, gtfo - Well everyone's favorite potty mouthed blogger is back, slinging poo and doing nothing much to help anything. That said, I've met Hani, and he's actually a pretty cool and down to earth guy. Firefox 3 RC 1 full review - Mozilla Links - A year and a half after the last major Firefox release, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here with a very long list of new features and improvements.
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Daily del.icio.us for May 8th through May 12th
Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - Am I being “age-ist”? Probably. But the world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me. If we hired like we vote - If we hired like we vote Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison | Andrew Sullivan - Times Online - But in that venture the Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably de InfoQ: Mocking Web Services - A new tutorial by Upul Godage describes how to use Apache Synapse to mock web services for development and testing. Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB). Apache Synapse can be used to filter, transform, ro Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Death by Scheduling - The moral of the story is that if perception is reality, then the best way to manage perception is to make up stuff that you can honestly remember. InfoQ: The State of Enterprise Architecture - As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more co Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet - GigaOM - So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet John Ferguson Smart's Blog: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better! - FingBugs uses more sophisticated analysis techniques than tools like PMD and Checkstyle, working at the bytecode level rather than with the source code, and is more focused on finding the most high priority and potentially dangerous issues. Pictures from JavaOne 2008 - Arun Gupta's Weblog - Take 11 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008. Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008. Google Web Security for Enterprise - Google Web Security for Enterprise service, powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. All web requests are scanned in real-time, rather than solely relying on stat
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Daily del.icio.us for May 2nd through May 4th
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 April 22nd through April 25th
Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire - "The Clintons know that she can?t win this. But they?'re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win." Thank you, Javascript - The Daily WTF - Javascript supports octal numbers. Any number starting with a zero is octal, even if it can't be an actual octal number. In certain languages, like Perl, trying to use a non-octal number as an octal number results in an error. In other languages, like Jav Screencast #1 - Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ | Elastic Grid Blog - Here is a screencast demonstration the use of the Amazon EC2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA a little madness » Ext Discovers Step 2 of the Slashdot Business Model? - The saddest part about this is that the Ext team really have built a fantastic library, and a vibrant community around it. The library had all the hallmarks of an open source success story. Now, however, Ext have committed the cardinal sin of an open sour Application Development Trends - SpringSource Enterprise Edition Now Live - The new SpringSource Enterprise Edition product is specifically designed to support large organizations, providing enterprise-class tools and features. The product aims to meet enterprise requirements by being "certified, warranted and indemnified,". Sun looks to free up the rest of Java | The Industry Standard - By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated ve Windows Server 2008 Now 'PHP Ready' - Microsoft and Zend have worked together on Zend Core, Zend's tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now certified for Windows Server 2008. InfoQ: Comparing JEE Servers - When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, and came up with surprising results Ext JS - Blog - Ext JS is pleased to announce the latest release of the Ext JS toolkit and the introduction of a new product, Ext GWT 1.0 (beta 1). The Ext JS version has been updated to 2.1 and includes new components, performance improvements, bug fixes and more. Ajaxian » Ext JS 2.1 Released - Ext JS 2.1 has been released. In this point release the featured changes are: Full REST support, Added Ext.StatusBar Component and Samples, Ext.Slider Component and Samples, Example to demonstrate Remote Loading of Component Configs, Grid Filtering Sample
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Daily del.icio.us for March 12th through March 16th
Raible Designs | JSP's Evolution - It started out as a discussion of JSP vs. Velocity and Craig (McClanahan) provided an interesting evolution of JSP (and comparison to Velocity). How To Analyze Data Using the Average | BetterExplained - You drove to work at 30 mph, and drove back at 60 mph. What was your average speed? Hint: It’s not 45 mph, and it doesn’t matter how far your commute is. Read on to understand the many uses of this statistical tool. The Obama I know — chicagotribune.com - This is the Barack Obama I have known for nearly 15 years — a careful and evenhanded analyst of law and policy, unusually attentive to multiple points of view. A Quick Way To See If a Website Is Down For Everyone or Just You | Laughing Squid - Down for everyone or just me? “Down for everyone or just me?” is a great little website created by Twitter developer Alex Payne that helps you check to see if a website is down for everyone or just you Seamless integration of Java and Groovy with IntelliJ IDEA | JetBrains Zone - IntelliJ IDEA provides a seamless development environment for integrated Java and Groovy development with debugging and refactoring support, Smart Code Completion, advanced Editing, Inspections, Navigation, Search/Replace and Usage Search support and much IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 is Here - We’re glad to announce the availability of IntelliJ IDEA version 7.0.3 - This new release brings multiple new features, improvements and bug-fixes, including improved performance and usability, improved Flex support, Totally new, reworked debugger UI Ajaxian » Secrets of JavaScript Libraries - Andrew Dupont, Thomas Fuchs, John Resig, Alex Russell, Sam Stephenson. These were the folks that gathered at SXSW to talk about the “Secrets of JavaScript Libraries” in a panel that was full to the brim Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code - According to our latency measurement stats, the user-perceived latency on Google Code dropped quite a bit, anywhere between 30% and 70% depending on the page. This is a huge return for relatively small investments we've made along the way, and we hope you ooma blog » Blog Archive » Here by Popular Demand: Number Porting - After months of testing, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re ready to start porting phone numbers at ooma. So, for all those customers who’ve been waiting to drop their phone provider (and monthly bills) and keep their current number, the time is John Resig - JavaScript in Internet Explorer 8 - Internet Explorer 8 is our release. The first beta was pushed out today and it shows huge promise. It's already achieved way more than I would've expected and it's made me hungry for more.
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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.
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