links for 2007-10-27
October 27, 2007
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Recently I have undertaken upgrading to Prototype 1.6.0. I will now show you some examples of what I’ve done, how I did it and why; you might find this writeup useful when doing the same in your application.
links for 2007-10-24
October 24, 2007
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AjaxTags makes it very easy for you to add powerful Ajax features to either new or existing Java Web applications. With a full complement of JSP tags providing support for drop-down box modifications, toggling, tab panels, callouts, etc.
links for 2007-10-22
October 22, 2007
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Since I last revised this article in May, 2005, the Spring Framework has continued to grow in popularity, and has become the de facto standard for enterprise Java development. In this article, I’ll try to explain what Spring sets out to achieve..
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People often ask: I want to get greener, what should I do? New light bulbs? A hybrid? A solar roof? Well, all of those things are helpful. But actually, the greenest thing you can do is this: Choose the right leaders
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AlivePDF is much more powerful. Using his libraries you can actually create text elements, picture elements, etc and lay them out on the page exactly how you want. One of my (very simple) examples in the MAX preso is a drag and drop WYSIWYG interface for
links for 2007-10-21
October 21, 2007
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Abator is a code generator for iBATIS. It will introspect a database and will generate iBATIS artifacts that can be used to access the table(s). This abates some of the initial nuisance of setting up objects and configuration files to interact with db.
links for 2007-10-20
October 20, 2007
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Microsoft’s distinguished engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation at the University of Illinois about Microsoft’s virtualization technology and also mentioned Windows 7 – the next version of Windows after Vista
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Ignite Realtime: Ignite Realtime Video Podcasts: Actionscript, Javascript, and the Future of WebappsIn this video, Jive Software’s David Smith talks about Actionscript, Javascript, and the future of webapps as they relate to his work on Spark.
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SCA is an enhancement to frameworks that offer programming models for components and connectivity abstractions. Those frameworks may be standard offerings, but may also be proprietary technologies, such Remote Function Calls (RFC), SQL stored proc etc.
links for 2007-10-18
October 18, 2007
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Alfresco JLAN is a unique implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers the only Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window’s CIFS protocol, allowing content, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive.
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The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.
links for 2007-10-16
October 16, 2007
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JetBrains is proud and happy to tell you that IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is now available! This release is focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and enhancing the user experience with the efficient support for new features, technologies, and tools.
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Jetbrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. This version rounds out support for many popular Java technologies while adding support for languages such as Groovy and Ruby. Among its highlights: Spring and Hibernate Support, Ruby/Rails Support, Groovy/Grails
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If you are tired of reading long explanations and confused by tricky photo techniques, here you can have it short and sweet. Arranged by topics, each subject takes less than 60 seconds to read.
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Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor but is simpler for developers to use. In this article, S. Sangeetha and S. V. Subrahmanya outline the changes in Struts 2.0 and offer migration pointers for developers familiar with Struts
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Google’s new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for fre
links for 2007-10-13
October 13, 2007
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Oracle’s…offer to purchase BEA Systems provides a logical conclusion to the questions surrounding the future of BEA
links for 2007-10-12
October 12, 2007
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We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering a requested image already stored on S3, not the upload -> s3 process)
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View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.
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There are lots of caching solution in Java, free and non free. This is a list of opensource caching solutions available in Java/J2EE/JEE domain for software development or developing enterprise applications.
links for 2007-10-10
October 10, 2007
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DOMtab is a JavaScript that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a tab interface. The script removes any “back to top” links in the section and automatically hides all but the first one when the page is loaded. You can use as many tabb
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Alfresco 2.1 extends Web content management while adding record and image management, federated search, and better ease of use through the Alfresco AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web client.
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ajaXplorer is an easy-to-install files explorer for remotely managing files on a web server, or using as a simple filesharing system. Its rich layout and actions make it accessible to any end-user.
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Dragos Manolescu shares insights gained from growing ThoughtWorks’ architecture evaluation practice and evaluating several architectures for Global 1000 companies. These insights aim at preparing people interested in commissioning, managing, performing, p
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The Google Collections Library 0.5 (ALPHA) is a suite of new collections and collection-related goodness for Java 5.0, brought to you by Google. This library is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework you already know and love.
links for 2007-10-08
October 8, 2007
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Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has a blog post entitled Amazon’s Dynamo which contains the HTML version of an upcoming paper entitled Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store which describes a highly available, distributed storage system used in
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Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the ability to trade-off cost, consistency, durability and perform
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Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love
links for 2007-10-06
October 6, 2007
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Before we close and somewhat pass a judgement that use Seam as the framework of choice, there are two more options to consider – the web framework from Spring and the Google Web Toolkit.
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Pieter Humphrey’s Blog: Adobe and BEA announce bundle of Workshop Studio 10.1 + Adobe Flex Builder 2BEA Workshop Studio 10.1 with Adobe Flex 2 brings together world-class development for Rich Internet Applications, BEA WebLogic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement, as well as browser and server portable Java™ applications.
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Phil Rees has written up a nice introduction to Firebug, showing us how you can use Firebug to – Inspect custom stylesheets included by Google Mashup Editor
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JSValidate is a simple library based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us to allow you to do form validation. You simply use special CSS classes to annotate your form and let the library do the rest.
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The ExtJS team recently released the alpha release of version 2.0. This comes roughly a month after a preview release of the framework. New features: Grouping and Summary of Tables, Scrolling Tabs, Anchor Layout, Tree Widget with Columns, Web Desktop
links for 2007-10-05
October 5, 2007
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Buy it for what it is, or don’t buy it at all. Your choices don’t get any more granular than that. Apple has been unwaveringly clear that the iPhone is theirs.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn further boosted his stake in BEA Systems Inc (BEAS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to 13.22 percent, according to a regulatory filing.
links for 2007-10-03
October 3, 2007
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this article has been updated throughout to reflect Flex 3 Beta 2. However, you can see a summary of interesting changes near the bottom of this article.
links for 2007-10-02
October 2, 2007
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A new line of instruments from Gibson Guitar now promises to banish this scenario to the dark ages with high-tech self-tuning technology built into the company’s flagship electric-guitar models.
Vinny Carpenter 