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links for 2008-02-05

Da Vinci Machine Project

“extending the JVM with first-class architectural support for languages other than Java, especially dynamic languages”

(tags: java jvm programming dynamiclanguages)
jawr

Java library to bundle and compress JavaScript/CSS libraries. This just might replace the Ruby script I have to do the same thing.

(tags: java javascript performance)
Why Second Life Won’t Get a Third

SL’s architecture limits growth. The author suggests Croquet. I favor Darkstar/Wonderland.

(tags: virtualworlds secondlife architecture via:barrydahl)
Functional fun in JavaScript with Dojo

(tags: javascript functionalprogramming dojo)
Minnesota Online – No Long Tail

Excellent. Barry’s spot on. Regarding the search limitations/failures, I remain pointedly silent but nod in emphatic agreement.

(tags: minnesota education search)
Faster JavaScript Trim

(tags: javascript regex)
Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more

(tags: google javascript rails rhino interview)

04 Feb 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-02-04

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

wot larks, Pip, wot larks.

(tags: enterprise2.0)
CSS Sprite Generator

(tags: css webdesign)
Simply JavaScript: The Core Library

Small library to support the book, eases the transition a bit.

(tags: javascript)
Too much accessibility – good intentions, badly implemented

Looks like a good presentation. I, too, often come across well-intentioned but actually harmful attempts to make things more accessible.

(tags: accessibility)

03 Feb 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-02-03

How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible – 40 Tutorials and Articles

(tags: ajax accessibility)
Flexible Rails

Book about using Flex 3 with Rails 2.

(tags: flex rails)

02 Feb 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-02-02

FlexSpy

Kind of what Firebug does for HTML/Ajax applications but for Flex applications.

(tags: flex opensource utilities)
Rails Cells

Component-oriented development for Rails.

(tags: components rails framework)
Ruby Waves

Web framework

(tags: ruby framework)
xkcd: Real Programmers

Nice.

(tags: funny comics)

01 Feb 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-02-01

Scala XML book

How to use Scala with XML. Oh, so very, very nice.

(tags: scala ebooks xml)
Sun’s JavaFX tools to interop with Adobe

Fantastic. “Sun Microsystems is working on interoperability between design tools from Adobe Systems and its upcoming JavaFX tools for application developers building rich application interfaces and rich-internet applications (RIAs).”

(tags: sun adobe javafx ria via:bushwald)
SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script

Just what it says.

(tags: flash javascript webdesign)
A Flash Guru Talks about Silverlight

(tags: silverlight via:bushwald)
Silverlight: Overview

Comparing versions

(tags: silverlight via:bushwald)

31 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-31

Code Commit: Scala

Daniel Spiewak has a Scala tutorial going

(tags: scala tutorial)
InfoQ: Are Iterations/Sprints Waste or Value to Agile Teams?

Interesting discussion. It depends on the team. My team gets value from imposing a structure, but mismanaged iterations start to feel like waterfall.

(tags: agile projectmanagement)
Trustworthy Computing: Lessons Learned from Five Years of Building More Secure Software

(tags: microsoft sdlc security michaelhoward)
Clustering Scala Actors with Terracotta

(tags: scala distributed concurrency)
Utility Belt

utilities to improve irb

(tags: ruby opensource)

30 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-30

Guerilla SOA

Entertaining presentation on SOA, describing a lightweight ESB. I could get into that, since most ESB talk I hear is too-heavy vendor BS.

(tags: esb soa presentation video)
Prototype 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet

(tags: prototype)
Comet: Sub-Second Latency with 10K+ Concurrent Users

(tags: comet ajax performance)

29 Jan 2008 del.icio.us 1 comment

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links for 2008-01-29

Big Think – We Are What You Think

(tags: video culture politics)
ChangeThis

(tags: essays politics culture)
InfoQ: Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?

Bill de hÃ“ra has suggested this, and I am tempted too agree.

(tags: architecture grid cloud xmpp)
Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services

(tags: distributed xmpp architecture)
Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0 – ReadWriteWeb

“‘applications that are pieced together’ – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile)”… agreed.

(tags: architecture distributed web2.0)

28 Jan 2008 del.icio.us 1 comment

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links for 2008-01-28

The busy Java developer’s guide to Scala: Functional programming for the object oriented

First in a series by Ted Neward, introducing Scala

(tags: scala tedneward)
SQL Injection Cheat Sheet

(tags: sqlinjection webappsec reference)

27 Jan 2008 del.icio.us 1 comment

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links for 2008-01-27

Heroku

Web-based Rails app creation, maintenance, and hosting. Cool idea. Like Rails, a signal of Things To Come.

(tags: rails)

26 Jan 2008 del.icio.us 1 comment

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