Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol
Microsoft proposes OData as the web data protocol while Google uses GData. Microsoft invites Google to join forces with them in adopting OData. Will... more »
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Best Wordpress Themes Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark
A blogger always need a professional and best wordpress theme. When started Smashing Share as a Blogger three months back, I went through all... more »
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Part 2: Using structured patterns as a basis for high-level parallel programming: selection
Selection chooses the results from one of two alternative tasks based on a condition. This can be used for speculative parallel execution, where both... more »
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Closures after all?
Mark Reinhold announces adding closures to JDK 7 at Devoxx?
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Cairngorm: All the worst parts of Java
Like many Flex developers, I came to Flex development after a long stay in the Java world. For many years, Java and the surrounding community provided... more »
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Strategies on How To Motivate Users to Sign Up Through Design
Be it web-based applications or online services, they are taking the internet by storm. Many websites introducing these services are created and... more »
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Dependency Injection Obscures Your Code
During listening to Software Engineering Radio's Episode 148 - "Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas", I got quite annoyed by a comment made by one... more »
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What every developer should know about character encoding
If you write code that touches a text file, you probably need this. It start off with two key items 1.Unicode does not solve this issue for... more »
DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14
Florian Mueller, a former MySQL investor, gives an answer to the question: What third-party should Oracle sell MySQL to? The answer might surprise... more »
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Spring 3 Example Portlet and Overview
Spring Source pushed the first release candidate of Spring 3 a little more than a month ago; for portlet developers, the most notable enhancements are... more »
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The Characteristics of a Less Conventional Website with Examples
The evolution of web design has changed significantly over the past 50 years. Back then, a Geocity webpage could be as simple as a brochure, using a... more »
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Free web hosting
When it comes to website hosting, many would favor free hosting rather than fork out money for it. This leads them to search for free web hosting.... more »
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Is HTML5 good for application developers?
HTML5 will make the Web browser into an application runtime environment similar to how Java and .NET work, but will use a mishmash of old technologies... more »
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New to Java programming?
This provides an overview of Java technology basics and explains how the technology fits into the context of contemporary software development. Links... more »
Testing and constructors
One of the pillars of design for testability, which is listed also in the Google guide for code reviewers, is to have constructors that do not contain... more »
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UML Tutorial
Learning UML in simple and easy steps : A beginner's tutorial containing complete knowledge of UML architecture, diagrams, notations examples with... more »
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SOA needs manifestation….not manifesto
I’ll bet that it felt like a momentous achievement to get a group of very well-known bloggers, analysts and technologists to agree on a “manifesto”... more »
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Writing Portable Data - The Why's and How's
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There are many reasons for designing and implementing data base schemas that are portable. This post outlines the reasons why you should be writing... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5
Oracle's defiance on the issue of MySQL could lead to a formal statement of objections by the EU. In other news, the W3C is meeting this week to... more »
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Everything you wanted to know about Encoding, charsets and File formats
Here you will find a lot of information about charsets unicode character blocks and many more information
Java SE: “Is That For Here Or To Go?”
Bundle a light version Java SE 6 runtime with your app to avoid dependency on public JRE while maintaining compatibility and keeping the download size... more »
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Key web development skills
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out... more »
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Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design
In the 90s, many areas of design- including fashion, home interiors, garden, and furniture, have evidenced a paring down to simple workable solutions.... more »
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Anti-patterns
Nothing prevents a programmer from implementing a coupled and ineffective solution, maybe without even knowing it, and just like with the more famous... more »
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Java Generics Tutorial
10 texts explaining Java generics. For instance how to create typed lists, sets and maps. The texts also explain how to use the new for-loop, and... more »
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