Open source reader

A Comparison of Bug Finding Tools for Java

2006-10-24T11:05:00.000+02:00

Very nice read here : A Comparison of Bug Finding Tools for Java
It talks about the following tools:

Bandera,
ESC/Java 2
FindBugs
JLint
PMD

Happy debugging !

4 monitoring tools for your sysadmin

2006-10-02T13:00:00.000+02:00

Here is my list in my preference order

Happy installing !

! Hibernate users, do not skip this ! The great object Equals and hashCode pattern proposal !

2006-09-22T17:25:00.000+02:00

Hi all,

now it is the time to get back on of the nastiest problem of hibernate http://www.hibernate.org/109.html

Looks like there is a valuable solution posted here http://www.hibernate.org/109.746.html !

Does it work ? Yes !

passes successfully the 3 tests listed above in the article:
- "multiple new instances in set"
- "equal to same object from other session"
- "collections intact after saving"

The principals ?

The first time equals or hashCode is called, we check if the
primary key (here getUserId()) is present or not.
If yes: we use it in equals/hashcode
If no: we use a UID (here _uidInEquals) during the entire life of this
instance even when latter on this instance is assigned a primary key.

And there is the sample code too using java.rmi.dgc.VMID !

That's good news for the hibernate community !
Happy O/R'ing !

Do you Hadoop ?

2006-08-20T13:45:00.000+02:00

Ready to fight google in his own area of expertise ? :)
Try Hadoop !

Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named map/reduce, where the application is divided into many small fragments of work, each of which may be executed or reexecuted on any node in the cluster.

Happy coding !

7 online tools I CANNOT live without !

2006-08-07T20:49:00.000+02:00

Here they are:

http://www.accesstheunaccessible.com : Access websites when your firewall or your proxy blocks you at work/school/university.
http://www.meebo.com : an online multiprotocol instant messaging.
http://www.mailinator.com : send mail to mailinator, it will keep it for you easily.
http://www.bugmenot.com : use in conjunction with mailinator, maybe this form has already been filled by someone.
http://www.dnsstuff.com : A little bit geecky, I admit, but I use it often.
http://www.digg.com : How could we be living without digg ??
http://del.icio.us : One of the most amazing tool I have ever used, even better than google, use the bookmark of others to discovers sites ...

(this is an update of a previous entry)
Happy browsing !

So you want to buy websites online ? Here is the resource you need !

2006-08-06T13:56:00.000+02:00

Here are the site you can checkout !

These sites are great, but you need to checkout them all to find your golden nugget ...
Here is the site that will help you out :

http://www.bizmp.com/

Happy buying !

The Report On Google's Click Fraud Detection Practices !

2006-08-03T16:52:00.000+02:00

It is a great read, here is the PDF version if you want to go directly to the good parts, go to this article called "The Abridged Version: Independent Report On Google's Click Fraud Detection Practices"
Here is a part of the conclusion:

Google has built the following four �lines of defense� against invalid clicks: pre-filtering, online filtering, automated offline detection and manual offline detection, in that order. Google deploys different detection methods in each of these stages: the rule-based and anomaly-based approaches in the pre-filtering and the filtering stages, the combination of all the three approaches in the automated offline detection stage, and the anomaly-based approach in the offline manual inspection stage.

Happy clicking ! :)

Real-World Experiences With Hibernate, a must read !

2006-08-03T05:01:00.000+02:00

You'll find here the following:

The Good News And The Bad News
Theory Vs. Reality
Performance
Best Practices
Testing
Debugging
Tools
Annotations
Deployment
Conclusions

Happy hibernating !

5 SEO links

2006-07-22T19:36:00.000+02:00

Here they are:

http://www.estebanpanzera.com/link-popularity-guide/
http://seo-tools.themeetingsnet.com/seo-tools.html
http://www.viperchill.com/articles/what-is-search-engine-optimisation.asp
http://www.viperchill.com/articles/blackhat-seo-knowledge.asp
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/07/getting_your_blog_noticed/

And something you may find really usefull if you run adsense

http://adsblacklist.com/

Happy reading !

A Walking Tour of the Action 2 with WebWork

2006-07-19T09:41:00.000+02:00

Nice long post with lost of explanations
Happy WebWorking !

6 Tips for Raising Capital !

2006-07-17T19:04:00.000+02:00

From "Raising capital: Six tips on Eating Fear", here they are:

Sincerely believe.
Screw the business plan. Tell them your story.
Sh#t confidence.
Pretend you already have the money.
Don’t marry every woman you date.
Prime the pump.

Happy reading !

An EJB 3 Glossary for Elvis or for mere mortals

2006-07-11T13:06:00.000+02:00

The article is "An EJB 3 Glossary for Elvis":)

5 Tips For a Beginning Programmer

2006-07-05T13:37:00.000+02:00

Here is the post called "5 Tips For a Beginning Programmer", it is very simple, and full of truth:

Get the basics down first
Get a good book
Learn by doing
Go old school
Community Participation

Happy reading !

