http://www.dzone.com/links/queue/tag/frameworks.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:42:48 GMT The DZone community 2008-07-07T03:42:48Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/queue/frameworks/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/passpack_gears_air_why_choose.html Passpack is an online password organizer that provided offline access early in its life via Gears. flash-flex frameworks javascript Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:30:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92951.html bloid 2008-07-06T21:30:52Z Passpack is an online password organizer that provided offline access early in its life via Gears.]]> 92951 2008-07-06T21:30:52Z 2 0 6 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92951.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/3_and_12_minutes_to_sort_a_terabyte_and_a_look_at.html Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark: "One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim Gray, specifies the input data (10 billion 100 byte records), which must be completely sorted and written to disk. This is the first time that either a Java or an open source program has won. frameworks java Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:30:32 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92950.html bloid 2008-07-06T21:30:32Z Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark: "One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim Gray, specifies the input data (10 billion 100 byte records), which must be completely sorted and written to disk. This is the first time that either a Java or an open source program has won.]]> 92950 2008-07-06T21:30:32Z 3 0 13 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92950.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/beginners_guide_to_xna_2d_games.html Dive into XNA Game Studio by creating your own two-dimensional action game, following along with this in-depth video tutorial. Complete with Xbox 360 controller support, collision detection, and sprite-based font drawing, this 2D game tutorial is your ticket to getting started as a creator! .net frameworks games how-to Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:27:26 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92949.html bloid 2008-07-06T21:27:26Z Dive into XNA Game Studio by creating your own two-dimensional action game, following along with this in-depth video tutorial. Complete with Xbox 360 controller support, collision detection, and sprite-based font drawing, this 2D game tutorial is your ticket to getting started as a creator!]]> 92949 2008-07-06T21:27:26Z 1 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92949.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/cheri_swing_builder_for_jruby.html This is the first in a two part series covering Ruby libraries targeted at the Swing application development using the Java implementation of the Ruby programming language: JRuby. Cheri's provides a "builder" - a domain specific language (DSL) - that makes Swing application development both expressive and intuitive. frameworks gui java ruby Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:22:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92943.html bloid 2008-07-06T20:22:13Z This is the first in a two part series covering Ruby libraries targeted at the Swing application development using the Java implementation of the Ruby programming language: JRuby. Cheri's provides a "builder" - a domain specific language (DSL) - that makes Swing application development both expressive and intuitive.]]> 92943 2008-07-06T20:22:13Z 4 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92943.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/monkeybars_swing_mvc_framework_for_jruby.html This is the second in the series exploring JRuby libraries designed for Swing application development. This screencast examines Monkeybars, an MVC framework that leverages the strengths of Java and Swing for rich-client UI components and layout management and defers to Ruby for intelligent event response and business logic coordination. frameworks java ruby Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:21:22 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92941.html bloid 2008-07-06T20:21:22Z This is the second in the series exploring JRuby libraries designed for Swing application development. This screencast examines Monkeybars, an MVC framework that leverages the strengths of Java and Swing for rich-client UI components and layout management and defers to Ruby for intelligent event response and business logic coordination.]]> 92941 2008-07-06T20:21:22Z 6 0 12 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92941.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_to_write_testable_aspnet_webforms.html Microsoft’s upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. .net frameworks Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:21:02 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92940.html bloid 2008-07-06T20:21:02Z Microsoft’s upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run.]]> 92940 2008-07-06T20:21:02Z 1 0 5 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92940.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/adobe_flex_and_ruby_on_rails.html Interesting usage of two major web development frameworks. Increasing usability and self productivity by using both together. flash-flex frameworks ria ruby Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:45:11 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92938.html mwyrobek 2008-07-06T19:45:11Z Interesting usage of two major web development frameworks. Increasing usability and self productivity by using both together.]]> 92938 2008-07-06T19:45:11Z 1 0 14 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92938.jpg mwyrobek http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/308048.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/slick_2d_2.html I’ve been really getting into writing computer games in Java over the last 12 months. I tried all sorts of different libraries to find one which would help speed up the process and after trying a few like Java2D etc I came across Slick. This is an excellent library built on top of LWJGL (Light Weight Java Game Library). This also means that it uses accelerated graphics with full access to OpenGL. frameworks games java Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:12:10 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92935.html bloid 2008-07-06T19:12:10Z I’ve been really getting into writing computer games in Java over the last 12 months. I tried all sorts of different libraries to find one which would help speed up the process and after trying a few like Java2D etc I came across Slick. This is an excellent library built on top of LWJGL (Light Weight Java Game Library). This also means that it uses accelerated graphics with full access to OpenGL.]]