LightSpeed 2.0 Released

2008-06-06 14:41

Mindscape, the cool software agency based in Wellington (NZ) that had the office in the same building where I worked for Calcium, just released the second version of their domain modeling framework, named LightSpeed. ... [阅读全文]

ParserFear

2008-06-06 14:19

I talk quite a bit with people about DomainSpecificLanguages these days and a common reaction I get to external DSLs is that it’s hard to write a parser. Indeed one of the justifications for using XML as the carrier syntax for an external DSL is that “you get the parser for free”.... [阅读全文]

Response to “Where did all the PHP programmers go?”

2008-06-06 13:24

Ok, I’ll bite in response to this “Where did all the PHP programmers go?” blog post. ... [阅读全文]

Testing IE Versions Just Got a Little Easier

2008-06-06 13:04

“This free tool allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP…” ... [阅读全文]

Becoming a Jedi - Part 2 of N

2008-06-06 12:31

The next episode of Becoming a Jedi is now live and covers code cleanup. Specifically I look at quick fixes, context actions, safe delete, and reformat code. ... [阅读全文]

Create a 3D Product Viewer in Flex 3

2008-06-06 12:00

If you’re going to experiment with Flex 3, you might as well create something cool, right? With only a small amount of code, Jack shows you how to create an awesome 3D model of a light cycle from the movie Tron that your users can view, rotate, change the color of, and more! ... [阅读全文]

ReSharper 4.0 Goes To RC Phase

2008-06-06 11:29

If you have been on the fence, now is the time to truly jump onto the ground and start running again in VS!! ... [阅读全文]

The thinning of the Java tools ecosystem

2008-06-06 11:29

Josh Fruhlinger writes: Here’s a potentially alarming statistic from InfoWorld: four vendors — IBM, Oracle, Genuitec, and CodeGear — now control 95 percent of the commercial Java tooling market. And in open source, what you’re seeing is more and more tools built on Eclipse (... [阅读全文]

Software Development Automation with Scripting Languages

2008-06-06 11:29

The Scripting languages are deployed in many operative systems, either in UNIX/Linux or Windows. These languages are developed for general purpose process automation and web programming. But you can consider using them for the software development process in many ways. Among these languages, awk an... [阅读全文]

A Guide to Perfect Pagination

2008-06-06 11:28

Pagination is a way to organize information into several web pages, it simply consists in dividing information into numbered pages. This technique comes from the system that has been used to organize information in books since the 16th century. ... [阅读全文]

Is Java Dying? No Way!

2008-06-06 10:53

After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. ... [阅读全文]

IT posters to cover your empty walls

2008-06-06 10:43

If you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on interesting information rather than nice-looking sunsets. And of course all are computer and network related. ... [阅读全文]

IT Certifications Declining in Value

2008-06-06 09:27

IT leaders, analysts and in-the-trenches professionals say certifications mean little in the candidate selection process. Though not all were created equally, IT certifications once had an almost-guaranteed value. ... [阅读全文]

Canadian Govt Caught Editing Wikipedia Entry about Copyright

2008-06-06 09:14

“Everyone makes mistakes” appears to be the rather banal lesson from Canada this week, as Industry Canada got caught with its hand in the Wikipedia copyright cookie jar and the Canadian anti-throttling forces screwed up the difference between kilobits and kilobytes in official regulatory... [阅读全文]

4 Tips for Juggling Multiple Projects

2008-06-06 08:57

As we’ve pointed out before, independent web workers often have patchwork careers. While it would be nice to only have one project needing attention, the reality is that we need to juggle together multiple projects with overlapping deadlines for many clients. Depending on the workload and your pers... [阅读全文]

Google to build at NASA Ames

2008-06-06 08:43

After cooperating on several scientific projects, Google and NASA announced Wednesday they have negotiated a long-term lease that will allow the Internet search giant to build a major tech campus at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. ... [阅读全文]

EZTV and MVGroup Join Forces

2008-06-06 08:18

A month after the tragic death of it’s founder, Merrin, MVGroup is one step closer to his aim of ‘educating the word via p2p’. Today, EZTV partners MVGroup in sharing documentaries via bittorrent. ... [阅读全文]

DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

2008-06-06 07:12

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! ... [阅读全文]

The Definitive Guide to Dependency Injection in EJB 3

2008-06-06 06:55

The ‘Dependency Injection in EJB 3′ Refcard, written by Debu Panda, is useful for those building enterprise Java applications with EJB 3 and JPA. It lists all metadata annotations, describes them with examples and also provides descriptions for XML elements that you can use for injectio... [阅读全文]

Stolen AT&T laptop holds treasure-trove of payroll data

2008-06-06 06:50

Make that unencrypted payroll data belonging to AT&T managers. Says one manager who got the bad news: “It is pathetic that the largest telecom company in the world doesn’t encrypt basic personal information.” ... [阅读全文]