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Daily del.icio.us for January 20th through January 21st
- GWT 2.1 Editors – tbroyer’s posterous – GWT 2.1 is advertized as providing "a framework for business apps", and one of the included features is the Editor framework, which provides data binding between bean-like objects and UI fields
- News Desk: Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google? : The New Yorker – Schmidt leaves behind an extraordinary company, and one that, despite the fact that Facebook is the flavor of the month or year, is producing annual revenues of close to thirty billion dollars
- Countdown to Ext JS 4: Dynamic Loading and New Class System – Sencha – Blog – The new class system is the basis of a massively enhanced framework for Ext JS 4. Every important class in the framework has been upgraded to be faster, more robust and easier to develop with.
- Getting Started with AWS Elastic Beanstalk | blog.teamextension.com – Amazon has recently introduced AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Here’s a quick walk-through on how to deploy your very first AWS Elastic Beanstalk web application using Eclipse.
- Blog of Dmitry Buzdin: Is Java Reflection Really Slow? – The conclusion is that on modern server infrastructure with proper JVM settings we should not be worried about Refelction performance too much. Another conclusion is that going in the direction of direct bytecode manipulation such as CGLib FastMethod will not bring a tremendous difference in performance, but will add dependencies and complexity to your project
- Selenium Load Testing and Monitoring Webinar – Using Selenium to build test scripts does not have to be difficult with the right knowledge, techniques and methodology.
- InfoQ: What’s New in Spring Integration 2.0? – Mark Fisher and Oleg Zhurakousky present what’s new in Spring Integration 2: Sprint 3 features used, enterprise integration patterns, channel adapters, tooling support, and what lies beyond 2.0.
- dzone.com – Java in the cloud: Amazon joins the party – Amazon announced today its Elastic Beanstalk offering, essentially providing Java in the cloud. This is great news as it reinforces the message that the future of Java is in the cloud, not on premise.
- Home – Browserscope – Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers
- Build an App with Ext GWT DataProxies – Sencha – Blog – This article has demonstrated the different types of Ext GWT DataProxies and stepped through example code for HttpProxy, RpcProxy, and ScriptTagProxy.
Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 19th
- Introducing App Engine for Business – Google App Engine – Google Code – App Engine for Business enables you to build your enterprise applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. App Engine for Business provides all the ease of use and flexibility of App Engine with more power to manage enterprise use cases, more capable APIs, straightforward pricing and the SLAs and support you need for business-critical applications.
- Google Storage for Developers – Google Code – Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilitie
- Google Code Blog: Enabling Cloud Portability with Google App Engine for Business and VMware – New data presentation widgets in Google Web Toolkit speed development of traditional enterprise applications, increase performance and interactivity for enterprise users, and make it much easier to create engaging mobile apps with a fraction of the investment previously required.
- Official Google Blog: Google I/O 2010 Day 1: A more powerful web in more places – This week we’ll celebrate this ongoing evolution of the web and share some of our latest work in moving the web forward and keeping it open.
- Expanding the Cloud – Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage – All Things Distributed – Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy
- Five JavaScript Frameworks Comparison | TechnoForum – Ext JS is emerging as an “industry-strength” framework and is being increasingly used in the enterprise. Ext JS also supports a robust client-side data model and support for component model and design patterns.
- Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing | ZDNet – Given Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5 and its existing Google Voice service, the search giant appears to be collecting enough assets to give Skype and others competition on the consumer and business fronts. GIPS’s software can also be layered into Google Apps in multiple areas as a business collaboration tool.
- Marco.org – The iPad doesn’t need to do everything – Find the balance: use the iPad for what it does well, accept that it won’t be everything, and use other tools for the rest.
- Amazon Stealing the Cloud « SmoothSpan Blog – It’s still relatively early days, but Amazon’s competitors need to rev up pretty soon. Amazon is stealing the Cloud at an ever-increasing rate.
