Links for November 21st through November 25th

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Vinny

Errai is a framework for building GWT applications – JBoss Community – Errai offers a set of components that simplify building rich web applications using The Google Web Toolkit. The framework provides a concise programming model for powerful client-server communication and extension points that bring Java Enterprise standards to GWT clients.
Errai Developer Blog: Setting the Record Straight on GWT – Since joining the Errai team, I've been telling lots of people about our project. Every time I do this, I find myself dispelling some common misconceptions about what GWT is and how it can be used.
Canonical dropping CouchDB from Ubuntu One – The H Open Source: News and Features – Canonical is discontinuing its use of CouchDB as part of its Ubuntu One data synchronisation service. The announcement was made by John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager at Canonical. CouchDB has been used in Ubuntu One to provide a synchronisable way of storing and distributing arbitrary structured data which included contacts, notes and playlists.
Apache considered harmful – People have a great capacity for change. Those people can and will continue to lead us as our institutions fail and eventually harm us.
Heroku launches SQL Database-as-a-Service — Cloud Computing News – The new service, aptly called Heroku Postgres, is a commercial version of what Heroku has been providing to its own developers for years, only it’s now available to all developers regardless where they host their applications.
Video: Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j | SpringSource.org – The Spring Data Neo4j project has evolved to support the Neo4j graph data store within the Spring paradigm. Neo4j expert, Michael Hunger, provides a guided tour of the technology and provides details on how to get started in this Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j.
simple-spring-memcached – A drop-in library to enable memcached caching in Spring beans via annotations for some simple use cases – Distributed caching can be a big, hairy, intricate, and complex proposition when using it extensively. Simple-Spring-Memcached (SSM) attempts to simplify implementation for several basic use cases. This project enables caching in Spring-managed beans, by using Java 5 Annotations and Spring/AspectJ AOP on top of the spymemcached client.
Picking the top 10: Technologies vs. trends | Application development – InfoWorld – No one can tell for sure which emerging technologies will have the greatest impact on the enterprise, but we're giving it our best shot
Google Just Snuck Most of Chrome OS Onto the iPad – The Next Web – With the announcement of its new Search app, Google gave iPad users more than just a slick and well-made native search app that bests the experience on any Android tablet. It also managed to squeeze the core elements of Chrome OS into Apple’s ecosystem.
Bezos Gone Wild! Amazon Selling Every Non-iPhone Smartphone for One Penny – LAUNCH – – Through next Monday, Amazon is selling all non-iPhones for one penny with a new two-year contract. Smartphones on sale for $0.01 include the Motorola Droid Razr, which Verizon sells for $299 with a two-year contract, the Samsung Galaxy S II, Epic 4G Touch, which Spring sells for $199 with a two-year contract, and the BlackBerry Torch 4G, which AT&T sells for $99 with a two-year contract.

Daily del.icio.us for January 17th through January 20th

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Vinny

Red Sweater Blog – The Road Less Traveled – Don’t be afraid to fail! Failure is your only means of testing for fact. And without facts, you have nothing to base your business on.
HTML5 in the browser: Local data storage | Developer World – InfoWorld – HTML5 Web Storage, Web Database, FileReader, FileWriter, and AppCaching APIs will transform Web pages into local applications, but not yet
Meet Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon’s Platform Play: Cloud Computing News « – Amazon Web Services, which popularized cloud computing with its Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service, has moved up the stack from infrastructure to providing Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, its platform-as-a-service play
IntelliJ IDEA wins TOY award from InfoWorld! | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – IntelliJ IDEA wins Technology of the Year award from InfoWorld!
Bowler – RESTful Scala Web Framework – Bowler is a RESTful, multi-channel ready web framework in Scala with a functional flavour, built on top of Scalatra and Scalate, with Lift-JSON doing the heavy JSON lifting
Use Objectify to store data in the Google App Engine Datastore – GitHub – An example of using Objectify to store and retreive data from the Google App Engine Datastore
gwtmodernizr – A Modernizr clone for Google Web Toolkit – Modernizr is a great js library that detects if your browser offers native support for a number of CSS3 and HTML5 features. The idea of this project is to port Modernizr to GWT and make this feature detection possible from within your GWT code.
GWT Pivot Table – GWT Pivot Table Component, Java GWT web Application – The GWT Pivot Table is a Web component that easily integrates into your Java GWT Web application and provides seamless rendering of your MDX queries.
Make a Flexible Architecture Now, Perfect it Later | Javalobby – When you start a project , there are plenty of tough questions that depend on the application you are writing, but by layering your code and ensuring that functionality takes place only in well defined points which you can alter or relocate, you ensure that your code remains able to change based on architectural decisions and business demands.
Comet Daily » Blog Archive » The Five Key Metrics of a High-Performance Comet Server – The five dimensions of performance above are essential for any high-performance Comet server. They can be measured independently of the specific architecture of a particular Comet server

