Stevey’s Blog Rants: Code’s Worst Enemy – Bill Gates, Dave Thomas, Martin Fowler and James Duncan Davidson have independently reached the same conclusion: namely, that bloat is the worst thing that can happen to code. But they all got there via painful things happening to them.
coding, by Derek Young: Java coding decisions I struggle with – Little coding decisions come up again and again with any project, and they?re not new. You?ll write code more efficiently if you think about these decisions and decide The Right Way to solve them
Farata Systems » A dozen of 2008 predictions – The year of 2007 was a good one. The IT job market was stable. While there were no any revolutionary changes in the ways software was developed, I believe that this was a year of rich Internet applications and Web 2.0. What?s the next big thing in IT?
Ext JS Blog – » Ext Rises in Popularity – The exciting news is that the Ext framework, for the first time, was added to the list and in it?s first year demonstrated it?s popularity. Of the 2,619 respondents, 22.5% were using the Ext framework ranking it 3rd overall.
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204204063 – By leveraging predictive analytics and pattern analysis technologies, financial services firms are able to understand their customers, their operations and their markets in greater detail. Perhaps more important, they are able to identify and react to tre
Apache CXF: Interview with Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – I recently had a chance to sit down with both Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown of Envoi Solutions to discuss the merger of XFire and IONA?s Celtix project into a new project, Apache CXF, currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.
Easy Ajax using Struts 2 – Kb – Struts 2 makes it easy to implement and test an Ajax Java Web application, using standard javascript frameworks such as Prototype. This wiki article gives technical notes on how to kickstart your Ajax Java development.
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally « – Let?s look at 12 ways Facebook can benefit the web worker, particularly those who are home-based. The more connected you are to your co-workers and clients without being intrusive, the better your working relationship.
Agile Ajax: Review of GWT in Action – The book does cover many of the new features in GWT 1.4, such as Image Bundling, the new loading mechanism, and the Serializable vs IsSerializable changes. As I’ve said, overall a fine effort.
Web page to PDF Firefox extension – LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software
InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate – ETags are used in conjunction with the “If-None-Match” header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed.
InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA – To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA.
How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta – Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a ‘content’ perspective leads to the Baconian ‘A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties’; … These two positions are polar opposites
Json-lib 2.0 released – I’m pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans
Web page to PDF Firefox extension – LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software
InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate – ETags are used in conjunction with the “If-None-Match” header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed.
InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA – To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA.
How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta – Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a ‘content’ perspective leads to the Baconian ‘A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties’; … These two positions are polar opposites
Json-lib 2.0 released – I’m pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans
Active Directory Explorer v1.0 – Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can it to navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit etc.
Getting Started with ICEfaces in WebLogic Workshop – ICEsoft’s ICEfaces framework provides a way to Ajax-enable standard JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications without writing custom client-side Javascript code
