- The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 – JRuby – Codehaus – JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby
- Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 – I’ve been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months.
- Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application – Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn’t just a simple “me too” port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java.
- Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress – Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you
- Dave Woods – HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 – CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained – In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs.
- Firefox DataAnalytics Help center – DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price?
- Anyterm – SSH via web – Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert – from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access
- Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 – Java World – In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations.
- Sun To Acquire MySQL – Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say “Data is the Intel Inside” of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0
- Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs – An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won’t need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.
- Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers – “JasperReports for Java Developers” proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners
- GWT vs. FLEX – This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies.
- The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer – Forrester Research – Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard
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Daily del.icio.us for January 16th
- antennae – Google Code – Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te
- Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
- ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex – PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It’s easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it’s very powerful, it’s not very friendly
- InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 – This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E
- InfoQ: Why Scala? – Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
- Ian’s Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java – Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala
Daily del.icio.us for January 3rd
Daily del.icio.us for for January 3rd:
- A Gentle Introduction to SQL – Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Deploying Distributed J2EE Applications Using Amazon EC2 – How do you configure your Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) servers to offer the scalability of Amazon EC2 to your applications? This tutorial explains the basic procedures for using Amazon EC2 to deploy distributed J2EE applications.
- redhat.com | Cloud Computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a web-scale virtual computing environment powered by Amazon Web Services
- InfoQ: Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology – Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architecture with Java Technology. Sun’s target architecture is a composite application platform which is
- Ajaxian » Cool and useful GWT Solutions – David Geary and Rob Gordon have launched a companion Website to their book on GWT. The website uses GWT itself of course, and the most interesting section is the example code that they have made available:
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org) – For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007. After you’re done with these, try the lists from 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Daily del.icio.us for Aug 25, 2007
- James Duncan Davidson ? Remembering Java Naming Blunders Past – The value of a brand is created by the public that uses it, not by the company that owns it. Brands are funny things. They make us choose products out of a sense of comfort instead of an honest evaluation.
- Raible Designs | Display Tag 1.1.1 Released – Display Tag version 1.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release
- Java.net – Unified Expression Language for JSP and JSF – This article looks at the unified expression language (EL), which has been added to the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification in order to overcome problems when integrating the JavaServer Pages (JSP) EL with the JavaServer Faces EL.
- Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: Summary of New Features in JSP 2.1 Technology – The expert groups have worked together on the upcoming releases of JSP 2.1 and JavaServer Faces 1.2 technologies in Java EE 5 to fix these integration issues and make sure that the two technologies work together seamlessly.
- jmockit: Project Home Page – JMockit consists of a single class with a small set of static methods, which allow arbitrary methods and constructors of any other class to be replaced by mock implementations at runtime.
- Mock Objects: Shortcomings and Use Cases – This article looks at Mock Objects, a testing technique from the XP community that offers a way to test our code in isolation by simulating those external dependencies. As with any other tool, we need to be careful and avoid overusing them.
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor – Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor, created in collaboration with WebAssist, makes it drop-dead easy to create standards-compliant, two- and three-column CSS layouts and includes 30 of the most common web page layouts, coded the way Eric Meyer would code them.
- IT Efforts: Struts2 + Spring + JUnit – Hopefully this entry serves as some search engine friendly documentation on how one might unit test Struts 2 actions configured using Spring
- InfoQ: The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software Development – This article stands as a reminder that the Agile approach already offers many learning practices and mechanisms ? are they all being used to best advantage, to serve your team and your business?
- XFire Creator Joins MuleSource – Diephouse is the creator of XFire, the high performance open source SOAP framework. He joined MuleSource as the software architect focused on expanding Mule’s web services capabilities.
- Introduction To iBatis – This tutorial will focus on using iBatis in a Java application and Abator, a code generation tool
- Spring Web Services 1.0 Released | Springframework.org – After two years of development, we are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 is now available. Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on the creation of document-driven, contract-first web services.
Daily del.icio.us for Aug 21, 2007 through Aug 25, 2007
- James Duncan Davidson ? Remembering Java Naming Blunders Past – The value of a brand is created by the public that uses it, not by the company that owns it. Brands are funny things. They make us choose products out of a sense of comfort instead of an honest evaluation.
- Raible Designs | Display Tag 1.1.1 Released – Display Tag version 1.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release
- Java.net – Unified Expression Language for JSP and JSF – This article looks at the unified expression language (EL), which has been added to the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification in order to overcome problems when integrating the JavaServer Pages (JSP) EL with the JavaServer Faces EL.
- Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: Summary of New Features in JSP 2.1 Technology – The expert groups have worked together on the upcoming releases of JSP 2.1 and JavaServer Faces 1.2 technologies in Java EE 5 to fix these integration issues and make sure that the two technologies work together seamlessly.
- jmockit: Project Home Page – JMockit consists of a single class with a small set of static methods, which allow arbitrary methods and constructors of any other class to be replaced by mock implementations at runtime.
- Mock Objects: Shortcomings and Use Cases – This article looks at Mock Objects, a testing technique from the XP community that offers a way to test our code in isolation by simulating those external dependencies. As with any other tool, we need to be careful and avoid overusing them.
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor – Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor, created in collaboration with WebAssist, makes it drop-dead easy to create standards-compliant, two- and three-column CSS layouts and includes 30 of the most common web page layouts, coded the way Eric Meyer would code them.
- IT Efforts: Struts2 + Spring + JUnit – Hopefully this entry serves as some search engine friendly documentation on how one might unit test Struts 2 actions configured using Spring
- InfoQ: The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software Development – This article stands as a reminder that the Agile approach already offers many learning practices and mechanisms ? are they all being used to best advantage, to serve your team and your business?
- XFire Creator Joins MuleSource – Diephouse is the creator of XFire, the high performance open source SOAP framework. He joined MuleSource as the software architect focused on expanding Mule’s web services capabilities.
- Introduction To iBatis – This tutorial will focus on using iBatis in a Java application and Abator, a code generation tool
- Spring Web Services 1.0 Released | Springframework.org – After two years of development, we are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 is now available. Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on the creation of document-driven, contract-first web services.
- Struts2 Tutorials – Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework, from all-purpose “soup to nuts” tutorials to specialty tutorials on portlets and database access.
- GnilronEye 1.1, system monitoring solution, released – GnilronEye 1.1, a java-based system monitoring solution, is now available for download. GnilronEye 1.1 introduces an advanced http-monitoring feature and a new report feature that include sgraphs of the monitored items.
- A CSS styled table version 2 | Veerle’s blog – In 2005 I wrote an article about styling a table with CSS. After receiving so many requests I finally decided to give in and write another tutorial.
Daily del.icio.us for Aug 16, 2007 through Aug 21, 2007
- Struts2 Tutorials – Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework, from all-purpose “soup to nuts” tutorials to specialty tutorials on portlets and database access.
- GnilronEye 1.1, system monitoring solution, released – GnilronEye 1.1, a java-based system monitoring solution, is now available for download. GnilronEye 1.1 introduces an advanced http-monitoring feature and a new report feature that include sgraphs of the monitored items.
- A CSS styled table version 2 | Veerle’s blog – In 2005 I wrote an article about styling a table with CSS. After receiving so many requests I finally decided to give in and write another tutorial.
- Scrollovers – A New Way of Linking – Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren’t expecting.
- Death by numbers – Los Angeles Times – We’re obssessed with plane crashes and bridge collapses, yet we pay little attention to the stuff that kills the rest of us.
- Sun set on server business? | Open Source | ZDNet.com – In all the hullaballoo over Sun?s agreement to support Solaris 10 on IBM hardware I have yet to read one obvious fact. This is part of Sun?s exit strategy from the server business.
- Ajaxian » YUI Compressor: The latest minification tool – The YUI Compressor is a new JavaScript minifier. Its level of compaction is higher than the Dojo compressor, and it is as safe as JSMin. Tests on the YUI library have shown savings of about 18% compared to JSMin and 10% compared to the Dojo compressor
- Tutorials – Using Java Persistence API Within a Visual Web Application – Using NetBeans IDE 6.0 and the Visual Web tools, you can write applications that connect to database tables using the Java Persistence API (JPA) in addition to the Visual Web data provider components.
- Enterprise Java Community: Manage test data for integration tests using Spring and DBunit – This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import test data in the database using DBunit.
- How to Get the Best Performance Out of a Java Persistence Implementation : Enterprise Tech Tips – If you are switching over to the Java Persistence API, be aware of the numerous options and decisions you have to make to boost your application’s performance. From Cache size, Pools to modes of operation, Rahul Biswas takes you through the steps. (via Th
- Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate – The first release candidate of Prototype 1.6.0 has arrived! The core team is continuing its tradition of bringing thoughtful incremental upgrades to the core APIs in addition to performance improvements and bug fixes. Keep reading for some of the highligh
- Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com – Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare?s huge IPO pop.
Daily del.icio.us for May 13, 2007 through May 17, 2007
- Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart – Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart
- Ajaxian – Slider.js – Prototype based Carousel – Bruno Bornsztein has created Slider.js, a carousel widget that flips between content, based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us.
