links for 2007-04-27
April 27, 2007
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Prototype 1.5.1 is making steady progress and this should be the last release candidate before the final version—and we’ve already lots of stuff up our sleeves for 1.6.0
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AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It’s a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats & different sources.
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Dojo Offline is a free, open source toolkit that makes it easy for web applications to work offline. It consists of a JavaScript library bundled with your web page and cross-browser download that helps to cache your web application’s UI for use offline.
links for 2007-04-26
April 26, 2007
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Adobe announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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Adobe is firing its guns in the Microsoft Silverlight vs. Flash war. Developers win.
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There are many more posts and opinion now. I’ll be linking here to ones where I learn a little something different. Links will be updated over the next few hours and presented in chronological order, oldest findings first.
links for 2007-04-25
April 25, 2007
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The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business.
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The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during cr
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Over a year ago we described the integration the Spring framework 1.2.x with WebLogic Server 9.2. Since then we have certified further versions of Spring and WebLogic Server culminating in the combination of WebLogic Server 9.2 against Spring 2.0. Both th
links for 2007-04-24
April 24, 2007
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This past week, I switched from programming in Ruby to programming in Python. Why did I do that? Well, that’s a story with a bunch of background.
links for 2007-04-21
April 21, 2007
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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
links for 2007-04-20
April 20, 2007
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This concept, which I call RDD (resume driven development), is very real and it’s actually a fairly widespread problem.
links for 2007-04-17
April 17, 2007
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BEA’s latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects.
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Silverlight (previously codenamed “WPF/E”) is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
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There’s no good reason for WordPress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance
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LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style. 🙂
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IT’s rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete
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After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose
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The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We’ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
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Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.
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A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge.
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My last project is going into production in a couple of weeks, and it has been implemented using JSF. I started with JSF in good faith: it should be stable by now, it is blessed by Sun and included as the de facto web framework in JEE 5.
links for 2007-04-16
April 16, 2007
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The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.
links for 2007-04-15
April 15, 2007
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BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment—combining the best of open source and commercial software—provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches
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Even in that short span, there’s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate
links for 2007-04-13
April 13, 2007
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Over the years, I’ve accumulated a variety of tools that don’t take up much space but that come in handy when an emergency comes along. On the average day, I don’t need any of these – but when I do, I’m happy to have them. Here are my suggestions
links for 2007-04-11
April 11, 2007
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In the Confluence team, we’re investigating an upgrade of our data access layer of Hibernate 2 with Spring 1.1 to a shiny new OpenJPA and Spring 2.0 implementation.
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Defending Don Imus’s on-air racial idiocy is impossible — but defending free speech, even in the form of sick humor, ought to be considered anew in the wake of a storm of protest from censorious activists who are demanding that Imus be fired.
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100% Pure JavaScript Charting Solution – EJSChart supports XML-formatted data and loads data on the fly.
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IntelliJ IDEA 7 Milestone 1 introduces multiple new features and improvements in Java EE support, including Spring and Hibernate, code analysis, extended version control support, including Rational ClearCase integration, enhanced debugging, code search, u
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Prototype Graphic Framework (PGF) is a framework based on prototype to display vectorial shapes inside a web browser.
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The W3C has long had XHTML2 in the works, a technology that aims to fill the same role as HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, an upgrade or replacement with many improvements and changes to the semantic elements available. XHTML2 is XML—just as XHTML 1.0 is—but
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Sometimes you don’t want the hassle of the big upgrade. For example, there is no good reason to “upgrade” Windows to Vista. On the other hand, there are upgrades like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) that give you some darn good reasons to make the jump.
links for 2007-04-08
April 8, 2007
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Enterprise architecture relates to the practice of business optimization that addresses business architecture, performance management, organizational structure, and process architecture.
links for 2007-04-07
April 7, 2007
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Google has created a tool to let non-technical users create Google Maps mashups who don’t have formal programming knowledge to create, annotate and publish online maps on the Google Maps platform.
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This tutorial describes a simple SAML SSO scenario between Microsoft Internet Information Services Server (IIS) and BEA WebLogic Server 9.
links for 2007-04-06
April 6, 2007
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What is important in the first courses in introductory computer science is giving them the best possible foundation of core principles and techniques that will allow them to adopt and adapt to the various languages they will confront in the real world.’
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Free + Database = Freebase. It’s about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. The goal is to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data
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Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily
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The Virtual Ubiquity blog has become one of my favorites. They’re doing a great job talking about the development process and it’s one of the best looks at the creation of a Rich Internet Application that I’ve seen.
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This article is a primer on JavaScript attacks, intended for GWT developers. The first portion describes the major classes of attacks against JavaScript in general terms that are applicable to any AJAX framework.
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Open JPA is a fully compliant, enterprise grade open-source JPA implementation suitable for production use. In this session, you will see how OpenJPA goes beyond the specification to include important features including caching, dynamic fetch group config
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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
links for 2007-04-03
April 3, 2007
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I consistently find myself trying to explain why IDEA is so good. This is my attempt to explain my favorite “features”. I say “features” because many of these aren’t the type of bullet-point features you might see in a direct comparison (ie: “EJB3 Support
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This is the first in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance.
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This is the second in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance.
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This article, co-written by Patty Chi, is the third in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance
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BEA WebLogic Server 10, BEA WebLogic Portal 10 and BEA Workshop for WebLogic 10 are all available now
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JScrape is a simple yet powerful java api for scraping (aka screen scraping) data from a web page using XQuery. This API makes it simple to pull data from other sources and maintain them in a simple way
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Tim Berners-Lee explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data.
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BEA has released WebLogic Server 10.0, as a Technology Preview for their Java EE 5 support. BEA is using the GlassFish implementations for JAX-WS 2.0, and JAXB 2.0, which were part of GlassFish v1 UR1
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WebLogic Server builds on Spring internally, said Rod Johnson, founder of Spring and CEO of Interface21. “The architecture that they’ve adopted, building on Spring, enables them to move to a situation where Spring components can be deployed natively to We
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Apple will offer EMI music free of DRM for 30 cents more a track; album prices will remain the same. Apple makes the EMI catalog more attractive than other iTunes music in two ways: No DRM and higher encoding
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This article is an in-depth introduction and comparison of Java EE security and Acegi. They both offer a variety of security services to make application security programming easier. The declarative and annotation-based programming methodologies let devel
links for 2007-04-01
April 1, 2007
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This article provides a quick introduction to MochiKit, explains how to get started with MochiKit and describes three walk-through examples of varying complexity that also are generic enough to use in your Web applications right now. Ever wanted to round
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