Staying Safe With Pulse 2.1
Regardless of the degree of responsibility a developer assumes or how well legal teams can cover every base, open source licenses and the usage... more »
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SmoothScroll Using MooTools 1.2
By default, the browser "jerks" you up or down in the page when you click on an anchor -- SmoothScroll lets you define the duration that it should... more »
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Hardy “our most significant release” - Shuttleworth
With the release of Hardy Heron, the latest version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system just four days away, Canonical chief, Mark... more »
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Gradle - A new Build System
Gradle is a very flexible, general purpose build system, with a build-by-convention framework a la Maven on top. It uses Apache Ivy for its dependency... more »
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Alexandru Popescu: TestNG and Groovy
Alexandru Popescu is the co-founder of TestNG, the next generation testing framework for Java, which also happens to be Groovy friendly. Continue... more »
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Venkat Subramaniam: Into the Groove
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is a well known speaker at the IT conference circuit, many of his talks present Groovy as the main topic. He recently published... more »
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ExtJS 2.1 Javascript Library Switches To GPL
ExtJs switches to GPL 3.0 and the consequences to projects relying on LGPL ExJs
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Windows XP SP3, Finally!
Finally, it seems the last major update to our beloved Windows XP is just around the corner!
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Firefox 3 Bookmarks (My god, it’s full of stars…)
Firefox 3 introduces a few new features to bookmarks that I think makes them much, much easier to use, more useful in general, and much more useful in... more »
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Free MyEclipse Blue Edition Licenses This Thursday
Attendees of the MyEclipse Blue Edition Webinar will get a free one year license.
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Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.
If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to... more »
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Java Concurrency Series - Simple Executor example
Illustrates the usage of Java Concurrent Utility class Executor and ThreadPool with example code.
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JavaScript XML Parsing on Mozilla Firefox / Opera Browsers
Today XML has become the backbone of many Web Applications. In JavaScript we can parse xml files at client end. But this parsing is different varies... more »
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WEB 2.0 - Photobucket Opens API, Seeks Developers
Photobucket plans to release an API on Tuesday that will allow external developers to create applications that include content and functions from the... more »
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Key Points for Choosing the Best framework
The question which majority of we developers ask always is “Which framework should I use for my application?” or “Which framework is the best to... more »
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Metawidget: Display Screens, Facelets, and Improved Pluggability
Metawidget, the library that lets you generate a user interface from your domain objects, has come out with a new release.
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Database versioning Part 1
Versioning databases is one of those ongoing problems that has no one-size-fits-all solution. There are 2 solutions I have developed and used... more »
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Can you safely avoid Microsoft patents in open-source development?
Tom Kemp of Centrify has mapped out the connections between Microsoft's patents and its 'open' APIs and protocols.
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Memcached Internals & Tips - Notes from MySQL Conf '08
Best practices, tips & getting intimate with slab allocator, LRU of memcached.
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Content Is Not Allowed In Prolog - ColdFusion XML And The Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
The other day, Dustin Chesterman asked me about an XML parsing error he was seeing. He was getting the "Content is not allowed in Prolog" XmlParse()... more »
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HTML OnMissingImage
Solution 3 (winner): Did you know that the image tags have an onError attribute? I can't believe that after 15 years of web development I just found... more »
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Le chien de garde de l’élysée à encore frappé
Depuis samedi, plus aucun nouveau message n’a été posté sur le blog Torapamavoa,”fournisseur officiel de contenu anti-Sarkozy“. Lorsque ses auteurs... more »
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easyb-test - Grails Tests Made Easy (in a way your boss can read)
Think about how would it be cool if you could present to your boss your tests as documentations for the project, or at least for the specification of... more »
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Scala and XML
Scala is a popular new programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM.) Scala compiles into byte-code and thus it can leverage the... more »
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Patterns of persistence, Part 1: Strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools
Although many developers use object-relational mapping (ORM) tools for their applications' persistence tier, some are confused about how to use them... more »
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