Daily del.icio.us for August 25th through September 1st

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Vinny

Graham Hacking Scala: Things I Love About IntelliJ IDEA: The Impossible is Possible – IDEA has a whole host of features which, to me, are bordering on mind-blowing. There are quite a few features in IDEA that are so impressive that I don't just think, "That's a clever idea. I'm glad they put that in."
Johnson: vFabric Delivers the Promise of VMware’s Spring Acquisition | Javalobby – vFabric presents a simplified platform that has the development technologies of SpringSource combined with the deployment technologies of VMware
VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps ( – Internet – Software – Hardware Systems – Virtualization ) – Project Horizon aims to provide access to various types of applications including software-as-a-service, legacy applications and mobile apps
Verizon Business News: Verizon and VMware to Launch Enterprise-Class Hybrid Cloud Solution – At VMworld 2010 on Tuesday (Aug. 31), Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance
Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard – PCWorld – As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability
The Top 5 New Annotations in JPA 2 — Developer.com – In this article, we provide a reference list of the five most notable new annotations introduced in JPA 2, complete with code examples. We also highlight the changes made to existing JPA 1.x annotations in order to make them easier to use.
InfoQ: Feeding the Agile Beast – Dean Stevens proposes a way of integrating the business value concept into everyday Agile activity in order to achieve a higher value for an enterprise.
InfoQ: Standards and Open Source for Cloud Computing – OpenStack and Apache Deltacloud have similar goals – building lightweight REST APIs that allow cloud provider access via an HTTP network. OpenStack is more focused on public cloud service providers and Deltacloud is more focused on private clouds.
Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man | Technology | Los Angeles Times – But no matter where in the world Laporte is situated, fans know where to find him.
Errai – Errai is a framework for building GWT applications – Errai offers a set of components for building rich web applications using The Google Web Toolkit. The framework provides a unified federation and RPC infrastructure with true, uniform, asynchronous messaging across the client and server.

Daily del.icio.us for March 31st through April 5th

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Vinny

Creating a unified programming model on top of .NET (CLR and DLR) – I watched Anders Hejlsberg’s, chief designer of the C# programming language, developer keynote at TechDays 2010 ‘Trends and future directions in programming languages’.<br />
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Here are some the things that caught my attention. The video is worth checking out.
Google Web Toolkit Blog: Look ma, no plugin! – The new crop of HTML5 web browsers are capable of some pretty amazing things, and several of our engineers decided to take some 20% time to see how far we could push them. The result? An HTML5 port of Id's Quake II game engine!
Web and mobile apps come under review on new Stanford site – WhatApp?, officially being launched this month at http://www.whatapp.org, reviews web and mobile apps for privacy, security and openness.
iPad Keeps Up with Columnist’s Speedy Typing – CBS News – I wrote almost this entire column using an iPad, which partially answered my biggest question about the device: Can it replace a laptop PC? So far, the answer is a qualified yes.
Official Gmail Blog: Gmail on the iPad – With today's release of the iPad, we're launching an experimental two-pane user interface to take advantage of its large touchscreen and tablet form factor. Building upon the Gmail for mobile web app, this new interface displays your conversations on the left and your messages on the right hand side.
Tech hiring poised for recovery — and open source leads the way | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld – More hiring and better benefits are actually appearing in Silicon Valley as tech firms come out of the recession
InfoQ: High Performance Ajax with GWT – Ajax applications have a big usability jump from traditional web applications and GWT provides tools that give you better Ajax performance for free. You should compare the startup speed of the GWT mail sample to other sample Ajax applications
In Relation To… Hibernate 3.5.0-Final release – Hibernate 3.5 is out with JPA 2.0 support
GWT 2.0: Using TabLayoutPanel with UiBinder « Giant Flying Saucer – The point to this article is to take a particular Widget, in this case the TabLayoutPanel and to create and show instance of it the old way (which is still supported) and then to show how to do the same but using UiBinder.
gwt-comet – A Comet Implementation for the Google Web Toolkit – This gwt-comet library provides an efficient Comet implementation for GWT. The library implements Comet by streaming messages over long lived HTTP requests to minimise latency and bandwidth requirements and maximise the throughput.

