links for 2009-10-29
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Step by step instructions on how to install 64-bit Ubunutu server into a virtual server.
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Follow these simple examples to create & use immutable collections in Groovy. Just remember .asImmutable()
October 29, 2009
October 28, 2009
links for 2009-10-28
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An IBM Developer works tutorial on how to use Joda Time to enhance the dates and times easily. It provides a number of nice enhancements on top of the standard java date features.
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Short example on how to add an rss feed to your grails web app.
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A Paper on the usefulness of scrum project management, some theory behind it, and some suggested practices.
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Groovy/Java based Hello world example for Google Wave.
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A list of bookmarklets to help build, debug and verify web development.
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A nice collection of jquery plugins for interacting and manipulating tables in html.
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A quick and easy tutorial of how to install some commonly used apps into the latest ubuntu release.
October 27, 2009
links for 2009-10-27
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Believe it or not, microsoft has some nice freeware products that could add more value to your office suites.
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build your own java based email server using the open source project: geroa.
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Build your own webdav server with milton, an opensource, java based web DAV implementation.
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The history, background and theory behind test driven development and the problem it tries to address. Interesting if you're interested in agile development practices or improving the quality of your source code.
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Video: Graeme Roche shows how to simplify java enterprise application development with Grails.
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Simple implementation of a proxy written in Java.
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A list of java profiling tools to help optimize and tune your java applications.
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Development tools for internet explorer. Still not the options that Firefox provides, but better than what it used to be.
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Lots of jQuery slider and accordian plugins. Lots of examples and options if it's what you're looking for.
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Gruple is a concurrent processing library written in/for groovy.
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Lifehacker post announcing the ability to add voicemail to any phone using google voice.
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DTO Generator plugin generates DTO objects for display.
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Another grails tutorial from Scott Davis at IBM Developerworks. This time he tackles how to add rss (atom) feeds and file uploads to your grails web applications.
October 24, 2009
links for 2009-10-24
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How to install the Groovy & Grails plugins for the SpringSource Tool Suite.
October 22, 2009
links for 2009-10-22
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This simple web project cost calculator serves as a good starting point for freelancers looking to cost estimate a project or contract.
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How to setup a Java development environment with eclipse on ubuntu linux.
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History of World War II - in comic form. Funny and informative.
October 21, 2009
links for 2009-10-21
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Mr Haki shows us how Groovy makes command line argument parsing easy in this short tutorial.
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Add methods to preexisting Groovy and/or Java classes with Groovy @Mixin annotations. MrHaki has another useful tutorial showing this powerful feature in Groovy.
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Build lightweight servlets in groovy instead of Java. Follow this simple tutorial from MrHaki to get a feel for the basics.
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MrHaki shows us how to use Groovy templates to generate XML and other streaming
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Scott Davis with another grails tutorial, this time he focuses on Unit Testing and Test Driven Development in grails.
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Javascript debugging tools for firefox, internet explorer, safari, opera and other gecko based browsers.
October 20, 2009
links for 2009-10-20
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More groovy goodness - using groovy to slurp a configuration file.
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Example implementation of jms using spring and activeMQ
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A programmers advice on how to program dates, use dates and manipulate dates.
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IBM Whitepaper on how to scale agile software development project management practices.
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Short tutorial showing how to build an email consuming service using Java on Google App Engine.
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how to handle out of memory exceptions gracefully.
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How to use CSS Float
October 19, 2009
links for 2009-10-19
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ibm developerworks article deconstructing rules engines, their design, appropriate use and implementation.
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Mashup buildathon results in examples of 21 different open apis in just 7 days. wholly impressive.
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The biggest mind frack with developing google app engine based web apps is the rethinking that needs to go with google's way of persisting information to big table. This tutorial provides a good step-by-step instructions, including source code.
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How to build a grails app with integrated memcache.
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Groovy makes bigdecimal and biginteger types easy to use.
October 16, 2009
links for 2009-10-16
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Artifactory Maven Repository Manager has a new release. This dzone article describes some of the features and enhancements in this release. Could be of interest if you are hosting or planning on hosting your own maven repository instead of connecting to the www for new build dependencies.
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Add these to your Php Cookbook if they're not in there already.
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Simple jQuery examples showing how to interact with forms to do basic validation and implement character counters and list manipulations.
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Someone has gone to the effort to build a html render in flash. One thing this provides is a simple one-stop-shop for ensuring browser compatibility and consistent rendering between users, unfortunately it needs flash. Apparently someone has done the same thing with html5s canvas object too.
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This tutorial shows how to add further granularity to the popular Acegi (Spring) Security plugin for grails. In the tutorial they show how to add security on each button, link or action on the current page.
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The Grails REST Client plugin adds support for Groovy's HttpBuilder class which can be used for easy development of synchronous or asynchronous groovy rest webservices clients.
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Another step-by-step tutorial on how to get a free domain, host it on a free server and install a free blog engine (wordpress) to host your blog.
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A list of 7 free hosting services for Php/MySQL hosted sites.
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An easy to follow step-by-step tutorial on how to install and activate a photo gallery theme to a wordpress installation.
October 15, 2009
links for 2009-10-15
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A Carsonified Cartoon about User Personas, how to use them and how to develop them.
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Support your clients running IE browsers by following the css tips in this smashing magazine article.
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Build custom weekly calendar views using this slick jquery plugin.
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MrHaki showing how easy it is to find data in Groovy collections.
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MrHaki is back with more groovy goodness - this time a simple example showing how to read the content from a url.
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A CMS plugin built in Grails
October 6, 2009
links for 2009-10-06
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SmashingMagazine with another great article for beginner web designers on how to think in CSS to design and layout web designs properly.
October 3, 2009
links for 2009-10-03
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A detailed matrix comparison of some of the most popular Javascript frameworks.
October 2, 2009
links for 2009-10-02
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Some thoughts on where logic should sit in a Grails application from Shawn Hartsock. When coding by convention over configuration it is good to be clear about conventions like this…
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Great article from Ted Naleid on how to performance tune Grails applications that do large sql imports.
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How to manage stale connections in your grails applications.
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How to pick a prototyping tool. Includes a decent sized list of commonly used tools from basic like excel to more modern like Balsamiq.
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Unit testing framework QUnit helps you unit test your javascript.
