Erik's Linkblog

[May 14, 2007 02:02 PDT] 1 Links

Mon, 14 May 2007 09:02:40 GMT

This linkblog has been put to rest. Thanks for the memories.

[May 10, 2007 03:59 PDT] 24 Links

Thu, 10 May 2007 10:59:08 GMT

Making a CelebrityCollector with Apache Tapestry: the For Component. We are going to start a new project today named CelebrityCollector. At first it will be very simple but in the following articles we ll be adding more and more functionality to it. Of course the purpose at this stage of study is not to build a real-world application but to meet different Tapestry components and to learn various important concepts...

Java Goes Real Time. Yesterday at Java One Sun finally announced the first implementation of JSR-1, the Real-time Specification for Java, since it was finalized in July of 2006.

James Gosling: "Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#". 'There have been a number of language coming up lately,' noted James Gosling at Sun's World Wide Education & Research Conference in New York City. 'PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.'

Diego — at javaone tomorrow!

FileZilla 3 BETA 3.0.0-beta8.

JProfiler 5.0 is a fully dynamic Java profiler based on the Java virtual machine profiling interface (JVMTI/JVMPI).

Frinika 0.4.0 is a free, complete music workstation program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0).

JDave 0.8.0 is a behavior-driven development framework that provides an easy way to specify the behavior of your Java classes.

Adam — JPA 2.0 update from JavaONE - important improvements.

Adrian — JSR296 Swing Application Framework.

Alex — Java 7 Roundup (May 9th).

Mark — The OpenJDK Charter.

Paul — JavaFX Mobile is *just* SavaJE acquired by Sun.

Last.fm adds music video service. Last.fm plans to add video to its site this week, allowing users to create custom music video channels much the way they can currently create custom music stations. The music will be encoded at 128kbps, which is twice the bitrate of music videos on YouTube.

Cingular 8525 Is Now the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC. The Cingular 8525 Pocket PC has had a few things going for it, but it should be better now thanks to a new name and some new features.

Tom — JavaFX : the missed opportunity from Sun.

Newsvine Mobile. Newsvine is a popular, user driven news site. It works a little like Digg in that stories are submitted and voted on by members.

D-Link's Draft-N 2.0 Upgrade Ready. The Xtreme N product line may be the first to support the almost-final version of 802.11n.

B.L. — Guy Kawasaki to Launch Twitter/Digg Hybrid "Truemors".

Bryan — JavaFX in Perspective.

Move Over, Skype: Intel's Backing Jajah. The chipmaker is throwing its weight behind a service that aims to dethrone eBay's PC-to-PC calling business.

Comcast Demonstrates 150Mbps Internet. Cable giant Comcast unveils its FiOS-killer.

Mobile video generated $200 mln in 2006. Service provider revenue from mobile video services jumped 317% to almost $200 mln worldwide from 2005 to 2006, and is expected to triple in 2007, says Infonetics Research.

Java Security Traps Reportedly Getting Worse At JavaOne last year, Fortify's Brian Chess discussed how to avoid Java security holes. A year later, with even Sun's manuals containing code with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, we're actually worse off than ever.

[May 9, 2007 03:11 PDT] 17 Links

Wed, 9 May 2007 10:11:34 GMT

HTC Signs Acquisition Agreement with Dopod International. High Tech Computer announced today that it has signed an acquisition agreement with Dopod International.

Mike — Brit Hacker Takes Control of MoD Satellite.

Cameron — Lightweight.

Google preparing to police web. Increasingly worried by the use of conventional web sites to distribute the viruses that turn innocent PCs into botnet "zombies," Google appears to be readying a plan to police the web. If the plan goes forward, Google will use new software to automatically identify compromised web pages in its database and label them as "potentially harmful" in its search results.

Erik — The Pulse.

