What Programming Languages Should You Know? - David Chisnall suggests that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to selec MetaWidget: the 'sweet spot' of automatic UI development - Metawidget takes your domain objects and automatically creates User Interface components for them, saving you handcoding your UIs and leaving you to concentrate on stitching together your application. Ext JS: A reminder that you are not alone on Dion Almaer's Blog - Every now and then, normally when talking to a libertarian, I think about how we are actually all connected to each other. It is impossible to sandbox yourself from society which leads me to conclude that I need to embrace it and do what I can to work out InformIT: Interview with Donald Knuth > Interview with Donald Knuth - Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming co Graeme Rocher's Blog: Choosing an OSS License and the Ext-JS saga - The news that Ext-JS has, from one release to the next, changed from a modified LGPL to a GPL based license nearly made me fall off my chair. There have been many poor judged, and ill advised decisions made by software companies over the last few years, b The Future of Enterprise Software: I Am So Scared, I Am So Excited « 7thursdays - More so than ever, the time is coming for companies that build it right and do it right to prosper while the ones that exclusively focus on just selling it right and who-cares-what-happens-after-the-deal-closes to stare at a lacklustre or flat revenue cur @Gridify: Java Executor Service Rocket Scientists and Generics Brain Surgeons - We at GridGain recently were faced with the following problem. It turns out (may be old news to some), that java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService in JDK 1.6 is not backward compatible with JDK 1.5 Take a screenshot in Flex and send it to ASP.NET | YTechie.com - In Adobe Flex 3, you can get a bitmap image of any control by using this code (you’ll need to import "mx.graphics.ImageSnapshot"): Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text | Web Page Design for Designers © - CSS provides three very useful properties to enhance the readability of your site: font, line-height, and letter-spacing Jack Slocum’s Blog - » Ext JS License change and personal attacks - It’s not right the amount of personal attacks I have been receiving lately. I have people questioning my ethics, business practices and saying we changed Ext JS to GPL v3 because my (and I quote) “greed for money came before your moral ethics”. Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked - Security Fix - The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in 0×000000 # Massive SQL Injection Attack 600.000++ - I just read that F-secure found out that already 510.000 600.000++ new websites are hacked and more are being hacked while we speak. Among them the British government, United Nations and many more high target
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Daily del.icio.us for February 10th through February 14th
Zimbra's new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - It's very cool. You should give it a spin. This is the best e-mail "client" ever built…largely because of its successful marriage of the Web with the desktop. In the future, all applications will be like this–or should be. Ext Road Map - Our goals for 2008 are to continue improving the 2.x version line by adding new components and enhancing some of the existing areas of functionality in Ext as shown below. Looking ahead to 3.0, there are some big new areas that we'll be getting into. In a The Making of MarkMail: Announcing an Informal Partnership with Codehaus - We're happy to announce we've developed an informal partnership with Codehaus to load all their mail archives and receive automatic notification of new Codehaus lists as they get created. A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - A few weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) came by Yahoo to talk to a bunch of Yahoo! bloggers about the current and future state of WordPress. After the meeting, I sat down with him for our Developer Spotlight series on YDN Theater to catch u Andres Almiray's Weblog : Weblog - JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java. The State of BPM: Top-Five Trends | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog - The results show a number of interesting trends indicating that CIOs and business leaders are focused on improving their processes. Existing customers described how they expect to get their ROI from their BPM implementations, and most expect to see ROI ov Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T | Crave : The gadget blog - The new AT&T plan allows all customers 2 free hours per day, with a $3.99 fee for additional 2-hour chunks of time. Monthly subscriptions will cost $19.99 and will enable access to other AT&T hot-spot locations in addition to Starbucks. Anthony Park :: 100% Geek Content by Volume » New Vista Media Center Plugin - MyNetflix (beta) - I’ve kept this pretty quiet, but I’ve been working on a new Media Center plugin for a little while now. It is now ready for beta testing, and I’ve decided to run a public beta for this one. MyNetflix features * View your Netflix queue * Browse movie Humanized > Our Products > Enso Launcher - Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows. Martin Wolf : Advanced Java 5 Generics - Here's an article about a few of the more subtle aspects of Java 5 Generics. This is hardly the 1st article about this particular subject, but none of them explain it quite the way I would have wanted to see it when I was wrestling with this issue myself. Panopticon: The Power of Pre-Attentive Processing - Our visualization software is easy to use and is a great way to explore large datasets, identify outliers and find hidden patterns.