- Foursquare Growing Like Crazy: Up To 600,000 Check-Ins Per Day – Foursquare, the hot mobile "check-in" app, has basically doubled in usage over the last two months
- Querydsl – Querydsl – Mysema Source – Querydsl is a framework which enables the construction of type-safe SQL-like queries. Instead of writing queries as inline strings or externalizing them into XML files they aren be constructed via a fluent API like Querydsl.
- The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Enemy Within – THE CYBER-SECURITY ELITES OF THE WORLD HAVE JOINED FORCES IN A HIGH-TECH GAME OF COPS AND ROBBERS, TRYING TO FIND CONFICKER’S CREATORS AND DEFEAT THEM. THE COPS ARE FAILING. AND NOW THE WORM LIES THERE, WAITING …
- Bill Maher Thinks The Government Would Work Better If It Was Run By Apple – “If we wanted a president that didn’t understand gizmos and doohickeys,” Maher reminded the President, America would have elected McCain and Palin. “McCain thinks an iPad is something women wear on their Xboxes once a month.”
Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 24th
- The CodeWrights Tale: Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, and Optimism – “Why this is so was primarily crystallized for me by Alistair Cockburn who explained that since people are the central element in software development, and people are inherently non-linear and unpredictable – such an effort is fundamentally doomed.”
- Spring 3.0: REST services with Spring MVC « oudmaijer.com | – Spring 3.0 has support for REST style WebServices, the Spring MVC controllers facilitate the functionality. In this example I will show an example of how to implement a basic REST service that uses XML marshalling to sent information over HTTP
- Use Apache Wink with the Jackson JSON processor – Apache Wink is fast becoming one of the de facto implementations of the JAX-RS 1.0 specification. The providers included with the standard Apache Wink distribution for JSON marshalling and unmarshalling, such as JSON.org and Jettison
- InfoQ: From Agile Development to Agile Operations – Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, reflecting on how cloud computing affects the relationship between development and operations, suggesting goals that help bridging these two worlds together, and proposing an integrated approach to application design, development and operations.
- IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, is now available with a significant number of improvements in addition to a great deal of fixes.
- Implementation Spotlight: Zipwhip and Ext JS — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – Ext JS is a set of design patterns and object models that naturally fit into application development. We continually reach inside the Ext JS treasure box when developing new functionality and find that most of the hard engineering has already been done
- Ehcache – Web Caching – Ehcache provides a set of general purpose web caching filters in the ehcache-web module. Using these can make an amazing difference to web application performance. A typical server can deliver 5000+ pages per second from the page cache. With built-in gzipping, storage and network transmission is highly efficient.
- sardine – Project Hosting on Google Code – Sardine is useful for interacting with a webdav server and is much easier to programmatically manage remote files than with FTP. Sardine is focused on being a useful library for common use cases. I also need it to support the latest version of HttpClient. It abstracts away the connection details and provides easy to use methods to accomplish webdav'y actions.
- WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House – As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications
- gxt-interfaces – A thin layer of interfaces on top of GXT, for the purpose of testing and mocking – This is a thin layer of interfaces and simple implementations that sits on top of the GXT framework. The main purpose is to provide a simple way of creating code that is completely testable and mockable via mocking frameworks
Daily del.icio.us for April 6th through April 7th
- Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015 – Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015
- Cappuccino Web Framework – Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript – Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.
- Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally – Google never commented on how they might use Gizmo5’s technology. But we’ve confirmed that they have now built a Google Voice desktop application to make and receive calls. From a user perspective, this will let Google Voice users take calls right from their desktop
- JIRA 4.1 – Easier and faster issue tracking – JIRA Product Blog – I'm excited to announce the general availability of JIRA 4.1. This release is packed with improvements making your everyday interactions with JIRA easier and faster.