Microsoft's state of Vista: The first 100 days. On May 8, Microsoft shared new data on the Vista "ecosystem" to prove the company's contention that Vista is more market-ready than any previous version of Windows. Courtesy of Dave Wascha, director of partner platform marketing, here are Microsoft's latest compatibility statistics, based on the first 100 days of product availability.

Yahoo revamps travel site. New Yahoo Travel to offer updated mapping features, Messenger tool and personalized trip recommendations.

HP Plans to Go Even More Mobile. Hewlett-Packard is offering a number of updated laptops, along with a new tablet, which are geared toward enterprise users and will be some of the first PCs to offer Intel's Centrino Pro platform.

Sun partners with Ericsson on Java platform. Sun is collaborating with Ericsson to support development of Java-based server applications that can run on wireless networks.

Google Analytics gets a makeover. Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the Web site usage monitoring service.

71% of US VOIP market is cable-based. JupiterResearch found the ability to successfully bundle broadband telephony with other relevant services will continue to drive consumers' adoption of cable-based VoIP, which currently accounts for 71% of the VoIP telephony market.

Mike — Club Owner Has To Pay $40,000 Because A Cover Band Played 10 Songs.

Mike — AT&T Charging Eight Minutes For One Minute Call; Blames Regulations That Don't Appear To Exist.

Fedora 7: What, When, and Why. Max Spevack, Fedora Project leader posted a outline and expected impact of the Fedora 7 release...

Comcast Boosts Cable Upload Speeds. Comcast officially announced what customers around the United States have been noticing for months: no bandwidth caps when uploading files less than 10MB.

Yahoo scaling back not just photos, but auctions. Yahoo Inc. has told users it will shut down its North American Web auction site, the second service the world's most visited Internet media company has set to retire in the past week.

Hewlett-Packard Says Quarterly Results Will Top Forecast. The announcement pushed the company's stock to its highest point in more than six years.

[May 9, 2007 02:32 PDT] 32 Links

Wed, 9 May 2007 09:32:04 GMT

JIRA 3.9 delievered only eight weeks after 3.8.

Creating and Parsing XML Documents in JDeveloper. Oracle's XDK 10G extends JAXP to make reading, writing, and querying XML easy.

MobiForms 3.12. Following the global success of earlier versions of the MobiForms mobile development tool, version 3.12 has now been released.

Sun Finishes OpenJDK Transition. Today's keynote was the culmination of a year long process to open source the JDK, resulting in a completely build-able JDK now available to developers.

MQ Visual Edit 1.4.0. This is a free upgrade for all licensed users of MQ Visual Edit.

KonaKart 2.2.0.2, the free Java eCommerce / Shopping cart, is now integrated with BIRT, the popular Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool.

JavaDoc Taglets Collection 2.0.0 is set of general pupose taglets for use with the JavaDoc tool. Release 2.0.0 is the first public open source release.

JDave 0.8.0 is a BDD framework for Java. This version adds support for Hamcrest matchers and adds Agiledox style reporting tool.

soapUI 1.7.1 is mostly a bug-fix release but also includes initial Project Integration in the NetBeans plugin and some new features in soapUI Pro.

eHour 0.6 is an open source webbased time tracking tool for consultancy companies and other project based businesses.

oXygen XML Editor 8.2. Syncro Soft Ltd, the producer of oXygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 8.2 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.

TinyLaF 1.3.6 is a Java LookAndFeel which looks somewhat like Windows XP but runs on all platforms supporting Java 1.4.

Sun Microsystems Announces OpenID Program. Sun announced a new initiative around support for OpenID, a decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism that allows consumers to reuse a single login across different websites. Through this initiative, Sun will explore the changes needed to make OpenID applicable to a broader spectrum of business and technical challenges.

Cédric — The JavaFX disaster.

GPilotInstaller 1.0.3 is a small Java application that acts as a frontend to the gpilot-install-file command line program to queue Palm application (.prc) and database (.pdb) files for installation.

