Working from Beijing
In case you haven’t heard, China is on the rise. Regardless of your opinion on the morals of offshoring or China’s human rights record, the fact... more »
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The Death of Google's Patents
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via patentlyo.com
The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps... more »
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Design Patterns - Iterator Pattern
Time for the next part in our series, the Iterator Pattern. Let's start with the definition: "Provide a way to access the elements of an aggregate... more »
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Tips for Software / Programming blogging
Tips for fellow software / programming bloggers based on my experiences over past 6 months. These include : (1) Treat your readers like a jury not as... more »
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Groovy Makes Web Services Embarrassingly Easy
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Meera pointed me to another very cool article she's written, RESTful Web Services in 60 Seconds, and (because I've been in an intensely groovy frame... more »
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WSO2 Extends SOA Governance With Identity Solution 1.5
WSO2 announced that it has extended its support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance through enhanced authentication. Version 1.5 of the... more »
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Open Source Web Services with Ruby
Ruby is a powerful language, I don't think any one will disagree on that. Well, this is about web services with Ruby :-), quite interesting...
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Announcing IronEditor - An Editor for IronRuby, IronPython and other DLR languages
For a while now I have been working on an application called IronEditor, this is a simple application designed to make it easier to pick up and start... more »
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RESTful Web Services in 60 Seconds
bloid via testearly.com
Is this even possible? Yes, trust me, if I can do it, so can you. You may ask, from Groovy and Grails in one day, how did I shift gears to web... more »
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The clouds are coming
My notes from CloudCamp conference on cloud computing, held last week in London.
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3 Great Open Source Software Website Enhancements
Open source software is software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design.... more »
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Free PDF Download: Getting Started With Flex 3
SitePoint are giving away PDF copies of the book "Getting Started With Flex 3" for the next 60 days. All you need to do is complete a one-page quiz... more »
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Kevin Mitnick: Social engineering 101
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Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
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WPF Tutorial - Using MultiBindings
Introduction to WPF's MultiBinding. The tutorial includes full source code and easy-to-follow examples.
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Stripes Book now available!
Stripes book is now available! Get it while it's hot! http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fdstr
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The life expectancy of IE6
An analysis of IE6 usage statistics from three different sites, and an attempt to determine from current trends when IE6 will become irrelevant
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Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
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Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as... more »
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What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB
I just had an e-mail exchange with someone looking for a VB lead in Colorado Springs. I think they are going to have trouble filling it with an... more »
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My Precious...
One of the important themes running through Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and that story’s associated foundational histories, is corruption. The... more »
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 4 - Data Binding
This is the fourth in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker.... more »
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A New Competitor to LCD
A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid... more »
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What's Drizzle?
bloid via it.toolbox.com
Today Brian Aker announced a fork of MySQL, called "Drizzle". Drizzle is a slimmed-down MySQL, in a lot of ways what MySQL should have been before... more »
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Maven Makes Developers Feel Stupid
bloid via furiouspurpose.blogspot.com
Although Maven has its benefits, its documentation is often spartan and scattered, and sometimes it can be quite painful to figure out how to... more »
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Skip lists are fascinating!
Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black... more »
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JavaFX - A Forever Unfinished RIA Technology?
The answer was horrifying. It is still not done and production ready. The JavaFX project has been around for quite some time now, and it is still not... more »
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