http://www.jwablog.org/blogger/feed/rss_1.0 jwaBlogger is Software Sensation's open-source blogging/links environment. David Bulmore Copyright(C) 2002 - present. David Bulmore/Software Sensation Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. /blogger/viewEntry/6888/spicing_up_your_standup.html Spicing Up Your Standup .Humor... DZone 2008-11-20T17:05:47Z /blogger/viewEntry/6887/beans_binding_a_java_databinding_solution_with_a_serious_problem.html In the past couple of years, data binding has emerged as an important concept for GUI development in Java. Its main objective is to simplify the task of syncing a data object's properties with their visual representations on the screen (text fields, ... DZone 2008-11-20T17:05:37Z /blogger/viewEntry/6886/base_classes_in_oop_programming_languages.html David Otton posted a short but thought-provoking post about stdClass, which many think is the “base class” all PHP classes automatically inherit from. I have to admit that I had this misconception as well. DZone 2008-11-20T17:05:27Z /blogger/viewEntry/6885/dont_misplace_your_ps.html Every so often, someone forgets to remove p() statements from their Ruby specs and then checks in. Figuring out where those p()s are afterward is a pain in the neck. Here's a simple solution: the whiny p. DZone 2008-11-20T17:05:17Z /blogger/viewEntry/6884/official_gmail_blog_spice_up_your_inbox_with_colors_and_themes.html Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching to ... DZone 2008-11-20T17:05:07Z /blogger/viewEntry/6883/when_agile_projects_go_bad.html Your software development projects can benefit from Agile -- assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile." With input from two of of the original signatories to the Agile Manifesto. DZone 2008-11-20T17:04:57Z /blogger/viewEntry/6882/json_3d.html This blog post talks about the possibility of using JSON for 3D modeling. It includes an example object and the idea of loading models as needed. DZone 2008-11-20T17:04:47Z /blogger/viewEntry/6881/agile_usability.html Jakob Nielsen, Usability guru and author of Usability Engineering, raises the concern that Agile methods are a threat to traditional approaches to designing usability. He goes on to propose solutions so that usability designers can work together in t ... InfoQ 2008-11-20T17:04:37Z /blogger/viewEntry/6880/john_resig_etherpad_realtime_editing_with_javascript.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6879/developing_as_a_software_developer.html Contrary to popular belief, as you become expert, you don't just "know more" than the next guy. DZone 2008-11-20T16:05:18Z /blogger/viewEntry/6878/stupid_coding_tricks_the_tsql_mandelbrot.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6877/python_in_netbeans.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6876/presentation_principles_and_practices_of_leanagile_software_development.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6875/netbeans_ide_65_available_for_download.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6874/ubuntu_810_firefox_mouse_problem.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6873/clojures_new_regex_syntax.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6872/the_rise_and_fall_of_osgi_and_jsr277_respectively.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6871/effective_agile_testing_asking_the_right_questions.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6870/simple_web_application_using_eclipse_and_glassfish_v3_prelude.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6869/run_java_application_as_windows_services.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6868/article_composite_oriented_programming_with_qi4j.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6867/the_d_programming_language_is_not_for_me.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6866/momentum_css_framework_released.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6865/jquery_and_htas.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6864/ibm_buys_transitive.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6863/developers_arent_gonna_read_it.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6862/presenting_the_vs_2010_roadmap.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6861/for_eclipse_341_testing_with_qftest.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6860/automatic_swing_to_gwt_transformation.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6859/choosing_a_web_client_framework.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6858/mobile_futuredeath_of_j2me.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6857/my_latest_dependency_list_for_jsfspringhibernate_stack.html I miss the latest.integration keyword from ivy. <repositories>        <repository>          <id>jboss</id>    &nb ... jRoller 2008-11-20T12:05:07Z /blogger/viewEntry/6856/continuous_integration_system_roundup.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6855/is_using_hash_tables_a_good_thing.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6854/why_too_much_database_normalization_can_be_a_bad_thing.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6853/const_vs_readonly_vs_static_readonly_in_c_net.html Here are the differences between C# .NET const, readonly and static readonly fields. DZone 2008-11-20T11:05:36Z /blogger/viewEntry/6852/how_to_run_byteflow_blog_engine_on_jython.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6851/javafx_and_flex_how_do_we_compare.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6850/fun_with_annotations_in_groovygriffon.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6849/game_ai_genetics_for_games_part_1.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6848/flexigrid_for_jquery_web_20_javascript_data_grid.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6847/einsteins_secret_to_amazing_problem_solving_and_10_specific_ways_you_can_use_it.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6846/microsoft_will_replace_live_onecare_with_morro.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6845/conversation_scope_and_jsf_or_your_favorite_web_framework.html here it is jRoller 2008-11-20T10:01:02Z /blogger/viewEntry/6844/a_serialization_pitfall_when_binding_to_a_serializable_object.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6843/java_media_player_first_gui_demo.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6842/block_a_website_for_everyone_but_you.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6841/adobes_flex_builder_to_woo_microsoft_c_developers.html 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 /blogger/viewEntry/6840/building_an_enterprise_repository_with_apache_ivy_and_artifactory.html   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 /blogger/viewEntry/6839/building_a_php_flickr_slideshow_with_netbeans_ide_65.html 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