links for 2006-08-30

• IntelliJ IDEA :: New Features
  JetBrains has announced the list of new features in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 some time ago, but people often ask us where to find or how to use a certain feature. Probably, in this case Reviewer’s Guide can help
  (tags: idea intellij internet programming software java ejb3 jsf persistence struts javascript css jsp xml weblogic Glassfish gwt)
• Enterprise Java Community: Refactoring: A Must for Supporting Web Projects
  Web developers now face problems of similar difficulty in dealing with decent-size desktop application projects. Project support and continuous evolution involves lots of effort and requires the use of specific techniques. One particularly useful techniqu
  (tags: article ide idea intellij Java javascript refactoring css webdev)
• Agile Ajax: GWT Roundup
  GWT continues to have a lot of ferment around it.
  (tags: ajax book development google Java programming reference webdev GWT tutorial)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 30, 2006

• IntelliJ IDEA :: New Features
  JetBrains has announced the list of new features in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 some time ago, but people often ask us where to find or how to use a certain feature. Probably, in this case Reviewer’s Guide can help
  (tags: idea intellij internet programming software java ejb3 jsf persistence struts javascript css jsp xml weblogic Glassfish gwt)
• Enterprise Java Community: Refactoring: A Must for Supporting Web Projects
  Web developers now face problems of similar difficulty in dealing with decent-size desktop application projects. Project support and continuous evolution involves lots of effort and requires the use of specific techniques. One particularly useful techniqu
  (tags: article ide idea intellij Java javascript refactoring css webdev)
• Agile Ajax: GWT Roundup
  GWT continues to have a lot of ferment around it.
  (tags: ajax book development google Java programming reference webdev GWT tutorial)

links for 2006-08-23

• Tom Ball’s Blog: Is Writing Code a Career Limiting Move?
  Architects Must Write Code & Real insight comes from active coding.
  (tags: agile article blog development java programming career architect)

Subversion & Proxy Servers

Is there a known issue with Subversion and proxy servers? I guess I should have run into this years ago but I don’t ever remember having an issue. I just got a new laptop with a fresh install of Windows XP and connection out to the Internet is using a Squid proxy server. When I connect to my Subversion server using TortoiseSVN (1.4.0-RC1), I get a following error message:


svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://www.vinnycarpenter.com)


I know the issues isn’t with TortoiseSVN as I get errors connecting using command line tools, IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse with the Subclipse plugin. Is this a known issue? The Subversion FAQ doesn’t really have any answers and the recommendation of adding extension_methods in the FAQ didn’t work. Anyone else run into this?

links for 2006-08-20

• Amazon – The Real Web Services Company
  At the core of the Amazon strategy are the Web Services. The Amazon team takes the concepts of search, storage, lookup and management the data and turns them into pay-per-fetch and pay-per-space web services. This is a brilliant strategy and Amazon is cer
  (tags: amazon WebServices web2.0 s3 storage queue)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 20, 2006

• Amazon – The Real Web Services Company
  At the core of the Amazon strategy are the Web Services. The Amazon team takes the concepts of search, storage, lookup and management the data and turns them into pay-per-fetch and pay-per-space web services. This is a brilliant strategy and Amazon is cer
  (tags: amazon WebServices web2.0 s3 storage queue)

links for 2006-08-16

• Blogbody: Project Able: a complete Java web stack
  Project Able is a full Java-based web development stack designed to make web development painless.
  (tags: blogs code development framework J2EE java rails spring ibatis maven webwork testng easymock jetty)
• Introduction to Spring 2 and JPA
  This tutorial aims to guide you through the use and application of the Spring 2 framework in the shortest possible time using a pure and simple learn-by-coding approach. You will build a Web application from scratch, step by step, assisted by the Spring 2
  (tags: article ejb3 java jpa persistence Spring tutorial eclipse ejb)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 16, 2006

• Blogbody: Project Able: a complete Java web stack
  Project Able is a full Java-based web development stack designed to make web development painless.
  (tags: blogs code development framework J2EE java rails spring ibatis maven webwork testng easymock jetty)
• Introduction to Spring 2 and JPA
  This tutorial aims to guide you through the use and application of the Spring 2 framework in the shortest possible time using a pure and simple learn-by-coding approach. You will build a Web application from scratch, step by step, assisted by the Spring 2
  (tags: article ejb3 java jpa persistence Spring tutorial eclipse ejb)

Webinar> Spring Framework in WebLogic Server 9.2

BEA is hosting a webinar on September 20, which will discuss the existing integration points between WebLogic Server and Spring and what is coming down the pipe for Spring 2.0, WebLogic Server 9.2 and beyond. The webinar will also discuss new technologies introduced with WebLogic 9.2 that support the use of the Spring Framework and how they work with Spring to make your development easier. The webinar will be hosted by Andy Piper, who worked with Rod Johnson and crew to implement the initial Spring support in WebLogic and the MedRec example to illustrate best practices in developing Spring application under WebLogic. The new version of MedRec that’s Spring enabled was re-architected from an EJB-based architecture to a Spring-based architecture for the handling of transactions, data access, and remoting.

links for 2006-08-15

• Building and Deploying Web Services to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 With the NetBeans 5.0 IDE
  This article describes how to build and test Web services that are based on Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 with the built-in capabilities of the NetBeans 5.0 IDE and the plug-in for Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
  (tags: java WebServices tutorial jax-ws xml netbeans article junit unit-testing wsdl)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 15, 2006

