This article explains how you can improve the performance of I/O-intensive Java applications running on Linux and UNIX platforms through a technique called zero copy. Zero copy lets you avoid redundant data copies between intermediate buffers and reduces the number of context switches between user space and kernel space.

ITWire's well-written article on Microsoft advertising campaign with some historical links. Microsoft are poised to launch a new $USD 300 million advertising campaign this week, starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld among others. The marketing types responsible are intending to counter Apple’s successful "I’m a Mac" line, but the slogan picked out is simply on the wrong foot from the start and is thwarted by Linux immediately.

Java Web Start provides the power to launch full-featured applications with a single click; the link points to a JNLP file, which instructs Java Web Start to download, cache and run the application.

HtmlCleaner is Java library used to safely parse and transform any HTML found on web to well-formed XML. It is designed to be small, fast, flexible and independant. HtmlCleaner may be used in java code, as command line tool or as Ant task. Result of parsing is lightweight document object model which can easily be transformed to standards like DOM or JDom, or serialized to XML output in various ways (compact, pretty printed and so on).

I have here a collection of 20 of my favorite quotes from the famous free software evangelist and living legend Richard M. Stallman. I hope you will all like this one. Here it goes...

Ten things that commonly slows down your application's experience, raging from date manipulation to hardware heavy use. Basically Java-related.

A follow-up of "CERT C secure coding standard", but for C++.

The CERT C Secure Coding Standard provides rules and recommendations for secure coding in the C programming language. The goal of these rules and recommendations is to eliminate insecure coding practices and undefined behaviors that can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities. The application of the secure coding standard will lead to higher-quality systems that are robust and more resistant to attack.

Do you shy away from complicated programming language techniques? Have you never quite had the time to understand the finer details of copy constructor or linked lists? You may be missing out on some powerful problem-solving mechanisms, and author Stephen Morris leads you through them.

How do we design and build the Presentation tier of an application in an increasingly service-oriented world? We believe there is a definite answer, although it is not a particular technology but rather an Architectural style. We call this style SOFEA, for Service-oriented front-end architecture.

Have you wondered what API changes have been made across your libraries' versions? Or between JDK 1.4 and JDK 5 for the java.lang or java.util package? I did find an open source alternative - JDiff. JDiff is really easy to use and produces very useful API diff reports.

No matter what you think about Semantic web initiative, the SWEO interest group (W3C division) announces the first release of the Semantic web FAQ with answers to questions covering Semantic web standards and their usage.

NOELIOS Consulting has announced the final 1.0 version of its Noelios Restlet Engine (NRE), the reference implementation of the Restlet API 1.0. The Restlet open source project was launched at the end of 2005 and was the first REST framework for Java.

I found myself profiling yet again due to a Hibernate related performance issue. One of this things that stuck me as odd was that at the lowest level Hibernate is still using the column name version of the ResultSet 'get' accessors. I thought it was a pretty well known fact that using the column numbers to read data from resultsets was more efficient that the column name counterpart. ie rs.getString(int) instead of rs.getString(colname).

SE-PostgreSQL makes use of the labeling and Mandatory Access Control (MAC) features that SELinux provides. It provides a mechanism for controlling access to information in a database in a very fine-graned manner. You can apply access control based on rows, columns, tables, databases, etc.

Simple download link can't tell you what error has occured without redirection to another error page, and we wanted to display to operators a nice javascript alert with a long error description. How we solved it with anywhere-existing AJAX.

As an addition to http://www.dzone.com/links/country_name_and_iso_3166_code_mysql_import_file.html : here are flag icons for (almost?) all countries in one GIF or PNG file. Also check out his icon set "Silk" with more that 700 pieces.

Many people make the mistake of using tags for appearance only in their websites, but with semantics you get the benefit of describing your data as well. This article is aimed at semantic mark-up beginners, including ones who want to learn more about code so they can ensure their sites are semantically correct. It also shows the mark-up available and it’s usage.

“ModernCaptcha” is a simple script in order to prevent spam in a very user friendly way. Your visitors don’t have to type some characters -- the verification is made by choosing the company name belonging to the logo that is shown. As always, also read discussion below blog post.

HtmlCleaner is open-source HTML parser written in Java. HTML found on Web is usually dirty, ill-formed and unsuitable for further processing. For any serious consumption of such documents, it is necessary to first clean up the mess and bring the order to tags, attributes and ordinary text.

"I’ve created this site because there are lots really interesting videos on the Net, but if you’d like to fine some good tech video, it is not so simple to find them.". Development-related screencasts.

Various performance tips.

Large introduction to Microformats, its purpose, present adoption and possible futures.

"While working on optimizing page load times for a high-profile AJAX application, I looked into how the HTTP client implementation in common browsers and characteristics of common Internet connections affect page load time for pages with many small objects." Refreshingly-new point of view.

List of many CSS-related tools: fonts, for builders, various layout creators, compressors, validators and so on.