New universal SQLite JDBC library.
Both Talend (Java) and Kettle distribute the Zentus.com pure-Java SQLite JDBC driver and for most purposes this run-anywhere version is fine. But, if... more »
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JavaFX - A Forever Unfinished RIA Technology?
The answer was horrifying. It is still not done and production ready. The JavaFX project has been around for quite some time now, and it is still not... more »
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True Temporal Based RDBMS engines
When I teach, I frequently discuss temporal based data sets - after all, that's a big piece of what data warehousing and BI is about - Data Over Time.... more »
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When Not to Refactor
Refactoring is part of a software developers work. General rule of thumb I always used is if you see code that smells (for instance duplication) you... more »
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Introducing a Lightweight UI Toolkit: Bringing Desktop Development into Java ME
Sun Microsystems announced LWUIT at the last JavaOne Conference. It is an advanced user interface library, a feature much desired by JavaME... more »
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Introducing Web Analytics 2.0
Web Analytics 2.0 is: (1) the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your website and the competition, (2) to drive a continual... more »
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Wikipedia: Unusual Software Bug
Heisenbugs, Bohrbug, Mandelbugs, Schroedinbugs, Stotle, Phase of the moon bugs, Statistical bugs, Ghost in the code !
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To Thread or not to Thread? That is the Question. — AiGameDev.com
To sum up, the cause of the whole problem was that the database and the hard drives were allowed, even for a moment to be out of sync. That RAID... more »
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The Heart of Innovation: Outsourcing Best Practices Revealed!
In an extraordinary move, destined to be emulated by forward thinking business leaders around the world ...
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Check All Checkboxes with JQuery
I've been working with JQuery quite a bit lately and I'm aggravated that I didn't pick it up sooner. Someone on the DFW CFUG mailing list asked for a... more »
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Coding Horror: Maybe Normalizing Isn't Normal
One of the items we're struggling with now on Stack Overflow is how to maintain near-instantaneous performance levels in a relational database as the... more »
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OpenSocial API Blog: Use AJAX Libraries API to speed up OpenSocial apps
Do you use popular JavaScript frameworks like Prototype or jQuery in your OpenSocial applications? Do you share the pain your users might feel when... more »
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Algorithm Ink and ContextFree.js - generative art with Javascript
Currently Firefox, Safari and Opera have reasonable support for the Canvas HTML element. With IE the only major remaining laggard, there are a lot of... more »
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jMonkey Engine: Scene Monitor (1.0)
Scene Monitor allows a user to visibly explore the structure of a scene graph while the application is running. A tree model captures all elements of... more »
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Is Stream-oriented a better UI paradigm than Document-oriented for today's knowledge workers?
Really, what I mostly do today is stream management. And I suspect this is true for the vast majority of people. I don’t deal with writing documents,... more »
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Radar Love: JavaFX Animation Examples by Sven
You may recall that I've featured some of Sven Drieling's work previously in this blog, for example in the JavaFX Animation - Some of Sven's Canvas... more »
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Coding Horror: iTunes is Anti-Web
Ever find yourself clicking on links to music or videos and getting blasted in the face with this delightful little number?
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Vulnerability Note VU#800113 : Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning
Deficiencies in the DNS protocol and common DNS implementations facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.
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The Chatbot Game
The Chatbot Game is a bit like a social news site. To play the game, you submit chat rules, which you can think of as being similar to news... more »
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Google Uses Flex for Lively UI?
However, the bigger news for RIA developers, and especially Flex developers, is the technology that they used to build it. From this Flickr... more »
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An Astonishing Collaboration
So there’s a bug in DNS, the name-to-address mapping system at the core of most Internet services. DNS goes bad, every website goes bad, and every... more »
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Understanding Behavior Trees
One of the primary goals of game AI is finding a simple and scalable solution for editing logic. Finite state machines have the advantage of being... more »
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Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications
No special development tools are required in order to take advantage of Google's mapping API; all that is necessary is a text editor, Web browser, and... more »
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Adding Google Maps To Your Rails Applications
Although there's nothing preventing you from linking to Google's mapping JavaScript API and referencing the library directly from your views, jumping... more »
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Google : 1 web page over 1000 is Infected by Malwares
Google have investigated billions of URLs and found more than three million unique URLs on over 180,000 web sites automatically installing malware.
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