YourKit Java Profiler 7.0-build2024 is a CPU and memory profiler that makes it easy to solve wide range of CPU- and memory-related performance problems.

YourKit Java Profiler 6.0.15 is a CPU and memory profiler that makes it easy to solve wide range of CPU- and memory-related performance problems.

OpenSign 1.7.0 is a collection of Java applets providing client-side digital signing functionality using x.509 certificates.

bluemarine 0.9.EA9 is a Java application for supporting the digital photo workflow.

Adrian — Desktop Java.

Alan — JavaFX as end-to-end Java GUI solution? I'll believe it when I see it.

Armi — Servlets 3.0.

Alan — JavaFX - Sun javax.swing's and misses once again.

Chris — Java SE: Present and Future.

Danno — JavaOne and JavaFX: I Think I've Been Here Before.

Dave — JavaOne opening keynote notes and comments.

Debu — Oracle releases Java EE 5 compatible container!

Eric — JavaFX: Not In It To Win.

Murphee — JavaOne: Sun apes iPhone.

Simon — Pebble 2.1-RC1 released.

tm — A much simpler way to Install a Windows exe program as Windows Service.

Wolf — Tough Crowd at JavaOne?

[May 8, 2007 00:43 PDT] 27 Links

Tue, 8 May 2007 07:43:12 GMT

Todd — Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup.

JBuilder 2007. CodeGear announced a new release of its JBuilder 2007 product portfolio.

DBsight 1.4.1 is a J2EE search platform for rapidly developing search engines on any relational database, for both beginners and experts.

JAMWiki 0.5.4 is a Java-based Wiki engine.

TDA 1.2 (Thread Dump Analyzer) is a small Swing GUI for analyzing thread dumps generated by the Sun Java VM.

POMStrap 1.0.7 is a really simple Java application bootstrap and classloader trick that allows dependency "classloading" without side effect. POMStrap uses Maven2 pom files to resolve dependencies required to launch an application.

JavaDoc Taglets Collection 2.0.0 is set of general purpose taglets for use with the JavaDoc tool.

KeyStone 0.1 is a Java Swing-based editor program for Java keystore files.

JGraph 5.10.1.0 is a free, mature, and robust Java Graphing framework that fully complies with Swing design principles.

JCameo 0.10 is a model-driven Swing framework with support for all aspects of GUI development.

JavaLog Analyser 20070507 allows you to customize your log files in real time with text and color filters.

Jitterbit 1.2 is an integration tool for designing, configuring, testing, and deploying integration solutions.

Brian — Why Subversion is better than CVS for Java developers.

Sam — null Parameters and returning null.

Venkat — Non Reproducible Bugs - How to deal with them?

Nokia Introduces Series 40 Platform 5th Edition. Nokia announced a new Series 40 5th Edition platform, incorporating Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) technology and an enhanced UI that allows developers to build richer multimedia applications and services.

Apple, record labels head for negotiating table. This time around, fresh off EMI's decision to sell DRM-free tracks on iTunes, should be an interesting back-and-forth between Apple and the music industry.

Mike — Verizon Says It Has A First Amendment Right To Illegally Give Your Call Records To The Government.

How the RIAA has Dodged RICO Charges. Wondering why the RIAA hasn't been hit with racketeering charges over its shady legal fight against file-sharing?

Marc — Numbers to Strings with custom symbols // DecimalFormat - DecimalFormatSymbols.

25 Tips to Improve Your Skype Experience. For millions of users, Skype is the VoIP solution of choice. If you're just getting into this great telephone alternative, you are going to be surprised how much you can do with it. In this article we cover 25 tips, hacks, and extras to help you utilize Skype to its fullest potential.

Shay — Download of the Day - JDeveloper 11 Technology Preview.

tm — Installing a Windows exe program as Windows Service.

Russell — FCC Fines FedEx For Interfering With Local Police Signals.

Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java. The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development.

