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Links for April 30th

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Vinny

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• Responsive Data Tables | CSS-Tricks – Responsive design is all about adjusting designs to accomodate screens of different sizes. So what happens when a screen is narrower than the minimum width of a data table?
• Sencha Ext JS / Touch and Ruby on Rails component framework – Overview – Netzke is an elegant and powerful architectural solution to several known problems that accompany development of complex AJAX-driven RIA (Rich Internet Applications). No matter how complex your application is, Netzke will help you keep your code maintainable and clean.
• ExtJS/Rails CRUD Application in 7 Minutes – WriteLessCode – This post will lead you through simple steps of creating a task manager web application with Ext JS, Ruby on Rails, and Netzke.
• InfoQ: Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study – Nanjangud C Narendra presents a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman's laws of software evolution, along with observations on Agile practices used and their outcome.
• Gwt EventBus (HandlerManager) the easy way – With the event bus you are able to decouple the components and remove all the logic to deliver events. In fact you have a common bus where you can put events and forget about them
• This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language – This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language
• Bozho’s tech blog » Those evil frameworks and their complexity – Frameworks are there to ease development, not to make it more complex. They introduce initial complexity, but the good ones fix the complexity to a relatively-low level afterwards.

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Daily del.icio.us for November 18th through November 22nd

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Vinny

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• InfoQ: Pressure and Performance – The CTO’s Dilemma – In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann during Agile 2008, Diana Larsen and Jim Shore talk about patterns observed in CTOs' activity. CTOs emerge as real people caring for other people in their organization, and are put under a lot of pressure and constraints.
• Apple – iPhone – iPhone Your Life – Once you own an iPhone, you discover that it’s more than a phone. It’s a way of life. Take a look at some ideas to help you get the most out of your iPhone, wherever you go.
• JavaScript Table Sorter – Web Development Blog – This JavaScript table sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7KB. It includes alternate row formatting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition and selective column sorting. It will currently sort strings, numbers and currency
• JavaScript Table Sorter | Ajaxonomy – This JavaScript table sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7KB. It includes alternate row formatting, header class toggling, auto data type recognition and selective column sorting. It will currently sort strings, numbers and currency.
• Tour de Flex | Flex.org – Rich Internet Application Development – Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more
• Explore over 200 Flex and AIR samples with the new Tour de Flex application – AIR – James Ward announced a new desktop application powered by Adobe AIR called Tour de Flex exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more. James has been working on this project along with fellow Adobe employees Christophe Coenraets, Greg Wilson and others.
• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google – Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google
• Ext JS – Ext CDN – Custom Builds, Compression, and Fast Performance – We are pleased to announce that Ext has partnered with CacheFly, a global content network, to provide free CDN hosting for the Ext JS framework. Cachefly’s globally distributed network and aggressive caching accelerate the delivery of web content like JavaScript and CSS, making for an even faster Ext experience.
• WTFramework bookmarklet – Oskar Krawczyk – blog.olicio.us – Ever wondered which JavaScript framework was used on a specific website but was too lazy to check the source code for the answer? Fear no more WTFramework is here.
• JCS – Java Caching System – JCS is a distributed caching system written in java. It is intended to speed up applications by providing a means to manage cached data of various dynamic natures. Like any caching system, JCS is most useful for high read, low put applications. Latency times drop sharply and bottlenecks move away from the database in an effectively cached system

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 21, 2007 through Aug 25, 2007

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Vinny

• 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

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Vinny

• 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 Jun 01, 2007 through Jun 02, 2007

