vmcNetFlix - Official Site - vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac - The post is titled LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java, so to complete the picture I responded to the community with a message about how LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac. Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 | EcoGeek - In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency. Jericho HTML Parser - Jericho HTML Parser is a powerful java library allowing analysis and manipulation of parts of an HTML document, including server-side tags, while reproducing verbatim any unrecognised or invalid HTML. It also provides high-level HTML form manipulation fun Software Sensation Inc. - jWebApp Web Application Framework, Install&Update, MemSL - Memory Structures Library - jPersist is an extremely powerful object-relational persistence API that is based on the Active-Record and Data-Mapper patterns. jPersist wraps JDBC functionality and can work with any relational database, and any type of connection resource Java Entrepreneur: We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer - Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite fra InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team - Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product: How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days - Bill Gates - working for Microsoft - Bill Gates was amazingly technical, and he knew more about the details of his company's software than most of the people who worked on those details day in and day out. Unit testing with JUnit and EasyMock - Michael Minella - I hope this gives you a more in depth view into JUnit and EasyMock. Unit testing is something that once you get used to it, makes you code better, provides you with a safety net for future refactoring and protects you from being burned by API changes Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit | Javalobby - TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very rob
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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 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 March 9th through March 10th
BEA JRockit Mission Control - JRockit Mission Control for Eclipse is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE designed to help develop, profile and diagnose applications running in the BEA JRockit ® JVM. GridGain - Open Source Grid Computing For Java - GridGain is focused on doing one thing and doing it better than any other product – providing the best grid computing platform for Java that is fun, simple and productive to use. Ajaxian » Mozilla Prism update makes it easy to create wrappers - Create Prism applications directly from Firefox - Refractor creates a Prism web application from within Firefox. Users can manually create web applications using "Tools > Convert Website to Application". Open Source and Enterprise Architecture: JVM Performance Tuning - I was able to achieve an over 3x improvement in my EJB 3 application, of which fully 60 to 70% of that was due to using large page memory with a 3.5GB heap OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. - An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. Data Portability, Authentication, and Authorization - We will take a detailed look at the right and wrong ways to request user data from social hubs large and small, and outline some action items for developers and business people interested in data portability and interoperability done right. The world's 50 most powerful blogs | Technology | The Observer - Blogging has never been bigger - It can help elect presidents and take down attorney generals while simultaneously celebrating the minutiae of our everyday obsessions Simplifying Web Service development with JSR-181 - JSR 181 or Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform is a Java Specification Request that defines an annotated Java format that uses Java Language Metadata (JSR 175) to enable easy definition of Java Web Services in a J2EE container InfoQ: Architecture as Language: A story - As you develop the architecture, evolve a language that allows you to describe systems based on this architecture. Based on my experience in a number of real-world projects, this makes the architecture tangible and provides an unambiguous description of t Hello, OSGi, Part 1: Bundles for beginners - Java World - The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi), also known as the Dynamic Module System for Java, defines an architecture for modular application development. Similar to the Java Servlet and EJB specifications, the OSGi specification defines two things: a se
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Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th
uface - Google Code - UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse. cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 - This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website! Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information - Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 - 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 right out of the box Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials - Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries. Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT - The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - John Gruber does it again 
Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes
Tags: , , , , , ajax, ajaxian.com, article, collaboration, data, database, design, development, eclipse, ejb3.0, extension, extjs, flex, forms, gallery, google, grails, grails1.0, groovy, gui, gwt, hibernate, Humor, idea, image, intellij, java, javascript, jface, jpa, library, mapping, microsoft, news, ORM, persistence, programming, resources, spreadsheet, spring, survey, swing, swt, technology, tutorial, ui, web, Web2.0, webdesign, wicket, yahoo, zoom Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill - Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA - We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the mike desjardins' blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop - So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tesRelated posts
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Daily del.icio.us for February 3rd through February 6th
Ajaxian » Firebug 1.1 and getfirebug.com - John J Barton has been working hard on Firebug 1.1, but the work has been in the dark a little unless you are paying attention. Showdown - Java HTML Parsing Comparison | Lumidant - However, the clear winner was HtmlCleaner. It was the only library to successfully clean 10/10 documents. None of the others were able to even make it past the first link I provided, Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails 1.0 is out the door! - We've put the finishing touches on Grails 1.0 and its out. Time to celebrate with some sleep.. enjoy! ted husted's blog : Apache Struts Tops OpenLogic's Open Source Leaders List with a 71% Share - Hibernate and Struts topped the list with more than 71 % of customers using each. JasperReports is the only newcomer to the list this year … Grails : Free PDF of Getting Started with Grails & Series for PHP Developers [cld.blog-city.com] - If you missed Michael Kimsal blog on how PHP developers can move to Grails then check out the following. Along the same lines, the book, Getting Started With Grails, is now available freely in PDF form. You can find out more information here. Application Development Trends - Lessons From a Yahoo Scrummaster - Yahoo has grown from its initial dotcom roots. Yahoo has more than 200 teams using agile development processes to create software for the highly volatile general-public Web application market. Adobe - Flex Flex Data Services - Flex Flex Data Services allows you to use spring components as remote object destinations and data management services assemblers using Flex Data Services.
