Programming

A roundup of the best wordpress development tutorials from February 2010. At least in my opinion.

The winning collection of business Flash website designs that will prove to you the effectiveness of Flash.

Near the end of 2009 and on into the first months of the new year I have seen a number of articles and blog posts discussing web design trends, with reviews, discussions about the good and the bad, and predictions for what will happen in 2010.

Here is a showcase of 20 awesome and cool websites using html 5 as their markup. Worth checking.

A collection of all episodes published at http://gaejexperiments.wordpress.com + a bonus episode - DataStore API in a free eBook

Version 2.4 of the Darcs revision control system is out. "The darcs team is proud to announce the immediate availability of darcs 2.4. darcs 2.4 contains many improvements and bugfixes compared to darcs 2.3.1. Highlights are the faster operation of record, revert and related commands, and the experimental interactive hunk editing."

The problems that I faced when I started using Scala for a Web project (Servlet, JSP and JSTL with MySQL backend).

We know that Flash webpages and flash items for a website will be something awesome and interactive. It provides smooth running of the webpage once its fully loaded. Designers can explore their creativity in the flash. But the only drawback for the flash is that it needs the flash player to be installed in the web browser to view the Flash items.

Explains how to use one simple Java SSH library and how to copy a file over the SSH channel. Exposing a possible caveat if older version of the library is used.

Digital media has certainly made taking and copying your artwork easier and faster. If you decide to upload your digital media onto a personal website, or a blog, for instance, and all an individual has to do is save these pictures and images onto their own computers.

Guess what? Cassandra is going to tweet. The open source Cassandra data management system is going to replace the MySQL database system at Twitter, the latest of several MySQL replacements at social networking sites, according to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter. Facebook and Digg, which used to rely on the open source MySQL database system, now part of Oracle, have already made the switch.

This blog post might be useful to somebody who is new to running PHP on Windows and IIS. I hope this summary will help to maneuver around some of the gotchas when picking the correct PHP binaries.

Madhava Enros, from the Mozilla Mobile team, has just posted a nice new photo of Mobile Firefox (code named Fennec) running on a Nexus One.

Pip.io is a social operating system which consists of two distinct domains namely the ‘social’ and the ‘OS’. The social aspect is the native real-time communications podium of Pip.io.

This is really part two of the article I wrote “What is a Senior Developer?”. I’ve received some shrill feedback on my choice of assessment problem: * Too math’y! * Standards too exacting! * A bit much to ask of your typical commercial developer. So I’ve taken this all to heart and decided to revamp the Solver question. Actually, I’ve decided to drop it completely and replace it with something a lot less “math’y” but possibly no more representative of real-world requirements.

The world that surrounds the topic of Web Design is home to many debates and opinions on best practices or generally how things should and shouldn’t be done. While many of these opinions are accepted and taken on board by everyone, there are some that end up being split into two opposing camps. One camp will provide an expert opinion for one side of the argument, while the other contradicts with an equally valid argument. Let’s take a look at the five most popular debates; the ones that often end up developing into digital riots with opinions flying like arrows across the vast no-man’s land known as the comments section.

When an industry gets big enough to spawn other sectors that grow parasitically on top of it, then you can tell it has some decent critical mass. And in many cases, that's where to look for jobs, or even start your own small venture. Take mobile applications, for example. We all know that the iPhone has done exceedingly well as an application platform. So well, in fact, that start-ups are now forming with the sole purpose of measuring just how well. One such startup, Distimo, focuses on analysing trends in the mobile application space. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it found that Apple leads the field by an order of magnitude. At the recent World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Distimo said that there are 150,000 applications in the iPhone app store, compared with just 20,000 in that of its nearest competitor, Android.

For more than a month after the acquisition, there wasn't much news on the future of OpenSolaris. When the Oracle website posted the "End of Service Life Status for OpenSolaris Operating System" document last week, some news outlets found an opportunity to cry 'murder'. Oracle dispelled these rumors at the OpenSolaris Annual Meeting and laid out the details of the OpenSolaris roadmap.

The Griffon team is happy to announce the release of Griffon 0.3! Griffon is a Grails inspired framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using Groovy. For a list of features and fixes see the Griffon 0.3 Release Notes http://griffon.codehaus.org/Griffon+0.3.

A few sample of code showing how to get from JUnit3 up to easyb.