A Better Applet Experience, Part 2: Poster Frames
2008-08-28 16:20In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a screenshot or poster frame to speed up page loading.... [阅读全文]
Free Text Messaging (SMS) API from Zeep Mobile - just launched
2008-08-28 16:13The Zeep Mobile SMS API allows any website to send and receive text messages (SMS) to and from it's users. There are no volume restrictions and the service is absolutely free for developers - users pay only their standard SMS rates. Available in the US.... [阅读全文]
IE8 & backward compatibility. What can I do?
2008-08-28 15:56In this blog entry Samiq writes about some of the new features of the just released IE8 Beta 2 and also explains how to deal with compatibility issues using aggiorno express.... [阅读全文]
Meta-Programming with Scala Part III: Partial function application
2008-08-28 14:27In my previous post about Meta-Programming with Scala I suspected that there was no way to express partial function application in Scala’s type system. However Matt Hellige proofed me wrong in his comment. His solution uses a trait for partially applying a function to some of its arguments. An abs... [阅读全文]
Vegetable oil as a diesel fuel alternative: impacts on agriculture
2008-08-28 14:19Biomass-based vegetable oil is a renewable fuel source that might substitute for fossil fuels. Given the dramatic increases in fossil fuels, vegetable oil-based fuel is becoming a viable alternative to diesel fuel and can substantially increase agricultural sector income.... [阅读全文]
Effective Java Second Edition is Also Worth a Read
2008-08-28 13:44A long time ago, I read the first Effective Java book by Joshua Bloch, and, as many others, I loved it. Great book! Not long ago, Joshua Bloch finished a revised second edition of Effective Java, and I just finished reading it.... [阅读全文]
The Use of Java in Real Time and Mission Critical Application to Support the Warfighter and the IC
2008-08-28 13:36Hello, my name is Sam Ceccola, I have been involved with use of Java technologies in the industry and the government communities since 1998. For me this started with Bluestone software (later purchased by HP), then with BEA and now I have the privilege of joining Azul Systems (this is my first blog... [阅读全文]
How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher
2008-08-28 12:39Learn how to create an amazing, and degradable style switcher using jQuery.... [阅读全文]
JavaFx interview at InfoWorld
2008-08-28 11:34Didn't see that one coming too, but yes Paul Krill, editor at large at InfoWorld, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago, precisely after publishing a couple of posts on JavaFx/Groovy on this blog. I'm humbled by this opportunity as you can find Jacob Lehrbaum and James L. Weaver among the article's ... [阅读全文]
Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
2008-08-28 11:05"Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#."... [阅读全文]
Flash exploit served by Microsoft
2008-08-28 11:05Microsoft site (msn.no) serves trojan to thousands of users due to known Flash Player bug.... [阅读全文]
Everything there is to know about Flex 4 / Gumbo
2008-08-28 11:04About a month ago, the Flex team announced that nightly builds of the next version of Flex (code named Gumbo) were now available on the opensource Flex site. Along with early versions of the SDK, the team also posted a ton of other information, including specs and API docs.... [阅读全文]
Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties
2008-08-28 09:46Using a simple Hibernate Interceptor, updating audit trail fields in a database (such as created_by, created_on, updated_by, and updated_on) can be accomplished with no changes to your application code. In other words, you won't need to and definitely should not be manually setting those audit prop... [阅读全文]
ASP.NET Myths Busted
2008-08-28 09:13Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from ASP.NET. I won't argue whether ASP.NET is better than PHP (or Ruby on Rails) or not, instead I'll try to bust those myths.... [阅读全文]
MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
2008-08-28 08:05This is the fourth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture six, which is on the topic of Order Statistics.... [阅读全文]
Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2
2008-08-28 07:21I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with... [阅读全文]
White paper on IronRuby published
2008-08-28 06:24Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...... [阅读全文]
Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
2008-08-28 06:24My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. Recently someone posted a comment asking if a curved slider is possible.... [阅读全文]
Virtual SCRUM Board
2008-08-28 06:14Virtual SCRUM Board (VSB) is a software tool that helps Scrum teams manage the uncommitted backlog, sprints, stories and tasks. VSB empowers Scrum teams to fully participate in sprint planning and execution.... [阅读全文]
Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce
2008-08-28 06:14David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails software framework. He’s also a partner in 37signals, producers of the popular Basecamp suite of online collaboration tools.... [阅读全文]
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