- 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
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Daily del.icio.us for January 27th through January 28th
- Peter Ent: DataCalendar – The DataCalendar is a combination of DateChooser and DataGrid. Like the DateChooser, the DataCalendar displays a standard calendar with controls to navigate to another month and year. And like the DataGrid, the cells of the DataCalendar display data.
- Khomsan Ph. – VisualWget – Home – VisualWget is a download manager that use Wget as a core retriever to retrieve files from the web. You can think of VisualWget as a GUI front-end for Wget that give you all of Wget functionalities plus little management features such as download queue
- Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE . In the News | PBS – America’s growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us. Here’s a way to fix the problem — and we need to do it now. By Warren E. Buffett,
- Ext JS Blog – » Ext continues expansion, Now offers training and consulting services – Ext has been quietly offering services for some time now, basically working towards getting certain pieces in place before formalizing the Ext Professional Services division
- Ext JS Blog – » Ext continues expansion, Now offers training and consulting services – Ext has been quietly offering services for some time now, basically working towards getting certain pieces in place before formalizing the Ext Professional Services division
- CSS Reference – Welcome to the SitePoint CSS Reference! We?ve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available. To get started, try our handy search box, or click on one of the headings to browse that section of the reference
- InfoQ: Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers – Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon’s EC2.
- Seth’s Blog: Nickel and diming – Offering low marginal cost items for free is a shortcut to generating word of mouth, which is a lot cheaper than buying ads.
- Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application – In the first installment of his new monthly series Mastering Grails, Java expert Scott Davis introduces Grails and demonstrates how to build your first Grails application.
- The busy Java developer’s guide to Scala: Functional programming for the object oriented – In this new series, Ted Neward introduces Scala, a programming language that combines functional and object-oriented techniques for the JVM. Along the way, Ted makes the case for why you should take the time to learn Scala ? concurrency, for one ? and
Daily del.icio.us for January 26th
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer – Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from t
- Raible Designs | The future is now — Java development in 2008 – I agree that learning about JRuby and Groovy is a good way to be prepared for the future. [….] I do believe you can leverage these tools in your existing jobs and hopefully make your development life more efficient.
- InfoQ: Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project – The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: Dependency Analysis with DSM – DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix – a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project
- » Terracotta Server as a Message Bus – But I?m a guy that really likes simple. TC lets us make an entirely POJO system that runs beautifully in IntelliJ. A single ?container? type main program can run all our components in a single JVM simply by loading all our various Spring configs.
- What is Visual VM? – Visual VM is a new project whose goal is to provide monitoring and profiling tools for the JVM with a GUI. Visual VM is a standalone application (based on NetBeans platform :).
- GPDE Team Blog : JavaScript Memory Leak Detector – JavaScript Memory Leak Detector (download) is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code. It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory leaks in JavaScript code that runs in Internet Explorer.
- Ajaxian » Prototype 1.6.0.2 security and performance improvements – Prototype 1.6.0.2 is a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all 1.6.0 users. We?ve fixed 28 bugs and made over a dozen improvements to the code base, including performance improvements
- Ubuntu 7.10 VMware Image Download (English) – jars.de – Java und Technologie – An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) VMware Image is available here for download. This virtual Linux system with all its applications is usable out-of-the-box with the free VMware Player. Thus, it is perfect to test drive Ubuntu within Windows
- Dr. Dobb’s | NetBeans 6.0: A First Look | January 24, 2008 – Sun Microsystems recently released NetBeans 6.0 which came with significant improvements, almost all in direct response to user requests. Even the developers who like NetBeans have posted complaints about its editor, especially when compared with Eclipse.
- AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Move Over, Seth Godin, Einstein?s Here – If I had to source Einstein quotes as chapter titles for a modern-day marketing book, here are the ones I?d likely pick. The beauty of these chapter titles is that they can live on their own, without the padding of excess words and long-winded narrative
- America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies – Forbes.com – We are back with a new group of 25 rapidly growing technology companies, 12 of which are repeats from our prior list.
- » Can Sun execute on its open source strategy? | Open Source | ZDNet.com – The question is, will open source be judged by the execution of Sun?s strategy?
Daily del.icio.us for January 22nd through January 25th
- Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet – Juriy Zaytsev just released a brand-new Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet that is a great time-saver for development and also makes a nice wall poster
- Tech’s Bottom Line | Bill Snyder | InfoWorld | Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain’t what it used to be | January 24, 2008 03:00 AM | By Bill Snyder – The market will see a convergence of closed and open source software such that the terms will eventually become meaningless from a research perspective
- Massive Java Update Includes Security Fixes – Security Fix – Sun has released another update to its Java software that brings some 370 bug fixes, including a number of security updates.
- Ext JS Blog – » Ext 2.0.1 Released – The Ext team is happy to announce the release of version 2.0.1 of Ext JS. This is a maintenance release that fixes several issues with the 2.0 release
- An Introduction to OSGi on the Server Side – This article addresses the reasons OSGi has stepped into Java/SOA server-side initiatives, including its main benefits and constraints as Java vendors shift their SOA focus to OSGi.
- James Carr » Blog Archive » Making extJS More Accessible to Java Developers – I randomly came across ExtTLD this morning while sifting through my rss feeds, and I must say I am rather impressed.