- Rich Internet Application Screen Design | UX Magazine – This article will outline the process we use to create rich applications, focusing primarily on screen design. All of the content is geared specifically toward productivity applications like Software as a Service (SaaS) products and Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs
- Object Computing, Inc. – Exploring Google Guava – Google recently announced the public availability of Guava, a Java utility library previously available only internally at Google. Guava provides building blocks that build on the existing Java libraries and result in productivity aids for Java programmers
- Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.7 RC1: Sizzle, layout/dimensions API, event delegation, and more – We've just tagged the first release candidate of Prototype 1.7: a major new version with some major new features.
- GWT—An Important Java Technology: Features, Future and Wishes | Javalobby – The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has become one of the most important Java technologies, as it gives it a credible web platform strategy.
- Java’s more relevant than you think. – With syntax being relevant for a mass-market language, and a runtime that’s tuned well enough that a lot of these languages use it as an operating environment – Java’s not only relevant, it’s important.
- hamcrest – Library of matchers for building test expressions – Provides a library of matcher objects (also known as constraints or predicates) allowing 'match' rules to be defined declaratively, to be used in other frameworks. Typical scenarios include testing frameworks, mocking libraries and UI validation rules.
- scalr – Scalr is software that scales your website infrastructure for you. Using EC2 and Cloud Computing. – Scalr is a tool that helps your website or web application grow to millions of users with little work. It provisions new servers on-the-fly to handle spikes in demand, and decommissions them when no longer needed to lower cost. It scales every component of your architecture, so you never have to.
Daily del.icio.us for March 20th through March 22nd
- Adobe debuts Flash Platform tools, including renamed Flex Builder – Yahoo! News – Adobe Systems will roll out on Monday a slew of development tools and technologies for the Flash Platform, including a renamed version of its Flex Builder tool as well as an IDE for its ColdFusion platform
- Scaling writes in MySQL – Coincidentally, during Michael Jackson's memorial service, we actually did hit an incoming rate of a little over 8000 records per second for a few hours.
- Google Web Toolkit Blog: The enterprise (apps) in your pocket – Modern mobile phones such Android based devices and the iPhone ship will powerful web browsers which use the same Webkit rendering engine which GWT already supports and increasingly includes great capabilities like geo-location and offline storag
- Comparing Memcache and Ehcache Server Performance « Greg Luck’s Blog – I already knew that Ehcache in-process was around 1,000 times faster than Memcache. But what would the over-the-network comparison be
- no stack trace – /dev/notes – Maybe I’ve been wrong about Javascript – With frameworks like Ext available, the choice of doing a full application RIA-style on the client becomes not just reasonable but quite a compelling option.
- Google Working Toward "Write Once, Run Anywhere" Native Web Apps | Web Builder Zone – Google NaCl is still in the prototype stage with more significant features in the works along with PNaCl (Portable Native Client). The Portable NaCL variation, Google said, will be able to recognize a machine's hardware and run a Native Client application that is tailored to that machine. Developers will simply write one PNaCl module that can run on any processor or operating system (NaCl modules already support Windows, Mac, and Linux).
- Obama Quotes Lincoln To House Dems: ‘I Am Bound To Be True’ (VIDEO) – President Obama began his speech by quoting Abraham Lincoln. "I am not bound to win, but I'm bound to be true," he said. "I'm not bound to succeed, but I'm bound to live up to what light I have."
- Op-Ed Columnist – America’s Real Dream Team – NYTimes.com – Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens.
- IBM Launches Public Cloud Service — Application Development Trends – Red Hat called the choice of RHEV over virtualization technology from VMware a coup for its hypervisor stack
- Microsoft’s RemoteFX raises the bar for remote connections – With Microsoft RemoteFX, users will be able to work remotely in a Windows Aero desktop environment, watch full-motion video, enjoy Silverlight animations, and run 3D applications – all with the fidelity of a local-like performance when connecting over the LAN
Daily del.icio.us for March 9th through March 13th
- Dynamic Charts with HTML5, Canvas, and Flotr for Prototype – HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool on http://finance.google.com/. The tool itself is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries.
