Daily del.icio.us for December 12th through January 5th

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Vinny

Generate a self-signed SSL Certificate with OpenSSL | *.hosting – Occasionally it may be necessary to generate a self-signed SSL certificate. This could be for internal websites, or for other internal uses that may require secure encrypted network transmissions. We decided to post this guide for everyone to use, since using the guide as a reference may hopefully be useful to those of you out there
Google Collections Library: 1.0-final! – Google Collections Library – The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework.
InfoQ: Re-thinking Lean Service – Taiichi Ohno discovered some counter-intuitive truths as he developed the Toyota System. Similar counter-intuitive truths wait to be discovered by leaders of service organisations. When they are understood and applied, service organisations' performance is transformed to levels that, to the current mind-set, would be considered unachievable.
InfoQ: SpringSource’s Ben Alex talks about Spring Roo, Spring Shell and Spring Security 3.0 – Dr Ben Alex, The Project Lead of the Spring Roo code generator project, discusses using Roo on an existing project, building custom templates and add-ons for Roo, and how its capabilities compare to other productivity tools such as Grails.
sesawe.net – English – Sesawe is a global alliance dedicated to bringing the benefits of uncensored access to information to Internet users around the world
iPhone App Developers | PointAbout – PointAbout allows you to quickly mobilize the content you’re already publishing, like RSS & XML feeds, APIs and HTML content. Our AppMakr.com service builds native mobile applications in minutes instead of months, across multiple phone platforms without any ramp-up time and no need for proprietary programming expertise.
jLinq – LINQ for JSON – jLinq is a fully extensible Javascript library that allows you to perform LINQ style queries on arrays of object.
Querying JPA Entities with JPQL and Native SQL – Learn how to take advantage of the Java Persistence query language and native SQL when querying over JPA entities.
Spring Module OXM – A new feature of Spring Framework 3.0 | united-coders.com – I think the Spring OXM module is absolutely usable. It is a nice way to keep the code independent from the underlying marshalling technology. And there are a lot more ways to use Spring OXM. At this time the Castor project, Apache XMLBeans, JiBX, XStream and JAXB is supported
JD | Java Decompiler – The “Java Decompiler project” aims to develop tools in order to decompile and analyze Java 5 “byte code” and the later versions.
As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His – If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
Grails – 1.2 Release Notes – SpringSource are pleased to announce the 1.2 release of the Grails web application development framework. Grails is a dynamic web application framework built on Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof – good coders code, great reuse – If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I’d call lsof the Swiss Army Knife of Unix debugging.
100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools | TuVinhSoft .,JSC – Below are some open source/free tools that can help you with security testing as well as tools that will keep your system secure. Please use these tools ONLY for good.
YouTube – Google Web Toolkit 2.0 New Features – This video provides an overview of new features in Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool which enables developers to produce highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps
Ext JS 3.1: Massive memory improvements, TreeGrid, and more – On behalf of the Ext Team, I am extremely excited to announce the final release of Ext JS 3.1. With this release we rededicate ourselves to making Ext JS the best it can be, in both features and performanc
InfoQ: Amazon RDS: MySQL Database as a Cloud Service – Amazon recently added a new MySQL database offering to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform named Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which works just like a traditional MySQL installation
InfoQ: Whats New in Spring 3.0 – Arjen Poutsma reviews Spring Framework 2.5 and takes a look at Spring 3.0 – Java 5+, Spring Expression Language, REST support, Portlet 2.0, declarative model validation, early support for Java EE 6 – and the roadmap ahead.
Spring Framework 3.0 goes GA | SpringSource Team Blog – After a long ride, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring 3.0 GA (.RELEASE) is finally available (download page)! All of SpringSource is celebrating – join the party
Pivotal Tracker – Free Lightweight Agile Project Management – Tracker is a free, award winning, agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 11 – The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
Using Linux – Linux Administration Basics – Linode Library – This document presents a collection of common issues and useful tips for Linux system administration. Whether you're new to system administration or have been maintaining systems for some time, we hope these tips are helpful regardless of your background or choice in Linux distributions
JAX-WS 2.2/Metro 2.0/Java EE6/GlassFish V3 Released | Java.net – We are pleased to announce the release of JAX-WS 2.2 and JAX-WS 2.2 RI. RI is also included in Metro 2.0. As Metro 2.0 is bundled in GlassFish v3, you don't require any separate installation step. On the servlet containers like Tomcat, you follow the installation instructions in the bundle.
Metro 2.0 released | Java.net – Metro 2.0 has been released. Here is an overview of the new features

