Apply the EaSynth Look And Feel in Your Applications

2008-07-17 05:19

EaSynth look and feel is a free and open-source Java look and feel provided by www.easynth.com. It is based on the Synth look and feel supported by JRE5+. The new look and feel provides a bronze-coloured theme. ... [阅读全文]

12 Best Looking Design Galleries

2008-07-17 05:14

Design galleries showcase well designed websites, which doesn’t mean that they need to be well designed themselves right? Well of course they should, but with the explosion of design galleries there are some pretty terrible looking ones. ... [阅读全文]

Intel’s good news: Record revenue of $9.5 billion

2008-07-17 05:00

Finally, some good economic news: Chip giant Intel says demand for technology products remains solid. Intel, (INTC) the No. 1 semiconductor maker, kicked off the tech earnings season Tuesday with record second-quarter revenue. Revenue of $9.5 billion rose 9% from $8.7 billion a year ago. ... [阅读全文]

An Introduction to Lean Thinking

2008-07-17 04:47

Lean software development, which we hear a lot about these days, may be still a bit of a mystery for people who come to Agile via Scrum or XP. Earlier this year, at an Open Party was sponsored by InfoQ China, Ning Lu of ThoughtWorks China offered an introduction to Lean thinking, and said the bigg... [阅读全文]

Microsoft tells Congress Yahoogle will own 90% of ad market

2008-07-17 04:10

A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony this morning from senior executives of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo regarding the implications of the Yahoo/Google ad sharing agreement. Their statements reveal diverse views of what constitutes “competition.” ... [阅读全文]

Efficient Flash Game Development

2008-07-17 04:08

If you’re a flash game developer you should know that in order to make a good game, you have to spend a considerable amount of time developing it. Usually, the time you spend making your game is analogous to the quality of game that you make. But, sometimes, the time you spend developing the game m... [阅读全文]

Take Your Eclipse Development One Step Further With Instantiations Tools

2008-07-17 03:34

Instantiations just recently received the IBM Rational Software Validation for WindowBuilder Pro and have also been listed in the SD Times Top 100 Most Influential Software Companies. I caught up with Eric Clayberg, a co-founder, author of Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins and Sr. Produ... [阅读全文]

Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison

2008-07-17 03:26

Scalability, OS, Other uses, Resources, Price grid ... [阅读全文]

OpenSocial API Blog: Use AJAX Libraries API to speed up OpenSocial apps

2008-07-17 03:23

Do you use popular JavaScript frameworks like Prototype or jQuery in your OpenSocial applications? Do you share the pain your users might feel when they have to download a popular library like prototype.js yet another time even though it’s been already fetched 33 times? Wouldn’t it be nice if you d... [阅读全文]

Metawidget 0.55: New Support for GWT, Groovy, and More

2008-07-17 02:32

Metawidget is an Open Source ’smart UI widget’ that populates itself at runtime with UI components to match the properties of a given business object. The latest release includes support for GWT and Groovy. ... [阅读全文]

Video Demo: Shapes, Binding, and Animation in JavaFX and NetBeans

2008-07-17 02:14

Video demo introducing NetBeans support for JavaFX. ... [阅读全文]

Best Practices for Developing Scalable Web 2.0 Applications

2008-07-17 02:10

This demo will show you the power of GigaSpaces’ scaling, hot failover and self-healing capabilities. A sample Web application which uses Spring MVC and contains an AJAX web front-end and a GigaSpaces’ backend will be scaled out. We will first deploy and run the GigaSpaces’ backen... [阅读全文]

New language for this year

2008-07-17 02:04

One of the tenants of the Pragmatic Programmer is to learn at least one new language every year. What language should you learn this year? ... [阅读全文]

The Next Great Language

2008-07-17 02:04

There has been a lot of talk in the last year or two about Java losing ground to newer languages and about which language is going to replace Java as the dominant language going into the next decade. After all the smoke clears, what should the reasonable person conclude? Is it time to move on? ... [阅读全文]

My JVM Wishlist (Part 1): Interface injection

2008-07-17 02:02

If you’ve been following what’s going on in the JVM-languages community, you have probably stumbled across John Rose’s blog. One of his entries was about interface injection. Tobias tells you all about it. ... [阅读全文]

Gnome founder Miguel de Icaza critizes Gtk+ 3.0 proposal

2008-07-17 02:00

The proposal goes like this: Gtk+ 3.0 will hide all public fields in objects, provide accessors to these, remove APIs that have been flagged as deprecated and introduce no new features. All the actual new features that some people want would come up in future versions. Which features will come is ye... [阅读全文]

Continuous Integration: Was Fowler Wrong?

2008-07-17 01:54

It’s about tests not builds While rereading Martin Fowler’s classic paper, Continuous Integration, it struck me that its approach to Continuous Integration (CI) is fundamentally flawed. Fowler, like most of the CI community, seems to argue that CI is about building rather than testing. ... [阅读全文]

Moodle Open Source E-Learning Heads for the Cloud

2008-07-17 01:43

Moodle is one of the biggest players in software and platforms for e-learning (online seminars, webinars and the like) and it’s also free and open source. Now, Infinity Learning Solutions has announced a cloud computing solution for Moodle leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Th... [阅读全文]

AOL talks with Microsoft, Yahoo heat up: source

2008-07-17 01:43

Sources said a deal with Yahoo would likely involve merging AOL–with Time Warner keeping a share, and a deal with Microsoft would have Redmond completely taking over AOL. ... [阅读全文]

P2P leecher targeted in Germany for making files available

2008-07-17 01:40

When does “making available” mean “not making anything available whatsoever?” When you have set your P2P client’s settings to not upload a single byte (you dirty leecher, you) but you’re targeted anyway by a company that claims it has proof that you made its files... [阅读全文]