RSS and Atom Refcard Available - Download Now
The RSS and Atom reference card is a valuable source of information whether you are creating and serving, or subscribing to and parsing feeds. It... more »
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Why is Web UI Development Slow?
Have you ever been a team member in a web framework or web product development? You may have noticed although UI prototyping is a fast process but UI... more »
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Take Your Eclipse Development One Step Further With Instantiations Tools
Instantiations just recently received the IBM Rational Software Validation for WindowBuilder Pro and have also been listed in the SD Times Top 100... more »
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The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!
After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was... more »
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Case Study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop (Part 1)
I’ve dealt with performance in many projects. And I’ve consistently seen that there were no adequate performance requirements stated, no... more »
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Design a nice pencil and handwritten style Woork like
Since I started my blog I used this style (pencil + handwritten), to design all images I added to my post. Now, I can say it has been a good choice... more »
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Web 2.0 and the Art of Bull
Marketing. Ain’t it grand? All those jingles in your head, all the brands you buy, all the old AOL discs you have floating around… who is to thank?... more »
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GlassFish Application Server Refcard Is Available For Download
Masoud Kalali 
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If you are a GlassFish user then you will definitely like this reference card as it contains many of day to day information which you may need. It... more »
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Installing a Ubuntu Hardy Heron Java Development Environment on a USB flash drive
USB flash drives are really cheap these days, so I decided to create a portable environment that contains all my favorite applications, as well as... more »
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Building Your First jQuery Plugin
jQuery is a very light weight framework and it changes the way a lot of people write javascript. But you can also easily create your own plugin to... more »
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A safety fence for your property lookups
As we all know, null not only does not have any properties, but their existence also can not be tested. So null.property retuns error instead of... more »
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How to setup your environment to use WF Foundation for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005
Getting setup and understanding WF Foundation is confusing and annoying. Knowing where to go and what to download what to install what order it's... more »
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Javascript cloning objects
I haven’t posted for a while as I’ve been busy but I thought I’d post about object cloning because it’s a useful tip and can be used in many... more »
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My Weekly NetBeans Tip (3): Declare Static Finals Quickly
Tip for creating public/private static finals.
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SQL Server 2008 User Account - sa or sysadmin
Just a day ago, I noticed ’sysadmin’ user in SQL Server 2008. While looking more into it, I found that it has same account rights as ’sa’ account.... more »
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The Web development skills crisis
bloid via weblog.infoworld.com
The proliferation of Web technologies has been much on my mind lately. Last week, I talked about the continuum of Web development tools, ranging from... more »
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Looking ahead to PHP 5.3 and 6
bloid via blogs.sun.com
I attended the SF PHP Meetup last night where Andrei Zmievski (PHP 6 release manager and PHP core team member) gave a talk on PHP 6 and... more »
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The Baker's Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ provide the greatest amount of functionality yet for building data-aware web applications. Even if you prefer to write stored... more »
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Defining & Testing Java Application Architectures with ztest.org
An intro to an open source framework that supports the specification of application architectures.
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Social Accessibility Project
The Social Accessibility Project is a service whose goal is to make Web pages more accessible to individuals with disabilities. Users encountering Web... more »
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Ojay 0.2: easy keyboarding, a validation DSL, and two new UI widgets
bloid via ajaxian.com
James Coglan has updated Ojay, the chaining wrapper for YUI that we posted on a few months back. The new release features really simple keyboard... more »
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SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns
I have been writing recently about how SQL Server 2008 is better in terms of Data Stage and Backup Management. I have received very good replies from... more »
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Integrate your PHP application with Google Calendar
This article introduces the Google Calendar Data API, demonstrates how you can use it to browse user-generated calendars; add and update calendar... more »
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TopLink Makes Transition to Open Source
The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release... more »
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Separation of Concerns by example: Part 4
Things are looking up, we've broken out the dependencies into distinct concerns, including caching, data access and finding/paging. Unfortunately,... more »
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