Daily del.icio.us for June 8th through June 9th

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Vinny

InfoQ: ActionScript 3 Site Framework – Fosfr – There are many different approaches to develop RIA based web sites. Flash sites are particular appealing to businesses or individuals involving in rich media contents. Fosfr is an ActionScript 3 site framework that is developed to build full Flash site. InfoQ interviewed Fosfr creator, Jeff DePascale, to learn more about the insights
Video: Google Web Toolkit: An Introduction by TheServerSide.com – This session teaches you the basics of Google Web Toolkit, How to implement Ajax-enabled applications in Java, Internationalization, Hooking into the browser history mechanism, Remote procedure calls.
InfoQ: REST is a style — WOA is the architecture. – Dion Hinchcliffe recently offered two related articles that explore relationships between Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and other technologies. The first deals with WOA and REST; the second looks at WOA and SOA. The main point of the first article: REST is a style and WOA is the architecture. The second article argues that WOA is really a highly complimentary sub-style of SOA and explores the implications of this simple observation.
JavaFX squares off against AJAX | Developer World – InfoWorld – In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant's high points and the low points of their rival.
Google Translator Toolkit – Google Translator Toolkit is a new service that lets you translate documents by editing the translations automatically generated by Google. "Google Translator Toolkit allows human translators to work faster and more accurately, aided by technologies like Google Translate."
The Joy of Less – Happy Days Blog – NYTimes.com – If you’re the kind of person who prefers freedom to security, who feels more comfortable in a small room than a large one and who finds that happiness comes from matching your wants to your needs, then running to stand still isn’t where your joy lies.
Stephen Colbert Takes His Show on the Road to Baghdad – NYTimes.com – It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s head
Gizmodo – iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide – apple iphone 3gs – The iPhone 3GS has a new processor built-in. Apple claims that it is up to two times faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster. It also consumes less, which has an impact on the improved battery life.
Apple – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Enhancements and Refinements – Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes refinements, both big and small, to
a wide range of applications, processes, and interface elements.
Study Highlights SOA Herd Mentality — Application Development Trends – Gartner suggests that SOA adopters start small, identifying specific business benefits and focusing, as part of an iterative effort, on achieving them.

