XML processing in Ajax, Part 2: Two Ajax and XSLT approaches - his series looks at four separate approaches for implementing the weather badge. This installment looks at the second and third approaches. These two approaches share one thing in common: they both use XSLT. Otaku, Cedric's weblog: TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration three - I don't know about you, but I'm getting a bit tired of fear mongering in the software community, whether it comes from TDD fanatics or from people who claim they wouldn't hire someone who doesn't use a Mac for development. Ext JS Blog - » Learning Ext: Many Resources Available - The Ext JavaScript library is a robust framework encompassing components for many typical development needs. With support for DOM traversal/manipulation, UI controls, data binding and more, Ext provides the hooks and tools to help build engaging applicati Nasdaq Data Replay Service « newyorkscot - Nasdaq has released a new tool for replaying market data, viewing National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) at any point in time and confirming best execution. InfoQ: POJO Messaging Architecture with Terracotta - Mark Turansky detailed his implementation of a POJO message bus architecture using Terracotta and Java 5. This allowed for a clean, simple, and inexpensive infrastructure solution to his message needs. InfoQ: Design and Code Reviews : The Good, Bad and Ugly - In an interesting article on Design and Code reviews Kirk Knoernschild mentions that such reviews promise to improve software quality, ensure compliance with standards, and serve as a valuable teaching tool for developers. Notes On Using EC2 and S3 - manAmplified - Thought I would share a few helpful hints to keep in mind when using EC2 and S3. Nothing mind blowing here, just some things worthy of note to the beginner. All of them born of fire managing Cascading / Hadoop clusters. Linking Check-in Comments to Issues in Tracker | JetBrains Zone - IntelliJ IDEA leaves you no excuse for not writing check-in comments. You have to configure navigation to your issues tracker just once. Then, every time you commit your changes, type a matching string - IDEA will take care of replacing it with a link to InfoQ: From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex - James Ward and I put together an article on porting over an HTML application to Flex. We used the Pentaho BI Dashboard as the sample application in our endeavor. After reading the article you will realize the simplicity of the task and the quick gains…. Flex Camp Wall Street - Meet with the Flex experts and get ready to build your next cutting edge financial application. - Be there to catch-up with the famous Adobe Flex & AIR evangelists — Christophe Coenraets & James Ward. You have read their blogs, now talk to them live. A full-day event for Flex developers and architects and the Flex-curious.
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Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 3rd
Microsoft to offer hosted versions of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs - Yahoo! News - Microsoft has opened up its hosted version of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs as it tries to take advantage of the demand for software as a service. Feeling tired? Exercise a little - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Couch potatoes who complain they are tired all the time have an easy solution — a little light exercise. Regular, low-intensity workouts such as a leisurely stroll can boost energy levels by 20 percent and decrease fatigue by… Flex 3:Feature Introductions: OLAPDataGrid - Adobe Labs - Leveraging the capabilities of AdvancedDataGrid, OLAPDataGrid provides a customizable and configurable UI which is capable of consuming the result set of a multidimensional query and displaying it in a cross-tab fashion. BlazeDS - BlazeDS - Confluence - BlazeDS is an open source set of libraries which can be added to Java-based web applications to enable a more simple and efficient means of communicating between Flex and Java. BlazeDS includes an RPC style remoting library and a realtime messaging system InfoQ: Flex 3.0: Update From Adobe's James Ward - With the production release of Flex 3, InfoQ sat down with Adobe’s James Ward to find out more about Flex 3. Last year, Ward gave InfoQ readers an overview of Flex 3 and discounted a number of Flex misconceptions. Flex cookbook beta - Building Flex Applications with JSPs - Flex can make requests to your existing JSPs using the HTTPService object. These requests can work with any JSPs. A Flex application contains all of the view logic so the JSPs should not return HTML but rather just serialized data Flex cookbook beta - Multiple Column Sorting using the AdvancedDataGrid control - AdvancedDataGrid supports multiple column sorting and the sort indicators and interaction can vary based on the value of the sortExpertMode property. Gears and AIR: The Open Source Difference on Dion Almaer's Blog - Gears and AIR are very different, and although there is an overlap, they are complementary too. I would love to see some convergence in the future where Gears and AIR APIs join together. That would be a win win for everyone in my opinion. I would also lov WWTelescope - The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. WorldWide Telesco Vijay Mandava's Blog: WLS 10.3 Tech Preview supports SCA - Since WebLogic 10.3 Tech Preview includes an SCA runtime customers now have multiple technology choices to build their business logic — POJO, EJB, Spring or SCA. By including the SCA runtime on WLS, customers can take advantage of the RASP functionality
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Daily del.icio.us for January 29th
InfoQ: Does TDD Really Ensure Quality? - Our main result is that Test-First programmers write more tests per unit of programming effort. In turn, a higher number of tests lead to proportionally higher levels of productivity. Thus through a chain effect, Test-First appears to improve productivity InfoQ: "Can I call you back about that?" Building Asynchronous Services using Service Component Architecture - This article discusses the need for asynchronous services when you build an application using a service-oriented architecture. Building asynchronous services can get complicated, but is made straightforward using Service Component Architecture (SCA). InfoQ: Case Study: Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex - In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective. InfoQ: Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck is interviewed about his new book, "Implementation patterns", the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns. Enterprise Java Community: Introducing Apache Wicket - When you're learning a new framework, it's helpful to gain an understanding of the terms concepts, then move on to how the pieces come together. Wicket has a few core concepts to master, but once you understand them, you'll find Wicket much more accessibl SpringSource Team Blog » Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement - Job listings are a good indicator of the true adoption of technologies. Sometimes these trends can have dramatic implications. Indeed.com shows that in November, 2007, Spring overtook EJB as a skills requirement for Java job listings. InfoQ: Flex Load Testing Tool Available to Enterprise RIA application - As InfoQ reported (Forester report), RIA is proliferating in enterprise information workplaces. One of challenges faces a maturing development platform for developing mission critical systems is to produce quality, scalable and well tested applications. » Printable Design Patterns Quick Reference Cards - The Gang of Four design patterns have been elegantly distilled into a quick reference guide suitable for printing on 8.5 x 11. Merging and branching in Subversion 1.5 - Java World - Branching and merging are two inherently related functions that are due for a long-awaited upgrade in Subversion 1.5 InfoQ: ExtJS Ecosystem Continues to Expand - New server-side tools are sprouting up around the ExtJS client-side Javascript framework. Community developed server-side support now exists for Java Enterprise Edition, Cold Fusion 8.0, Google Web Toolkit, and Ruby on Rails 2.0