A digg like site for Model 2/Webwork news

2006-07-05T11:06:00.000+02:00

It is called "roller", give it a try !
Happy reading !

Geocoding Service : Adress --> Location

2006-07-05T11:01:00.000+02:00

You'll read in this article called "Introducing Google's Geocoding Service" the following:

Prerequisites
Using the Geocoder
Retrieving Placemark Details
Conclusion

Yes it is easy and comes with sample...

It's possible to retrieve the geocoded information either through a set of predefined JavaScript commands or through an HTTP request. I'd imagine users will most commonly use the latter, therefore I'll run through a few examples demonstrating this approach.

Happy googlin'

10 Cheat sheet (Ruby/mod_rewrite/PHP/....)

2006-07-05T11:00:00.000+02:00

Found them at "Cheat sheet"

Happy cheating ! :)

Many java tools, some of them were new to me ...

2006-07-04T20:17:00.000+02:00

You'll find it here there lots of materials ... Some of them were new to me, maybe it will help you.

Searching in your beans using Spring/Lucene

2006-07-04T01:10:00.000+02:00

Found it at "Using Lucene with Spring – Introduction to Spring Modules" here is what you'll read:

Before you get started
Creating the directory
Creating the index
Searching your index
Conclusion

Happy reading

Online Marketing for Beginners great article ! :)

2006-07-04T01:00:00.000+02:00

I let you discover this article at "Online Marketing for Beginners"
It is very good ...

The Art of the Start Video by Guy Kawasaki !

2006-07-03T08:29:00.000+02:00

Guy Kawasaki has a great video here, and the slides here ...
A great line from Guy

Inovate on technology, not on business model !

Happy watching !

The new Paul Graham is out !

2006-07-03T08:20:00.000+02:00

It is called "The Power of the Marginal" ...
Here are some excerpts I liked:

The very skill of insiders can be a weakness. Once someone is good at something, they tend to spend all their time doing that. This kind of focus is very valuable, actually. Much of the skill of experts is the ability to ignore false trails. But focus has drawbacks: you don't learn from other fields, and when a new approach arrives, you may be the last to notice.

Someone like Bill Gates can grow a company under him, but it's hard to imagine him having the patience to climb the corporate ladder at General Electric-- or Microsoft, actually.

Happy reading !

A modular Java SMTP Daemon.

2006-06-30T21:13:00.000+02:00

You've got 2 solutions:
James:

The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a.k.a. Apache James) is a 100% pure Java SMTP and POP3 Mail server and NNTP News server. We have designed James to be a complete and portable enterprise mail engine solution based on currently available open protocols.

James is also a mail application platform. We have developed a Java API to let you write Java code to process emails that we call the mailet API. A mailet can generate an automatic reply, update a database, prevent spam, build a message archive, or whatever you can imagine. A matcher determines whether your mailet should process an email in the server. The James project hosts the Mailet API, and James provides an implementation of this mail application platform API.

Jsmtpd
smtpd is a compact SMTP daemon (Email server), entirely written in Java. It is basicly able to receive E-mail following the SMTP protocol, described in RFC 821. Each others functionnalities are implemented as plugin modules, allowing the core to remain small and easily understaindable.

Happy mailing

Do you know jasen ?

2006-06-30T20:21:00.000+02:00

You'll find some more information at "jASEN"

jASEN is a pure java Anti Spam ENgine combining bayesian-like scanning with intelligent email inspection and classification

jASEN is best suited to developers wishing to integrate anti-spam services into an existing server based java email application, but can be used for client applications

Happy antispamming !

The process, steps and options of starting a new business

2006-06-29T22:04:00.000+02:00

Found this blog called "A discussion about the process, steps and options of starting a new business" there is lots of quality content, and great links ...
Happy reading / browsing !

2 promising apache incubator projects

2006-06-29T14:41:00.000+02:00

Apache FTP Server

The Apache FTP Server is a 100% pure Java FTP server. We have designed it to be a complete and portable ftp server engine solution based on currently available open protocols.

It is also a FTP application platform. We have developed a Java API to let you write Java code to process FTP event notifications that we call the Ftplet API. Apache FTP Server provides an implementation of FTP server to support this API.

Solr

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP APIs, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat.

Happy coding !

Resources for the Design Entrepreneur

2006-06-29T11:40:00.000+02:00

Found at "Resources for the Design Entrepreneur" here is what you'll find:

Sample Terms & Conditions for Contracts (local)
Financial Projection Worksheet (local)
Freelance Forms (local)
Forms & Sample Agreements (web)
Legal Forms for Designers (web)
AIGA Standard Form for Graphic Design (web)
Nolo: Independent Contractor (web)
Nolo: Small Business (web)
Nolo: WebForms (web)
LawGirl.com (web)
Free Business Templates (web)
WallStreet Journal's StartUp Journal (web)
United States Patent & Trademark Office (web)

Happy entreprenerizing !

Have a good idea ? It may be a misguided one !

2006-06-29T01:42:00.000+02:00

I really enjoyed reading this post called "Every good idea is 90% a misguided one"

Over the years I became extremely cautious of so called "visionary" projects that do not meet clearly defined business requirements by people with domain knowledge.

