Daily del.icio.us for Oct 16, 2007 through Oct 20, 2007

Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2007 through Oct 05, 2007

  • Icahn further raises BEA stake to 13.22 percent | News | Mergers/Acquisitions | Reuters – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn further boosted his stake in BEA Systems Inc (BEAS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to 13.22 percent, according to a regulatory filing.
  • If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call [dive into mark] – Buy it for what it is, or don?t buy it at all. Your choices don?t get any more granular than that. Apple has been unwaveringly clear that the iPhone is theirs.
  • Adobe – Developer Center : What’s new in Flex 3 Beta 2 – this article has been updated throughout to reflect Flex 3 Beta 2. However, you can see a summary of interesting changes near the bottom of this article.
  • Technology Review: Gibson’s Self-Tuning Guitar – A new line of instruments from Gibson Guitar now promises to banish this scenario to the dark ages with high-tech self-tuning technology built into the company’s flagship electric-guitar models.
  • Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT Application Development for the iPhone – In our not-so-humble opinions, we think that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and the Apple iPhone are two very cool technologies. Our approach was to build an application that primarily targets the iPhone and to use that as a test-bed for new ideas.
  • IntelliJ IDEA Plugins Contest – IntelliJ IDEA has inspired many Java developers to write plug-ins from J2EE and code editing tools to games. Now it has a robust plugin ecosystem with 413 available plugins and new ones appearing nearly every week
  • Redirect after POST filter – RedirectAfterPostFilter lets you easily implement Redirect after POST pattern in your web applications. You can map this filter to your controllers processing POST requests and after the processing filter will redirect the original request to the url
  • Caching Solutions in Java – Even though caching improves performance and makes your architecture work, it can, in fact, complicate design and introduce such complexities as concurrent code and cluster-wide synchronization.
  • Daemon : Procrun – Daemon – Procrun is a set of libraries and applications for making Java applications to run as Windows services. It can convert any application to run as a service.
  • The Connector released for Microsoft Project / JIRA Integration – The Connector allows users of JIRA to use Microsoft Project for doing planning and scheduling and provides an easy way to synchronize the information in Microsoft Project with the issues in JIRA