Firefox 3 Themes
Here are some screen shots of the new themes for Firefox 3 for Vista, Linux, OS X and XP.
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Build Beautiful Buttons in Photoshop, Part I
Nothing says Web 2.0 more than a shiny button. Of course, the "shiny plastic" look-and-feel is not for everyone, but good-looking navigation buttons... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Tool Roundup for Silverlight
Many organizations are evaluating Silverlight for usage within their business applications. Today official Microsoft development tool options are... more »
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The JVM is Great, But...
Much of the interest in dynamic languages like Groovy, JRuby, and Scala comes from running on the JVM. That lets them leverage the tremendous R&D... more »
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dynamic invocation in the VM
For several years now, JSR 292 has promised an invokedynamic instruction in one form or another. The problem has been with picking the one form that... more »
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Opera Dragonfly Architecture
This article covers the architecture of Opera Dragonfly in detail, showing what the different components in the architecture are, and how they... more »
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Eclipse Prepares for 3.4 with Feature Complete Milestone Release
The final milestone and feature-complete version of Eclipse 3.4M7 was released on Friday, with a number of improvements over the previous Eclipse 3.3... more »
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Mac Style Flash Menu in AS3 with source
Nice Mac Style flash menu built using ActionScript 3 with source code provided and several implementation tips in the comments.
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Continuations in the VM
I don't know of a full design for JVM continuations, yet, but it's possible to observe both the easy and the hard parts, and to survey some of the... more »
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NVIDIA is shaking up the parallel programming world
Anyone who’s ever taken a course in computer programming knows how difficult it is to get a computer to do what you want it to. This is especially... more »
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Exceptional Java - Thoughts on Java exceptions
Dealing with exceptions is hard. For a while now in the Java world there are two camps. One considers the initial design of the Java exceptions system... more »
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Top 10 Blogs for Web Developers
Being a web developer is hard these days. From Flex to Silverlight and ASP to PHP, the choices of technology is almost endless, and a good developer... more »
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Java : if (compete with PHP / Ruby / Python) { stop fixing the syntax and start fixing the runtime }
A lot of people are wondering whether Java is under threat from a set of nimble languages - PHP / Ruby / Python / Perl. This post suggests the... more »
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If a programming language was a boat…
This one is inspired by a recent forum post, that still leaves me in amazement. Hi, Im wondering how i can create a boat in turing and if... more »
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IBM Blocking Business Partners from Conferences
From Darryl Taft at eWeek: IBM is disinviting paid, exhibiting vendors to the Rational Conference only a few weeks before it begins. Even IBM business... more »
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the list of MXML/AS3 editor or development environment besides Flex Builder
Outside of the Flash interface, what do you guys use to edit and debug your AS3 classes in? I use Flex Builder for the brunt,but when I have no need... more »
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10 Ways to get an Article on DZone
I like DZone. I have been reading stories posted there for a least a year now. It is a great place to go if you want to stay on top of new... more »
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Making Graphviz diagrams pretty with XSL
A couple of years back I posted on my blog about an XSL transformation I used to clean up Graphviz output to make my diagrams prettier. I never posted... more »
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iText 2.1.0: iText Split into Different Jars
The release of iText 2.1.0 was announced for the end of February. It had to be a very joyful event, with a lot of promotion, a new site, and so on...
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the list of helpful Flex or Flash debug tools
For finding and reducing the number of bugs or defects,after your projects are built into applications you can run and debug them in Flex Builder or... more »
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Ext.ux.YoutubePlayer - a mediaplayer for Ext JS
I needed a mediaplayer for my application and I thought I should share it with the Ext JS community. The user extension implements the Youtube... more »
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SVG + CSS Animations = Fisheye Fun
One of the most interesting things in Safari 3.1 is the (hopefully soon to be proposed and standardized as part of the CSS3 spec) CSS Animations. CSS... more »
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Flex / AIR Serialization Lessons Learned
A few lessons learned while serializing custom classes
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What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
This is an article on how memory and software interact. The article is more of a book with its 100 pages so it is split into 9 pieces. It is... more »
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