http://frameworks.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for frameworks en Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677200 unknown@DZone.com When writing utility classes it is very easy to go down on the path of writing code that can never be changed later on because of static functions usage. Using a singleton approach combined with static functions is a much better solution, as shown in this article. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677200frameworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2677104 unknown@DZone.com As ETL tools they take different approaches, Kettle is a meta data driven framework (which is in turn tightly integrated into an even larger BI framework, the Pentaho BI Project), while Talend is at the end of the day a code generator. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:01:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677104databaseframeworksopen sourcereviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2677043 unknown@DZone.com The top 10 happenings in the Ruby and Rails worlds for the first half of 2008. Post a comment if we missed anything. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:21:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2677043frameworksNewsrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2676844 unknown@DZone.com Being a long weekend, I had a couple hours yesterday to mess around with my Maven build in the hopes of integrating Groovy and ridding myself of a lot of Hibernate boilerplate (you know, all the annoying getters/setters). Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:41:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2676844frameworksgroovytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2676508 unknown@DZone.com In Getting Started with Spring RCP, the initial stages of working with Spring RCP were covered—from setting up a project, to creating views, establishing a docking system, and working with commands. In this article, we look at some other Spring RCP topics, in particular highlighting its rules based validation and form builder. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:36:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2676508frameworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675958 unknown@DZone.com If I take care never to write a single line of code without packaging it as a plugin, the architectural part of my brain kicks in. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:54:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675958frameworkshow-tojavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675858 unknown@DZone.com I take a sledge-hammer (this is Ayende's fault) to my current Membership system and split it out into three separate services/parts. I then sit with Jon Galloway and talk about OpenID - and then I implement it. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:40:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675858.netframeworksSecurityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675576 unknown@DZone.com Let us do some more basics with the “Spring Rich Client” 1.0.0 (SpringRC). Although it is time to give an overview of the entire architecture I won’t do this here, because I am a newbie with Spring and SpringRC. So we will just look into the steps how we get things running. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:52:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675576frameworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675531 unknown@DZone.com here is the tips for you to make the animated flashing message box using jQuery in the top left corner of the browser... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:05:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675531css-htmlframeworkshow-tojavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675486 unknown@DZone.com del.icio.us is a bookmarking service where you can save, share your favorite/useful URL's.
 
 It has a REST API: http://del.icio.us/help/api/. Using this API you can design clients (web/desktop) to use the service. NetBeans 6.1 comes bundled with the APIs for popular web-services, which includes del.icio.us. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:21:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675486frameworksjavatoolsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675444 unknown@DZone.com One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim Gray, specifies the input data (10 billion 100 byte records), which must be completely sorted and written to disk. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675444frameworksjavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675356 unknown@DZone.com How do I load data with jQuery? In this tutorial, we're going to grab data from one page and display it on another. You can download the sample solution at the end of this tutorial. First, View The Example. In this example, you'll need to create two pages. Title the first one - "loadData.htm", and name the second one - "theOtherPage.htm". Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:05:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675356frameworkshow-tojavascriptweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675310 unknown@DZone.com Being confronted with an occasional bug in a complex system can be quite overwhelming. There are three disciplines that help you to stay strong:
 