Happy reading !

Modify spring Spring beans and Log4j levels using JMX and JConsole ...

2006-06-28T16:14:00.000+02:00

Found at "Modify Spring Beans and Log4j levels on a running server with JMX and JConsole by Jeroen van Wilgenburg" here is what you'll read

Using JConsole with Tomcat
Creating an MBean in Spring
Creating an MBean in Spring, the right way
Using JMX with Log4j
Conclusion

Happy reading !

Do you know what a transactionnal search engine is ?

2006-06-28T11:24:00.000+02:00

Find out at "Compass" where you'll read

Compass is a powerful, transactional Object to Search Engine Mapping (OSEM) Java framework. Compass allows you to declaratively map your Object domain model to the underlying Search Engine, synchronizing data changes between Index and different datasources. Compass provides a high level abstraction on top of the Lucene low level API. Compass also implements fast index operations and optimization and introduces transaction capabilities to the Search Engine.

Ok, what is it good for ?

The simplest solution for enabling search capabilities within your application stack.
Promote the use of Search Engine as a lightweight application datasource.
Easily extendable into any application model.
Provide rich Search Engine semantics to find application data.
Synchronize data changes between Search Engine and datasource.
Write less code, find data quicker.

Happy searching !

Subversion replication - Finally a solution

2006-06-28T08:10:00.000+02:00

Found it here with Tailor, what is tailor ?

Tailor is a tool to migrate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.

Happy reading

Simple Effective CashFlow Spreadsheet (with style)

2006-06-27T23:01:00.000+02:00

Found at "CashFlow Spreadsheet", you can download the complete set here...

Design your own anti-procrastination plan !

2006-06-27T12:08:00.000+02:00

You'll find this article here here is an excerpt:

Below are several lists of specific, concrete things you can do to confront and change your own tendencies to procrastinate. Choose several suggestions from among the four lists and put them into practice. If these activities work, keep on with them; if not, try different ones. Persist. Keep a record of your activities on the other side of this sheet.

Happy delivering !

Online tools I use frequently

2006-06-27T11:29:00.000+02:00

Here they are:

* http://www.mailinator.com bypass spam
* http://www.bugmenot.com bypass authentication
* http://www.dnsstuff.com bypass net limitation

Happy browsing !

53 Internet/SEO keywords, I learned some of them ... How many will you ?

2006-06-27T10:13:00.000+02:00

Here is a Internet/SEO list of keywords from "Jargon Explained"

Anchor Text
Atom
Black Hat
ccTLD
Click-through Rate
Cloaking
Conversion
Cookie
CPA
CPC
CPM
Crawler
CTR
Directory
Data Center
Doorway Page
Feed
FFA
Google Dance
Hit
IBL
Impression
Keyword
Keyphrase
Keyword Stuffing
Link Building
Meta Data / Meta Tag
Page Title
PageRank / PR
Pay Per Action
Pay Per Call
Per Per Click
PFI
PPC
Robots.txt
ROI
RSS
SEM
SEO
SERPs
SEs
Site Map
Spam
Spider
Splash Page
Stop Word
Syndication
Text Link Ad
TLD
URL / URI
Visit
White Hat
XML

Happy reading !

HTTP Caching techniques

2006-06-26T23:59:00.000+02:00

You'll find them here ... It is still worth reading after thinking we know everything about it

XSLT is for XML, JsonT is for Json !

2006-06-26T23:52:00.000+02:00

Pretty cool idea ! It is called "Transforming JSON" a XSLT like for JSON objects.
Here is what you'll find:

Transforming JSON
Introducing JSONT
Basic Rules
Some examples
More Examples
JSONT Processor

And an excerpt:

As a result in analogy to XML/XSLT the combination JSON/JSONT can be used to transform JSON data into any other format by applying a specific set of rules.

Happy javascript !

A Reluctant Cache Pattern

2006-06-26T21:07:00.000+02:00

Gavin Joyce describes a caching pattern in "A Reluctant Cache Pattern" which is smart ... but I am not sure it is worth the hassle.
Here is what it is about:

The following pattern provides a simple solution for caching the most frequently accessed items, while ignoring items that are seldomly accessed.

Happy coding

7 deadly sins of email

2006-06-26T21:02:00.000+02:00

Found them at "7 deadly sins of email", here they are

Inappropriate Subject Line
Content too long
Attaching huge files
Unnecessary reply
No signature file
Poor use of language
Failure to respond in a timely fashion

Item #1 is a killer, #6 make us waste our times, we should have a special code to stop an email discussion :)

Introducing SEO

2006-06-26T14:06:00.000+02:00

Here what you'll find in "Introducing SEO"

Preparation
Modification
Submission
Campaigning
Maintenance
And finally...

I like his definition of SEO:

SEO itself is about bringing in a decent quantity of quality traffic to a site.

