http://programming.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Programming en Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:03:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968379 unknown@DZone.com This week at EclipseCon I have had the pleasure of meeting Alex Buckley, Sun???s Java language supremo and spec lead for JSR 294. For those of you who do not memorise JSR numbers, 294 was originally known as ???superpackages??�, was killed off for a while, and is now back in the form of enhancements to the Java language to support modularity. As an OSGi supporter I have no problem in principle with JSR 294, indeed it may make the use of OSGi easier, especially for beginners learning the Java language. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:03:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968379frameworksjavaopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968361 unknown@DZone.com Some weeks ago I???ve been at my usual book store looking for some new book to read. I couldn???t resiste when I see this catchy title. ???Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. Refactor your wetware??�??�I had to buy it!In fact the book... Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:53:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968361booksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968362 unknown@DZone.com In the ten years I???ve been programming I???ve learned two pretty important things.
 
 1. Project success is about people and teams. No matter your process, good teams will succeed (usually in spite of your process) and bad teams will fail.
 2. Every time you make a rule about something, people will stop thinking about that thing and blindly apply the rule. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:53:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968362agileopinionreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968320 unknown@DZone.com Whether you are new to Hibernate and want to dive into your first project or are a Hibernate guru and need a reference manual to remind you of how to implement a conversation, this is the right book. The authors have really covered all the bases. Anything you want to know about Hibernate is in here. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:59:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968320booksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968321 unknown@DZone.com Attend IT 360 to learn the latest updates on 3 Key IT Pillars and get free trade show pass when register with code: TS1
 
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 3. Data Centers/Cloud Computing/Virtualization/Storage Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:59:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968321announcementSecurityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968304 unknown@DZone.com Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks, recently wrote an article that is the first of a series related to architecturing and design called Evolutionary Architecture and Emergent Design. The first article is a revisit to the architecture and design concepts. Let's talk about that idea... Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:35:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968304methodologyopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968254 unknown@DZone.com There is a lot of talk these days about 100% test coverage and if we should strive to reach it. I honestly think that 100% test coverage is a hot topic because it can be easily measured with tools like Cobertura and Clover. 
 The most important question is how much test coverage is enough. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:13:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968254agilemethodologyopiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968255 unknown@DZone.com So you've got some data to store. In the past, the answer was simple: Hook up an official database, pour the data into it, and let the machine sort everything out for you while you spend your time writing big checks to the database manufacturer. Now things aren't so cut and dry. A fresh round of exciting new tools is tacking the two letters "db" onto a pile of code that breaks with the traditional relational model. Old database administrators call them "toys" and hint at terrible dangers to come from the follies of these young whippersnappers. The whippersnappers just tune out the warnings because the new tools are good enough and fast enough for what they need. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:11:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968255databaseProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968256 unknown@DZone.com In former times (I love how Germans say that) I spent time working on event driven systems and busses. Those unfortunate enough to work with Enterprise JavaBeans were happy when Message Driven beans were announced as they could tell the pointy hair chaps that they were indeed doing EJB, and would continue working in their MOM architecture. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:11:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968256javascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968237 unknown@DZone.com Programmers typically have mundane, Microsoft Word "Resume" template looking resumes. One guy has created a site to make the process of creating a resume simple while providing interesting views into the information given. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:38:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968237opinionreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968223 unknown@DZone.com Bruce Eckel???s recent blog post on the legacy left by C++ and Java generated a lot of reaction. While mentioning some design mistakes, he concludes that both languages have had a significant role in programming languages evolution and an important positive legacy. But is it not too early to talk about their legacy?