Tags: actionscript, agile, ajax, apache, architecture, article, asynchronous, book, code, design, design+patterns, development, ejb, ext, extjs, flex, framework, gof, gwt, infoq, interview, java, javascript, kentbeck, merge, patterns, productivity, programming, quality, reference, ria, SCA, SOA, spring, SpringFramework, statistics, subversion, svn, tdd, testing, trends, tutorial, uml, video, web, webservices, wicketRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for January 3rd
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A Gentle Introduction to SQL - Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Deploying Distributed J2EE Applications Using Amazon EC2 - How do you configure your Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) servers to offer the scalability of Amazon EC2 to your applications? This tutorial explains the basic procedures for using Amazon EC2 to deploy distributed J2EE applications. redhat.com | Cloud Computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services InfoQ: Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology - Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architecture with Java Technology. Sun's target architecture is a composite application platform which is Ajaxian » Cool and useful GWT Solutions - David Geary and Rob Gordon have launched a companion Website to their book on GWT. The website uses GWT itself of course, and the most interesting section is the example code that they have made available: The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org) - For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007. After you're done with these, try the lists from 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Tags: 2007, ajax, amazon, apache, architecture, book, Cluster, clustering, code, culture, database, ec2, enterprise, Feeds, framework, google, gwt, history, hosting, interesting, J2EE, java, javascript, jbi, jsr311, Linux, lists, mysql, online, osgi, performance, programming, redhat, reference, saas, SCA, scalability, SOA, SQL, sun, Tomcat, tutorialRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 16, 2007 through Oct 20, 2007
InfoQ: Setting out for Service Component Architecture - SCA is an enhancement to frameworks that offer programming models for components and connectivity abstractions. Those frameworks may be standard offerings, but may also be proprietary technologies, such Remote Function Calls (RFC), SQL stored proc etc. Ignite Realtime: Ignite Realtime Video Podcasts: Actionscript, Javascript, and the Future of Webapps - In this video, Jive Software's David Smith talks about Actionscript, Javascript, and the future of webapps as they relate to his work on Spark. Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin - istartedsomething - Microsoft?s distinguished engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation at the University of Illinois about Microsoft?s virtualization technology and also mentioned Windows 7 - the next version of Windows after Vista Cairngorm:Cairngorm2.2.1:Release Notes - Adobe Labs - The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development. Alfresco Makes Leading Java Implementation JLAN Shared File Drive Interface Available via GPL - Alfresco JLAN is a unique implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers the only Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window?s CIFS protocol, allowing content, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive. 1-800-GOOG-411 - Google's new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for fre Adopting Struts 2.0 - Java World - Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor but is simpler for developers to use. In this article, S. Sangeetha and S. V. Subrahmanya outline the changes in Struts 2.0 and offer migration pointers for developers familiar with Struts Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time - If you are tired of reading long explanations and confused by tricky photo techniques, here you can have it short and sweet. Arranged by topics, each subject takes less than 60 seconds to read. InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration - Jetbrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. This version rounds out support for many popular Java technologies while adding support for languages such as Groovy and Ruby. Among its highlights: Spring and Hibernate Support, Ruby/Rails Support, Groovy/Grails IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: The Magnificent Seven - JetBrains is proud and happy to tell you that IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is now available! This release is focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and enhancing the user experience with the efficient support for new features, technologies, and tools.
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Daily del.icio.us for Feb 28, 2007 through Mar 01, 2007
LWN: Who wrote 2.6.20? - It is not uncommon to see Linux referred to as a volunteer-created system, as opposed to the corporate-sponsored, proprietary alternatives James Governor's Monkchips - Adobe Engage: Fighting Against The Architecture of the Space - We need to fight against the architecture of the space (that's cool) Using Amfphp 1.9 with the Adobe Flex 2 SDK | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials - This article shows how you can make PHP interact with Adobe Flex Will (Or Should) Adobe open-source Flex? - Open sourcing Flex would certainly lead to wider adoption of Flex as an application development framework. So why doesn't Adobe do it? The next generation of AJAX frameworks are also just around the corner and they will compete with Flex. OpenLaszlo is an Google Apps - SAML-based Single Sign-On - Google Apps offers a SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO) service that provides partner companies with full control over the authorization and authentication of hosted user accounts that can access web-based applications like Gmail or Google Calendar Open Service Oriented Architecture collaboration. - The Open Service Oriented Architecture collaboration is currently working on a series of specifications that are made available to the industry on a Royalty Free licensing basis Interface21 Team Blog - Oracle Contributing Oracle Application Server Integration Code to Spring Framework - This is similar to what we have with WebLogic 8.1 and above in WebLogicJtaTransactionManager. The OC4JJtaTransactionManager should be used in place of the generic JtaTransactionManager in an OC4J environment, and provides the following benefits
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