- Ajax and XML: Ajax for forms – You can do so much with Ajax to enable HTML forms, and this article just scratches the surface. However, it should give you some ideas and practical examples of what you can do in your own applications with relatively easy modifications to your page code.
- ScalaTest 0.9 Released – Today I released a testing tool written in Scala, which can be used to test Scala/Java code. It is a tool for testing Scala code, but can also be used to get started programming in Scala, by writing tests in Scala for production code written in Java.
- Ext JS Blog – » Ext Growth and Server-Side Community Projects – An excellent barometer of a project?s growth and acceptance is the creation of community extensions that compliment the project. It?s demonstrative of how users are embracing Ext and in some cases, need to go past what the core framework provides
Daily del.icio.us for January 21st
- OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] – comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups – Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you’ve come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic. There’s no overarching design or scheme of things, it’s just a bucket of tools with some glue poured in
- MySQL Storage Engines – Programming – SoftwareProjects – One of the greatest things about MySQL, other than being free, widely supported and fast, is the flexibility of choosing different storage engines for different tables.
- JLisa – A Rule Engine for Java – JLisa is a powerful framework for building business rules accessible to Java and it is compatible with JSR94 V, the JavaTM Rule Engine API
- ExtTLD – Simplify ExtJS for JEE – Jaroslav Benc has created ExtTLD, a JSP taglib generator that creates Ext JS components from your Java projects, using XML syntax
- What server-side Java web framework will be the next for 2008? | Java Zone – Arguably, Struts 1.x is end of life. There are plenty of other Java server-side web frameworks: JSF (the standard), Wicket, Tapestry, Struts 2, Echo, Spring MVC, etc. Do you have any market data on what developers are adopting after Struts 1.x?
- Java on Grails – What would happen if the special Objects within Grails could not only teleport across Classloaders and past the Java-Groovy boundary, as many Groovy Objects have done in the past, but also teleport across that boundary with their powers intact? …
- John Resig – Programming Book Profits – As I begin working on my second book I’ve gone back and realized that there’s a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing my first book way back in March of 2006
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
Daily del.icio.us for January 18th
- The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 – JRuby – Codehaus – JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby
- Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 – I’ve been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months.
- Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application – Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn’t just a simple “me too” port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java.
- Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress – Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you
- Dave Woods – HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 – CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained – In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs.
- Firefox DataAnalytics Help center – DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price?
- Anyterm – SSH via web – Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert – from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access
- Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 – Java World – In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations.
- Sun To Acquire MySQL – Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say “Data is the Intel Inside” of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0
- Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs – An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won’t need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.
- Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers – “JasperReports for Java Developers” proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners
- GWT vs. FLEX – This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies.
- The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer – Forrester Research – Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard
Daily del.icio.us for January 17th
- Introduction to Groovy, Part 3 – In this third installment ofIntroduction to Groovy (part 1, part 2) we will continue looking at some features of the Groovy language. Some you may find them on other languages, but some are exclusive to Groovy.
- PDFBox – Java PDF Library – PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.
- TagSoup home page – This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML
- Teflon Ted: Book Review: Dreaming in Code – I’m probably not the first (or the last) person to say Dreaming in Code is the Soul of a New Machine for my generation
- Thinking In Java: In today’s world, what is the role of the Application Server? – Given the likes of Spring and Hibernate, how do people consume the Application Server? Is it all you can eat with JEE still delivering on the promise of writing business logic and letting the App server deal with the infrastructure?
- People Over Process » Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer – While at the Eclipse Runtime Summit, I had the chance to talk with Iona’s Eric Newcomer (CTO of Iona, Co-Chair, Enterprise Expert Group, OSGi Alliance, and well respected coding guy) about the emergence of OSGi as a server-side, or enterprise technology
- Grails – Home – Grails aims to bring the “coding by convention” paradigm to Groovy. It’s an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development.
- How do you parse HTML in Java? – The Open Source HTML Parsers in Java page is useful in listing the HTML parsers that are out there. But it doesn’t give much of a clue about which are the “best” in a given situation. In other words, how should one decide which HTML parser to use?
Daily del.icio.us for January 16th
- antennae – Google Code – Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te
- Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
- ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex – PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It’s easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it’s very powerful, it’s not very friendly
- InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 – This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E
- InfoQ: Why Scala? – Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
- Ian’s Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java – Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala
Daily del.icio.us for January 15th
- Graeme Rocher’s Blog: Grails Making Java Developers Forget about Rails – Another 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails from Graeme Rocher.
- rain city digest: 10 Reasons to Switch from Rails to Grails – After spending a few years really enjoying Rails it was difficult to bring myself to even try groovy and grails. But my latest contract forced me to look for alternatives, and I’m glad I did. Here are some reasons that you may want to switch
- Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0 – The goal was to show how you can build an MVC application using Ext 2.0. We used a number of different patterns and components to accomplish something that can be used effectively in much larger applications than this little thing. It wasn?t necessary t
- google-feedserver – Google Code – Google FeedServer is an open-source Atom Publishing provider based on the Abdera Framework. Google FeedServer has chosen to implement simple backend data adapters that allow the developer to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a db
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