How does the adoption of Google Chrome affect cross browser compatibility? Are web standards a solution? How can I easily move to standard compliant pages?

This article explores some very handy and commonly used conversion functions that we encounter in our day to day development. This is the first part of our two part series. I will cover up some other commonly used conversions in the second part.

Today I tested Google Chrome in Ra-Ajax. Everything worked PERFECTLY! No "emergency hack" needed. I think that's a pretty strong testimonial towards our religious focus on following the Open Standards as given to use from the W3C.

Following my latest post on evolving the architecture Dru asked me for more details on our RESTful control channels. For one you can take a look at slide 25 of my presentation on REST which talks about the Sessions resource. The session resource returns an AtomPub feed of the current active sessions and then if you follow a link to a session you get the current status, the URIs of the participating resources etc.

The upcoming Java 7 shows all the signs of being a major release, on the order of Java 5. It has numerous features that will make Java easier to develop with, and that will lead to cleaner, better code. Let’s look at some of them.

If you have missed on some top articles of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) on dotnetcurry.com, then this is a must read for you. The Top 10 articles have been decided by our editorial panel based on the popularity of the article, user rating and top views of the articles.

Is the JCP doing its work? Sometimes I sincerely doubt it

why to bother and review a trainee’s code? why to bother to review code at all? In this post the author tries to answer these questions

Commenting is obviously an important part of programming, but it is possible to take it too far. Too many comments can muddle the readability of the code. This post lists out the specific situations that comments should be used to make the code more readable and easier to maintain.

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall:

In this blog entry Samiq writes about some of the new features of the just released IE8 Beta 2 and also explains how to deal with compatibility issues using aggiorno express.

What's up with people complaining about Agile? Do the not know it's awesome?

You may have noticed that my posting frequency has declined over the last three weeks. That's because I've been busy building that Stack Overflow thing we talked about.

Should we use logging in unit tests? I'm having a discussion about the use of log4j in junit tests. I am really against the idea. The way I see it, a log and a failing test both communicate information. Using both seems redundant. Maybe my *real* problem is, using logs seems like a way to approach yellow instead of read/green..... (I hate when I mis-spell a title)

The more I hear about the ongoing efforts to revise the leading Web standards, the less convinced I am that we're approaching Web-based applications the right way. The latest dust-up involves ECMAScript, the international standard that forms the basis of the JavaScript language. Last week, the committee in charge of the language voted to abandon the proposed ECMAScript 4 standard in favor of a much less ambitious revision, dubbed ECMAScript 3.1.

There has been much controversy over the direction the Khronos Group/OpenGL ARB has chosen for the next major version of OpenGL. After testing an approach that would have a drastic effect on the API, requiring complete OpenGL application rewrites and not introducing any of the long awaited features modern GPUs are capable of, the choice was made to give programmers what they are really waiting for. And that’s new features now. GL 3.0 takes two important steps to moving open standard graphics forward in a major way. The first is to provide core and ARB extension access to the new and exciting capabilities of hardware. The second is to create a roadmap that allows developers to see what parts of core specifications will be going away in the future, also providing the OpenGL ARB with a way to introduce new features faster.

Sun has released a JavaFX preview. Having played around with it, here are my questions.

Today I saw a link to an article entitled C++ Gets an Overhaul on Hacker News detailing C++0x, the proposed set of standards for the new generation of C++. As I read the article, I became so incensed with the sheer stupidity of some of the changes being introduced that I began mocking them out loud.

The ECMAScript group, responsible for standardizing JavaScript, has had pretty intense discussions over the years about the future of the language. One side wanted to evolve JavaScript into a more typed and traditional compiled language (ECMAScript 4), while the other wanted to keep JavaScript’s dynamic nature a core feature of the language (ECMAScript 3+). Theoretically, from a language perspective there are pros and cons for both sides. However, the bigger question was and is “what is the best direction for the web?”

One of the "real world" lessons rarely taught in the university setting is that in the "real world" you're going to have to follow coding standards. Back in the day, when I was allowed to code, I often railed against some of those coding standards on the basis that they impaired application performance.

This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have been covered .

This article describes what should do become a good software test engineer.

The debate continues. Here's a stack comparison diagram I found on the SOA Wiki so that neutral parties can get a perspective.

Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with software development you need to adhere to a core set of database best practices.