This article discusses the top five tools for Java/JEE application performance management.

A practical guide to creating quality web services. What you can learn from this book * Standards and components of your web services * Installing Axis2 core components * Understand AXIOM (the Axis2 Object Model), use it to handle SOAP, and learn AXIOM best practices * Understanding pipes and interceptors for handling incoming and outgoing messages * Creating a flexible framework using runtime module engagement * Deploying Axis2 and types of deployments along with examples * Creating a complex service like a session-aware service and writing handlers * The module concept and writing a sample module * Need for quality services and the techniques available in Axis2 to extend the functionality * Working with the client API with example use case * Session management in a web service framework

We are always looking to come up with the post that is attractive and useful for everyone. We most of the time focuses on the designer’s stuff and where anything is going to launch free of cost. There are countless designer’s free stuff available which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 17 Most Desirable Designers Collection.

I’ve written about motivation a bunch of times before here on Zen Habits, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize that motivation isn’t that complicated. Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies I’ve used with success. But it really all boils down to two things.

The OpenOffice.org 3.0 suite of productivity applications arrives Monday, but, as noted at Download Squad, you can get it today. The OpenOffice team has posted it to a number of mirror sites. The list to check is here. As Download Squad notes: "Just pick one in your region, navigate to the folder marked 'stable' and grab the appropriate files for your operating system from the '3.0.0' folder." If you want the Windows version and not the Linux version, FileHippo has it available today. Here's more on what's under the hood.

There are so many available tools and resources on productivity that it’s bound to make one crazy. I confess that I was one of those productivity addicts who subscribed to all the GTD and lifehacking blogs out there, downloaded all the tools I could find, and signed up for every new Web 2.0 service. I lived almost a year of my life doing that, and it’s a wonder that I didn’t get a heart attack.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been bombarded (in e-mail, in person, and over IM) with questions about CSS frameworks. I guess I wrote the book on this topic (and contributed, if inadvertently, to one of the most notable CSS frameworks out there), so it’s completely understandable people would come to me with these questions. The question almost always sounds something like this:

Validation is a very important aspect in web forms development and should be planned carefully. Well designed validation can favorably affect the user experience and can speed up the filling of forms. Poor validation can make considerable damage to the system and user experience. Not having any kind of validation is out of the question.

Is clean code able to teach you software craftmanship? Read my review to find out!

One of the benefits of working at Google that I hadn't heard about until I joined is that you're both actively plied with books when you start, and given annual credit to buy books of your choice (without the hassle of filing expenses).

So you’ve realized after many years that your day job is not giving you what you want and you know you have the skills to start earning money on your own. You know people out there are already doing it… and doing it really good. Think you could do it too? Well, you definitely could and if you’ve decided to take the plunge then go for it. But before you start your freelancing career, here are 10 things you should keep in mind. I hope these will help you in your freelancing journey.

In this third lesson, we are going to create a "flash-like" image gallery with the help of jQuery. We'll have a list of large images. When the user clicks on one of these images, we will display it in a div. While the image is loading, a "loading" animated gif will display. Depending on how fast your connection is, you may or may not see the gif. View the simple example HERE.

Very easily. You could take the old-school route and add some mud to your html page. But, let's do it an easier way. First, let's add the code for newer browsers:

An brief overview of some of the web usability and design issues with Sourceforge.net's landing page..

The first part of this article introduced the concept that developing a complex software system was like going on a journey. I contrasted how we plan our journeys through the use of route planning systems against that of an agile journey which is more like using a GPS in our car. I also introduced the idea that we only know when we have reached our journeys end (being completely done) when we have demonstrated that we have fully satisfied the expectations of the customer, our criteria for a successful outcome and that we can use this thinking throughout our project so that each iteration delivers software which can achieve a successful customer outcome.

Today, we are listing another 11 Free And Helpful Web Based Tools That Every Designer May Want To Know! We tried to make this list most useful and interesting for every designer. Most of them are not very well known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

Do you remember the browser wars? No, not Star Wars, the browser wars. In the prehistoric era of the Web we had Netscape Navigators which guided us through the World Wide Wait. Netscape 2, 3 and 4 were the dominant browsers back then. Then Microsoft made the situation more difficult by gaining market share. Believe it or not but at a certain point the Internet Explorer was the best browser to use, Netscape failed to fulfill both Internet users’ and web developers’ needs.

A short introduction to Scala written after a tutorial with Bill Venners. Scala is kind of a mix of Java and ML - and a really cool language.

This is a writeup of Jim Copliens talk at JAOO about "Taking Architecture into the Agile World" - and Jim did say some controversial things like "Java is a toy language", "Refactoring is bad" and so on. Remember to read Jims comment that clarifies the points.

There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.

Last week was my 6 year ‘anniversary’ as a professional software developer. I like to look back on the past occasionally so i figured this is a good occasion to do so. I started working for Item Solutions (which we all refer to as Item) on October 2, 2002. At that time, it was hard to find a job as a software developer unless you had a few years of experience under your belt. I actually wanted to find a job in the Java world, or C++. After a few months of searching, i still hadn’t found a job and then an opportunity at Item kinda presented itsel

On this post Joe Stagner introduces his experiences with Aggiorno, Artinsoft's latest project which automates a lot of time consuming tasks for web developers in the form of web refactorings. From the post "[aggiorno] takes your web page and fixes errors, removes the use of deprecated constructs, restructures your syntax for XHTLM compliance and more."

On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn’t impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come — the move is another symbolic nail in Vista’s coffin.

I'm always on the lookout for apps that can ease my workload or free up some room in my budget, and open source applications are an excellent way for me to accomplish both. If you're in the same boat as me, hopefully you're already utilizing some open source options. If not, I've put together this list of two dozen great applications that I can depend on to keep things running smoothly on my office LAN and customer systems as well.

2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors. This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on)