Happy reading

10 Ways To Improve Your Website Conversion Rate !

2006-06-26T13:58:00.000+02:00

Found them at "Ten Ways To Improve Your Website Conversion Rate" here are the items

Know Your USP
Be Memorable
Improve the Value of Visitors
Offer Different Payment Options
Keep the User Informed
Have a Clear Returns Policy
Help The User Trust You
Don't Waste Time
Be Clear, Open and Honest
Make The User's Life Easy

Finally, the most important point of all - your Unique Selling Point (USP). Your USP is what sets you apart from your competition. If a visitor goes to several sites looking for a product, why would they decide to buy from you instead of somewhere else?

Happy reading !

Hot deploy in Tomcat...

2006-06-26T00:13:00.000+02:00

Here is the article basically it is just adding a specific command in server.xml, the only comment of this post gives an hint too:

The other way to make tomcat reload a web app is to touch the web.xml file

Happy reading

JCaptcha & Security made easy

2006-06-25T20:10:00.000+02:00

Here is the article "Spring framework + Acegi Security captcha layer + JCaptcha integration", simple and elegant.
I am very impressed by the acegi security framework.

13 SOA antipatterns !

2006-06-24T03:21:00.000+02:00

They were set up by steve jones and are described here

The Shiny Nickel
The Technology Altar
Percolating Process
Point to Point Web Services
Splitting Hairs
IT2B
DIY Transport
Nobody Home
Too many Cooks in the SOA
UBER service
A Million Services all in a row
Architectural Stovepipe
Defensive SOA

Happy reading !

Beiing lazy with Hibernate

2006-06-24T02:41:00.000+02:00

Found this article called "Lazy Initialization and the DAO pattern with Hibernate and Spring", here is what you'll read:

Hibernate and Lazy Initialization
Being Lazy in the Web Layer
Interceptor Configuration
Filter Configuration
Being Lazy in the Business Layer
Being Lazy in your Unit Tests

please do not forget to read the comments, some of them are worth a look...
Happy reading !

Oh, by the way, let me remind you if you want to use the OpenSessionInView filter, that the order of filters in web.xml IS the order of filter execution (I lost stupidely a couple of hours because of this)

An alternative to the displayTag

2006-06-23T16:33:00.000+02:00

Here it is

The eXtremeTable takes a Collection of Beans or a Collection of Maps out of a given servlet scope and renders the content on the JSP. The order the servlet scopes will be searched is page, request, session, and application. The eXtremeTable knows what to pull out of the servlet scope because you specify the items attribute on the TableTag.
The Beans in the Collection are plain old java objects (POJO) where each attribute has a corresponding getter and setter method. If using maps the attributes would be name-value pairs. You can think of each bean as being one row in the table display. For the remainder of the documentation I may refer to the Collection of Beans and Collection of Maps as just a Collection of Beans to keep down on the amount of typing.

Happy coding !

A captcha decoder !

2006-06-21T18:03:00.000+02:00

You'll find at http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/ a captcha decoder.
Not convinced ?
Upload your captcha images to see it by yourself at http://www.pwntcha.net/test.html

Happy testing !

CSS Navigation showcase ... Impressive !

2006-06-18T00:02:00.000+02:00

You'll find it here
That's pretty amazing !

Tiny scrolling ... nice effect

2006-06-17T23:58:00.000+02:00

This is a simple, and nice effect, I'll use it ...
You'll fint it here

command line web screenshots

2006-06-14T20:44:00.000+02:00

I found this windows utility done in C/C++/DOM (thanks Mr Anonymous) to make web screenshot on command line it is called "webshot"
example:
webshot.exe /url "http://www.theserverside.com" /out tss.jpg /width 800 /height 600 /bwidth 800 /bheight 600

free IP geolocation !

2006-06-13T15:30:00.000+02:00

I posted IP <--> Latitude/Longitude last week, well I found what I was looking for : A geo-location community repository !
It is called hostip.info here is what they say about them:

Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making the database freely available (see below) but it needs you to put in your city to make it work. It only takes 10 seconds, and you'll get a warm fuzzy feeling of 'doing the right thing' :-)

Time to check them out ... and share your ip (anonymously) ! :)

a rapid html prototyping tool !

2006-06-13T10:06:00.000+02:00

This is a simple idea, you may like it ... It is called rendr2
Basically, it does the following: type your html code, and render it. Pretty simple, but it is well done ... and I do not have tools such as Dreamweaver

Simple intro of webwork ... the next Struts !

2006-06-13T01:19:00.000+02:00

Simon Brown did a simple and straigtforward review of webwork if you haven't taken a look at this MVC framework, please take a moment to review it !
Enjoy webwork !

Secure PHP with suPHP

2006-06-12T20:52:00.000+02:00

Got this link on digg, suPHP can be pretty usefull

suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter.

There is simple how to set it up, it is called "How To Set Up suPHP With PHP4 And PHP5"

Happy installation !