• Building and Deploying Web Services to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 With the NetBeans 5.0 IDE
  This article describes how to build and test Web services that are based on Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 with the built-in capabilities of the NetBeans 5.0 IDE and the plug-in for Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
  (tags: java WebServices tutorial jax-ws xml netbeans article junit unit-testing wsdl)

links for 2006-08-14

• Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity – Weiqi Gao’s Observations
  The following is a list of the first ten things that I always end up doing for every Cygwin installation that I use
  (tags: cygwin windows bash unix)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 14, 2006

• Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity – Weiqi Gao’s Observations
  The following is a list of the first ten things that I always end up doing for every Cygwin installation that I use
  (tags: cygwin windows bash unix)

Sony UMPC – Beautiful, expensive paperweight?

Over the weekend, my friend Charlie Lu was able to get his hands on the Sony and Samsung UMPC. After getting some hands-on time, here are some of Charlie’s comments on the UMPC’s:

• Resolution is so high – 1028×600. The “hello from sf” message you see on the screen – I wrote it in 50-point font.
• Having a keyboard (thumboard) makes a big difference, even when the keyboard isn’t that good (it’s hard to reach letters in the middle unless you have big hands – but if you have big hands, the keys may be too small). Still, typing an URL was easy enough.
• It is a lot smaller than it seems in photos (the Samsung is just the opposite), and it’s tastefully constructed. (Samsung’s chrome plastic buttons don’t look too good in comparison..)
• Unlike any other touchscreen I’ve used, writing/drawing on this screen renders perfect strokes. No weird, jagged lines. I was really impressed by this – you can make a sketch almost as good as you could on a piece of paper. It’s probably because of the high-density screen, and a good software (I can see that its smoothing effect is software-assisted, but it is really good.)
• Like the Samsung, this one has been crossed out on my wish list. The keyboards is not good enough, and EDGE is very slow.

Windows Live Writer – Microsoft’s new blog editor

Microsoft just launched Windows Live Writer, a new publishing tool for WYSIWYG blog authoring on Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, Typepad and other blogging services.  Found this software via Digg and it looks pretty good so far.  The Live Writer is pretty similar to the Word and so I’m not sure how this product will be positioned in the future.  With all the blog editing tools in Office 2007, this is an interesting offering but I guess it could be the free tool that doesn’t have all the features of Word 2007. 

My initial impressions of this tool are fairly positive.  The WYSIWYG blog authoring is really good and allows you to edit in GUI mode or directly edit the HTML being generated.  The image tool is pretty cool that will allow you to add images to your post that can uploaded to your blog directly.  

Writer supports RSD (Really Simple Discoverability), the Metaweblog API, and the Movable Type API with more blog platforms and API coming in the near future. 

Another feature that’s interesting is the ability to insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post.  For now, only Live.com maps is supported but the SDK that is also shipping should allow anyone to create interesting add-ons. 

 

The White House

links for 2006-08-12

• The P Blog » AJAX Upload progress monitor for Commons-FileUpload Example
  AJAX Upload progress monitor for Commons-FileUpload Example using DWR
  (tags: ajax upload java dwr file javascript programming web2.0)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 12, 2006

• The P Blog » AJAX Upload progress monitor for Commons-FileUpload Example
  AJAX Upload progress monitor for Commons-FileUpload Example using DWR
  (tags: ajax upload java dwr file javascript programming web2.0)

links for 2006-08-11

• ONJava.com: Ant 1.7: Using Antlibs
  Antlibs are a better way for Java developers to create and distribute custom Ant tasks, types, and macros, and a much better way for the Ant developers to distribute the optional tasks included with the Ant distribution.
  (tags: java ant antlib development)
• TNPI – Tethering an A900 with a PowerBook
  Connect to the internet using a Samsumg A900 mobile phone and Sprint’s EVDO high speed 3G network.
  (tags: bluetooth evdo cellphone sprint technology)

Daily del.icio.us for Aug 11, 2006

• ONJava.com: Ant 1.7: Using Antlibs
  Antlibs are a better way for Java developers to create and distribute custom Ant tasks, types, and macros, and a much better way for the Ant developers to distribute the optional tasks included with the Ant distribution.
  (tags: java ant antlib development)
• TNPI – Tethering an A900 with a PowerBook
  Connect to the internet using a Samsumg A900 mobile phone and Sprint’s EVDO high speed 3G network.
  (tags: bluetooth evdo cellphone sprint technology)

links for 2006-08-10

• InfoQ: Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring 2.0 and AspectJ
  In this article I will first describe where Spring AOP and AspectJ fit when in a typical enterprise application, then I’ll show you the new Spring AOP support in 2.0.
  (tags: Spring spring2.0 SpringAOP AspectJ development)
• java.net: Contract-First Web Services with Apache Axis2
  This article drills down into the contract-first approach in detail and shows how the Axis2 code generator can be used to generate code for the server side with the contract-first approach.
  (tags: WebServices j2ee java axis2 axis wsdl)
• Air Flight Tracking and Java Technology
  AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information available on many airport Web sites. AirportMonitor tracks flights from approximately 100 miles from the terminal right down to the runway.
  (tags: java applet cool)