> 92935 2008-07-06T19:12:10Z 1 0 20 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92935.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/generate_state_machine_diagrams_from_your_poco_en.html This is just an idea!... Don't use a modeling tool or DSL to generate code. Instead, use a fluent interface to express state machines in your POCO entities. Then, automatically generate diagrams from the code, and use these to facilitate communication with project stakeholders. .net frameworks methodology opinion Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:11:46 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92934.html tobinharris 2008-07-06T19:11:46Z This is just an idea!... Don't use a modeling tool or DSL to generate code. Instead, use a fluent interface to express state machines in your POCO entities. Then, automatically generate diagrams from the code, and use these to facilitate communication with project stakeholders.]]> 92934 2008-07-06T19:11:46Z 3 0 8 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92934.jpg tobinharris http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/301224.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/tabbed_navigation_using_jquery.html Someone asked me to show how I created the tabbed navigation thing in my blog (right column). Just to let you know, I am just using an existing template for my blog, but wish to design one myself in future. css-html frameworks javascript Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:36:36 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92909.html bloid 2008-07-06T15:36:36Z Someone asked me to show how I created the tabbed navigation thing in my blog (right column). Just to let you know, I am just using an existing template for my blog, but wish to design one myself in future.]]> 92909 2008-07-06T15:36:36Z 3 0 17 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92909.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/pyshards_pythonbased_horizontal_partitioning_tool.html Pyshards is a pre-beta work-in-progress. If you are reading this and you are a developer with an interest in distributed-database schemes, search research, building high-volume web sites, sharding, python and mysql, then please post a message indicating your interest. I'd love to see others get involved. -Devin frameworks python Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:28:35 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92905.html bloid 2008-07-06T15:28:35Z Pyshards is a pre-beta work-in-progress. If you are reading this and you are a developer with an interest in distributed-database schemes, search research, building high-volume web sites, sharding, python and mysql, then please post a message indicating your interest. I'd love to see others get involved. -Devin]]> 92905 2008-07-06T15:28:35Z 2 0 11 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92905.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/netbeans_platform_tip_booleanstateactions.html How to create toggle buttons and checkbox menu items on the NetBeans Platform. frameworks java Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:19:55 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92893.html geertjan 2008-07-06T12:19:55Z How to create toggle buttons and checkbox menu items on the NetBeans Platform.]]> 92893 2008-07-06T12:19:55Z 3 0 6 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92893.jpg geertjan http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/250147.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/stl_redux.html Funny to see that claiming that the following code is readable stirred up quite a few comments. std::transform( list.begin(), list.end(), std::back_inserter( res ), std::bind2nd( std::plus>(), 42 ) ); Now, there are basically three points that you guys like to point out c-and-cpp frameworks opinion Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:57:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92887.html bloid 2008-07-06T11:57:52Z Funny to see that claiming that the following code is readable stirred up quite a few comments. std::transform( list.begin(), list.end(), std::back_inserter( res ), std::bind2nd( std::plus>(), 42 ) ); Now, there are basically three points that you guys like to point out]]> 92887 2008-07-06T11:57:52Z 3 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92887.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/flex_blazeds_spring_hibernate_all_together_with_m.html For those who wants to play with Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, Hibernate using a set of Maven projet, François le Droff wrote a good article. He managed to set-up a nice environment that was really helpfull for me when I started to add maven support to my own project. flash-flex frameworks tools Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:20:44 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92878.html bloid 2008-07-06T11:20:44Z For those who wants to play with Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, Hibernate using a set of Maven projet, François le Droff wrote a good article. He managed to set-up a nice environment that was really helpfull for me when I started to add maven support to my own project.]]> 92878 2008-07-06T11:20:44Z 3 0 13 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92878.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/grails_portlets_plugin.html This plugin aims to provide a simple (grails) way of developing JSR-168/JSR268 portlets using well known Grails conventions that can be deployed to any compliant Portal. frameworks groovy Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:59:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92867.html bloid 2008-07-06T09:59:13Z This plugin aims to provide a simple (grails) way of developing JSR-168/JSR268 portlets using well known Grails conventions that can be deployed to any compliant Portal.]]> 92867 2008-07-06T09:59:13Z 2 0 11 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92867.