- Website Response Times (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – The 3 response-time limits are the same today as when I wrote about them in 1993 (based on 40-year-old research by human factors pioneers)
- Report Cites Problems with FBI’s Approach to Agile Development — Application Development Trends – Add the FBI to the list of federal government agencies that are reportedly failing to correctly implement Agile software development practices — a move mandated by the Obama administration.
- Be careful with GWT KeyPressEvent.getCharCode() | Othman – Like hundreds of GWT developers I stepped into the annoying GWT KeyPressEvent.getCharCode() bug problem
- Obama and Palin, a Tale of Two Speeches – NYTimes.com – I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. All of us — we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.
- Obama’s Arizona Speech: Transcript, Video – Garance Franke-Ruta – Politics – The Atlantic – There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight
- InfoQ: Groovy Update: To Infinity and Beyond! – Guillaume Laforge reviews the main features brought by Groovy 1.6 – better performance, multiple assignments, optional return, AST transformations, Grape, OSGi -, what’s most interesting and new in Groovy 1.7 – anonymous classes, annotations, power asserts, AST viewer and builder -, and what’s coming in Groovy 1.8: closures, modularization, Java 7 support, DSL, AST templates, better performance
- Spring Web Services 2.0 Released | SpringSource Team Blog – After being in the works for almost a year, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0 has been released! In this post, I'd like to go over some of the major new features.
- What’s New In Spring Roo 1.1.1 | SpringSource Team Blog – It's our pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Roo 1.1.1. This new release incorporates over 250 fixes and enhancements, including many performance and functionality improvements.
- Swarm of XeBees » The Curious case of Field and Property Access in Hibernate – Place the @Access(AccessType.PROPERTY) or @Access(AccessType.FIELD) annotation on the class instead to mark the properties or fields as the access types.
- Overview – Google URL Shortener API – Google Code – You can use the Google URL Shortener API to programmatically interact with this service and to develop applications that use simple HTTP methods to store, share, and manage goo.gl short URLs from anywhere on the Internet.
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