How Microsoft Blew its Own RIA Invention
Cast your mind back to the year 2000. Microsoft has just announced its .NET Framework, complete with a new language called C# - that was in July, at... more »
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In the search of Holy Web Grid
How can we build perfect web Grid?
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InfoQ: Amazon’s SimpleDB Enters Public Beta
Amazon finished private beta testing and has entered into public unlimited beta of its cloud database service named SimpleDB. SimpleDB is meant to be... more »
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What Motivates (Some of) Us
A number of weeks ago I asked readers to tell me what motivates them. The most original/inspiring contribution was awarded with $100 worth of software... more »
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Hot in Edge Rails: Generate Rails Apps from Templates
Creating a Rails app with all the dependencies has never been so easy - rg, a template-based rails app generator has been just added to the core.
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Java SE 6 update 11 is out, 64-bit support still lacking
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Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and... more »
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Sun’s Withdrawal of SwingX Funding Angers Community
Sun has now decided to cease funding for the SwingX project altogether, as announced via a post to SwingLabs' forum by Jeanette Winzenburg . This has... more »
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I am a Java developer. Should I know about DIV ?
I’ve seen many newcomers to Java language has been discussing this topic with themselves when they are given training in HTML and web design.For many... more »
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Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277?
In order to modularize JDK 7 in the next year or so, and in order better to inform the work of JSR 294, Sun will shortly propose to create Project... more »
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25 Tutorials for Advanced Freelance Web Designers
When it comes to advanced design, finding the right stuff can be even harder. Advanced effects require a much more in-depth tutorial, and often... more »
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Upside Down Text With CSS
Previously I’ve talked about reversing text with CSS by simply setting a few CSS attributes. Today we will try another trick: turning text upside... more »
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Get Autoincrement value after INSERT query in MySQL
How to retrieve the value of key that is added using autoincrement value in MySQL.
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Fiji is free until December 31 - JSF and Flex together
Using JSF and Flex components together while binding Flex components to standard JSF managed beans. Fiji also offers out-of-the-box JSF-Flash charting... more »
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Kill Your Database with Terracotta
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The idea of network attached shared memory makes me want to re-think the whole scheme of data persistence. I'm tired of blindly using a RDBMS when... more »
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Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?
It’s hard to believe that nearly two months have already passed since opening the doors on the Username Availability Validator project. I made a few... more »
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Five good programming habits in PHP
Just like any language, developers can write code in PHP that ranges in quality from truly awful to very good. In this article, learn good programming... more »
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Vista SP2: What’s inside?
Microsoft is continuing to broaden the pool of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) testers beyond the fairly small, select group who’ve been working... more »
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C# Design Patterns - An Overview
Over the next number of posts I am going to be exploring the world of design patterns. We’ll look at some of the most commonly used patterns and how... more »
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Useful OpenID Provider for internal installations
I installed the solution on my laptop where my test installation of ESME is running. I was able to register as a new user, receive a OpenID and use... more »
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About Chris Oliver: The "Contrarian Mind" Behind JavaFX
JavaFX SDK 1.0 will be released tomorrow, December 4th, 2008, so while we're waiting I thought you might want to learn more about the history of... more »
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Battling Web spam
Spam on the Web is one of the biggest threats to a modern Web developer. The "bad guys" become more and more sophisticated every year in how to... more »
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Method overloading in PHP 5
Method overloading (a feature of object-oriented programing which allows having several class methods with the same name but different signatures) is... more »
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las3r — A lisp compiler for the AVM2.
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Las3r is based on the Clojure source code, so they have a lot in common. For instance, the reader is almost a line-by-line port of the Clojure reader.... more »
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Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online
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Recently, Google has stepped up its presence in the cloud computing arena. Google's new App Engine (aka "AppSpot") lets you design and run web... more »
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Grails 1.1 beta, the things I’m looking forward to…
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Grails 1.1 beta 1 is out, and the release notes give a nice snapshot of some of the sweet new features coming.
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