- 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.