 
 Eckel, a former member of the C++ Standards Committee, recollects the decision made regarding backward compatibility of the language with C from the beginning: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:14:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968223c-and-cppjavaopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968224 unknown@DZone.com OSGi has emerged as the de facto standard for modularity on the Java platform, and will play a prominent role in the next generation platform. Unforunately, OSGi is not yet ready for the enterprise. Enterprise developers don???t have the tools to build OSGi based server-side applications, and vendors aren???t exposing the capabilities of OSGi to enterprise developers. What's needed to leverage OSGi in the enterprise? Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:11:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968224frameworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968200 unknown@DZone.com In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and include popular examples to reinforce the ideas presented. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:38:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968200usabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968183 unknown@DZone.com Talking about the implications of pervasive laziness in Haskell - the pros and cons. And how it takes a different way of thinking to program using lazy evaluation semantics. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:55:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968183other languagestrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968082 unknown@Digg.com In the overview below we present some of the most useful and most popular MySQL Admin and Development Tools for Mac, Windows and Linux, for beginners and for professionals. Among other tools we feature phpMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench, HeidiSQL and SequelPro. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:50:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968082Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968066 unknown@DZone.com Microsoft???s new Internet Explorer 8(IE8) fails miserably the latest industry test for browsers to comply with open standards. But Microsoft's Nick Hodge does not think the ACid3 test is a worthy indicator. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:10:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968066css-htmlMicrosoftNewsstandardsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968067 unknown@DZone.com The classic Petstore done with a JavaFX Front End Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:02:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968067javariaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968068 unknown@DZone.com Instantiations will release version 7.0 of its market-leading WindowBuilder??? Pro Java GUI builder today. It's a good week for Instantiations as they were also awarded "Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool" by the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon. WindowBuilder Pro includes powerful functionality for creating user interfaces based on the popular Swing, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), and GWT (Google Web Toolkit) UI frameworks. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:58:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968068announcementeclipseNewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968014 unknown@DZone.com I???ve been following the integration between the Adobe Flex stack and Grails for a while, and there has been some interesting recent developments in this world. I thought I would gather them in one place so they can easily be referenced. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:35:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968014flash-flexframeworksgroovyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968015 unknown@DZone.com DJ Native Swing allows to easily integrate some native components into Swing applications, and provides some native utilities to enhance Swing's APIs Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:35:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968015announcementjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968016 unknown@DZone.com The first release of SmartGWT Enterprise Edition is now available. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:31:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968016announcementframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2968017 unknown@DZone.com Yes, that???s right: drop-down navigation menus can be user-friendly. Just yesterday Jacob Nielsen the results of his recent drop-down menus study, in which he found out that big, two-dimensional drop-down panels that group navigation options help users to avoid scrolling and can precisely explain the user???s choices with effective use of typography, icons, and tooltips. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:31:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2968017web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967993 unknown@DZone.com JavaRebel 2.0 released ??? improves upon the award-winning 1.0 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:14:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967993javaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967994 unknown@DZone.com In this article we're going to take a look at Spring Batch 2.0, the latest version of the Spring Batch framework. Our approach will be strongly practical: we'll cover the key ideas without dwelling too much on the details, we'll get you up and running with one of the sample applications that ships with Spring Batch, and finally we'll take a closer look at the sample app so you can understand what's going on.
 At the time of this writing Spring Batch 2.0 is actually in RC2 status, so there may be minor changes between now and the GA release Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:11:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967994frameworkshow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967977 unknown@DZone.com The high-level schedule is now available on the JDK 7 Project page in the OpenJDK Community along with a detailed feature list, the near-term build and integration schedule, and the long-term, build-by-build calendar. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:36:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967977javastandardsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967962 unknown@DZone.com Mark Reinhold has just updated the JDK 7 schedule and made a list of the approved features on the OpenJDK website. This initial schedule has the next milestone (M3) completed on May 21, in time for JavaOne, with the final milestone aimed at Feb 2010. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:19:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967962javaNewsopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967963 unknown@DZone.com Since the very early ASP.NET MVC previews, the most common argument I've heard against using the framework is the lack of user controls. In my opinion, this is a mixed blessing, however, for some, this is a show stopper. What can you do to provide a rich user interface with the MVC framework, while not reinventing the wheel? Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:13:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967963.netframeworksjavascripttoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967964 unknown@DZone.com How many interesting webapps can you code in one Twitter message? I have one ??? a micro-twitter. I want to see many! Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:04:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967964javascriptperlphppythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967947 unknown@DZone.com The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Maven 2.1.0. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:39:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967947announcementjavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967929 unknown@DZone.com Agile software development isn't necessarily appropriate in all circumstances... Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:11:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967929how-tomethodologyopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967930 unknown@DZone.com With the Smooks Persistence cartridge you can directly use several entity persistence frameworks from within Smooks. In this post I will show you how this works with Hibernate and any other JPA compatible framework. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:11:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967930databasehow-tojavaxmlProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967931 unknown@DZone.com A while ago, when I was just getting used to this insanely complicated stuff, I posted a brief introduction to the world of regular expressions. I???m glad to say that, since then, I have learnt a bunch more about them and how you can make use of them within JavaScript. So, here goes... Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:11:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967931javascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967932 unknown@DZone.com Any developer that???s been around a while remembers the magic of table layouts. It was part of every tutorial on how to create a website. The days have changed and now we see a big push for CSS everywhere. CSS zealots are everywhere, almost as prolific and dedicated as Mac fans! But is CSS evangelism all it???s cracked up to be? Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:52:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967932css-htmlstandardstrendsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967905 unknown@DZone.com The web development/design curriculum taught in most colleges tends to be dated and in need of definite help. Opera published their Web Standards Curriculum, and that was a great step in the right direction, but The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has taken it to an all new level with their recently launched InterAct Curriculum. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:01:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967905announcementNewsopinionstandardsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967906 unknown@DZone.com CakePHP ACL tutorial. Try to explain what is ACL and how to implement ACL in CakePHP Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:00:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967906phpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967875 unknown@DZone.com Life's certainties include death and taxes but also the advancement of the GNU/Linux operating system, and the last two kernel releases did not disappoint. The 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 releases contain cutting-edge enterprise advances that you have to see to appreciate. Discover why it's time to upgrade. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:00:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967875how-toopen sourceSecurityunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967853 unknown@DZone.com Wee is a web framework similar to Seaside that uses continuations and provides reusable UI components. With Ruby 1.9, continuations stopped leaking memory and can therefore be used safely in a production environment. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:59:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967853frameworksrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967845 unknown@DZone.com In part 1 we talked about Caching introduction and some terminologies of caching and in part 2 and part 3 we have seen some implementation of the famous replacement cache algorithms and now in this part we will see comparison between open source java caching frameworks as I am not that rich to buy commercial frameworks :D.