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/nsmaptable_more_than_an_nsdictionary_for_weak_poi.html NSMapTable is collection class that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). At first glance, it would appear to be most useful as an NSDictionary replacement that can choose between "strong" and "weak" pointers. In this post, I'll show you why it is also useful outside garbage collection and how it can do things that NSDictionary can't (or shouldn't) do. apple frameworks other languages Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:58:34 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92866.html bloid 2008-07-06T09:58:34Z NSMapTable is collection class that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). At first glance, it would appear to be most useful as an NSDictionary replacement that can choose between "strong" and "weak" pointers. In this post, I'll show you why it is also useful outside garbage collection and how it can do things that NSDictionary can't (or shouldn't) do.]]> 92866 2008-07-06T09:58:34Z 3 0 1 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92866.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/mocking_linq_to_sql_datacontext.html In Linq to Sql we always work with a DataContext object (which doesn’t implement any interface) which exposes the database tables as Table> (which do not implement an interface either). This means it’s not possible to mock either the DataContext or the data tables without using expensive mocking software (for example, Typemock.net). So it isn’t really possible to unit test your Linq to SLQ queries without being connected to the underlying data source – not ideal. But fear not, here is a generic solution to this problem. .net frameworks Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:35:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92856.html bloid 2008-07-06T07:35:20Z In Linq to Sql we always work with a DataContext object (which doesn’t implement any interface) which exposes the database tables as Table> (which do not implement an interface either). This means it’s not possible to mock either the DataContext or the data tables without using expensive mocking software (for example, Typemock.net). So it isn’t really possible to unit test your Linq to SLQ queries without being connected to the underlying data source – not ideal. But fear not, here is a generic solution to this problem.]]> 92856 2008-07-06T07:35:20Z 3 0 8 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92856.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/mate_a_tagbased_eventdriven_framework_for_flex_ap.html Mate, a tag-based, event-driven framework for Flex applications .. flash-flex frameworks ria Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:24:58 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92844.html mrinalwadhwa 2008-07-06T02:24:58Z Mate, a tag-based, event-driven framework for Flex applications ..]]> 92844 2008-07-06T02:24:58Z 3 0 16 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92844.jpg mrinalwadhwa http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/290528.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/from_flash_to_cocoa_nsviewcontroller.html My world has mainly been encompassed by Flash and Actionscript. That being said though, I am always trying/learning new things. The Cocoa display hierarchy, being a Actionscript oriented person, kinda threw me for a loop, then I listened to this podcast apple flash-flex frameworks Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:03:44 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92835.html bloid 2008-07-05T23:03:44Z My world has mainly been encompassed by Flash and Actionscript. That being said though, I am always trying/learning new things. The Cocoa display hierarchy, being a Actionscript oriented person, kinda threw me for a loop, then I listened to this podcast]]> 92835 2008-07-05T23:03:44Z 2 0 12 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92835.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/grails_on_ubuntu_hardy.html So, while reading up on Groovy and Grails I wanted to play with it on my Ubuntu Hardy laptop. I already had the sun-java6-jre package installed so I could do standard Java stuff. However, in order to publish a Grails application, which is required in order to run it, you need the JDK. So I also installed sun-java6-jdk. It’s possible I should have just removed the JRE and replaced it with the JDK, but the Ubuntu package manager didn’t complain, so I didn’t. frameworks groovy java unix-linux Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:29:19 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92787.html bloid 2008-07-05T17:29:19Z So, while reading up on Groovy and Grails I wanted to play with it on my Ubuntu Hardy laptop. I already had the sun-java6-jre package installed so I could do standard Java stuff. However, in order to publish a Grails application, which is required in order to run it, you need the JDK. So I also installed sun-java6-jdk. It’s possible I should have just removed the JRE and replaced it with the JDK, but the Ubuntu package manager didn’t complain, so I didn’t.]]> 92787 2008-07-05T17:29:19Z 2 0 15 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92787.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/grails_bootstrapping.html So outside of the project I've been describing in various posts thus far, I have a Grails application that I've developed for my real job. The application manages personnel data related to the industry I'm in. The data can originate from our website, or through a phone screening partner. The phone screening partner manages an Excel spreadsheet for all of the data that they collect, and it's my job to merge that data back into our central database. frameworks groovy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:25:03 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92565.html bloid 2008-07-04T13:25:03Z So outside of the project I've been describing in various posts thus far, I have a Grails application that I've developed for my real job. The application manages personnel data related to the industry I'm in. The data can originate from our website, or through a phone screening partner. The phone screening partner manages an Excel spreadsheet for all of the data that they collect, and it's my job to merge that data back into our central database.]]> 92565 2008-07-04T13:25:03Z 3 0 27 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92565.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif