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I had the opportunity, last year, to talk with the team behind AppJet. They're building something quite cool: A simple platform for developing reusable server-side applications written completely in JavaScript.

DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:28Z DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:18Z 2008-11-20T16:05:18Z

Contrary to popular belief, as you become expert, you don't just "know more" than the next guy.

DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:18Z DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:08Z 2008-11-20T16:05:08Z

The bar for entry into CodeSOD is pretty straight forward: professionally-developed code that elicits that certain What The— reaction. Though there have been a few exceptions over the years, generally speaking, student code, hobbyist code, and amateu ...

DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:08Z DZone 2008-11-20T16:04:58Z 2008-11-20T16:04:58Z

Along with today’s launch of NetBeans 6.5, Sun, in cooperation with the NBPython community, are releasing an early access version of Python support for NetBeans. This is a result of the collaboration between Sun people and the NBPython project that I ...

DZone 2008-11-20T16:04:58Z InfoQ 2008-11-20T16:04:48Z 2008-11-20T16:04:48Z

In this presentation held during Agile 2008, Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners. By Abel Avram

InfoQ 2008-11-20T16:04:48Z The Server Side 2008-11-20T16:04:37Z 2008-11-20T16:04:37Z

NetBeans IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy.

The Server Side 2008-11-20T16:04:37Z jRoller 2008-11-20T15:05:43Z 2008-11-20T15:05:43Z

if you have experienced weird mouse actions of it doing clicks and keyboard inputs without your direction its not FireFox. Its a HAL hiccup, change xorg.conf to have the manual keyboard and mouse settings instead of using HAL. Only change if you have ...

jRoller 2008-11-20T15:05:43Z DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:32Z 2008-11-20T15:05:32Z

Last week, Rich Hickey announced a few notable changes to Clojure, including ahead-of-time compilation and a cleaner syntax for regular expressions. Both are improvements, but the syntax is especially interesting for a reason unrelated to its functio ...

DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:32Z DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:22Z 2008-11-20T15:05:22Z

I had a lot of traffic generated from my InfoQ post on OSGi in the Enterprise (in which I echoed what everyone else has been saying during my absence) that if you want a kernel capable of modular development (whether dynamic or not), building upon OS ...

DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:22Z DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:12Z 2008-11-20T15:05:12Z

When I first started coaching agile teams I found it a challenge to coach testers. This was understandable because the agile movement was really developer-centric and much of the resource material reflected that. I spent time talking with skilled agi ...

DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:12Z DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:02Z 2008-11-20T15:05:02Z

This screencast shows how you can create a simple Web application using JSP and Servlets in Eclipse 3.4, deploy it directly on GlassFish v3, use rapid deployment, and debug the application.

DZone 2008-11-20T15:05:02Z DZone 2008-11-20T15:04:52Z 2008-11-20T15:04:52Z

Sometimes you need to execute a java program as the machine starts wihout the needeng to log-in. To achieve that you need to make a Windows Service. This short how to will show you two different ways for doing that.

DZone 2008-11-20T15:04:52Z InfoQ 2008-11-20T15:04:42Z 2008-11-20T15:04:42Z

The goal of modeling domain concepts through objects set by OOP has for a long time been handled in insufficient ways. In this article we introduce the concept of Composite Oriented Programming, and show how it avoids the issues with OOP and reignite ...

InfoQ 2008-11-20T15:04:42Z DZone 2008-11-20T14:05:11Z 2008-11-20T14:05:11Z

I had not had the chance yet, to sit down and take a look at D, so I thought it would be a nice idea for me to attend the session named “What Makes a Programming Language Productive?” by Walter Bright, one of the people behind D. So I had completely ...

DZone 2008-11-20T14:05:11Z DZone 2008-11-20T14:05:01Z 2008-11-20T14:05:01Z

One thing that I have been looking to add to my developer toolkit is a CSS file that is flexible, well-organized, lightweight, and easy to learn. The result of my efforts to create such a tool, Momentum CSS Framework, is now ready to be released i ...

DZone 2008-11-20T14:05:01Z DZone 2008-11-20T14:04:51Z 2008-11-20T14:04:51Z

The reason using jQuery in HTAs is so interesting to me is that one of the main constraints of using JavaScript in web pages (that being the amount of data that has to be transferred from the server to the client) has been lifted. With your web pages ...