10 reasons why startups condense in America

2006-06-12T17:28:00.000+02:00

Paul Graham, made it again with Why Startups Condense in America
Here is what you'll read:

The US Allows Immigration.
The US Is a Rich Country
The US Is Not (Yet) a Police State
American Universities Are Better
You Can Fire People in America.
In America Work Is Less Identified with Employment
America Is Not Too Fussy
America Has a Large Domestic Market
America Has Venture Funding
America Has Dynamic Typing for Careers

and

Attitudes
How To Do Better
Capital Gains
Immigration
A Good Vector

Happy reading !

Software Team Turnover: Why Developers Leave (And What You Can Do About It)

2006-06-12T17:07:00.000+02:00

Aaron Reed set up a nice article called "Software Team Turnover: Why Developers Leave (And What You Can Do About It)"
Here is what you'll read:

Money
Morale
Burnout

Guess what is the biggest issue :)

Introducing Subversion

2006-06-12T17:05:00.000+02:00

Elliotte Harold set up an article called "A brief history of version control" about subversion
Here is what you'll read:

Outgrowing CVS
Subversion support and adoption
Using Subversion from an IDE
Checking out a project
Verifying the setup
Synchronizing with the repository
Merging
Patching
Diffing
Deleting
In conclusion

Happy reading !

IP <--> Latitude/Longitude

2006-06-09T23:08:00.000+02:00

I was wondering how you could get the IP - latitude/longitude couple for geolocalisation.
I was not aware of the maxmind database, you can check out the demo here ...
Unfortunately is not free (retrieving the country is free), do you know any free IP location database ?

A great Ruby on Rails flash presentation ! (pdf available too)

2006-06-09T20:08:00.000+02:00

An amazing presentation of Ruby on Rails from Olivier Gutknecht !
You'll find the flash presentation here and the pdf version here.
Let's all ask for an english version ! His contact is "ol+ror @ no-distance.net" ...
(Yes I read french... and ready to help him translate his document)

Features, Tasks and Defeats

2006-06-09T14:37:00.000+02:00

John Kern has a post called Just what is a feature? that summarizes what are features, tasks and defeats.
Here is an excerpt about what tasks are:

Things we get don't paid for, but have to do.
Do it once and forget about it.
Takes someone time to do.
You don't want to forget about it.
Generally not a "reopened" issue.

Happy reading !

Car mechanics are treated better than java developpers !

2006-06-09T14:24:00.000+02:00

John kern has great funny post about our job... I recommend it !
Here is an excerpt

Here's an idea for you to try next time you are at the car mechanic.

Hello. Yes, I would like the following done for my car:
I would like the brake rotors and pads replaced
My new low-profile tires mounted on the rims i brought
And I want you to troubleshoot the electronic map used by the twin turbos for boost pressure versus exhaust gas temperature at altitude
All-wheel drive balance
An inspection

I let you read the funny remaining on his post called Next time you are at the car mechanic.
Happy reading !

simple date API

2006-06-09T14:17:00.000+02:00

Here's what I found for handling dates: joda time. It is worth the time to digg into...
Here is what you could do with :

public boolean isRentalOverdue(DateTime datetimeRented) {
Period rentalPeriod = Period.days(2);
return datetimeRented.plus(rentalPeriod).isBeforeNow()
}
public boolean isJoinedInLastThreeMonths(DateTime datetimeJoined) {
Interval last3Months = new Interval(Period.months(3), new DateTime());
return last3Months.contains(datetimeJoined);
}
public String getBirthMonthText(YearMonthDay dateOfBirth) {
return dateOfBirth.monthOfYear().getAsText(Locale.ENGLISH);
}

You'll find a quick user guide and a full user guide ...
Happy reading !

a mini working scheduler in 4 lines !

2006-06-08T11:59:00.000+02:00

I learn every day something new ... Here is a mini quartz in a few lines of code using TimerTask

     int delay = 5000;   // delay for 5 sec.
    int interval = 1000;  // iterate every sec.
    Timer timer = new Timer();
    
    timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
            public void run() {
                // Task here ...
            }
        }, delay, interval);

Thanks javatips !

easy integration of a javascript online spell checker

2006-06-08T09:49:00.000+02:00

Just found this link http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/ using GNU Aspell hey, that's pretty neat, you'll find an online demo here ...
It may be usefull for lots of projects ... the integration is pretty easy, look at this javascript:

var text1 = document.form1.text1;
var textarea1 = document.form1.textarea1;

var speller = new spellChecker( text1, textarea1 );
speller.openChecker();

Yes, it is that easy, and you're done.

Yes PHP developers can laugh at Java developers (+ stupid rant)...

2006-06-06T21:11:00.000+02:00

Last week I was fooling around with php projects like sugarcrm, gallery, wordpress, pligg etc
The installation of these projects went smoothely, the applications delivered the promised functionnalities: all in all they do work well !
I went into their respective source codes, and I have to admit that I am quite impressed by the guys responsible these applications !
God, it is such a mess !

Well you know what it is ... with PHP ... It is so easy to fall in the spaghetti trap.

Now back to the java world, read this post Java call stack - from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture and god what a huge overhead ! There's so much abstractions !
While PHP guys are going straight to the points, we go by abstractions...
While we are still configuring our XML, they have working prototypes and laugh at us ... good for them ! :)

But you know what ? I am happy to support the overhead/patterns java imposes/recommends to developpers !