Daily del.icio.us for February 19th through February 22nd

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Vinny

Vodori’s Blog » Using TinyMCE with other JavaScript toolkits – TinyMCE is not only the best WYSIWYG editor there is, but also one of the best designed overall frameworks. However, it’s got one terrible flaw — if you try to integrate it with any other JS library you will eventually find yourself drowning in bizarre race conditions as multiple “threads” all compete for the same window.onLoad place
Apache News Online: 22 February 2009 – Apache POI 3.5 beta 5 now available – The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5
beta 5, our latest beta including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.
Configuring Spring Security with Active Directory in 5 easy steps | Eneset Technology – In this article I tried to give as much details as possible about configuring Spring Security with Active Directory. I provided a sample project to be used as a starting point for your own application
Digital Domain – Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big – NYTimes.com – Jeff Atwood, a co-founder of Stack Overflow, said: “I have no beef with Google. I like Google. But I’m concerned. If you project this trend forward four years, just follow the graph. A world in which there is no competition strikes me as unhealthy.”
Ubuntu now has ‘cloud computing inside’ | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News – That being said, the Ubuntu crew is in my view the Apple of Linux, and will likely change the game not through the infrastructure itself, but the user experience they introduce to building and managing clouds.
Flex vs. Silverlight: The Elephant in the Room « The Effect Generator – In contrast, Silverlight has been built from the ground up with more ambitious targets in mind: fully fledged applications.
Microsoft Visual Studio to boost SharePoint | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-20 | By Paul Krill – Developers building solutions based on Microsoft#039;s SharePoint collaboration and business process platform will gain expanded support in the planned Visual Studio 2010 development environment, which will feature templates and an extensibility API, a Microsoft official said in a blog on Thursday.
FRONTLINE: inside the meltdown: watch the full program | PBS – On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. quot;There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,quot; says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
Asynchronous processing support in Servlet 3.0 – JavaWorld – Even as a mid-level API ensconced in modern UI component-based Web frameworks and Web services technologies, the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will have groundbreaking impact on Java Web application development
Asynchronous HTTP Comet architectures – JavaWorld – In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view of asynchronous HTTP, explaining its role in developing high-performance HTTP proxies and non-blocking HTTP clients, as well as the long-lived HTTP connections associated with Comet.
The BalusC Code: FileServlet supporting resume and caching – To enable download resumes, the server have to send at least the Accept-Ranges, ETag and Last-Modified response headers to the client along with the file.

Daily del.icio.us for November 9th through November 13th

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Vinny

Software Creation Mystery » The Elements of Pragmatic Programming Style. Intention. – The Elements of Pragmatic Programming Style is the collection of rules for pragmatic programmers. This collection doesn’t pretend to be comprehensive guide how to program. Rather it concentrates on fundamentals: how any programmer can build better software for the customer
Design Patterns | Object Oriented Design –
RIA Cowboy Videos – Lightstreamer – Data Streaming for Flex | James Ward – RIA Cowboy – While at AjaxWorld 2008 I had the chance to record another episode of the “RIA Cowboy Videos”. This time I talk with Lightstreamer about their AS3 / Flex APIs for streaming data to the client
Announcing FlexServerLib, The BlazeDS Extension Project | Andrew Powell’s Flex, Java, ColdFusion, and AJAX Blog – FlexServerLib is an open-source project that aims to extend BlazeDS with custom message adapters, endpoints, and services. We will provide, in addition to each piece of server-side functionality, a corresponding SWC to implement the service on the Flex client.
Artima Developer Spotlight Forum – Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ IDEA 8 and RubyMine – JetBrains released the latest major version of IDEA, it's multi-language development environment. In this interview with Artima, JetBrains architect Dmitry Jemerov talks about the most significant IDEA 8 features, including improved core Java support and support for multiple languages. He also discusses JetBrains' new Ruby IDE
IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 Adds Flex Support | James Ward – RIA Cowboy – IntelliJ IDEA 8.0, the popular Java IDE, has been released and now supports building and debugging Flex applications. This is great validation of Flex’s momentum in the Java community
java.think(): 8 Reasons You Should Be Using Terracotta, not Oracle Coherence – Unlike Coherence, Terracotta is not based on Java serialization. This fundamental algorithmic difference gives Terracotta superior performance. What's more, as the size of the data set grows, the performance you get from Terracotta remains constant. Compare that to Oracle Coherence – as the size of the data you put into the cache grows, so does the work it has to do to keep the data synchronized. The result is a significant drop in operations/sec.
12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean | CSS | Smashing Magazine – Let’s take a look at some poorly written HTML, discuss its problems, and then whip it into shape! Bear in mind, we are not passing any judgment on the content or design of this page, only the markup that builds it.
Is Scala or Clojure poised for stardom? – Is Scala, which was designed only a short while ago (comparatively speaking, that is) poised for stardom? Or will Clojure achieve greatness instead?
Java Concurrency Synchronizers « PODIDEA – Successful Intelligence – We all know that Java supports synchronization since day one through the synchronized keyword, but the limitation is that this mechanism works at the block level and is limited to a single thread at a time. A number of new mechanisms were introduced. Among them are semaphore, barrier, latch and exchanger.
Ajaxian » Ext JS 3.0 Roadmap and Developer Tool – Jack Slocum has posted a screencast of the visual designer tool that will be part of upcoming release of Ext.
Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers using Shortcuts | MakeUseOf.com – Linux systems are known for their stable operation, designed to be operational without reboot for years. However if you still manage to pull a string and freeze up your computer there are quite a few ways to get the system back to work.
Obama’s CTO: Watch out for the turf wars | Outside the Lines – CNET News – Obama will appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information officers of each of the federal agencies, to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies and share best practices.