DZone 2008-11-20T14:04:51Z Java Developers Journal 2008-11-20T14:04:40Z 2008-11-20T14:04:40Z

IBM is going to buy Transitive, the British cross-platform virtualization firm that salvaged legacy Macintosh programs and made Apple's move from IBM to Intel chips as graceful as a prima ballerina’s pirouette. Transitive is clever at running applica ...

Java Developers Journal 2008-11-20T14:04:40Z DZone 2008-11-20T13:05:20Z 2008-11-20T13:05:20Z

About technical documentation - whether and when it's useful and useless, what kind of documentation developers need and why they don't read it.

DZone 2008-11-20T13:05:20Z InfoQ 2008-11-20T13:05:09Z 2008-11-20T13:05:09Z

Rico Mariani, Chief Architect of Visual Studio, talks about the long term plans for Visual Studio 2010. His emphasis is on two key areas, extensibility and performance. By Jonathan Allen

InfoQ 2008-11-20T13:05:09Z The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:59Z 2008-11-20T13:04:59Z

QF-Test the established Java GUI test tool for Java GUIs (Swing, SWT, Eclipse plugins and RCP apps, ULC, Java applets) now also provides support in version 2.2.4 Eclipse 3.4.1.

The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:59Z The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:49Z 2008-11-20T13:04:49Z

Based on Mia-Modernization, its refactoring solution for JEE existing applications, <a href="http://www.mia-software.com/">Mia-Software</a> has developed an automatic transformation from <a href="http://www.mia-software. ...

The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:49Z The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:39Z 2008-11-20T13:04:39Z

We are trying to decide a web client framework for a new project. I am looking for community's advices on the choices.

The Server Side 2008-11-20T13:04:39Z jRoller 2008-11-20T12:05:17Z 2008-11-20T12:05:17Z

You will be noticing some new categories such as Android and iPhone at this blog. Russsell Beattie , former Yahoo Mobile Consultant, has always stated in his mobile essays that mobile web is dead. It goes deeper than that as I fully believe that J ...

jRoller 2008-11-20T12:05:17Z jRoller 2008-11-20T12:05:07Z 2008-11-20T12:05:07Z

I miss the latest.integration keyword from ivy. <repositories>        <repository>          <id>jboss</id>    &nb ...

jRoller 2008-11-20T12:05:07Z DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:55Z 2008-11-20T12:04:55Z

Continuous Integration Systems are one of the most important tools for agile software development. They automate the process of building and testing. A lot of people seem to have realized their importance and there are quite a few products in this ar ...

DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:55Z DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:45Z 2008-11-20T12:04:45Z

One of these days, I was looking at patterns of coding in some of the applications that I work with — written in Java and C#. I was then interested in seeing why our group happened to use hash tables so frequently in these languages. This was puzzli ...

DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:45Z DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:35Z 2008-11-20T12:04:35Z

As someone with a long history in database optimization and who even did their Master’s project on Database normalization, I’m probably the last person in the world to argue against database normalization. From a theoretical standpoint, database norm ...

DZone 2008-11-20T12:04:35Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:36Z 2008-11-20T11:05:36Z

Here are the differences between C# .NET const, readonly and static readonly fields.

DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:36Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:26Z 2008-11-20T11:05:26Z

Byteflow is promising Django-based blog engine written in python. In this article described how to setup Byteflow on Jython with all dependencies.

DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:26Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:16Z 2008-11-20T11:05:16Z

I would be curious to find out how others view the platforms, especially from the standpoint of external application developers, but having been on the inside of both of these projects, here are some points of comparison. I’m attempting to be objecti ...

DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:16Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:06Z 2008-11-20T11:05:06Z

The 1.6 version of Groovy seems to have full-fledged annotation support. I took the occasion to finally learn to create some annotations on my own, and wrote an annotation which can be used in a Griffon model to give the controller some hints abou ...

DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:06Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:04:55Z 2008-11-20T11:04:55Z

One of the biggest features lacking in most small games and even larger games is some form of intelligent computer player. This article series is aimed to get you, the developer, to start thinking outside of the box when it comes to creating your gam ...

DZone 2008-11-20T11:04:55Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:01:21Z 2008-11-20T11:01:21Z

Lightweight but rich javascript data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

DZone 2008-11-20T11:01:21Z DZone 2008-11-20T11:01:11Z 2008-11-20T11:01:11Z

Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.

