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Erlang meets Lisp (again)
There seems to be an interesting attraction between Erlang and Lisp and several times it has been tried to marry them, in different ways. Bill... more »
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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3
Let's dive in past Firefox 3's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and customizations.
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Subversion Turns 1.5
Given the number of developers using Subversion, I'm surprised that no one on my blogroll has mentioned the new Subversion clients released in the... more »
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Tomcat Today, GlassFish Tomorrow?
While there are indeed several advantages to using GlassFish vs. Tomcat, it's probably useful to know that Sun is the original creator of Tomcat and... more »
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Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX
It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe... more »
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Java ME User Interfaces: Do It with LWUIT!
Java ME user interfaces are about to get an exciting boost with the early release of a new library and tool from Sun called LWUIT.
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Josh Bloch: How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
A Google video you may have missed but probably want to watch.
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BTrace == DTrace for Java
Last week, I was trying to nail down a bug in SunWikis that was triggered by some kind of race condition. These kinds of issues are pretty nasty,... more »
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What is Cloning? How clone() method works in Java?
A good chain of articles to understand Cloning in Java, Shallow Copy, Deep Copy, Differences between two, etc.
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Java One Liner - Reading a Text File At Once
Is it a one liner, is it not?
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Diary of a Failed Startup: Postmortem
So, here's the collection of lessons learned. I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life... more »
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GPL’d Java vs. Gosling Emacs
A nice comment on a slashdot story reporting on made advances in opening up Java taught me a few nice trivias on the history between Richard Stallman... more »
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8 Million Downloads: A Record? (cartoon)
The uptake on Firefox 3 was certainly swift, but...
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Getting Started with Flex 3 - Pocket Guide for Developers
Here is a new pocket guide for Flex 3.0 that somehow slipped past me. I haven't seen this book mentioned anywhere. Things have been mega busy over the... more »
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Microsoft Keeps on Innovating
One reason why Microsoft innovates time and time again is because it invests a lot of capital in its R&D teams. I came across this article this... more »
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Java developers should learn Ruby
Okay, it doesn't have to be Ruby. Pick some other language. Pick Erlang, or even JavaScript. It doesn't matter really matter, as long as it's... more »
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Eclipse Ganymede at a glance
The Eclipse Ganymede release of 24 projects showcases the diversity and innovation going on inside the Eclipse ecosystem. Get an overview of several... more »
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You Might be Overengineering your Project If ...
Really nice and funny description of the symptoms of the overengineering ... I recognized most of my old projects ...
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Blame Sun for that?
We all know the big mistakes Sun did in inventing RIAs with Applets more than ten years ago, and now finding itself in the position of chasing... more »
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Top 10 Firefox Addons for Web Designers
Yesterday I was browsing the Firefox addons directory looking for an addon that would notify me when I had mail with the old “You’ve got mail” sound... more »
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Idempotent? Don't be ashamed!
You may not realize it, but being idempotent can be a good thing. Seriously. This is no laughing matter.
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How is my C# code converted into machine instructions?
As we all know that our .NET code (C#, VB.NET etc) are converted into MSIL instructions which in turn are put into the assemblies. MSIL is a high... more »
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SproutCore: Being talked of as a Flash killer? Really?
It may be going a little far to hype up Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore.
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Effective Dashboard Design Practices
Through conversations with many customers, I’ve been asked either directly or indirectly what makes a dashboard good in terms of design. Put it... more »
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A git Primer
Well, more like the sanding that comes before the primer.
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