http://programming.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Programming en Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:10:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716328 unknown@Digg.com Working with code is one of the most creative jobs one can have. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:10:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716328Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716473 unknown@DZone.com Have you heard of Drizzle? As detailed here, it's a lightweight, open source SQL database for the cloud and the web, being designed for massive concurrency on multi-CPU/core architecture. If that sounds a lot like MySQL, it should. Drizzle's code is derived from MySQL--basically a fork of the MySQL 6.0 source code. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:39:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716473databaseNewsopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716418 unknown@DZone.com Whenever I see a really good logo or icon on a web site, I save a copy to refer to later when inspiration is running dry, as a reminder of what a great logo looks like. I'm sharing my on-going collection here for the inspiration of others. I'll explain what I love about each of these. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716418web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716419 unknown@DZone.com InfoQ has a Q&A with the co-creator of Dojo. Subjects covered: Dojo Toolkit, Dojo Toolbox, Comet, GWT, Javascript 2, WWW as a platform, Flex, IE 8, Bayeux protocol, Servlets version 3 spec (JSR 315). Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:00:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716419ajaxjavajavascriptriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716375 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday I was having a meeting about a new project startup. At some level the meeting was stuck on an argument of logging. Well I suggested the same thing as any experienced developer would suggest... "Why don't we use the Aspects?".Our project is running on Websphere Application Server and using JDK 1.4 which means we won't be using EJB3 or annotations. So I just tried AspectJ - although I found the examples were confusing, what I achieved was very simple and easy. Here is a basic tutorial on how to enable and using Aspects Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:25:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716375frameworkshow-tojavamethodologyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716376 unknown@DZone.com CSS Garage Door Style Menu Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:24:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716376css-htmlweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716330 unknown@DZone.com Sun Microsystems has made a trio of open source developer-focused announcements at OSCON this week, including the availability of the Sun Web Stack -- an integrated enterprise-quality AMP ("Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP") stack for Solaris and Linux. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:21:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716330Newsopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716331 unknown@DZone.com There is an interesting war being fought in the blogosphere over the use (or overuse) of ESB (enterprise service buses) to build out a SOA (service oriented architecture). But everyone is talking in abstractions, and no one's really giving anyone a good idea of when to use an ESB or when to avoid them. No one seems to be looking at why people are or aren't using ESBs and getting to the root of the question - when are they appropriate for use in a SOA and when are they simply being implemented for the sake of being implemented? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:06:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716331methodologystandardsweb servicesxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716241 unknown@DZone.com Because it’s a completely different approach from the OO programming languages (even from the pure functional ones like Lisp or Haskell), it’s concurrent, stateless, has been battle tested in real large-scale industrial products, has an active web app centric community and finally, because it fits perfectly with our view of a light back-end delivery service engine. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716241opinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716242 unknown@DZone.com This post is about creating an agent that reads feeds and tracks things in blogs, using the Twitter API. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:59:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716242how-toopen sourcetoolsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716157 unknown@DZone.com In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector.
 
 Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:59:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716157.nethow-totoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716104 unknown@DZone.com Competition is everywhere , it does not matter whether commercial or open source different people tries to compete with others. Not only in different domains , in same domain as well. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:56:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716104open sourcereviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716105 unknown@DZone.com A great accordion based off YUI framework and supports nested accordions. Trust me, its pretty nice, you gotta check it out. Full feature set and cross browser compatibility. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:50:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716105ajaxguijavascriptweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716106 unknown@DZone.com In the previous part of my series about learning Ruby using C# we discussed constructors, instance methods, parameters, and then touched on blocks a bit at the end. Well, in this post we are going to delve a bit further into classes by talking about static methods (class methods in Ruby) , a bit more info about parameters, and then finish it up with some tidbits about conditionals and loops. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:50:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716106.nethow-toMicrosoftrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716107 unknown@DZone.com I posted a riddle in Java yesterday and I wrote in the post that this is "guaranteed to make people mumble in job interviews". Several readers complained that this would make a terrible job interview question. I beg to differ. You can ask knowledge questions in job interviews, you just need to know why and how. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:41:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716107how-tojavaopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716049 unknown@DZone.com In this post I want to illustrate some simple tips about how to prepare a mobile version of your site such as: choosing an URL address for your mobile site version, using a redirect script for mobile devices, designing a mobile-friendly layout using CSS and HTML and (if you are a WordPress user) using a free WordPress plugin to develop your mobile site quikly. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:09:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716049css-htmlhow-tomobileweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715990 unknown@DZone.com The 2nd international Subversion Conference will take place in the Munich (Germany). The SubConf is the premier event designed to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Subversion for the community. Presenters who like to participate should send their abstract for a speech to a.bleicher@hlmc.de Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715990announcementNewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715991 unknown@DZone.com So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than AIR, Adobe’s desktop runtime for web applications. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715991flash-flexMicrosoftriaweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715992 unknown@DZone.com Bill Gates has left a legacy of business know-how that we can all use as part of our business knowledge base. Despite some of its shortcomings, Microsoft has grown from a small group of geeky entrepreneurs to a major international corporation that is at the heart of business around the world. This article features five lessons Bill Gates, together with Microsoft, has left for us to apply in our everyday business-oriented lives. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:23:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715992MicrosoftresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715993 unknown@DZone.com The Groovy Users of Minnesota created a 6 minute presentation about metaprogramming in Groovy. This site has all the information and the link to the YouTube video. Pretty cool guys, congrats. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:17:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715993groovyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715940 unknown@DZone.com We are proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.0-Beta1. FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715940announcementguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715941 unknown@DZone.com Arnon discusses his new book, SOA Patterns, which describe soma patterns which can make your SOA easier and more efficient. There is also a free chapter (Chapter 2) of the book available exclusively for Dzone users. If you are interested put a comment or a question and win a free Ebook or MEAP of the same title. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:07:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715941booksjavaopinionresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715879 unknown@DZone.com Occasionally, I have a maintenance task for one of my programs: something has to be done in the background every so often.
 From rsyncing content between servers to importing data received from external parties into my application. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715879toolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715880 unknown@DZone.com An approach to functional test driven development using Grails, WebTest and some custom additions to the Grails WebTest plugin Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:53:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715880groovymethodologyopen sourcetrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715881 unknown@DZone.com Producing code that clearly conveys a developer's intent is key to any well written application. That not only applies to PHP, but every programming language. Developers who emphasize the creation of legible code tend to create applications which are easier to both maintain and expand upon. After seven years of programming in PHP I've worked on a variety of projects where well organized and legible code were set aside for numerous reasons. Some of those reasons include time constraints, lack of experience, lost enthusiasm, misdirected pre-optimizing, and the list goes on. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:50:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715881opinionphpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715882 unknown@DZone.com A detailed review about various cloud computing services. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:44:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715882reviewsserverweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715883 unknown@DZone.com ZF is still relatively young, and the upcoming 1.6 release does plug a few of the less-enterprisey holes. But if the framework is to be taken seriously as a platform on which to build enterprise applications, these are the areas which I feel need improving. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:39:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715883frameworksopen sourcephpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715827 unknown@DZone.com The Java programming language is one of the most taught, learned, written about, and programmed in programming languages today. Beginning its life in 1995, it rode in on the Object-Oriented Programming hype-wave of the nineties. Although some might argue that Java's primary means of abstraction is the class---and therefore Java is primarily object-oriented, the huge number of available Java libraries indicates otherwise. In this essay, I will argue that Java's most powerful means of abstraction is the library. I will also explore whether a new term---namely "Library-Oriented Programming"---is warranted to describe programming using libraries as the main abstraction. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:55:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715827javaopinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715776 unknown@DZone.com Think about what it would look like if a versioning system like git and a pastie had a while, and you'd probably came quite close what the folks behind the project hosting service Github let loose on the web just yesterday: Gist, a pastie that supports versioning and much more. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:41:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715776opiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715718 unknown@DZone.com Most articles detailing Rails setup instructions on GNU/Linux machines are either outdated or over-complicated. Simple, straight-forward post describes how to get the latest version of Rails setup on Ubuntu OS. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:13:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715718frameworkshow-torubyunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715719 unknown@DZone.com I have developed a small sample to demonstrate how to use Hibernate in OSGi with Spring Framework and Spring-DM. The sample works in either Felix or Equinox. It builds with Maven 2 - the build process automatically downloads the Felix and Equinox jars so there is no need to install either framework separately. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:10:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715719how-tojavaresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715720 unknown@DZone.com Ultimate Collection of FREE Web Templates, CSS Templates, PSD Templates, HTML Templates, Flash Templates. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:08:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715720css-htmlflash-flexweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715721 unknown@DZone.com The post reviews the role of search skills in forming programmer knowledge and how to use search effectively Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:57:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715721methodologyopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715661 unknown@DZone.com Java 6 Plus Yahoo Toolbar is this another crappy move by Sun? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:23:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715661javatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715604 unknown@DZone.com One of the software engineers that Chris Kutler, as a NetBeans technical writer, get to work with on the NetBeans Ruby project is Erno Mononen, who works in Prague. Erno works mostly on the NetBeans Ruby IDE, but is also involved in some parts of the Java EE support in the NetBeans IDE. Chris is finally catching up with the documentation for 6.1 and took some time to talk with Erno about the work that he is doing for the upcoming 6.5 release. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:15:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715604javarubytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715605 unknown@DZone.com You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. There’s a story behind it ... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:14:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715605opinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715606 unknown@DZone.com I have been using Visual Studio since it first came out and have been big fan of it for quite a few years. Until just recently it had no real competition but with the NetBeans (and Eclipse) getting better every release I cannot say definitively that Visual Studio is the best editor anymore. Having said that there are still many features that Visual Studio has that I miss every time I use NetBeans. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715606MicrosoftopiniontoolsusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715607 unknown@DZone.com For the last 2-3 years, Brian Aker and I have had many discussions about how to refactor MySQL. Brian has been the one driving these discussions by asking why some things in MySQL were done in a certain way and in a true "what if" manner asked what would happen if we would do things in another way. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:07:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715607announcementdatabaseserverweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715608 unknown@DZone.com Understanding the mechanics of object equality is essential for programming logical expressions and is important when implementing operator overloads and casts. The mechanisms of object equality are different depending on whether you are comparing reference types (instances of classes), or value types (the primitive data types, instances of structs or enums). This article explains the equality of reference and value types independently. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715608.netProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715556 unknown@DZone.com If you are looking for an alternative for the traditional combination of Apache, PHP and MySQL, then this might be an option. The BitNami folks offer an all-in-one installer for Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL and the phpPgAdmin tool for Windows, Linux and OS X. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:48:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715556databaseopen sourcephpserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715557 unknown@DZone.com FormDev Software is pleased to announce the release of JFormDesigner 4.0,
 now with GroupLayout (Free Design) support (as in NetBeans GUI Builder;
 formerly Project Matisse) and JGoodies Forms 1.2 support. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:38:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715557announcementguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715558 unknown@DZone.com About three months ago i have posted an interview with Amy Fowler, one of Sun’s senior engineers working on JavaFX. In that interview i had a question that bothered me ever since the original announcement on JavaFX at last year’s JavaOne - what is its target audience? To my surprise, that question had by far the longest answer in the interview, and i still don’t have a clear answer. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:34:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715558opinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715513 unknown@DZone.com When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:53:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715513ajaxjavascriptphpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715415 unknown@DZone.com The goal of the SOAFaces project is to provide developers with an API for building SOA and RIA powered component (GWT + SOA) that can be composed easily into Web Applications or Workflow driven Jobs with convenient access to local and remote messaging services. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:15:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715415announcementframeworksjavaweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715300 unknown@DZone.com J2ME is a primitive but powerful development platform for devloping applications for mobile devices. A serious issue with J2ME is the lack of built in libraries to accomplish several common tasks. There are several free and commercial libraries availbale that can be used to provide more functionality in our J2ME applications. In this article I shall list down several famous User Interface libraries for J2ME. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:25:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715300javamobilereviewsusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715241 unknown@DZone.com There are several different approaches to scheduling GC within a real-time environment, each with benefits and weaknesses. These include work-based and time-based incremental collection approaches, which are aimed at minimizing the effect of GC on scheduling. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:04:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715241javareviewsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715242 unknown@DZone.com WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/PHP) is an open source framework for providing and/or consuming Web services in PHP together with additional quality of service features such as security and reliable messaging. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:51:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715242phpweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715243 unknown@DZone.com Adobe's Flex 3 technology is popular now because it's new. But that popularity will fade soon as developers start realizing that they want free IDE to go with their open source technology. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:45:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715243flash-flexjavaMicrosofttrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715244 unknown@DZone.com The first alpha of JBoss Cache 3.0.0 - codenamed Naga - is out and available for download. In a nutshell, it is a truly open source (LGPL) distributed enterprise cache, which is often used as a library to remove data retrieval and calculation bottlenecks, or as a mechanism to share state across a cluster either for failover or load balancing, creating data grids, etc. I have also seen it used as a distributed in-memory object database of sorts, as a fast alternative to a more traditional database when typical DB features and guarantees aren't critical Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:45:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715244announcementjavaserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715197 unknown@DZone.com Many Web applications exist to provide access to copious amounts of data stored in a relational database, but what's the easiest way to enable users to search through that data and find what they need? In this article, Dr. Xinyu Liu introduces Hibernate Search, which integrates the sophisticated search capabilities of Lucene with the familiar object-relational mapping framework of Hibernate. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:41:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715197frameworksjavaProgramming