DZone 2008-11-20T11:01:11Z InfoQ 2008-11-20T11:01:01Z 2008-11-20T11:01:01Z

Microsoft has recently announced their plan to stop selling the Live OneCare security suite by June 30 2009 and the intention to replace it with a free security kit called Morro. By Abel Avram

InfoQ 2008-11-20T11:01:01Z jRoller 2008-11-20T10:01:02Z 2008-11-20T10:01:02Z

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jRoller 2008-11-20T10:01:02Z DZone 2008-11-20T09:01:21Z 2008-11-20T09:01:21Z

I was trying to serialize a certain object that was implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged Interface. Only to get a runtime Exception saying that The PropertyChanged event could not be serialized. It took me some time to understand what went wrong.. ...

DZone 2008-11-20T09:01:21Z DZone 2008-11-20T08:01:19Z 2008-11-20T08:01:19Z

The Java Media Player is back on track, and I have a Web Start Demo to prove it! The reason I haven’t blogged in a while is because I haven’t made much progress compared to the time spent. I didn’t have that many problems with making things work on t ...

DZone 2008-11-20T08:01:19Z DZone 2008-11-20T07:19:57Z 2008-11-20T07:19:57Z

Quick little .htaccess trick today for ya’ll. This snippet will redirect any visitor who is not at at one of the provided IP addresses.

DZone 2008-11-20T07:19:57Z DZone 2008-11-20T07:19:47Z 2008-11-20T07:19:47Z

Alchemy translates C/C++ into ActionScript 3.0 to play in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5. One possible application: Bringing over games authored in C and C++ to Flash. Furthering the "come-to-Flash" message, Alchemy also lets you play Ogg Vorbis and Lib ...

DZone 2008-11-20T07:19:47Z jRoller 2008-11-20T05:42:03Z 2008-11-20T05:42:03Z

  Building An Enterprise Repository with Apache Ivy and Artifactory   The build file is not elegant, because I think perhaps that as the team ...

jRoller 2008-11-20T05:42:03Z DZone 2008-11-20T04:39:06Z 2008-11-20T04:39:06Z

In this screencast, Justin Bolter, Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, shows you how to build a PHP Flickr slideshow using Netbeans 6.5 . Bolter walks through the various ways in which Netbeans 6.5 supports PHP development, including project ...

DZone 2008-11-20T04:39:06Z DZone 2008-11-20T04:38:56Z 2008-11-20T04:38:56Z

NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.5!

DZone 2008-11-20T04:38:56Z Java Developers Journal 2008-11-20T04:38:45Z 2008-11-20T04:38:45Z

ILOG has announced ILOG JViews 8.5, the latest version of ILOG’s Java-based visualization suite, with new features that enhance the creation of Rich Internet Applications as well as desktop applications. ILOG JViews 8.5 adds support for the Eclipse p ...

Java Developers Journal 2008-11-20T04:38:45Z DZone 2008-11-20T03:38:48Z 2008-11-20T03:38:48Z

After reading the series of posts from Gregg Bolinger about Swing best practices, I thought I should share some of the patterns I use when writing Swing applications. I was going to post this as a comment in the original post, but it was too long so ...

DZone 2008-11-20T03:38:48Z DZone 2008-11-20T02:38:49Z 2008-11-20T02:38:49Z

How to create a simple image gallery with fade in, fade out and delay between image transitions.

DZone 2008-11-20T02:38:49Z jRoller 2008-11-20T01:39:12Z 2008-11-20T01:39:12Z

The Urblog has moved to http://urblog.wordpress.com/ .

jRoller 2008-11-20T01:39:12Z jRoller 2008-11-20T01:39:02Z 2008-11-20T01:39:02Z

Wow, I can’t believe it is just past mid November, and in a few weeks we will be doing most of our Christmas shopping. Which means it’s time for those ideas for a smashing Christmas? In the current economic climate, how can you be sure to have a gr ...

jRoller 2008-11-20T01:39:02Z DZone 2008-11-20T01:38:51Z 2008-11-20T01:38:51Z

I've been watching, with interest, developers create new applications for the iPhone. Owning one myself - and being knowledgeable in JavaScript - I've been wondering what options there were for creating downloadable JavaScript applications or the iPh ...

DZone 2008-11-20T01:38:51Z DZone 2008-11-20T00:38:58Z 2008-11-20T00:38:58Z

Websites and web applications alike are slowly but surely transitioning towards an environment filled with rich user interface gadgets. Tooltips are amongst this vast array of gadgets that should be in every web application developer’s toolbox, as th ...

DZone 2008-11-20T00:38:58Z