Agile User Interface Development
Two important disciplines in the area of software development have emerged over the last decade - Agile software development and user-centered design... more »
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Groovy 101: Importing XML in your database
bloid 
via tugdualgrall.blogspot.com
Groovy provides really simple solution to parse XML and manipulate your database. The following sample reads an RSS new feed and import the title and... more »
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When Your Employee Develops Open-Source Code on the Company Payroll
One of your developers wants to extend an open-source application to solve a company problem, then contribute the code back to the community. That's... more »
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Is Eclipse adoption peaking?
The rise and rise of Eclipse, the open-source tools platform, is now an old and familiar story. It’s possible though that Eclipse adoption is nearing... more »
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Plotr: Javascript Charting Framework
bloid via solutoire.com
Some time ago I was looking for a charting framework for Prototype and I couldn’t find it, just because there’s none. I came across PlotKit, a well... more »
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Tuning Derby
bloid via onjava.com
There is a big difference in the behavior of a database when it is populated with a small amount of test inputs and when it holds a large amount of... more »
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Breaking News: PDF to become an open, ISO standard
Adobe Systems Inc. on Jan. 29 announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for... more »
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Two-Thirds of Developers Now Use Eclipse
Two-thirds of enterprise software developers—66.3 percent—use Eclipse. That’s according to the most recent Eclipse Adoption Study, conducted by BZ... more »
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Why Piracy Hurts Open Source
All that is one side of the piracy issue. In the attached article, John looks at this from a different direction. He shows you why software piracy... more »
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Testing GUI applications with TestNG
As I mentioned a few months ago, there are a number of frameworks available that facilitate testing various GUI frameworks; however, of late, I have... more »
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Groovy’s the elixir for report overload syndrome
As I was sitting on a plane recently I found myself looking for an easy way to disseminate the valuable data from the categories above in an effective... more »
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An Agile Development Environment
All agile methodologies preach delivering working software early and continuously. To achieve this an automated development environment is beneficial.... more »
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Image Thumbnail Viewer
Image Thumbnail Viewer is a compact, unobtrusive image viewer that can be applied to any link on the page to load the desired image inside a sleek... more »
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Firebug: One Dot Oh
bloid via getfirebug.com
On January 12th, 2006 I released the first public version of a thing called Firebug. One year and twelve days later I am happy to announce that the... more »
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Agile Development In 30 Seconds
Get all the facts quick and easy.
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Many Eyes - java visualization technology
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Pretty cool Java visualization technology from IBM with a bunch of sample data sets.
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Codestriker - web-based code reviewing
Codestriker is an open-sourced web application which supports online code reviewing and is integrated with SCMs and issue tracking systems. Using... more »
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Sun Isn't Relevant to Startups
I just watched another Scoble Show interview with Jonathan Schwartz, and it reminded me how frustrated I continue to be with Sun, particularly their... more »
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jEdit - A Programmer's Text Editor
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit... more »
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RSS for Subversion Repository!
How do you know when a remote repository is updated? You need to know when to sync (read: update). Heaven forbid we miss when a killer new feature is... more »
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AHAH: Asychronous HTML and HTTP
AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments... more »
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Objects, Classes, and Constructors, Smalltalk Style
Smalltalk is a language that “allows” one to write great code, it never feels like it gets in your way, however many things in Smalltalk, are done by... more »
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Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP
A little while ago, I was working on an intranet site for a mid-sized company. As the site grew in both size and popularity, the assigner requested me... more »
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I like refactoring and I can not lie
Oh my goodness. Paul, look at that code. It’s so big.
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Intro to Python programming
LinuxForums gives good intro to Python. This is fast way to get started with Python.
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