Daily del.icio.us for November 6th through November 9th

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Vinny

fluint – Flex Unit and Integration Testing Framework – Based loosely on the concepts of FlexUnit and its ancestor JUnit, fluint provides enhanced asynchronous support, a graphical test runner, integration with continuous build systems and an optional Adobe AIR client for directory watching.
RubyMine — new IDE from JetBrains for Ruby and Rails | JetBrains Zone – What JetBrains has always been good at is creating "The most intelligent" tools for developers. Today, joining Java and .NET developers, Ruby and Rails community also gets their "most intelligent IDE". RubyMine — is a new Ruby IDE that has all the power to make development with Ruby even more dynamic and productive:
CodeExplorer 1.0 for IntelliJ Idea | JetBrains Zone – CodeExplorer is IntelliJ Idea plugin that helps to explore method call chains.
Its tool window shows methods and calls between them on a handy diagram.
Now you can see usages and structure of several methods on a single diagram
Google Code Blog: Announcing the Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers – The Google Search Appliance virtual edition is for non-commercial, development purposes only, and gives developers the opportunity to test against the features of the physical Google Search Appliance.
Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering – This month's column is simply a collection of what I consider to be facts—truths, if you will—about software engineering. I'm presenting this software engineering laundry list because far too many people who call themselves software engineers, or computer scientists, or programmers, or whatever nom du jour you prefer, either aren't familiar with these facts or have forgotten them
Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic | Salon – The election of Barack Obama to the presidency may signal more than the end of an era of Republican presidential dominance and conservative ideology. It may mark the beginning of a Fourth Republic of the United States.
css-vfx – CSS Visual Effects for iPhone Safari – css-vfx is a collection of gems that showcase iPhone Safari's 3D CSS Visual Effects extensions. css-vfx is based on Charles Ying's work with Apple's CSS Visual Effects extensions
Ehcache Server Technical Session Video – Greg Luck gave a talk today at the Glassfish V3 Prelude Launch Event. Ehcache Server uses Glassfish for its self contained cache server.
Amazon Building Large Data Center in Oregon « Data Center Knowledge – Amazon.com appears to be the tenant in a large data center rising on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, joining Google in harnessing the region’s cheap energy resources to power huge cloud computing data centers.
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Meet JetBrains’ Release of the Year: IntelliJ IDEA 8 – We’re proud to announce our release of the year: IntelliJ IDEA 8!
Our new and improved IDE is now faster, more stable, and more feature-rich. The major release highlights include SQL support & SQL Query Runner, UML-like class diagrams, JBoss Seam support, JavaScript & Flex Debugger, FreeMarker & Velocity support