- SpringSource tc Server 2.0 Adds VMware Virtualization to Commercial Tomcat — Developer.com – The new Spring edition of tc Server 2.0 also provides expanded integration with virtualization technologies from VMware (NYSE: VMW), enabling developers to deploy apps to both real and virtual environments
- Building a GAE+GWT application using the best practices, Part 1 « Reminiscential: of or pertaining to remembrance – In the next few blog posts, I’m going to present my experience building a simple (but non-trivial) web application using GWT and Google App Engine, while applying the best practices introduced by Ray Ryan in his excellent presentation at Google IO last year.
- Beanlib – Java Bean Library – Beanlib is a utility library for use with JavaBean. Beanlib for Hibernate in particular makes it easy for developers to reuse the same pojo classes for both persistence and data transfer objects
- gwt-html-editor – GWT WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor – This is a simple but sufficient for most cases WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor Widget fully (99% + JSNI) implemented with GW
- Ext.ux.Printer – A generic printing class that assists with the printing of any Ext.Component – Ext.ux.Printer is a small library that provides a generic way of printing Ext Components (Grids, Trees, etc).<br />
It consists of the main Printer class, and a number of Renderers, which each provide support for a given type of <br />
component. - Announcing Ext JS 3.2 beta – Multisort, Transitions and Composite Fields — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing applications.
- Happiness is a Warm Cloud – Jay Pipes – Rackspace is also heavily invested in Cassandra, and sees integration of Drizzle and Cassandra as being a key way to add value to its platforms and therefore for its customers
- Spring – Dependency checking with @Required Annotation | Spring – The @Required Annotation is more flexible than dependency checking in XML file, because it can apply to a particular property only
- Ehcache 2.0 Gets More ‘Enterprisey’ Features | Javalobby – Ehcache 2.0 now supports fully-coherent distributed caching as a Hibernate Second-Level Cache, as well as directly through the Ehcache API, using one common JVM vendor-agnostic .jar file
Daily del.icio.us for March 4th through March 9th
- Jmeter: Statistics Aggregate Report « .. Library of WONDERS .. – I found this interesting Jmeter plugin that would make your Jmeter reporting more effective.<br />
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To enhance your graph and reports with Jmeter, here’s a listener plugin that you could add in your distribution file. - Roadmap Open Graph API – Facebook Developer Wiki – The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans
- SproutCore: JavaScript HTML5 Application Framework – IT Shala – SproutCore is an open-source platform for building fast rich cloud applications on the web. Specifically, the tools we develop are suitable for building large-scale applications that scale to many millions of users across many different devices.
- szczepiq / Sweetest / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org – …is an acceptance testing anti-framework. The name should remind you how important is to write sweet tests (e.g. readable & maintainable). Anti-framework because there is no API you have to learn.
- The Hibernate Profiler – Hibernate Profiler is a real-time visual debugger allowing a development team to gain valuable insight and perspective into their usage of Hibernate
- Eric Hauser’s Blog » Blog Archive » Hibernate Profiler: JDBC Parameters – I’ve just finished a new feature for the Hibernate Profiler to allow to logging of JDBC parameters.
- Vinny Carpenter – Life Stream – Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet. Here's mine
- Flavors.me : Create Your Free Personal Website Without Knowing HTML/CSS – After playing around with Flavors.me, I am not hesitate to say that it’s quite an impressive service and shows a loads of promise. I really like the user interface, design panel and pre-loaded themes and color pallattes
- ning’s async-http-client at master – GitHub – Async Http Client library purpose is to allow Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously <br />
process the HTTP responses. - Apple approaches $200 billion – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech – Apple would have to hit $276 a share for its market cap to get past what Microsoft's (MSFT) is today.
