Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’ - New York Times - The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare bisphenol-a, or B.P.A. as a toxic chemical. It is widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans. Jodd Library -Proxetta - Proxetta is all about dynamic proxies. Using just Java. In the same way you would code it by yourself. And the only dependency is Jodd & Asm library. Census for open-source apps kicks off - CNET News.com - Open-source management company OpenLogic, IDC and Unisys launched the Open Source Census. The project is based around a tool, OSS Discovery, that scans systems for known open-source projects and anonymously submits the data to an OpenLogic database. Process Monitor - Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon MySQL adoption: Deep and wide | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - I love this anecdote from Jonathan Schwartz's blog. As is demonstrated again and again, enterprises have no idea just how awash in open-source software they are…until they ask. Java Community News - Rod Johnson's Predictions for Enterprise Java - In a series of predictions for the future of Java EE, Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring project, shares his opinions on de facto versus de jure standards, the role of the JCP, and on why Java EE 6 will usher in renewed app server competition. Amazon Web Services gets serious about enterprise | Software as Services | ZDNet.com - It now seems that Amazon is moving aggressively to make its cloud computing services palatable for enterprise users — not surprising, given that enterprises including The New York Times and Nasdaq are now customers Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren’t such a big deal | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - Google on Thursday allayed concerns about its paid click growth rate with first quarter earnings that topped Wall Street’s expectations. Google reported first quarter net income of $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, on revenue of $5.19 billion. Red Hat News | What’s Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update - Red Hat team notes that they will not be working on a consumer version of their Linux product in the foreseeable future, instead focusing on enterprise software. Hiring the Rowing-Forward 30% - His anecdotal "70% Rowing Backwards" sounds roughly right to me, and it bothers me a lot. Studies show that programmers derive their primary satisfaction by being productive, so such an environment sounds downright depressing. But managers obviously don't
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12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we?ll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises Ext JS impressions | CodeUtopia - I?ve been using Ext in an widget I?m working on. This is something Ext works for very well, since a widget will run outside the browser?s traditional page model anyway. You could have three column layouts with resizable column sizes, keyboard suppo Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose? | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - In the following we present an overview of most popular web application frameworks; we cover both server-side (PHP, Java, C#, Ruby) and client-side approaches (JavaScript, CSS). Jan 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7 - ScottGu's Blog - Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Buy Amazon stock now! - Does Henry Blodget never learn? 
Wonder if Eliot Spitzer is around If you don't know who Henry Blodget is, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget script.aculo.us - downloads - This is a bugfix release that bumps script.aculo.us to version 1.8.1. Mainly, this release contains some important bug fixes and optimizations in Prototype, fixes cursor keys in autocompleting text fields for IE and Safari plus fixes an issue with Effect. Ajaxian » GWT Videos from GWT Conference Available - Pearson put on a GWT Conference that had a lot of great content. Fortunately, video cameras were running, and the video has been edited and posted
Tags: .NET, 2008, ajax, amazon, animation, architecture, asp.net3.5, autocomplete, blog, bubble2.0, business, collaboration, conference, css, development, enterprise, enterprise2.0, ext, extjs, framework, google, gwt, java, javascript, learning, MVC, php, predictions, programming, reference, resource, saas, scottgu, SOA, training, trends, video, Web2.0, webdesign, youtube Wonder if Eliot Spitzer is around If you don't know who Henry Blodget is, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget script.aculo.us - downloads - This is a bugfix release that bumps script.aculo.us to version 1.8.1. Mainly, this release contains some important bug fixes and optimizations in Prototype, fixes cursor keys in autocompleting text fields for IE and Safari plus fixes an issue with Effect. Ajaxian » GWT Videos from GWT Conference Available - Pearson put on a GWT Conference that had a lot of great content. Fortunately, video cameras were running, and the video has been edited and postedRelated posts
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Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy - Bill Gates, Dave Thomas, Martin Fowler and James Duncan Davidson have independently reached the same conclusion: namely, that bloat is the worst thing that can happen to code. But they all got there via painful things happening to them. Coding Horror: Size Is The Enemy - Remember: size really is the enemy. Right after ourselves, of course. coding, by Derek Young: Java coding decisions I struggle with - Little coding decisions come up again and again with any project, and they?re not new. You?ll write code more efficiently if you think about these decisions and decide The Right Way to solve them Meera Subbarao's Java Blog: EJB 3.0 and 4 different Application Servers - Good, bad or ugly. - I wrote a simple, really simple Stateless Session Bean with one method in it and published it as a web service to JBoss, WebLogic,Glassfish and Oracle AS. It's up to you to decide which ones are good, bad, and ugly. Farata Systems » A dozen of 2008 predictions - The year of 2007 was a good one. The IT job market was stable. While there were no any revolutionary changes in the ways software was developed, I believe that this was a year of rich Internet applications and Web 2.0. What?s the next big thing in IT? Ext JS Blog - » Ext Rises in Popularity - The exciting news is that the Ext framework, for the first time, was added to the list and in it?s first year demonstrated it?s popularity. Of the 2,619 respondents, 22.5% were using the Ext framework ranking it 3rd overall. http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204204063 - By leveraging predictive analytics and pattern analysis technologies, financial services firms are able to understand their customers, their operations and their markets in greater detail. Perhaps more important, they are able to identify and react to tre 2008 IT Budgets Up More Than 10% for Financial Services Firms by Wall Street & Technology - If the confidence of financial services firms was shaken by this year's subprime mortgage lending crisis, it certainly isn't reflected in their IT budgets for 2008, judging by a survey of securities firms, banks conducted by Wall Street & Technology DHTML Snowstorm: Javascript snow effect using PNG with GIF fallback - So, you want Javascript snow on your web site, eh? SnowStorm is a Javascript-driven snow effect that can be easily implemented into web pages.
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