Daily del.icio.us for July 14th through July 16th

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Vinny

Clemens Vasters, Bldg 42 : Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name “BizTalk Services” R12 Release – BizTalk Services is the code-name for a platform-in-the-cloud offering from Microsoft. Currently in development, BizTalk Services provides Messaging, Workflow, and Identity functionality to enable disparate applications to connect quickly and easily.
Success Soul » Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for Living a Happy and Simple Life – I’m an avid admirer of simplicity, but I’m an even bigger fan of the man who has mastered the greatness by living and breathing simplicity amid an ocean of wealth.
AppleInsider | iPhone 3G’s final build price: just $174.33 – With roughly $50 in licenses for patents and other intellectual property factored into the price and an assumed unsubsidized cost of $499 for an 8GB model of the celllphone, Apple is thought to be getting as much as $300 in subsidies from AT&T for each cu
InfoQ: An Introduction to Lean Thinking – Lean software development, which we hear a lot about these days, may be still a bit of a mystery for people who come to Agile via Scrum or XP. Earlier this year, at an Open Party, Ning Lu of ThoughtWorks China offered an introduction
Ext Javascript Library for beginners, ext-perience Ext » Blog Archive » In Place / Inline Editing with Ext, ExtJS Inline editor – I found an inline editing tutorial using prototype which after reading seemed very easy and very simple to replicate using Ext. I have Googled this topic in the past but found nothing… so I decided to follow this tutorial and port it to ExtJs.
iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you? – Java World – In this article we introduce and compare two of the most popular open source persistence frameworks, iBATIS and Hibernate. We also discuss the Java Persistence API (JPA)
Continuous Integration: Was Fowler Wrong? – While rereading Martin Fowler's paper, Continuous Integration, it struck me that its approach to Continuous Integration (CI) is fundamentally flawed. Fowler, like most of the CI community, seems to argue that CI is about building rather than testing
WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6 – I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS
Flex 4 (Gumbo) Available for Download – InsideRIA – The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it's now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption
Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun’s flagship Unix servers | The Register – Salesforce.com is chucking out the last of it Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire servers this week, ending one of Sun's most bragged about relationships.

Daily del.icio.us for July 6th through July 12th

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Vinny

Open Source LDAP Server in Java Released : Ludo’s sketches – The OpenDS development team is very please to announce the release of OpenDS 1.0.0. OpenDS 1.0.0 delivers a fully compliant LDAPv3 server (*) that passes all of the compliance, interoperability and security tests suites
SQLite Example for Adobe AIR–Working with local SQL databases(with source code) – Ntt.cc – Adobe AIR includes the capability of creating and working with local SQL databases. Many stand SQL features are supported in the runtime, open source SQLite system can be used for storing local, persistent data.
The flollowing is a simplistic example tha
Sun lays off approximately 1,000 employees | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-11 | By Paul Krill – Following through on a restructuring plan announced in May, Sun on Thursday laid off approximately 1,000 employees in the United States and Canada.
Oracle faces skeptical BEA customer base – In fact, it looks as if Oracle acquiring BEA could be a major disruption event in application development, either by establishing Oracle with a brand new customer base or by releasing a slew of user free agents
Ext JS – Ext GWT v1.0 Released – The Ext team is proud to announce that the official release of Ext GWT v1.0 is available for download. This is the first release of Ext GWT which is the culmination of many weeks of development from the Ext development team
Object-oriented Programming in Java – I am using the text Object-oriented Programming in Java in my beginning computer programming course. It is aimed at students with little or no programming experience, and it uses DrJava as a vehicle for student experimentation OO programming concepts.
The Development of the C Language – This paper is about the development of the C programming language, the influences on it, and the conditions under which it was created
eXtplorer – A PHP- and JavaScript- based File Manager – eXtplorer is a web-based File Manager. You can use it to browse directories & files on the server and edit, copy, move, delete files, search, upload and download files, create and extract archives, create new files and directories and much more
Jeff Beehler’s Blog : Tools for Agility – A white paper by Kent Beck – A transparent team can more cheaply and effectively coordinate their efforts towards shared goals. Acting transparently sends a signal to others that they can trust you. Trust, when realized, reduces the friction of development as people focus….
globeandmail.com: Start your day with a square of chocolate – According to researchers, a big breakfast packed with protein, carbs – and even something sweet – can lead to weight loss
Talking Business – On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble – NYTimes.com – Instead, Google has shown that it thinks about day care the same way every other company does — as a luxury, not a benefit. Judging by what’s transpired, that’s what Google is fast becoming: just another company