Daily del.icio.us for October 30th through November 5th

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Vinny

Exclusive First Listen: Norah Jones : NPR – A warm, organic-sounding record, The Fall showcases Jones' musical depth in exciting and unexpected ways, suitable for old fans and newcomers alike. Please leave your opinions of the album in the comments section below.
Closure Compiler – Google Code – The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls.
Atmosphere Framework 0.4 Released – Atmosphere allow the creation of RESTful and Ajax Push/Comet applications, and version 0.4 is ready for prime time. This release contains many new features and can be seen in action in many well-known frameworks.
Five Important Trends on the Enterprise Architect’s Radar | Javalobby – It is no secret that the internet architectures are influencing enterprise architectures. This post attempts to summarise some of the recent trends in the internet space, which seem to be carrying some momentum sufficient enough to influence the enterprise.
The iPhone dons a suit and tie – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech – "There is growing evidence that the iPhone is making inroads into the Enterprise," writes Deutsche Bank research analyst Chris Whitmore in a report to clients Monday.
Developers: the best smart phone platform is? – ……he’d bias to iPhone and Android, if he had to make a choice of only two platforms to develop on. This is also what I’m hearing from many other developers.
InfoQ: Real-life SOA –
KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net] – If Google's plans to become more community-oriented come to fruition, the result should be a better kernel for all.
Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid – If hype were to be believed, the Motorola DROID is the pièce de résistance of the mobile world; the conclusive creation sent down by the Great Smartphone in the sky to rid us of our woes
InfoQ: SpringOne/2GX 2009 Keynote – TeamCity 5.0 is approaching inevitably and here we are with fresh EAP build.
All major new features have been introduced already in previous EAPs, but still you’ll find lots of improvements and fixes to check

Daily del.icio.us for April 3rd through April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Vinny

Sun’s Six Biggest Mistakes – Forbes.com – In the interest of exploring Sun's value to history students, if not its shareholders, we asked analysts and industry watchers where Sun went wrong.
Protovis – A graphical toolkit for visualization – Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots.
SitePen Blog » Stocker: Advanced Dojo Made Easy – SitePen is excited to announce Stocker, which demonstrates some of the more advanced capabilities of Dojo, including the newly released DataChart, the DataGrid, Data Store, Comet, Persevere, and BorderContainer.
Why baseball benched Microsoft Silverlight | Digital Media – CNET News – The thwacking sounds of bats striking balls will once again fill stadiums, as Monday is opening day for Major League Baseball. This year, Microsoft will watch from the sidelines.
MLB.com no longer uses Microsoft's Silverlight to stream games to its 500,000 subscribers. This season fans will watch live and on-demand video via Adobe's Flash player.
Internal cloud’s big test: Amazon vs. Cloudera | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News – The announcement on Thursday of Amazon's new Hadoop-based Elastic MapReduce service, combined with the introduction of a commercial Hadoop distribution from start-up Cloudera, means that we finally have a reasonable means of watching which directions enterprise IT prefers.
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems – NYTimes.com – After weeks of negotiations, I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.
Digital Domain – Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word – NYTimes.com – The best online word processor, however, may be the one from a tiny company, Zoho, a nimble innovator. Zoho Writer is running close enough to Word to imagine that it and other online word processors will be able to do most everything that Word can do, and more.
Outside the Box() » Ext Core vs. JQuery – Both Ext Core and JQuery are solid, complete base JavaScript libraries. JQuery leans towards simplicity while Ext Core offers enhanced configuration. The choice of which to use will come down to where you are now.
Ext JS – Ext Core 3.0 Beta Released – the Ext Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Ext Core 3.0 beta for download. Ext Core provides a cross-browser consistent API for performing the most common tasks in JavaScript development for web pages. Ext Core is released under a permissive MIT license – there is no cost to use Ext Core – it's free for everyone.
SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around – These days we are inundated with bloated web browsers that overcomplicate our lives. However, there is one eminent exception: IE6. It has been around since 2001 and is still one of the most powerful and versatile browsers available.

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 August 20th through August 26th