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 26, 2007
Advanced Topics in JPA - Parleys - Parleys.com - a Belgian Java User Group initiative - In this talk we will introduce a few of the common features and use them as a platform on which we can discuss some of the higher order JPA topics. We will show how to use multiple persistence units, define and tune identifier generators, create and invok SpringSource Team Blog » Is it a Tomcat, or the Elephant in the Room? - In the era of open source, the traditional API-led sale for application servers has been replaced by a QoS sale Samples Updated for AIR Beta 3 | Kevin Hoyt - What started as a couple dozen examples has also now grown to be over forty (40) AIR samples, to include a number of full applications. That being said, I?m happy to announce that the samples update for AIR Beta 3 is complete, and are available for down High Performance Ajax Applications » SlideShare - High Performance Ajax Applications presentation at Yahoo by Julien Lecome. Topics include * Developing for high performance, High performance page load, High performance JavaScript, High performance DHTML, High performance layout and CSS, High perfor The Google Enigma - In his new book, The Future of Management, London Business School professor Gary Hamel calls Google ?a modern management pioneer? that ?has much to teach us about how to build companies that are truly fit for the 21st century.?
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 03, 2007 through Sep 09, 2007
InfoQ: Spring 2 and Beyond - Spring 2.0 takes POJO-based development to a new level of sophistication. The themes of Spring 2.0 are simplicity and power: it makes existing tasks even easier, while extending the power of Spring to new areas. In this session, craiger's .plan : A case for iBatis - iBatis on the other hand is the working man?s ORM. In fact, I think I like it because I (and probably you) have created something similar back in the day before all these formalized ORMs. It simply and elegantly maps your sql results to an object of you Universal Map Implementation - I worked late this long week-end to improve the implementation of Javolution high-performance FastMap . But finally, I believe that I got it! The "Swiss Knife/Universal /Holy Grail" map for developers! But judge for yourself And The Fastest Growing Web Framework Is… - As Matt Raible points out, you can significantly change the results of this graph by changing the search terms . For example "Spring" and "Struts" show that Spring is apparently leading all versions of Struts. Virtual Iron goes 4.0 - Virtual Iron has been chipping away at the lower end of the virtualization market for two years now, steadily adding features in a bid to appeal to those businesses for whom VMware's enterprise offerings are too pricey and feature-laden BeauScott.com » Blog Archive » Ted Patrick?s FXWidget - Beau Scott posted his version of FXWidget that uses the AJAX Prototype framework and an AJAX call to cache the SWF file Ted On Flex: FXWidget part 2 - the goal of FXWidget is to keep everything self contained and reduce adding an element of Flex on any webpage by adding a simple DIV. Emerging Architect Roles - Stephan Schwab - What is exactly software architecture? Do we really need it? Why have we only recently been discussing it? Is there suddenly a contagious fever about software architecture infecting those who claim to be architects? Who are they actually: WebLogic Event Server Administration with wlshell - This tutorial shows how to perform BEA WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) administration with wlshell. WLEvS exposes management operations through a standard JMX interface, including dynamic configuration of Event Processing Language (EPL) prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit - Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation,
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 27, 2007 through Sep 01, 2007
Programming Resources, News and Ideas: Red Hat Developer Studio - Introduction - The beta version of Red hat Developer Studio has been released recently. RHDS is a based on eclipse with set of pre-configured tools from JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio. RHDS gives us out of box and 100% open source platform for enterprise-level…. Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Building a Flex DataGrid - This week, we?ve got a nice one for all of you Adobe Flex aficionados. The boys over at Paranoid Ferret Productions have a good introduction on how to build one of the most useful of components, a DataGrid, Flex-style. Eulerian Technologies - DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous - DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous. You'll find here the code and instructions for a datepicker widget using Prototype and Scriptaculous librairies. Apache News Online: 24 August 2007 - Apache FOP 0.94 Released - The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the release of Apache FOP version 0.94. FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. Apache News Online: 29 August 2007 - Apache OpenJPA 1.0.0 Released - The Apache OpenJPA community is pleased to announce the release of Apache OpenJPA version 1.0.0. Apache OpenJPA is a feature-rich implementation of the persistence part of Enterprise Java Beans 3.0, also known as the Java Persistence API (JPA) 10 Candidates for Extreme Makeover, Ticker-Edition « GigaOM - Sun Microsystems is changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA in order to better reflect the company?s role in new network infrastructure. Here?s 10 companies that we think could use an extreme ticker makeover. Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT 1.4 release and out of beta - It's a really big day for Google Web Toolkit: GWT 1.4 is now available — and, with more than a million downloads under our belt, GWT is no longer in beta! InfoQ: Availability & Consistency - When we move to distributed architectures for scalability, fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency InfoQ: Patrick Linskey discusses OpenJPA and the JPA specification - At The Spring Experience conference, InfoQ caught up with Patrick Linskey of BEA to discuss the current status of the Apache OpenJPA project. Linskey explains where OpenJPA came from, how it fits into the OR Mapping space, the features it provides Ajax programming with Struts 2 - Java World - In this article, Oleg Mikheev shows you how to use Struts 2, Dojo and JSON to display data in an Ajax-style table. In the process, he introduces some Ajax-friendly features of Struts 2, including its integration with WebWork, Guice & the Dojo toolkit. JLINQ: IBM's new paradigm for writing Java database applications - The project code named Java Language Integrated Query (JLINQ) gives database application developers an easy, GUI-based means to significantly increase productivity in both the design and implementation phases start - MUScoop Wiki - The primary purpose of this Wiki is to archive Marquette sports information and history. In time, this wiki will become the one-stop-shopping repository for records, player statistics and biographies and team results for all MU sports teams.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 25, 2007
James Duncan Davidson ? Remembering Java Naming Blunders Past - The value of a brand is created by the public that uses it, not by the company that owns it. Brands are funny things. They make us choose products out of a sense of comfort instead of an honest evaluation. Raible Designs | Display Tag 1.1.1 Released - Display Tag version 1.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release Java.net - Unified Expression Language for JSP and JSF - This article looks at the unified expression language (EL), which has been added to the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification in order to overcome problems when integrating the JavaServer Pages (JSP) EL with the JavaServer Faces EL. Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: Summary of New Features in JSP 2.1 Technology - The expert groups have worked together on the upcoming releases of JSP 2.1 and JavaServer Faces 1.2 technologies in Java EE 5 to fix these integration issues and make sure that the two technologies work together seamlessly. jmockit: Project Home Page - JMockit consists of a single class with a small set of static methods, which allow arbitrary methods and constructors of any other class to be replaced by mock implementations at runtime. Mock Objects: Shortcomings and Use Cases - This article looks at Mock Objects, a testing technique from the XP community that offers a way to test our code in isolation by simulating those external dependencies. As with any other tool, we need to be careful and avoid overusing them. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor - Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor, created in collaboration with WebAssist, makes it drop-dead easy to create standards-compliant, two- and three-column CSS layouts and includes 30 of the most common web page layouts, coded the way Eric Meyer would code them. IT Efforts: Struts2 + Spring + JUnit - Hopefully this entry serves as some search engine friendly documentation on how one might unit test Struts 2 actions configured using Spring InfoQ: The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software Development - This article stands as a reminder that the Agile approach already offers many learning practices and mechanisms ? are they all being used to best advantage, to serve your team and your business? XFire Creator Joins MuleSource - Diephouse is the creator of XFire, the high performance open source SOAP framework. He joined MuleSource as the software architect focused on expanding Mule's web services capabilities. Introduction To iBatis - This tutorial will focus on using iBatis in a Java application and Abator, a code generation tool Spring Web Services 1.0 Released | Springframework.org - After two years of development, we are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 is now available. Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on the creation of document-driven, contract-first web services.
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