Daily del.icio.us for April 26th through April 27th

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Vinny

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
0x000000 # 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

Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Vinny

InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications – In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Flex is an open source application development framework for building rich Internet applications that run in the web with Flash Play
InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development – JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's
IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Type Renderers – I’d like to tell you about one of the IntelliJ IDEA features – type renderers. They provide you the ability to customize how objects are displayed in the debugger, offering “logic-oriented” presentation of data vs. structure-oriented as it is by def
Cloud Security: Where is Your Computer Today? – A new blog that launched last week–Cloud Security–is devoted to looking at the security issues of cloud computing, which encompasses grid computing, utility computing, software as a service, storage in the cloud, and virtualization
Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. – Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center's worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop. Clones of that HP tower cost 10 cents per hour — 10 cents!
Why ‘no Macs’ is no longer a defensible IT strategy | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-21 | By Galen Gruman – According to NPD Research, Apple's share of the retail market has climbed to 14 percent as of February 2008. Gartner and IDC report that the Mac's share in the U.S. as of March 31 was 6.6 percent.
The Norway Vote – What really happened « Topic Maps and All That – The process which led to Norway’s Yes vote on OOXML was so surrealistic that it deserves to be recorded for posterity. Here’s my version of the story.
For AT&T, U-Verse Is Picking Up Steam – GigaOM – UBS’s John Hodulik, one of the best telecom analysts, has pegged AT&T as his top pick for this earnings seasons and is expecting some good tidings from Ma Bell. What caught my eye in his note was the progress made by AT&T’s IPTV effort, U-Verse.
Virtualization: VMware, Xen, or VirtualBox? (by Jeremy Zawodny) – I wish to virtualize my computer life. However, I face an abundance of choices from which you will help me select the right one. What are the pros and cons here? And are there other solutions worthy of consideration?
/var/log/mind » Blog Archive » Turbocharge your string keyed hashmaps – In most most situations the possible universe of keys in the hashmap are known upfront either when writing the code or when starting up the application. If instead of creating hard coded strings or by using various string key parameters from say an XML fi

Daily del.icio.us for February 22nd through February 25th

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Vinny

flexlib – Google Code – The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.
dougmccune.com » Blog Archive » WindowShade component added to FlexLib – A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels i
Ajaxian » Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched – Continuing their march into the RIA space, Adobe announced today the official release of AIR v1.0 and Flex 3.0. Adobe has taken the beta off of the wrapper as their have released both AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0.
Mobile Desktop at Improv Everywhere – For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops
Ext JS Blog – » Simple Tasks v2 – Multiple lists, NativeWindows and Reminders – In collaboration with Adobe, one of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR a
Thanks Zed; Syntax matters; no more dumping stuff in Java; Quit pimple pimping Ruby; Scala warning – Can we just get some decent support for Groovy? No instead Sun invests in Ruby via JRuby. DOH! Groovy looks a lot like Java. It is much easier to get started with it. The syntax does not make developers want to hurl. Why is Sun investing so much money in
The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur – Forbes.com – Vembu is a rare species in India these days. As far as I know, he's one of the very few entrepreneurs who has been able to execute on the premise of building software "products" and/or software-as-a-service out of India.
John Resig – How JavaScript Timers Work – JavaScript engines only have a single thread, forcing asynchronous events to queue waiting for execution. setTimeout and setInterval are fundamentally different in how they execute asynchronous code.
jsunit-ext – ExtJS based test runner for JSUnit based javascript unit tests – jsunit-ext is a custom test runner built using ExtJS javascript library in order to provide a better user interface and certain features missing in default runner of jsunit while not requiring any change in tests which have already been written.
Codedependent – Java Swing guy joins Adobe – I've recently joined Adobe Systems to work on the Flex SDK. Much of the material I write will be about Flex, Flash, AIR, ActionScript, and related technologies, although I also intend to have non-technology-specific pieces as interesting graphics software
Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org – This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6. The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to…

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