 In this part we will talking about OSCache,Ehcache,JCS and Cache4J and we are going to concentrate on memory caching only, there will be performance comparison based on in memory caching by using JBoss caching benchmark framework and other test cases for cache. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:24:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967845frameworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967837 unknown@DZone.com If you???re like me, one of the first things that attracted you to Scala was its parser combinators. Well, maybe that wasn???t the first thing for me, but it was pretty far up there. Parser combinators make it almost too easy to create a parser for a complex language without ever leaving the comfortable play-pen afforded by Scala. Incidentally, if you aren???t familiar with the fundamentals of text parsing, context-free grammars and/or parser generators, then you might want to do some reading before you continue with this article. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:06:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967837frameworksother languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967819 unknown@DZone.com Silverlight 3 Beta 1 was released last week. However, Microsoft released little guidance on when to expect a Silverlight 3 release date. After digging into some of the videos from MIX 2009, I found some surprising information that will make the Silverlight 3 release have one of the shortest beta -> release time frames. Look out for Silverlight 3 in the Summer of 2009 (?). Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:05:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967819.netriaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967820 unknown@DZone.com 42 pagination design inspiration Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:53:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967820usabilityweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967811 unknown@DZone.com A massive guide to everything Twitter. Includes Twitter glossary, best applications, how to get more followers, Twitter ranking and a ton of more information for quick reference. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:45:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967811trendsweb 2.0web designweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967777 unknown@DZone.com In November 2008 we published the article 10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming. Apparently, according to negative comments to the post, it contained some errors and some statements that are just wrong. We sincerely apologize for our mistake, and we are truly sorry for any inconvenience we caused by it. However, this simple apology is not good enough. To solve the problem, we asked Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates, two PHP gurus, to take a closer look at the article, explain its errors and make it perfectly clear what is actually right and wrong in the theory and practice. This article is a professional response to our article published a couple of months ago. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:03:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967777phpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967778 unknown@DZone.com The second post in a series about starting a software development tools company. This post covers the process undertaken in picking the name of a company. Discusses points to consider when picking a name for your own software brand. This isn't strictly code but might be interesting for entrepreneurial geeks out there. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:02:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967778how-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967779 unknown@DZone.com The author of the e text editor is transforming his company into an Open Company. Totally open. No concept of bosses or employees. Anyone can join in at any time, doing whatever task they find interesting, for whatever time they find appropriate. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:02:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967779Newsopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967780 unknown@DZone.com In this final installment in the series, OStatic is very pleased to offer up a guest post from Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, on what's next for open source. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:02:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967780open sourceopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967767 unknown@DZone.com James Hall saw the good news in Bugzilla that CSS3 multiple backgrounds are now in the Firefox tree, and you can test a Firefox Nightly (Minefield). Firefox joins Safari in the support. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:49:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967767css-htmlNewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967693 unknown@DZone.com I just wrote this simple plugin for JQuery which lets you synchronize the scroll bars of any collection of elements. This lets you move the scrollbar of one div it have the scrollbars??? of the rest of the divs move the same exact amount. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:30:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967693frameworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967664 unknown@DZone.com Today we present the new collection of the most interesting jQuery plugins for the last month. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:38:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967664ajaxjavascriptreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2967665 unknown@DZone.com Including Maps, Feeds, Translate, Spellchecker, Images and more... Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:38:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2967665javascriptreviewsweb 2.0web servicesProgramming