Ajaxified Body...
I've often wondered if it was possible to use Ajax to reload the main content of a web application without reloading the header, menu and footer.... more »
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An approach to exception handling
jtheory 
via blog.robwhelan.com
In response to another blog post -- an approach to exception handling: when exceptions (checked or unchecked) should be thrown, caught, logged,... more »
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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?
Trying to figure out the best ways to handle exceptions, which mostly seems to be context-sensitive. Checked/Unchecked? Swallow or re-throw? Are there... more »
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Aggiorno 1.2 released! Better Performance, IE8 features and a Stand Alone version.
The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of... more »
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Guide to the EJB 3.1 Public Draft
bloid via blogs.sun.com
Now that the EJB 3.1 Public Draft is available, here's a list of its main ease-of-use improvements and features, along with their corresponding... more »
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Jean Deruelle: Mobicents Sip Servlets 0.6 achieves JSR-289 compliance
Jean Deruelle, Project Lead of Mobicents blogs that Mobicents is the first Open Source SIP Servlets 1.1 server to pass the TCK. JBoss is now the only... more »
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IBM, Sun, Microsoft sink differences on VMs
Corporate rivals have temporarily sunk their differences to find ways to fine-tune the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to a variety of popular dynamic... more »
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If you don't know the difference between HTTP and DNS, don't blog about it
Pet peeve time: screaming technical inaccuracies in blog posts do a huge disservice to the root problem being discussed. If you're going to discuss... more »
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HTML 5 WebSocket cracks the HTTP request-response barrier
Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, the founders of Kaazing talk of the need for two way communication and compare it with established request-response and... more »
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Why the AJAX/DHTML Model is broken
I believe that the AJAX/DHTML model is broken...at least for widespread adoption. Here I explain why lack of standards and huge fragmentation is... more »
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HTML 5: Features you want desperately but still can't use (video)
bloid via youtube.com
As the HTML5 effort reaches its first big milestone -- feature completeness -- browsers are starting to implement it. It will be years before you can... more »
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How to make CSS Sprites [easily explained]
A small writeup about how to create CSS sprites for the ones struggling with figuring out why their top and left coordinates are malfunctioning,... more »
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WebKit: Full Pass of Acid3
bloid via webkit.org
Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and... more »
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Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours
I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric -... more »
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C++ Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup answers the Multicore Proust Questionnaire
Bjarne shares his perspective on everything from his favorite toy growing up, to his dream about the future of computing, to his greatest fears about... more »
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API Design Fest '08!
Invitation to Jaroslav Tulach's API Design Fest!
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IBM Threatens to Leave Standards Bodies
IBM is threatening to leave organizations that set standards for software interoperability because of concerns that their processes are not always... more »
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Podcast: OSGi and the Enterprise
Ben Hale, SpringSource outlines what OSGi is, where it comes from and who is using it. This talk is a great introduction and primer to OSGi. Ben also... more »
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Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell
bloid via alistapart.com
I’m going to share some of my thoughts on the problematic and constructive influences on most folks working in web standards today. I challenge you to... more »
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OpenGL 3 & DirectX 11: The War Is Over
Given the prevalence of DirectX nowadays, we tend to forget that 10 years ago an all-out war was being waged between Microsoft and Silicon Graphics in... more »
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4 things you can do in your code now to make it more scalable later
There are some very simple things you can do in your code, when you're developing an application, that can ease the transition into a... more »
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JBoss AS is now EE5 certified!
We just released JBoss AS 5.0CR2. Two of our main CR2 release criteria were i) full EE5 TCK compliance and ii) 100% of our test suite passing the... more »
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Software Projects Coding Convention
The coding convention all 200 of our engineers use on a daily basis.
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Managing resources in the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296)
Instead of loading and working with ResourceBundle files directly, you will use the ResourceManager and ResourceMap framework classes to manage... more »
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