Sun's JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight. Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space.

Scott — Sun to Introduce JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script.

[May 7, 2007 00:24 PDT] 41 Links

Mon, 7 May 2007 07:24:43 GMT

Using FindBugs with NetBeans 5.5. A new article has been published on developinjava.com showing how to install and use the FindBugs plugin for NetBeans. The article takes the user through the different steps required to install the plugin and finally how to run the plugin from within the NetBeans 5.5 IDE.

JasperAssistant 2.2.1 for JasperReports 1.2.5 is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine.

MQ Batch Toolkit 1.2.0 is a free upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Batch Toolkit.

MQ Visual Browse 1.4.0 is a free upgrade for all licensed users of MQ Visual Browse.

JPedal 3.20 adds support for AES encrypted files and Javascript validation support to PDF library.

Hyperic HQ 3.0.4 is an Open Source systems management software. HQ 3.0.4 was released with major performance enhancements that improve the UI response time, particularly when browsing resources.

JGoodies Binding 1.4, 1.5, 2.0RC synchronize object properties with Swing components.

Scriptlandia 2.2.1 is the Launching Pad for running various scripts (Ant, Maven, BeanShell, JavaScript,Groovy, JRuby etc.) within Java Virtual Machine Platform.

Todd — Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary.

PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 have been released with a plethora of security updates.

jHepWork 1.2 is a full-featured object-oriented data analysis framework for scientists.

Barbecue 1.5-beta1 is a Java barcode generator. It provides barcode generation for Swing/AWT, printing, and Web sites.

BORG Calendar and Task Tracker 1.6 is a calendar and task tracking system written entirely in Java.

Chris — Dynamic Faces Component Library Makes it Easy to Ajaxify JavaServer Faces Components.

Chris — NetBeans REST support.

Chris — Shake the Disease.

Daniel — FindBugs - Writing custom detectors (Part 2).

David — Pidgin 2.0 is here — Gaim is now Pidgin.

Ed — Testing Ajax Apps with JUnit.

Gavin — NHibernate 1.2 is here!

Geoffrey — Eclipse 3.3 M7 Released - New Features.

Dan — XFire 1.2.6.

John — New JavaServer Faces primer.

Paul — Reader/Writer in Java - in a nonblocking threadsafe broken sorta way.

Paul — Welcome to JavaOne.

Per — Choosing a RIA web framework is seriously hard :-(

Raja — Java Collections - Arrays.asList() Exposed.

Nicolas — How to find the good example of source code java.

Found on the Mobile Web #16.

T-Mobile Posts Windows Mobile 6 Update for Dash Smartphone. T-Mobile USA has released the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the T-Mobile Dash Smartphone. The update is provided free of charge for current Dash users.

Carlo — iPhone Prediction Whip-Out.

Scott — Microsoft Buys Yahoo?.. 2007 Pondering Primate Prediction Possible?

Russell — Skype offers free worldwide Mother's Day calling:but here's the fine print.

Russell — Vonage won't get new trial, but will be able to use new SCOTUS ruling in appeal.

Tim — Quick Start Guide to Setting up Apache Tomcat on Linux.

Comcast picks Zimbra for online e-mail. Cable and Internet giant picks smaller open-source company for subscribers' Web-based communication site.

Tesla geek-out in Silicon Valley. Engineers from Silicon Valley quiz an engineer from Tesla Motors about the electric car that's yet to be.

How to avoid pricey mobile charges when traveling abroad. Here's how business travelers and vacationers can avoid facing huge cellular bills and being out of touch when they roam abroad.

Mike — Does The MPAA Simply Make Up Piracy Numbers Out Of Thin Air?

Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon. The Defense Department is using the nation's top technology investors to help it find innovations from tiny start-up companies.

Bills propose reporter's shield for bloggers. One sponsor says intent is to include anyone who "regularly" engages in newsgathering, but "not everyone in our society."