 1) Read and learn about your platform and how to debug it. 
 2) Use tools to quickly get the low hanging fruit. This might be enough in most of the cases to identify the bug. 
 3) Think out of the box and try to be creative. Build a model, play with it, break it and fix it. In the worst case, you won't have found the cause of the bug, but you learned at least something new about your software. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675310.netc-and-cppframeworkshow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674964 unknown@DZone.com There is no such thing as a JavaScript plugin contends James Coglan. I completely agree that there are no, specific, techniques within the JavaScript language that make "plugins" possible (such as the ability to namespace code and import it, or some such). Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:20:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674964frameworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674679 unknown@DZone.com The latest release of the MVC framework provides the JsonResult for Controller actions. I was surprised that I did not find a weatlh of examples for usage so I figured it shouldn't be too hard to get a decent example going. It turns out, it was even easier than I anticipated. I wanted to create an example where I would invoke an AJAX call to dynamically populate a dropdown list. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:11:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674679.netframeworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673664 unknown@DZone.com The HP Showroom website accomplishes what is normally done is Flash, but without the whole Flash thing. The site is using mootools to create the smooth scrolling between products. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:57:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673664ajaxcss-htmlframeworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673456 unknown@DZone.com Symfony is one of the few PHP frameworks that gives you basic tools for starting to write tests. It provides a special object, called sfBrowser, which acts like a browser connected to an application without actually needing a server and without the slowdown of the HTTP transport. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673456frameworksopen sourcephpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673208 unknown@DZone.com Django was designed from the ground up to handle two common web developer challenges: intensive deadlines and strict adherence to the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle. DRY sounds exactly like what it is: Why write the same code over and over again? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:19:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673208frameworkshow-topythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672721 unknown@DZone.com I'm currently studying Spring Web Flow (SWF). I want to share my experience in creating a simple CRUD Web application. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:05:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672721frameworksjavaSecurityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672571 unknown@DZone.com Max Rydahl Andersen, project lead for JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio looks at the newest enhancements in JBoss Developer Studio 1.1, including better support for Seam and Hibernate development, and what's new in JBoss Tools 2.1, including SOA tooling, BIRT integration and various performance improvements in Seam. (Podcast + Transcript) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:17:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672571ajaxeclipseframeworksweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672203 unknown@DZone.com In the last months everyone noticed that everyday, new components and frameworks on 3D have been developed and released to the Flash community. I’m writing this article, because even me that check everyday lots of posts and articles in the Internet, start to be lost in the middle of lot’s of information and new resources available. So, i decide to make a list with all the available 3D tools for Flash. If I’ve missed some of them, i would be glad to add them to this list, just drop me a comment. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:21:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672203flash-flexframeworksopen sourceweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672205 unknown@DZone.com This tutorial is part two in a two part series on TestNG and jmockit. The previous tutorial covered the classic JUnit and EasyMock scenario, only with TestNG and jmockit. Although you can do that type of testing with these two technologies, that is not their strong point. In this tutorial, we will cover some more advanced features of TestNG and use jmockit's ability to "remap" a class in your JVM to handle a more robust suite of testing scenarios. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:19:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672205frameworkshow-tojavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672035 unknown@DZone.com When it comes to developing and scaling Web applications, performance is everything. Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, conducted a series of benchmarks to compare the performance of four popular PHP frameworks. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:40:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672035frameworksopen sourcephpresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672036 unknown@DZone.com Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and
 writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
 Word. More than 100 bug fixes and plenty of new features are introduced in this version Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:37:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672036frameworksjavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671484 unknown@DZone.com It is an oft repeated misnomer that Comet is about long-lived HTTP connections, but this is simply not the case. Comet uses long-held HTTP requests rather than long-lived connections! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:53:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671484frameworksjavascriptserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671399 unknown@DZone.com We are proud to announce the release of OpenLaszlo 4.1.
 
 OpenLaszlo 4.1 is a major release bringing full support for both the DHTML/Ajax and the SWF/Flash platforms. It also includes over 800 bug fixes and a significantly improved documentation suite. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:32:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671399announcementframeworkstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671268 unknown@DZone.com The Databinder community has unleashed 1.2 for our pleasure. With databinder you can build database backed applications without having to resort to Spring service layers. Databinder nicely wraps several ORM layers such as Hibernate, ActiveObjects and Cayenne. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:23:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671268announcementdatabaseframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671189 unknown@DZone.com Helpful article on how to use Passenger to manage all your Rails sites in development Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:21:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671189frameworkshow-toopen sourcerubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037 unknown@DZone.com By now, OSGi has gained serious momentum in the entire Java ecosystem and I feel that OSGi is a topic that every Java developer should be aware of. In this article, I intend to guide you past the online resources that I found most relevant for gaining knowledge of OSGi. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037frameworksjavaresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670848 unknown@DZone.com Looking at possible ways of making a simpler DSL for GUI state machines. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670848.netframeworksguimethodologyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670767 unknown@DZone.com The product manager and developer repeat this approach again and again. After the fifth iteration, the product manager thinks to himself, "Wow, this way of working together is really agile." Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:57:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670767frameworksmethodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670619 unknown@DZone.com Since Matthew originally started hacking on the Zend Framework MVC in the fall of 2006, he has been touting the fact that you can test ZF MVC projects by utilizing the Request and Response objects; indeed, this is what he actually did to test the Front Controller and Dispatcher. However, until recently, there was never an easy way to do so in your userland projects; the default request and response objects make it difficult to easily and quickly setup tests, and the methods introduced into the front controller to make it testable are largely undocumented.
 