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Vinny

• Google kicks offline Web apps into gear | CNET News.com – The goal of Google Gears is to create a single, standardized way to add offline capabilities to Web applications. The initial code is aimed at JavaScript Ajax-style Web applications. It runs on IE & Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
• How to build the world’s best paper planes | Lifeandhealth | Life and Health – Get designs for the world’s best paper planes plus tips from aviation experts on how to make them fly faster and longer
• Christophe Coenraets » Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears – The demo is a Flex-based Sales Force Automation application that uses Gears to save data to a local SQLite database while offline, and automatically synchronizes back with the server when you reconnect to the network.
• BEA WebLogic Event Server, First and only Java container for high-performance, event-driven applications – BEA WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java container for high-performance event-driven applications
• It’s Still the Latency, Stupid…pt.1 – If you think bandwidth is the only thing affecting your network speed, think again. As pipes get bigger, latency becomes the real bottleneck. This article discusses network latency, how to measure it, why its important, and how to plan for it. Complex con
• Fedora 7 released – You can find a tour filled with pictures and videos of this exciting new release of Fedora 7. This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies
• TableKit – TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.

Daily del.icio.us for May 31, 2007 through Jun 01, 2007

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Vinny

• BEA WebLogic Event Server, First and only Java container for high-performance, event-driven applications – BEA WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java container for high-performance event-driven applications
• It’s Still the Latency, Stupid…pt.1 – If you think bandwidth is the only thing affecting your network speed, think again. As pipes get bigger, latency becomes the real bottleneck. This article discusses network latency, how to measure it, why its important, and how to plan for it. Complex con
• Fedora 7 released – You can find a tour filled with pictures and videos of this exciting new release of Fedora 7. This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies
• TableKit – TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.
• Google Gears API Developer’s Guide (Beta) – Architecture – During development of Gears, we experimented with many different architectures for offline-enabled web applications. In this document we briefly look at some of them and explore their advantages and disadvantages.
• InfoQ: A Wicket User Revisits JSF – Peter recently took a 2nd look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. The evaluation was prompted by his recent writing on migrating from Spring MVC / Webflow to Wicket.
• Google Gears – Enabling Offline Web Applications – Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

Daily del.icio.us for Mar 05, 2007 through Mar 06, 2007

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Vinny

• Coding Horror: Reducing Your Website’s Bandwidth Usage – What can we do to reduce a website’s bandwidth usage?
• Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Building a Struts-Based Web Application on Amazon S3 – This article provides a tutorial on integrating the Amazon S3 REST API for Java with the Struts web application framework to create a web management user interface to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
• mxGraph – JavaScript library for diagrams – mxGraph is a Javascript library that uses built-in browser capabilities to provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution.
• AJAX Magazine: Why Can Google Not Eat Its Dogfood, While Yahoo and Microsoft Do? – What’s surprising is that Google is not using GWT for its critical online service, which almost all of them are AJAX-based or have AJAX veneer: GMail, GMaps, GReader, GDocs, GSpreadsheet, GAJAX-Search, GFinance, GHomePage, … none of them use GWT! The qu
• Ten Javascript Tools Everyone Should Have – Javascript frameworks have exploded on the scene over the last few years but they’re no replacement for a good toolbox: those little snippets of code you seem to include in every single project. Here’s my list of 10 essential Javascript tools everyone sho
• 0xCAFEBABE – Securing Spring WS Client with XWSS – In this post, I will show you how I used XWSS to add WS-Security support to web services invocations. I used XWSS 2.0 from jwsdp-2.0. I had to add xmlsec.jar from the jwsdp-shared/lib in order for the example to work.
• Tableless forms – Another nice CSS stylesheet for styling forms without tables
• Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot « //engtech – Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot
• Starbucks’ ‘venti’ problem – Los Angeles Times – Time and again in recent years, we’ve seen small, cutting-edge and quirky brands gain critical mass ? only to lose their charm and customer appeal after they engage in breakneck expansion.
• When is Scrum not Scrum? (Agile Advice) – Tobias mentions that one must insist on agile engineering practices when doing Scrum. There are two problems with this.
• Agile Thoughts » Blog Archive » When is Scrum not Scrum? – I teach what I know works and what I see as being appropriate; there are slight differences in each context of course, but there are certain practices I have found to be effective, all of which differ from standard Scrum practices
• coded ruminations – Selling Agile, a Smell? – The use of Agile must be adopted using an iterative incremental approach – a nimble approach – an Agile approach. Agile is not to be sold, it is to be used.