And most important : I am sure most java developers would be able to take over my java code easily, I would be in deap trouble to support on of these PHP projects !

I really believe that you should be confident/happy to add functionnalities in existing code base.
If you're in an ugly mess, you won't be confident, you'll make bugs, you won't be happy, you will not want to go to work, you'll be depressed, you'll be fired, you'll loose your girlfriend, you'll be homeless :) ...
At this point, you'll have time to read java books, and get back to real business ! :):):):):):)

Enough nonsense, Ok back to work for me :)

Want to secure your web applications ? mod_security may be a good option !

2006-06-06T18:29:00.000+02:00

I just heard about this project, you may find it very usefull, some more infos at "modsecurity".
Here is an excerpt:

ModSecurity^TM is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache Web server module or standalone, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application security, protecting web applications from known and unknown attacks.

Happy reading !

A simple POJO aspect example in Spring 2.0:

2006-06-06T18:06:00.000+02:00

You'll read it at "POJO Aspects in Spring 2.0: A Simple Example" lots of code, but please use AOP wisely, cf "When to use AOP ? For things your system can live without !"
Happy reading !

Getting Started With JPA in Spring 2.0.

2006-06-06T18:02:00.000+02:00

Read an entry about JPA at "Getting Started With JPA in Spring 2.0" here is what you'll read with plenty of code

Initial Setup
Code - Domain Model
Code - Data Access Layer
The Service Layer
Configuration
Integration Testing
Further Reading

Happy reading !

What an impressive speedup !

2006-06-06T00:11:00.000+02:00

I read this post about the merge of Abdera and Rome called Apache Abdera and ROME: alea jacta est!
Here is what you'll read:

Early on in our development, we ran some comparisons between the Abdera and ROME parsers and noted a significant difference. When parsing Tim Bray's Atom feed, for instance, Rome's JDOM implementation consumed over 6.5 MB of RAM and used over 600+ million CPU cycles. Abdera's Axiom/StAX based implementation used around 750k of RAM and around 90 million cycles.

That make two nice numbers:

8 times less memory consumption
for 6 time the speed !

How long did it take to accept the Abdera merge proposal ? :)

What Is A Professional Programmer?

2006-05-31T13:33:00.000+02:00

Here is a great entry from Sarah George called "What Is A Professional Programmer?", here is what you'll read:

The Meaning of "Professional"
Trustworthiness
Teamwork
Leadership
Communication
Updating Skills
Minimizing Risks
Accountability

Some excerpts:

Keeping your code simple and well styled is another commonly overlooked way to manage risks

Documentation at first seems like a programmer-specific concern until you consider how many people require documentation in a serious project

Respecting the people you work with, and your clients, enough to really listen to them is a critical part of communication.

Happy reading !

When you suck at CSS

2006-05-31T00:44:00.000+02:00

Sometime when you are tired to see your littles pages beiing so awfull, you get your google friend, and you find pages like this, and you see jewels in CSS !

Look at this css you'll find rules

table a[title^="Download"] {
background: url(http://infectedfx.net/css/tables/down.gif) no-repeat center;
padding:20px 0px 0px 15px;
}

and this

tbody td a[href="http://www.infectedfx.net"] {
margin: 0 auto;
height: 15px;
background: url(http://infectedfx.net/css/tables/ok.gif) no-repeat;
border-bottom: 0;
padding:3px 0px 0px 18px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FF8601;
}

Damn, this is amazing what you can do with CSS nowadays ! (yes I'm a backend guy)

Google mysql performance tuning best pratice

2006-05-30T23:12:00.000+02:00

Here is the talk on google video it is called "performance tuning best pratice for MySQL" the host is quite good, I learned quite a lot, and I loved the last performance hint (after almost 40 mins of talk):

Memory is cheapest, fastest, easiest way to better performance

Happy watching !

Have you seen valuable java html multi-languages syntax highlighting lately ?

2006-05-30T21:52:00.000+02:00

If you did, great send me your links ! The only ones I found were written in PHP

http://rafb.net/paste/highlight.phps pretty simple with only one file, it supports the languages that matters:

C89
C
C++
C#
Java
Pascal
Perl
PHP
PL/I
Python
Ruby
SQL
VB

Geshi a bigger one with lots of supported language (some of the I don't even know the name)

Actionscript
ADA
Apache Log
AppleScript
ASM
ASP
AutoIT
Bash
BlitzBasic
C
C for Macs
C#
C++
CAD DCL
CadLisp
CFDG
ColdFusion
CSS
Delphi
DIV
DOS
Eiffel
Fortran
Fortran
FreeBasic
GML
Groovy
HTML
Inno
Java
Java 5
Javascript
Lisp
Lua
Microprocessor ASM
MySQL
NSIS
Objective C
OCaml
OpenOffice BASIC
Oracle 8 SQL
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Python
Q(uick)BASIC
robots.txt
Ruby
SAS
Scheme
SDLBasic
Smarty
SQL
T-SQL
TCL
VB.NET
Visual BASIC
Visual Fox Pro
Winbatch
XML

Happy searching ! :)

26 Entrepreneurial Proverbs

2006-05-30T14:28:00.000+02:00

Marc did a great job on the O'Reilly Radar setting up this list of entrepreneurial proverbs each of them come with a description, sample etc. Checkout the comments too !