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Vinny

Flex Charts with Google Charts and Eastwood Charts – The concept behind Google Chart API (and hence applies to Eastwood Chart Servlet as well) involves providing data for chart generation to the chart provider via HTTP URL parameters and getting an image (PNG) as a response.
How to Integrate Spring 2.x with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) – This post explains how to manage your GWT server-side services with Spring and Spring MVC, and to inject Spring beans into them.
Comet Daily » Blog Archive » Oracle, BEA, and Bayeux – Developers from BEA contributed efforts towards defining the Bayeux protocol, and it’s great to see them ship this update to WebLogic. They also have a tutorial available, Using the HTTP Publish-Subscribe Server, providing detailed information for WebLogic users.
Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Database vendors add Google’s MapReduce – LinuxWorld – Greenplum and Aster Data Systems, two startups involved in large-scale data analysis, announced this week that their products will support MapReduce, a programming technique originally developed by Google for parallel processing of large data sets across commodity hardware
Back To School: Expand Your Brain with Evernote – Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernote to remember everything for the rest of your life–or at least until the end of the semester.
InfoQ: Oracle delivers first new release of the WebLogic App Server since BEA acquisition – Oracle has announced the release of WebLogic Server 10g R3 which is the first release of BEA’s Application Server since its acquisition by Oracle earlier this year. This version adds support for Java SE 6, Spring, Comet, improved Operations Control, FastSwap Deployment and more.
Virtual worlds | If you build it… | Economist.com – Google’s launch of Lively, in July, seemed to have great potential. But in the weeks since it opened its virtual doors, Lively has remained surprisingly lifeless, hosting a dwindling number of users and prompting a string of negative reviews.
Are we ready to declare the “time of death” for the enterprise data center? | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – The traditional data center won’t disappear overnight, but it will almost certainly shrink on a regular basis from now on
Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost – Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1
BlackBerry – BlackBerry Developer Program | BlackBerry Java Development Environment Downloads – The BlackBerry Java Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE) is a fully integrated development environment and simulation tool for building Java Micro Edition (Java ME) applications for Java based BlackBerry smartphones
Home | Spot.us – "Spot Us" is a nonprofit that allows an individual or group to take control of news by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists
Amazon EBS – Elastic Block Store has launched – All Things Distributed – With the launch of the Elastic Block Store we complete an important milestone in offering a complete suite of storage solutions as part of the Amazon Infrastructure Services
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Bring Us Your Data – As of today, the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is now open and available to all EC2 users. EBS gives you persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2
Greg Luck’s WebLog: IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks! – IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week. IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated

Daily del.icio.us for July 27th through August 5th

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Vinny

Ext JS – Ext 2.2 Released – We are pleased to announce the release of Ext 2.2, a fully backwards-compatible maintenance release of Ext. This is a recommended upgrade for all Ext 2.x users as it not only adds many new components and examples, but also provides a host of important bug
InfoQ: FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application – FxStruts is a free open source library that provides the same functionality as bean:write except that the output is in AMF or XML format. Simply point it to any plain Java object and you get Flex friendly AMF or XML output with ActionErrors and transactio
Best enterprise open-source applications announced | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News.com – Infoworld does an annual review of the best enterprise open-source applications, called the BOSSies, and just announced the 2008 winners. An Infoworld editorial team makes the selections, so this isn't a matter of open-source projects rallying the troops
My experience of coding a GWT webapp (~900 classes, ~20 GWT modules) – Google Web Toolkit | Google Groups – We put our GWT-based job site (http://www.careercommons.com) in production on Monday. This is a summary of my experience coding the whole thing in GWT. Not sure how useful this is for other people, but here it goes:
Adam Bien’s Weblog : Useful Explanation: “iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?”, Strange Conclusion – iBatis is the most powerful, but not that simple. It comes with highest amount of XML-configuration, which has to be maintained during the whole lifecycle
Greg Luck’s WebLog: RESTful, resource-oriented caching now available in ehcache-server – I have just released ehcache-server-0.3, which includes a fully functional RESTful, resource-oriented implementation. The standalone-server has also been updated to 0.3.
Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality – When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does.
Alex Miller – Java 7 Prediction Update – I just realized due to a forum thread that it’s been about 7 months since I posted my Java 7 Predictions. So, it seems like a good time to update those predictions
Neil Peart – Neil Peart’s Top 10-Plus Fills – One of the reasons Neil Peart is so popular with other drummers is his creativity and how he approaches his fills.
Lightstreamer on Firefox 3 – In this video I will show the seamless behavior of the "engine migration mechanism". Then, I will increase the number of tabs concurrently displaying real-time data. I will stop at 10 tabs, due to the CPU consumption of the screen recording software.
Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter or personal transporter, intended to help people move about in public areas. Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the navigation system of Segway
Case Study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop (Part 1) | Architects Zone – We found the evidence by using tools, most importantly: JMeter for load testing, JAMon for performance monitoring and JARep for performance reporting. With JMeter we can simulate user behavior and put a realistic load on the system. The JMeter test should
Raible Designs | [OSCON 2008] Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails – Below is the presentation I'm delivering at OSCON today. Unfortunately, I had to remove slides on GWT and Flex to fit w/in the 45 minute time limit.
Linux News: Applications: With New Alfresco App, Enterprise Content Management Takes the OSS Road – Alfresco Software announced Thursday the availability of Alfresco Labs version 3, an open source alternative to Microsoft's enterprise content management
SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FD | IR Web Report – UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today
zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever. – Our mission with ØMQ ("ZeroMQ") is to build the fastest messaging ever. The way to get performance is to optimise the whole software and hardware stack together. So, we are developing ØMQ closely with major hardware firms
iamdeepa on flex » Blog Archive » Where did the FlexBuilder Advanced Constraints UI go? – For Flex 3, the Advanced Constraints feature introduces the concept of ConstraintColumn and ConstraintRow objects that can be used to partition up absolute positioning containers. We broadened the constraint syntax to allow for controls to be constrained

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