Why windows is less secure than linux
Came across this fascinating article on ZDNet, they say a picture is worth a thousand words and that’s certainly true in this case. The first show’s... more »
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AGILE Enough is Enough!
This trendily named method is nothing new, as I have come across it at various points throughout my IT career. However, in those days it was referred... more »
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Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing: "When is this idiocy going to stop?"
Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet,... more »
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Google: Flash is not "open enough"
I asked Almaer why Google makes little use of Adobe Systems' Flash, YouTube aside, and he gave a forthright answer. Flash is not "open enough," he... more »
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Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing: When is this idiocy going to stop?
Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet,... more »
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SpringSource enhances product differentiation with enterprise maintenance upgrade
This is good for SpringSource customers, and should be good for SpringSource's top-line revenue as it should motivate more Spring users to become... more »
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New Spring maintenance policy - Please have your credit card ready.
Looks like we'll need to buy support on Spring to get ongoing bug fixes. I just saw that SpringSource formalized a maintenance policy... more »
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Apache Wicket 1.3.4 is released
The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the fourth maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.4. A lot of bugs have been squashed... more »
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The Cargo Cult of Test Driven Development
Test Driven Development(TDD) is an agile practice that has been slowly gaining traction. In the last year I have encountered quite a few podcasts and... more »
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SproutCore - Apple’s Cocoa-Inspired, Cross Platform JavaScript Framework (MIT license)
SproutCore makes it easy to build real applications for the web using menus, toolbars, drag and drop support, and foreign language localization, but... more »
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jQuery UI v1.5 Released, Focus on Consistent API and Effects
What we came up with, was an API that removed 95% of our exposed methods, and kept only one single overloaded method per plugin. It was extremely... more »
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I Don't Get Spring
By "Spring" I mean the Spring Framework, specifically the dependency injection container. First off, I mean no offense to Rod et al (you're all good... more »
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Criticisms of Spring
The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. Spring is huge,... more »
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