Java EE 5 (Book Review)
If this text was not intended as a textbook, it should have been. It reads like the best kind of textbook - clear, concise coverage of major issues;... more »
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Review: Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
The primary goal of any web form, says Wroblewski, is “getting people through them quickly and easily”. Forms are barriers between user needs and... more »
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JNode 0.2.7 - Java Based Operating System
JNode is a free, open source Java technology based operating system implemented in the Java language with a very small assembler nano-kernel.
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PhoneGap Converts Webapps to Native Apps
A story about PhoneGap, a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the... more »
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Thinking in REST
bloid 
via weblogs.asp.net
I've been reading blogs around the .NET community lately and there seems to be some serious confusion about what exactly REST is. Is it a SOAP... more »
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JavaScript - HTML Template Engine: Pure
The idea of utilizing any part of your HTML document as template to render data purely with JavaScript and CSS has been realized with Pure library.
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Stunning OpenSolaris running on VirtualBox
I recently tried OpenSolaris as a guest OS in my windows xp machine using VirtualBox. It has been a fantastic experience...
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Building a Proper MVC Pattern for the web
bloid via welcome.totheinter.net
Search Google for “web application MVC patterns” or any variant thereof, and the vast majority of results will talk about the server side MVC. This... more »
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XML Enhancements for Java
jmalasko via alphaworks.ibm.com
Write efficient XML processing applications more easily using the XML Enhancements for Java (XJ) framework. XJ includes a set of extensions to Java... more »
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Introducing Alfresco Labs 3
John Newton, Alfresco's co-founder and CTO, talks about Alfresco Labs 3. Alfresco is the open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management and... more »
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Indexing PDF Documents with Lucene
This describes how to extract the text from a PDF document. (In this particular post the text is extracted for indexing purposes).
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Developers are not good testers. What you say?
Developers test their own code. Then why testers needed? What are the drawbacks of developer testing his own code? Why can’t it be a success? If... more »
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Paying programmers: are bonuses bad and what to do about it?
Marry Poppendieck talked today at Agile 2008 about compensation schemes, attacking the traditional model of bonuses and appraisals. Pointing out that... more »
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Grails: internationalization in the service
Today I spent some time by creation of localized messages in a service. Here is a small tutorial.
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Beware of writing regex and string functions
Recently i was involved in an issue took a week to come to know the root cause. In the end its an eye opener to many who does not give importance to... more »
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Massive Selenium Testing
Follow up on the previous post. In-depth look into stabilizing Selenium based tests.
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Show/hide a nice Login Panel using Mootools 1.2
Step by step tutorial to create a show/hide (or "toggle") login panel for your website using Mootools 1.2.
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Red Hat, community release Fedora 10 alpha
Red Hat and project contributors have released alpha code for Fedora 10, the next version of the community-sponsored, free and open-source Linux... more »
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4 rules to make version control shine
The post-agile era is coming and the rules for version control are changing. This post grabs new ideas from people at OSCON and draws the new rules
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Linux Commands I Hardly Knew - Reloaded
Some more not so popular shell commands. Sequel to http://atoztoa.blogspot.com/2008/06/linux-commands-i-hardly-knew.html.
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Reinvent the wheel, rewrite cascading dropdown controls
ASP .net ajax extenders carry the promise of a plug-and-play. You plug your usb drive, there you get an extra drive. In a lot of straightforward,... more »
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How to Programmatically Create Thumbnail Images
A thumbnail is a small sized image. Creating a thumbnail using .NET is extremely simple. In this article, we will explore how to create a thumbnail... more »
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Content Management & Application development
My current customer did a study of portal / content management systems (CMS) to replace their existing system. I read their reports and felt compelled... more »
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What Google Can Teach Ajax Developers
With Google Gadgets, Google has arguably pushed Ajax scalability and testing harder than any other single vendor. But that was only the beginning.... more »
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If I Could Recommend Five Books For Java Developers....
There are many books that are essential for your bookshelf if you're a Java developer. But if I had space for just five books, which ones would I... more »
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