HtmlUnit in .NET and HtmlUnit in JRuby with Celerity as fast compatible alternative to Watir
Java and Groovy are my main programming languages (as well as JavaScript for scripts in HTML pages) therefore it’s always funny for me to see that... more »
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Free services for Web developers
Most services needed to develop, manage, and deploy a website are free, except for hosting perhaps. Version control, project management, bug tracking... more »
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480+ free and fresh icon sets help you to create your beautiful skins and themes in Flex
15+ Strongly Recommend Tutorials You Must Read for Creating Skins and Themes( UI Design ) in Flex, we have collected some wonderful tutoials. It helps... more »
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JSON services in ASP.NET Ajax
Lately the use of client centric development model in .NET is getting increasingly popular. In contrast to the traditional server model where html... more »
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Dynamic Languages Strike Back
Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week. Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
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I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Javadoc Analyzer in NetBeans 6.1
NetBeans 5.5 contained a useful tool called the ‘Javadoc Auto Comment’ feature. With the heavy rewrite of the NetBeans internals in version 6.0, the... more »
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Terracotta: 1, Grails Searchable Plugin+Me: 0
I’m on a quest to figure out how to cluster the Grails Searchable plugin that’s based on Lucene/Compass across multiple nodes with as little intrusion... more »
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Thinking in JVM languages
When I find a language expressive enough to implement the programming idioms succinctly, I like to use the language in my projects. But I constantly... more »
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code... more »
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JavaOne Script Bowl
The Script Bowl was a smackdown between the next generation JVM languages Groovy, JRuby, Jython, and Scala. Voting was conducted American Idol... more »
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Reading EXIF data with Javascript
A small Javascript library capable of reading EXIF information data from JPEG image files.
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Task Management Using vim
Task management is a sensitive issue. Even the ones who do not explicitly manage tasks are defensive about how they do it. I was one of them for quite... more »
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JavaScript in CSS, ugly but intresting
A look into CSS Expression to control CSS properties through javascript.
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What arrays and pointers have in common - or - Why arrays start at zero
Every now and again someone asks why do array indexes start at zero rather than one? It's a good question, because the 1st item in the array... more »
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Comparing TWO continous build tools: Cruise Control and Hudson
A small comparision between TWO famous continous integration tools.
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The 7 Rules of Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement
In this article I want to point out the reasons why progressive enhancement is a very clever way of developing software and give you some tips and... more »
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Scala for NetBeans Screenshot#12: Better Completion with More Types Inferred
Well, the type inference work is not so easy (with performance in mind), but anyway, I've got a bit more progress, at least, the chained member call... more »
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JFugue Music Application Platform
I suddenly realized that instead of turning Matt Warman's whole JFrets application into a single NetBeans module, I could turn each of its parts into... more »
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Creating great thumbnails in ASP.NET
An alternative to the built in thumbnail generator with better quality and much smaller file sizes.
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Swing links of the week: May 11, 2008
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week:
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Major themes of JavaOne: REST, Ruby and NetBeans
Hundreds of sessions, thousands of people...and what did I come away with? Lots of t-shirts, plush toys, and more t-shirts. Oh, and 3 main things... more »
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JGAP 3.3.3 released (Java Genetic Algorithms Package)
JGAP is a sophisticated Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming package written in Java. JGAP version 3.3.3 is an extensive release, featuring... more »
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Android handset
Android handset in the wild - E28
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Google I/O and GWT Extreme!
I've been invited to do a session at the upcoming Google I/O conference. The initial idea was to do a presentation on Syndroid, but I felt that was... more »
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