jvmtop is a lightweight console application to monitor all accessible, running jvms on a machine. It's like top but is able to provide jvm internals (e.g. memory information) of running JVMs / java processes. It can also drill down cpu-usage to the thread-level, showing you the most cpu-intensive threads in a live view.

Because our customers are software developers and testers, we get to learn from them nearly everyday. Sometimes they even teach us things about our own tools that we didn’t know! That happened at StarEAST a few weeks ago with a feature of WebLoadUI Pro, our load testing tool for Web applications.

Ever used VisualVM? This quick guide will quickly get you working with VisualVM in Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA.

For this article I want to present 50 handy CSS2/CSS3 code snippets for any web professional. These are perfect for storing in your development IDE of choice, or even keeping them saved in a small CSS file. Either way I am sure designers & developers can find some use for some of the snippets in this collection.

In this talk, Paul Gerrard discusses continuous delivery, particularly as it pertains to long-term requirements. Testing up front, he says, helps to deliver "front-door quality, not back-door quality."

In this really excellent talk from Strata 2013, Twitter's Nathan Marz walks through the challenges and serious rewards of building systems that are resilient even in the face of human error.

Based on years of experience optimizing modern web applications, we invented a set of techniques for optimizing dynamic content. We refer to it as “InstantON”. InstantON takes content (such as a webpage), breaks it into small pieces, and caches those pieces on the Yottaa Network. When a page is requested, Yottaa delivers some pieces to the client instantly (response times typically under 200 milliseconds) while simultaneously fetching dynamic content from the origin server. Once the origin server produces the dynamic content, Yottaa delivers those pieces to the client with the intelligence to properly integrate them with the existing page.

A good choice of font for your coding activites can make a huge difference and improve your productivity, so take a look at the fonts in this post if you never considered changing programming fonts before.

JMX stands for Java Management Extensions, and while Wikipedia’s page about JMX is a bit sparse, this IBM developerWorks guide provides a much better overview of the concept. The one-sentence takeaway about JMX is that it’s a set of tools for objects to expose monitoring or manipulation methods to external applications by registering themselves with a management server.

Here’s a roundup of tools for the developer which’ll almost certainly have something new to you. Read the comments too. There are more mentioned there.

How a race car would turn out if it were developed by the equivalent of an Enterprise IT department (without DevOps).

So you’re using Continuous Integration and Mercurial as your VCS. CI is great, you’re loving the feedback and feeling good after a green build. You’ve just got your project started and a couple of features are underway, but then you see a red build. “It’s nothing”, they’ll say, “just wanted to publish my changes, halfway through this big refactoring”. “One broken build is expected”, they’ll say, “just this one”.

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current workplace.

While designing and developing a website, the dilemma which affects designers and developers concerning design is: Responsiveness. Responsive web design affects the art of serving the same web pages onto multiple devices which appear the same. This approach has become not only popular amongst designers and developers but moreover: mandatory. However, there are questions where responsiveness is concerned such as: the increasing number of screen sizes and the difficulty in setting breakpoints. Despite these Web standard requisites seeming minor to the average lay-user, creating a responsive website is getting to be an endeavor in which many try but few succeed.

In this series, Robert Schneider, from our training-partner WiseClouds, goes through what you should be thinking about if you’re testing mission-critical services. Even if they’re not necessarily mission-critical, you should probably be following these guidelines.

ADP4J allows you to inject configuration properties in your objects easily using annotations.

With the release of ASP.NET MVC 4 one of the exciting features packed in the release was ASP.NET Web API. In a nutshell, ASP.NET Web API is a new framework for creating HTTP services that can reach a broad range of clients including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is also an ideal platform for building RESTful services.

Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist.

I'm building an open source log manage/analysis tool that will offer folks what Splunk offers folks, except it's open.

We’ve had so much going on here at SmartBear that we haven’t had a chance to share with you our latest exciting release. Aligning its launch with the StarEast software testing conference on May 1st in Orlando, WebLoadUI Pro made a buzz around our booth with many new features SmartBear’s free load testing tool doesn’t offer.

As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more predictably. How can they meet commitments on all levels of the organization, including project, program, and portfolio?

Let’s say you need to map and transform a message payload from one structure and format to another. Of course, DataMapper is the perfect tool for that job. However, what if you also need to add to the payload as it is transformed and mapped?

More and more leading edge thinkers are starting to focus on this dichotomy of approaches – organic vs mechanical. Each rightly has it’s place in any practitioner’s toolkit.

Arthur Charpentier's regular data link roundup explores quantified consensus on anthropogenic global warming, compares SAS and R for business analysts, and much more. Plus: zombies (with R).

Pagination can be imply on your website in two ways both manually and automatically, one of the pretty orthodox and popular way of implying pagination to you websites is jQuery pagination plugins. In this article we have collected most popular jQuery Pagination plugins which are easy to use and enable users to easily integrate on their websites without much knowledge of coding.