- techno.blog(“Dion”): I’m a Ruby on Rails – You know that the Mac ad campaign is doing well when you get parodies left right and center. The latest is Rails vs. Java. It is of course gratuitous and silly…. but it’s fun 🙂
- Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog – In essence, we decided to innovate, not litigate.
- Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents – May 28, 2007 – So if Microsoft ever sued Red Hat for patent infringement, OIN might sue Microsoft in retaliation, trying to enjoin distribution of Windows. It’s a cold war, and what keeps the peace is the threat of mutually assured destruction: patent Armageddon
- Ajaxian – Rich Text Controls: Tiny MCE 2.1.1 and Control.TextArea – Ryan Johnson has created a new control: Control.TextArea. This is a very different tool, as it isn’t about WYSIWYG functionality, but rather building toolbar based text areas that wrap simple text.
Daily del.icio.us for May 09, 2007 through May 11, 2007
- XML.com: XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1 – Javolution and Woodstox are the winners of the StAX parsers. Woodstox has the advantage of being JSR 173 conforming StAX parser, which makes it usable for more applications.
- Google AJAX Search API Blog: Introducing the AJAX Feed API FeedControl – This morning we added a new class to the Google AJAX Feed API designed to allow you to more easily add a collection of feeds to your pages. The FeedControl is pretty simple:
- Java FX – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Java FX is a new extension to Java that gives developers a consistent experience for building rich web/desktop apps all the way down to to handheld device applications with Interactivity, animation and ease of use that rivals Ajax, Flash and Silverlight
- JavaOne 2007, Day One: Making Web Apps Easy – Today, JavaOne 2007 showcased a complete open source technology stack that lets you develop and deploy web applications quickly and easily, including JRuby, Rails, NetBeans, and Glassfish.
- Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java | CNET News.com – "Javafx should be the sweet spot for Java. It’s kind of tragic that Sun screwed up so badly with the applet performance and browser incompatibility in the late 1990s," said Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton Group. "JavaFX Script has an oppor
- Sun’s JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight | InfoWorld | News | 2007-05-07 | By Paul Krill – JavaFX Script is a scripting language focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd. It is a means of creating visually impactful, high-performance, dramatic Web and network-facing artifacts or experiences that run all the way from the deskt
Daily del.icio.us for Mar 19, 2007 through Mar 20, 2007
- OpenLaszlo 4.0 Released | OpenLaszlo – OpenLaszlo 4.0 is the industry?s first and only RIA platform to support the development and delivery of applications in both Ajax and Flash®, all from a single code base
- Only Ubuntu Linux: Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) – Ubuntu 7.04 is the current development version of the Ubuntu operating system. It is to be released in April 19th 2007. We can Use Two methods to upgrade Ubuntu Edgy to Ubuntu Feisty 1) Using GUI 2) Using apt-get
- Adobe Labs – Apollo – Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to t
- Introducing the Java Pet Store 2.0 Application – Creating a Web 2.0 web application with Ajax, a technology that includes but is not limited to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, for seamless data interaction is a complex undertaking
- The Real Lesson of Flex – In addition to being a rich-client development toolkit that targets the Flash virtual machine, an interesting aspect of Flex is that it relies on code-generation to reduce the amount of code a developer has to write by hand
Daily del.icio.us for Mar 09, 2007 through Mar 10, 2007
- Ajaxian – Compressed versions of Prototype – John-David Dalton has spent some time compressing Prototype in a couple of ways to keep your download time to a minimum.
- jsjuicer – jsjuicer is a free tool for safely reducing the size of your JavaScript files. Reducing the size and number of the JavaScript files included in a web page will enable it to load faster
- SDN Channel – Spotlight on Open Source – Did you know that Sun contributes more than $200 million per year of intellectual property to the open source movement, in dozens of open source projects? The company?s historical contribution tops $2 billion (Kudos to Sun)
- www.hungtang.com – Java and IDEA: deadly tandem – I have been doing Java development for about 6 years now. It?s amazing to think that I have stuck with it for this long but I strongly believe Intellij IDEA has a lot to do with my seemingly never-ending devotion. Simply put, this product rocks?just l
- FiveRuns – Web 2.0 Systems Management – FiveRuns makes monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting the behavior of critical business systems painless.
- A Roundup for “Developers, Developers, Developers…” – So, I decided to make a compilation of products that developers may find useful. There?s a little bit of everything in here – some are still in private beta, but still worth mentioning
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