Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that... more »
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Drizzle: A Lean Fork of MySQL is Generating Buzz
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... more »
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A bunch of great logos I've collected from round the web for inspiration
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... more »
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Dylan Schiemann co-creator of Dojo on AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the Dojo Toolbox
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,... more »
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Aspect Oriented Programming - A Different Aspect.
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... more »
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CSS Garage Door Style Menu
CSS Garage Door Style Menu
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Sun Makes Open Source Announcements
Sun Microsystems has made a trio of open source developer-focused announcements at OSCON this week, including the availability of the Sun Web Stack --... more »
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Madness? THIS. IS. SOA!
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... more »
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Why Erlang ?
Because it’s a completely different approach from the OO programming languages (even from the pure functional ones like Lisp or Haskell), it’s... more »
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How To Build A Twitter Agent
This post is about creating an agent that reads feeds and tracks things in blogs, using the Twitter API.
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Examples of Scrum Product Backlog & Sprint Backlog
Here are examples of a Scrum product backlog and sprint backlog...
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Introduction on how to use Reflector
In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector. Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation... more »
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25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance
A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides and .NET blogs, about improving .NET performance.
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Open source competition - Mule Galaxy vs WSO2 Registry
Competition is everywhere , it does not matter whether commercial or open source different people tries to compete with others. Not only in different... more »
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YUI powered javascript Accordion widget
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... more »
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Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3
In the previous part of my series about learning Ruby using C# we discussed constructors, instance methods, parameters, and then touched on blocks a... more »
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Asking Knowledge Questions during Job Interviews
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... more »
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Tips to design your site for mobile devices
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... more »
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2nd international Subversion Conference
The 2nd international Subversion Conference will take place in the Munich (Germany). The SubConf is the premier event designed to explore, share, and... more »
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Silverlight A Flash Competitor Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch
So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash... more »
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Five Business Lessons from Bill Gates
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,... more »
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Metaprogramming in Groovy Pecha Kucha
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... more »
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FEST-Swing 1.0b1: Fluent interface for testing Swing GUIs
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... more »
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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, shares a free chapter
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... more »
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From the "You Must Be Trolling for Hits" Department...
Recently this little gem crossed my Inbox.... Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last
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