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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
Tags: advocacy, Alfresco, apache, article, authentication, BEA, book, business, centos, code, contentmgmt, debugging, development, ecm, enterprise, free, fud, gigaspaces, groovy, hibernate, history, J2EE, jaas, java, jboss, jruby, jsf, kernel, latency, Linux, lucene, memcached, microsoft, opensource, oracle, performance, portal, programming, rhel, search, security, software, spring, statistics, tapestry, Tomcat, tools, usability, Vista, WebLogic, wicket, windowsRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Nov 25, 2007 through Nov 26, 2007
The Ultimate Web UI Framework - I was searching for a framework that would allow me to create rich user interfaces that are very interactive and responsive and don't load the server too much. After examining some favourite frameworks I've decided for a few that I'd like to try. Giles Bowkett: Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't) - Ruby was designed to make you feel good. Even Rubyists who want to explain why Ruby makes them feel good often fail to mention that it was expressly designed for that exact purpose. Neal does this in his podcast. Why Ruby on Rails Has Become a Popular "Next Platform" - This article is offered as an introduction to Ruby on Rails for Java developers, offering some basic insight into the evolution of Ruby and Rails and its expanding role in enterprise application development Java tips: Ten Common Misconceptions about Grails - s is usually the case with anything "new" there?s a lot of FUD and confusion out there with people who have not used Grails yet, that may be stopping them using it Comparing Java Web Frameworks - a Belgian Java User Group initiative - Matt Raible presents at the Belgian Java Users Group and compares the current state of affair in the world of Java Web frameworks Granite Data Services - Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe LiveCycle(Flex 2) Data Services for J2EE application servers Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Color Theory for web designers - The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you UI-patterns.com - User Interface Design Patterns - The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice. Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. Color Wizard - Color Scheme Generator - Color Theory for web designers - The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you UI-patterns.com - User Interface Design Patterns - The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice. Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
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Daily del.icio.us for Feb 20, 2007 through Feb 21, 2007
Bob's Unit Testing Best Practices - Testing Digitally - Having used Agile programming methods for a number of years now. I have come across some best practices for unit testing that I would like to share with you. O'Reilly Open Books Project - O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books–books with various forms of "open" copyright–over the years. Ajaxian - YUI Version 2.2.0 Released - YUI 2.2.0 has been released one year after YUI was released into open source. Yahoo! UI Library: DataTable - The DataTable control provides a simple yet powerful API to display screen-reader accessible tabular data on a web page. Notable features include sortable columns, pagination, scrolling, row selection, resizeable columns, and inline editing. Jump Start Your AJAX Development with the Google Web Toolkit - The Unofficial Google Wiki - A free wiki from Wikia - The Google Web Toolkit addresses the development of an AJAX application in a very methodical manner NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 - Tutorials - Using Hibernate With the NetBeans Visual Web Pack - This tutorial shows you how to use the Hibernate framework in a NetBeans Visual Web Pack project. It also shows how to wrap back end data with Option arrays and ObjectListDataProvider objects for binding to JavaServer Faces components. James Ward?s Blog - Blog Archive - Faster Flex Applications: Shrink Your RSLs - Here is what you need to do if you want to have size optimized RSLs rebelutionary: Enterprise Wikis Replace Shared Drives - Confluence & WebDAV - A lot of people talk about wikis 'replacing' email - which I think is too broad a statement - but very few people focus on the impact wikis have on shared drives Red Hat endorses KVM virtualization | CNET News.com - Red Hat, the dominant Linux seller, will include KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) in the next version of its Fedora Linux v7 Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design - Tantek's Thoughts - Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures
Tags: ajax, atlassian, attention, books, collaboration, confluence, datatable, design, ebooks, eclipse, enterprise2.0, fedora, flash, flex, flex2, free, google, gui, gwt, hci, hibernate, interface, java, javascript, jsf, junit, KVM, Linux, netbeans, opensource, programming, redhat, reference, rsl, tdd, testing, tips, tutorial, ui, unittest, usability, virtualization, visual, web, Web2.0, webDAV, webdesign, wiki, yahoo, yuiRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 30, 2006
In this interview with InfoQ.com on release day last Thursday, Keith discusses the Spring Web Flow 1.0 feature set and 1.1 roadmap, as well as the history of the project. You'll gain insight into how the project started and what were some of the key chall
The process of converting an existing physical machine to virtual for running under VMware can be convoluted, tedious, and fraught with peril. The free (for now, at least) VMware Converter 3.0, now in beta, greatly s
OWASP is happy to announce the first release of OWASP Pantera – Web Assessment Studio. Pantera is a mix between a pentest proxy, an application scanner, and an intelligent analysis framework. Pantera’s goal is to leave the analysis and automatic (rep
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Berners-Lee hopes to establish a new working group that will focus on revising and improving the HTML standard while working to bridge the gap between HTML and XHTML
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For our 15-minute challenge, we will backup a MySQL 5.0 database on Linux. We will only use freely downloadable open source software for the solution.
This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error ea
All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things.