 So, one of his ongoing projects the past few months has been to create an infrastructure for functional testing of ZF projects using PHPUnit. This past weekend, Matthew made the final commits that make this functionality feature complete. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:13:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670619frameworkshow-tophptoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670508 unknown@DZone.com Today we're releasing an updated version of our JavaScript client library, including new support for working with the Google Contacts Data API. This API lets users securely share their GMail contact lists with third-party sites, and now that it's available in JavaScript form, this access can be integrated directly into the rich environment of your AJAX-driven applications. All without writing a single line of complicated server-side code. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:08:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670508announcementframeworksjavascriptopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670377 unknown@DZone.com I've been working with ExtJS lately, and I must say I am highly impressed. For those of you not familiar with ExtJS (Ext), Ext is a crossbrowser javascript framework that allows for the creation of RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670377frameworksguijavascriptweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670154 unknown@DZone.com shiftzoom.js 1.0 allows you to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
 
 It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE 6+ and Safari. Works also on older browsers supporting images/ createElement/ getElementById, else it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:49:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670154frameworksjavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670108 unknown@DZone.com Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:37:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670108frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670110 unknown@DZone.com The path of choosing the infrastructure of a new project is daunting, but has to be walked.
 What choices have to be made for a new web application?
 How do You choose your infrastructure? Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:33:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670110frameworksmethodologyopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669316 unknown@DZone.com Taking the Spring RCP for a whirl, touching on most of the major topics along the way. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:15:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669316frameworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669160 unknown@DZone.com jHelperTip is intended to be useful in many situations such as hovering tip and clickable tips. It can get data from a container, through Ajax or even the attributes of the current object. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:37:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669160frameworkshow-tojavascriptweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668926 unknown@DZone.com I've just contributed some text components to the SwingLabs project. These components allow text to be laid out in a manner akin to the way desktop publishing packages (DTP) can flow text around shapes, graphics and through columns. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668926frameworksguijavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668785 unknown@DZone.com How to unit test Django views in App Engine, using as little mocking as possible. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:28:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668785frameworkshow-topythontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668645 unknown@DZone.com The Java Native Access library is a different way of accessing native code, where most of the heavy lifting is done for you. JNA almost didn't make it to the open source arena, and might have stayed hidden behind Sun's garden walls, if not for some determined work its project lead. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:22:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668645frameworkshow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668981 unknown@DZone.com I've been spending many of my recent developer cycles writing console applications to perform various tasks in an ETL process. And yes, before you ask, I had started out initially modeling my ETL process with SSIS - and while I could eventually get it to do what I wanted, at the end of the day, regular code was a more direct and expressive syntax for describing my process. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:19:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668981.netframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668550 unknown@DZone.com Following up on the Observer/Event Pattern, it’s time for the third pattern, the Decorator Pattern.
 
 The definition: “Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.“ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:20:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668550frameworksmethodologyusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668552 unknown@DZone.com The Eclipse Persistence Services Project, more commonly known as EclipseLink, is a comprehensive open source persistence solution. EclipseLink was started by a donation of the full source code and test suites of Oracle's TopLink product. This project brings the experience of over 12 years of commercial usage and feature development to the entire Java community. This evolution into an open source project is now complete and developers will soon have access to the EclipseLink 1.0 release. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:20:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668552eclipseframeworkshow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668505 unknown@DZone.com Yahoo released 9 UI reputation patterns in the Yahoo Design Pattern Library. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or rich-interaction type of pattern: They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:45:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668505frameworksmethodologyweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668508 unknown@DZone.com Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized database. The data can then be visualized through graphite's web interfaces. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:28:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668508frameworkspythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668465 unknown@DZone.com Software systems seem to be ruled by a fundamental law: As they get larger, their complexity increases exponentially. The reason for this is actually simple: Complexity is due not just to the number of parts in the system, but also to the relationship between the parts. Event-Based Architectures (EBAs) simplify system design, development, and testing because they minimize the relationships between the parts of a system. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:11:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668465frameworksopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668372 unknown@DZone.com Latest (sadly) version of the IWebMvc platform was released. This final release includes dozens of bug fixes, a couple new widgets and JAWR support as highlights Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:55:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668372ajaxframeworksjavaopen sourceProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668065 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday I described the Observer Pattern and mentioned that the .NET CLR provides this functionality through events and delegates.
 
 Let’s have a look on how to implement this right now. We’re using delegates with generics, the += operator and throwing and handling events. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:30:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668065.netframeworksmethodologyMicrosoftProgramming