Ouch, what a mess, - Extjs goes GPL3
Stefan Koopmanschap 
via akbkhome.com
I think that basically sums up my reaction to Jack's GPLv3'ing a library. For those who are not aware, As I was not, when I visited the extjs web... more »
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Web 2.0 developers rank MSN/Live higher than Google, Yahoo and Facebook
Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google,... more »
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Scintilla basics in WxRuby
The basics of how to work the Scintilla component in WxRuby.
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Java theory and practice: Going wild with generics
One of the most complicated aspects of generics in the Java™ language is wildcards, and in particular, the treatment and confusing error messages... more »
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Web Services, Part 1: SOAP vs. REST
This is the first of a series of upcoming articles on Web Services. The article contains an introduction to Web Services, a high level overview and... more »
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Dark Side of Frameworks - Part II
My last post about frameworks criticized the Spring JDBC Template construct. I don’t really have anything against Spring in particular. My point,... more »
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Db4o refactorings....
How can we improve Db4o indexing configuration using C# 3.0 Expression Trees?
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Are applets making a comeback?
bloid via javaworld.com
Once the darling of the Internet, applets have fallen on hard times, largely ignored in favor of newer technologies such as Ajax, Flex/Flash, and... more »
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Are there weaknesses with Collective Code Ownership?
Many in the Agile community have been practicing Collective Code Ownership for a few years now and we've had time to find some of it faults.
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A Tale Of Two Waterfalls
bloid via thecodist.com
Exaggerated stories aside, the fundamental difference between the venerable (and sadly popular) Waterfall methodology (with its pretty pig-name, SDLC)... more »
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Lazy Fibonacci
bloid via kuliniewicz.org
OK, maybe I’m not quite done with computing Fibonacci numbers. I’ve been playing around a bit with Haskell lately. Here’s what the Haskell equivalent... more »
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Spring Application Platform - is it a big mistake?
Another take on SpringSource's recent announcement of s2ap
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SpringSource Application Platform
bloid via techper.net
So, Spring Source has been able to keep a secret from us :-) Secretly, they have been developing what looks a lot like a new application server, not... more »
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Public constructors considered harmful
bloid via reiersol.com
Everybody who writes object-oriented code knows about constructors. You need them so the program knows how to instantiate objects, right? And you... more »
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TIOBE, From Hype To Fiction
In other words, the index is more of a hypeometer than anything else, and the results posted each month are more of an item of curiosity than anything... more »
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Java Exception Handling: Checked or Unchecked Exceptions?
This text discusses the differences between checked and unchecked exceptions in Java, and argues that unchecked exceptions are often a cleaner... more »
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An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program
bloid via paulspontifications.blogspot.com
I was talking to a colleague from another part of the company a couple of weeks ago, and I mentioned the famous ten-to-one productivity variation... more »
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First look at CakePHP
Finally, I found some time to take CakePHP for a spin. I've heard some really good things about it, and I've been trying to get some time to try it... more »
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Difference between iterative and incremental development
Do you sometimes also have problem to make clear distinction between iterative and incremental development? What if you should explain difference to... more »
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Logging garbage collector activity
An easy low cost method to check the activity of the garbage collector in the JVM is to tell the JVM to create an activity log.
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Microsoft withdraws Yahoo bid
According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has withdrawn Yahoo bid. But what looks like an end of the saga, may still have a couple of unfinished episodes... more »
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GAME OVER - Java Server Faces
Hey JSF - you are FIRED!
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Scala: For all you know, it's just another Java library
It's starting to happen... the FUD around Scala. The dangers of Scala. The "operational risks" of using Scala. It started back in November when I... more »
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You dreamt of it? SpringSource did it!
3 months ago, the day SpringSource announced their acquisition of Covalent, the company behind Tomcat, I knew they were up to something. I even talked... more »
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Dual-licensing is unfair and community debilitating
bloid via blog.milkingthegnu.org
Some successful open-source companies are using a dual-licensing scheme. In short, software is released both through an open source version (e.g.... more »
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