Refactor or Rewrite - it's a common question in most development shops. Some smart analysis of the decision.

Make agile project management easier by using the right tools. This short article outlines some features you should look for.

How to move from waterfall to agile by avoiding typical pitfalls

TechCrunch on why Google Wave is over-hyped despite it's obvious short comings.

Knowing how Domain Name Servers (DNS) work provides insite into the possibilities of the internet

A list of tips that anyone using ubuntu linux should know.

Build a Java based Google Wave Robot by following this tutorial

Guillaume Laforge presents Gaelyk - the light weight Groovy / Google App Engine framework that fuses the power of GAE and the ease of Groovy development

A Slideshare presentation explaining GPars

Interesting research project turns a web cam into a 3D scanner. Watch the youtube video example.

Detailed user guide for the new Ubunutu version ~ Karmic Koala [pdf]

A (Very Good) 10 minute overview of Google Wave from the creators. (youtube)

Java does interceptors with Aspects, Groovy does it with an inteceptor class and ProxyMetaClass.

Working on a custom design for your blog? Here's a list of things to consider when doing a (re)design.

A great collection of icons - useful for web/app development or personal use.

Part of me doesn't see the point in even talking about NewsCorps' supposed deal with Microsoft to delist from Google news. It's frustrating to me to see these high-powered executives making decisions that ultimately will damage themselves because of a outdated understanding of viable business models on the internet. (Just my opinion - there's a reason I'm not a billionaire business giant). Part of me doesn't want to post any opinion or link to any articles, but I'm making one exception because this article from the Harvard Business Review is right-on in my mind, and very well communicates the mentality that goes into these decisions and the results that may occur.

An Excellent article from Harvard Business review on what the impact of NewsCorp delisting from Google News might mean.

Add twitter style notification messages to your web app with the jFeedback jQuery plugin.

The evolution of RSS may lead to the adoption of pubsubhubbub protocol for publishing and subscription of messages.

Matt Raible discusses the recent publishing of the LinkedIn public API including Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and OpenID.

This article gives an overview of dynatrace for debugging ajax applications

simple tutorial showing some easy usability tricks and how to apply them in GSP pages #grails

kelly rob with a few strategies for using Groovy in your Java applications.

Turn your webcam into a security camera with free software - Vitamin D.

A very cool explanation of type inferencing and how it is used in eclipse groovy development.

Create your own Grails plugin by following this easy tutorial

I think I'm going to have to try this out… Turn a wiimote into a mouse.

Full face Beard Heads are a funny way to keep your head warm this winter.

Mr Haki shows us how to use the FileNameFinder Groovy class to do a quick search for files.

Mr Haki shows us how to show library dependencies in Gradle Builds.

Mr Haki with another groovy tutorial - using the in operator, and building your own custom implementation for use in your own code.

This is a fine example of a Software Kata, in this case demonstrating test driven development in Ruby.

Using Eclipse Memory Analyzer tool (MAT) to analyze Java Memory issues.

A Short summary of use cases where using the Map-Reduce algorithm (popularized by google) is a good way to go.

A Case study on how to migrate a Java based web application to grails. Covers important steps and suggests some tools to help succeed.

An Epic list of online t-shirt stores. Looking for something cool - you'll find it here somewhere.

Another short tutorial from Mr Haki, this time showing how to run Groovy code from Java using the GroovyClassLoader

A Tutorial showing how to implement Rest web services in Spring 3.0

Good tutorial explaining how to implement services in Java and the thinking behind the design.

A collection of date & time pickers, displays and calendar jquery plugins. Good reference for those working with time.

A introduction to common tasks on the Mac for Windows users. Considering switching? This is a good place to start so that you're more comfortable making the change.

tcpmon is an Apache Axis tool that listens or proxies web service traffic, allowing you to catch soap messages in transit. Useful for debugging.

Mr Haki with a Gradle (Groovy based build tool) tutorial - how to build your own plugin.

Mr Haki shows us how to test for expected exceptions in Groovy

Using YQL to scrape the content of a HTML page that requires POST data.

_Wicked_ list of Java + Active Directory tutorials and sample code.

Google Wave plugin for Grails.

A simple tutorial showing how easy it is to write an ftp client in Groovy

Demo, Download & Tutorial for Chrmatable JQuery table scrolling plugin.

How to build a simple cloud computing framework for Android Devices (warning: C code ahead)

Introducing the SRP-Hermetic Secure Ajax Library. Open source under the MIT license, this project authenticates and encrypts ajax messages.

Grails constraints explained in this tutorial which also includes an example of how to write your own custom constraint.

The toyota philosophy applied to software development leads to empowered, cross functional teams of problem solvers instead of taskers and doers.

An excellent guide to software architecture - what it is, what it isn't, why it's important, and some tips on how it should be done and documented.

Gizmodo explains android and how it will take over the world. IMO - If it doesn't then something else with a similar philosophy will eventually win.

Build a one week calendar display with this jquery plugin. Includes demo.

Make iCalendar like displays using this jquery plugin

GraniteDS is an opensource alternative to Adobe LifeCycle - Flex data services. This tutorial give a simple example of how to integrate Apache ActiveMQ messaging services running on Tomcat with GraniteDS as an alternative.

How to checkout and build grails from source.

Improve your linux command-line-jitsu with the sites listed in this makeuseof post.

Find free alternatives for software using the sites listed in this makeuseof article.

Makeuseof.com with a list of essential applications for security, performance and general use.

Groovy Timer example from Mr Haki shows how to schedule running of Groovy code.

A presentation on refactoring processes and the value of unit tests. Includes a definition of SOLID principals.

Not liking the fact that I need to write 2 different descriptions for the same bookmark to show up in @friendfeed and @twitter. I'd prefer it if twitter (or other text field limited sites) got a truncated or … version. @kevinw_links, @the_real_kevinw

Sun Microsystems announced the development of the Java Store some months ago. Providing simple, easy to use payment processes is key to any virtual store. This article details the PayPal integration that is in the Java Store Beta.

Some explanation of the very cryptic Microsoft Active Directory - LDAP Authentication error codes.

An example of the Method Chaining Factory Pattern that uses SQL like syntax to make readable database access.

A tutorial on how to implement a Connection Pool in Java.

A Grails gaelyk tutorial showing how to build grails based web apps that run on google app engine and persist data to the database.

A tutorial showing how to integrate Grails and Active Directory using the JSecurity plugin.

Build a google wave robot using google appengine, groovy and Gaelyk.