Security Holes (cartoon)
In the rush to clean up the Debian OpenSSL fiasco, a number of other major security holes have been discovered...
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How Not to Handle Streams
Let me tell you about what I did yesterday. I set out to write a little HTTP proxy server that would transfer large ( 1GB) files to and from Amazon... more »
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REST Service XML Output in Grails via Content Negotiation
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The content negotiation feature in Grails is pretty cool. In a nutshell, it allows you to return different formats based on the request of your page.
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Groovy Presentation at eBay available
bloid via iacobus.blogspot.com
I got the opportunity to present an introduction to groovy at eBay this past May 9th. It is now available from the Groovy Codehaus site
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Why should I care about OSGi anyway?
bloid via blog.springsource.com
InfoQ has a discussion thread summarizing the reactions to the announcement of the SpringSource Application Plaform. Michael Burke asked a great... more »
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Concurrency with MPI in .NET
bloid via weblogs.asp.net
In my previous post, I looked at some of the options we have for concurrency programming in .NET applications. One of the interesting ones, yet... more »
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Spring WebFlow 2.0; JavaScript Module Released
bloid via ajaxian.com
Spring Web Flow 2.0 has been released which includes a new Spring JavaScript module. Here is an example of an onclick wrapper calling an Ajax... more »
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More image uploading: ImageTools, Transients and Grails
bloid via fbflex.wordpress.com
Something that I have come across in my experimentation with Grails is the need to have UI elements in the screen that map to more complex elements in... more »
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Javascript Madness: Introduction
bloid via unixpapa.com
Ideally, we would be able to write single Javascript programs that would work on all browsers. In practice, this is only possible if you are willing... more »
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Building a Mindset for Rapid Iteration Part 2: Some Patterns to Follow and Pitfalls to Avoid
bloid via gamasutra.com
Looks at methodologies that can be employed to keep a game development project moving towards completion, but a lot of the stuff can be applied to any... more »
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Type inference thoughts
bloid via larswestergren.blogspot.com
I have been wondering about one thing and throw out this question just in case someone possibly reads my blog - does type inference bring any benefits... more »
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jQuery Interactive Date Range Picker with Shortcuts
We recently modified jQuery UI's Datepicker, created and maintained by jQuery UI contributor Mark Grabanski. Our version is optimized for quickly... more »
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jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu
We created an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. It's especially helpful when organizing... more »
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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 40: Data Importing
Today our special guest is Lorna Mitchell. Lorna is a Developer at Ibuildings in the UK, and is based in Leeds in the North of England. She is a Zend... more »
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Scaling MySQL Beyond LAMP Websites
MySQL has established itself as the most popular database in the world, powering more web applications than any other database. Since many companies... more »
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Searching for string within a file with Delphi
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To search for a specific substring within any type of file, we can use this rather complex function.
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Why OpenGL 3.0 is Important
Some questions have come up in regards to my last post, The Ghost of OpenGL 3.0, and one of them keeps popping out on top: Why do we need OpenGL 3.0... more »
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Grizzly's OSGi bundles
Grizzly has OSGi bundles available for a while, but we haven't made any noise about it yet to let the spotlight on GlassFish v3. Since OSGi is the... more »
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Java Mobility Podcast 46: LWUIT - Lightweight UI Toolkit
bloid via today.java.net
The Lightweight UI Toolkit development team gather in a round table discussion about the library, it's goal and the impending open sourcing issues.
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Where can I get NetBeans plugins still in development?
Some plugins are still in development. For NetBeans 6.1, these are for instance Prolog, Jalopy, and Groovy/Grails plug-ins. You will not find them in... more »
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Write Haskell as fast as C: exploiting strictness, laziness and recursion
In a recent mailing list thread Andrew Coppin complained of poor performance with "nice, declarative" code for computing the mean of a very large... more »
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Fast LZW Compression Using Binary Tree
bloid via codeproject.com
LZW compression. I decided that day to read about it and try to implement this so nice idea algorithm, and I spent a long time to make it as fast as I... more »
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Whither PyObjC?
bloid via orestis.gr
If you like Python and you like Mac OS X, you should really check out PyObjC. It’s a bridge that allows you to create first-class Cocoa... more »
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Gratuitous Text Effects Courtesy of Flash Player 10
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Now that I've figured out how to compile SWFs for Flash Player 10 beta using the Flex SDK nightly builds, I'm happy. There may not be any proper API... more »
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Deployment is Colonization
bloid via oreillynet.com
For years, many people have argued that one of PHP’s big successes is deployment. The language has little to recommend it for anything beyond simple... more »
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