Starting

It's good to be king
Losing sucks
Building to flip is building to flop
Prudence becomes procrastination
Momentum builds on itself
Jump when you are more excited than afraid

The Idea

Pay attention to the idea that won't leave you alone
If you keep your secrets from the market, the market will keep its secrets from you
Immediate yes is immediate no
Build what you know
Give people what they need, not what they say they need
Your ideas will get better the more you know about business

People

Three is fine; two, divine
Work only with people you like and believe in
Work with people who like and believe in you, just naturally
Great things are made by people who share a passion, not by those who have been talked into one

Product

Cool ideas are useless without great needs
Build the simplest thing possible
Solve problems, not potential problems
Test everything with real people

Money

Start with nothing, and have nothing for as long as possible
The best investor pitches are plainspoken and entertaining (not in that order)
Never let on that you're keeping a secret
No means maybe and yes means maybe
For investors, the product is nothing
The best way to get investment is not to need it

Here is the one I like the most :

Build the simplest thing possible -- engineers have the hardest time with this, with not overdesigning for the need they're addressing. Make the simplest possible product that makes a significant dent in that need, and you'll do far better than you would addressing two or three needs at once. Simplicity leads to clarity in everything you do.

Here is a comment that's quite good too :

Stage 1: Fantastic idea
Stage 2: Fear
Stage 3: Actual (mediocre) product

Happy reading !

Marketing your company to your employees

2006-05-30T14:01:00.000+02:00

Here is an article about "Marketing your company to your employees", here are the 10 incentives you'll find:

Freedom
Thinking BIG!
Profitability
Great People
Treats
Creativity
Stability
Fun
Idealism
Entrepreneurship

Happy reading !

8 steps to look at ESB with Celtix

2006-05-30T04:18:00.000+02:00

Read this article at Weiqi Gao about Celtix called "Celtix 1.0: First Impression", here is what you'll get

It says it's an ESB. But what is an ESB?
What is an ESB
What is Celtix
What can Celtix do
How does Celtix do it
The development process
What others are saying about ESB
What others are saying about SOA

Happy reading !

9 new and noteworthy features in Eclipse 3.2

2006-05-30T00:01:00.000+02:00

Chris Laffra has put a big presentation of all the new and noteworthy features that are coming in the Eclipse 3.2 platform.
There is lots of screenshots, you check them out in 2 formats: PDF and PowerPoint.
Here are the one I like the most (by order of appearance)

Hierarchical Problem View (page 15)
Fatal Error Grouping (page 22)
CVS Quick Diff annotations (page 28)
Supress warnings (page 40&61)
Code Cleanup Wizard (page 58)
Supress warnings (page 61) ... again
Support for Categories (page 62)
Folding for all Members (page 74)
Type History (page 77)

Happy reading !

Taking a(n RSS) tour of ROME

2006-05-29T23:54:00.000+02:00

Here is an article called "Taking a Tour of ROME" on the ROME RSS framework.
Here is what you'll read:

The Main Streets of ROME (packages)
Be Cautious of Uncertain Turns (exceptions)
Making Your Own Routes (extending)
Let Us Not Circle Over the Same Paths (trick)
No Need to Revisit Known Routes (jdom)
More Roads to be Explored (next)

Randy J. Ray is almost a tech poet :)

4 rss/atom frameworks on my shortlist

2006-05-29T23:43:00.000+02:00

Here the 4 frameworks that went into in my shortlist:
Informa

The goal of the Informa Project is to provide a news aggregation library based on the Java Platform. The idea was born by the authors of two Java news reader applications (HotSheet and Risotto). We intended to unify the common parts into a library which can be used by any developer who needs to address those issues in their application.

RSSOwl

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators." RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It's platform-independent.

RSSLib4J

RSSLib4J is a Java API for parsing and retrieving information from RSS feeds. It supports RSS version 0.9x, 1.0, and 2.0 with Dublin Core and Syndication namespaces.

Rome

ROME is an open source (Apache license) set of Atom/RSS Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats:

RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0

ROME includes a set of parsers and generators for the various flavors of syndication feeds, as well as converters to convert from one format to another. The parsers can give you back Java objects that are either specific for the format you want to work with, or a generic normalized SyndFeed class that lets you work on with the data without bothering about the incoming or outgoing feed type.

Documentation winner is Rome.
Technology winner is Informa.

The accuracy of Alexa metrics sucks

2006-05-29T21:39:00.000+02:00

Greg made an entry called "Accuracy of Alexa metrics", here is the conclusion:

Clearly, Alexa traffic charts should be used only with careful caveats. Only for large sites, over 10M page views per day, would I consider the data reliable. Otherwise, the tiny, biased sample easily can be manipulated.