- smartgwt – Smart GWT – GWT API’s for SmartClient – Smart GWT is a GWT based framework that allows you to not only utilize its comprehensive widget library for your application UI, but also tie these widgets in with your server-side for data management
Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd
- GAEJ Experiments eBook « Google App Engine Java Experiments – I am pleased to announce to everyone that version 1.0 of the GAEJ Experiments eBook is now ready and published
- Microsoft: Don’t press F1 key in Windows XP – Ignore sites that nag to press the Help key, says zero-day bug advisory
- Technology Review: Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet – BigSheets is built on top of another piece of software called Hadoop. This is an open-source platform for processing very large amounts of Web data by splitting up tasks and handing them off to a cluster of different computers
- Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project – The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV.
- The CTO Corner – The CTO Corner is dedicated to the topics and issues important to today's busy technology executive, the Chief Technology Officer. This site focuses on leadership & management, technology trends, and contemporary development & programming practices
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession – Web developers should take a look at their sites on a Nokia and a BlackBerry and fix whatever’s wrong. It isn’t that hard to get your hands on a testing device
- Tug’s Blog: Create and Deploy a JAX-RS REST service on Google App Engine – In this article you have learned how to create and deploy a new REST Service on Google App Engine. This service has been created with the JAX-RS Reference Implementation the Jersey project
- Nailgun: Insanely Fast Java – Nailgun is a client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from the command line without incurring the JVM startup overhead. Programs run in the server (which is implemented in Java), and are triggered by the client (written in C), which handles all I/O.
- Javaee trainer: Struts2 course chapter 1: Evolution of web applications – I must say that Struts 2 is not only a new version of the popular Struts framework but it is a brand-new, state-of-the-art web application framework. In includes the following advantages
- Implementation Spotlight: cara3 from Generis — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – Ext GWT is an excellent supplement for Google Web Toolkit. It’s not just an ordinary set of components, it’s a very advanced framework for building rich web applications. With such a set of tools, developing is actually a pleasure. And the Web Desktop architecture is going to be a new standard in Enterprise applications. There is one question that arises in this situation: When is Google going to buy Ext?
Daily del.icio.us for February 18th through February 21st
- Dynamic, typesafe queries in JPA 2.0 – A query for persistent Java™ objects is typesafe if a compiler can verify it for syntactic correctness. Version 2.0 of the Java Persistence API (JPA) introduces the Criteria API, which brings the power of typesafe queries to Java applications for the first time and provides a mechanism for constructing queries dynamically at run tim
- Build better Web applications with Google Sitebricks – Sitebricks is a lightweight framework that provides versatile tools for rapidly creating Web applications. It extends the Guice philosophy to the Web. Best of all, Sitebricks is still a young framework. You'll want to keep an eye on upcoming features and on the ecosystem developing around Sitebricks
- Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services – NetBeans IDE 6.5/6.7/6.8 Tutorial – This tutorial demonstrates the basics of using the NetBeans IDE to develop a JAX-WS web service. After you create the web service, you write three different web service clients that use the web service over a network.
- Gears API Blog: Hello HTML5 – If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5
- Spring Framework 3.0.1 released | SpringSource Team Blog – After two months of incorporating valuable feedback, it is my pleasure to announce the first Spring 3.0 maintenance release – addressing more than 170 reported issues
- RIM Unveils WebKit Internet Browser to Compete With IPhone – BusinessWeek – The WebKit browser will be available on BlackBerrys this year, Lazaridis said in an interview yesterday, declining to be more specific.
- Grafico: JavaScript Charting Library | W3Avenue – Grafico is a JavaScript charting library powered by Raphaël and Prototype. It is really flexible to implement; produces good, clean looking graphs; and is cross browser library that has been tested on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 6+.
- Book of Vaadin – vaadin.com – Book of Vaadin is a comprehensive documentation of Vaadin. It shows how to get started, gives a good overview of the features and tutors you through advanced aspects of the framework.
- Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven – Vaadin is an incredible powerful framework that solves many of the front-end difficulties developers have to deal with.
- Writing a URL Shortner in Java Struts2 & Hibernate.Create URL Shortner Struts2/Hibernate | ViralPatel.net – This is an attempt to create a simple URL shortner service in pure JEE with Struts2 and Hibernate
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