Happy reading !

About cheap dedicated hosting

2006-05-29T16:37:00.000+02:00

An interresting article from azedi summarizing what is support, it is called "Why cheap hosting services are so cheap"
Here is an excerpt :

The frosting with these guys came when they sent the form-email that the problem was fixed. I replied, asking if they could tell me what went wrong. The reply came the next day: look at your server logs.

Ok, now this is LAME !

Understanding Weak References

2006-05-29T16:36:00.000+02:00

Here is a great article from Ethan Nicholas about Weak references, here is what you'll read:

Strong references
When strong references are too strong
Weak references
Reference queues
Different degrees of weakness
Soft references
Phantom references

Here is an excerpt :

A weak reference, simply put, is a reference that isn't strong enough to force an object to remain in memory. Weak references allow you to leverage the garbage collector's ability to determine reachability for you, so you don't have to do it yourself. You create a weak reference like this:
WeakReference weakWidget = new WeakReference(widget);
and then elsewhere in the code you can use weakWidget.get() to get the actual Widget object. Of course the weak reference isn't strong enough to prevent garbage collection, so you may find (if there are no strong references to the widget) that weakWidget.get() suddenly starts returning null.

Happy reading !

A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk

2006-05-29T15:38:00.000+02:00

Here is the google talk : "A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk", it is about well Mysql Cluster ... Greg has an entry about this talk here.
It is about 1 hour long, and it's good !

Google zealots = Stockholm Syndrome ?

2006-05-29T14:13:00.000+02:00

Read this article called "Company Loyalty = Stockholm Syndrome?"
Here is an excerpt:

I read an interesting monologue about company loyalty being very similar to Stockholm syndrome and I'm tending to agree. Back when I worked for Nortel, I ate, drank and slept Nortel blue

Happy reading !

Top 10 Lies of corporate partners

2006-05-29T14:00:00.000+02:00

Read an article called "The Top Ten Lies of Corporate Partners" here is what you'll get:

We want to do this for strategic reasons
Our management really wants to do this
We can move really fast
Our legal department won’t be a problem
(a) “The engineering team really likes it.” (b) “The marketing team really likes it
We want to time the announcement of our partnership with the release of a new version of our product
Our primary concern is whether you guys can scale
We’d like your servers to host most of the code and functionality
We’re forming a cross-functional team to ensure the success of this project
I’m leaving soon, but I’ve found a great person to take over my role in this project.

Happy reading

PMD vs Findbugs vs Hammurapi : we have a winner !

2006-05-28T00:47:00.000+02:00

Rajs did a good comparaison on static error checking called "PMD vs Findbugs vs Hammurapi", he set up a table with the following criterias/infos:

Website
Version Number
JDK Version
Ease of Installation
License
Number of default rules available
Ease of extensibility
Works on Source code or Class files
Command Line Interface
Eclipse Plugins
Ant Task
Can filter the analysis for some rules?
Severity of Errors
Documentation

As #7 & #14 are mandatory, there is only one winner : pmd !

Happy debuging !

19 rules to be a demo GOD

2006-05-27T03:56:00.000+02:00

Read this article at Guy Kawasaki called "How We Got DEMOgod by Nathan MacNeill" here are the 8 rules you'll read:

Use Fewer Everything
Repeat…Repeat
Practice Failing
Learn from the past
Skip the Skit
Don’t force the laugh
Have Fun
Pray

This article was an addon from his own article called "How to Be a Demo God" where he gave the following rules

Create something worth demoing
Do it alone
Bring two of everything
Get organized in advance
Reduce the factors you can't control
Get to it
Do the last thing first
Then show the “how"
Cut the jargon
Don't take any questions until the end.
End with an exclamation point

Happy reading

Mobile is the next big internet phenomenon !

2006-05-27T03:38:00.000+02:00

Here is an article from Eric Schmidt (google's CEO) called "Let more of the world access the internet"
Here is an excerpt of what you'll read:

Mobile phones are cheaper than PCs, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have internet access. What is more, the World Bank estimates that more than two-thirds of the world’s population lives within range of a mobile phone network. Mobile is going to be the next big internet phenomenon.

Happy reading

Ruby on Rails for PHP developers

2006-05-26T19:10:00.000+02:00

Read this article "Ruby on Rails for PHP developers" here is what you'll read

The Model
The Controller
The View

What does this all mean?
How I got over the curve
Pure PHP vs RoR
Some things to look at

Usefull for PHP guys with no java background ...

Debugging JDBC with a Logging Driver, please do not reinvent the wheel !

2006-05-26T18:52:00.000+02:00

I read this article "Debugging JDBC with a Logging Driver" where the writer was looking for a way to monitor all sql queries, as long with the parameters when prepared statements are used ...
His solution is www.rkbloom.net/logdriver no doc, just a tar.gz

Weird, get your google friend to work, and look at this : "Open Source JDBC Proxy Drivers" a list with these open source jdbc proxies that can do even more

FYI I had great success with P6Spy for years ...

Wicked/Weird/Cool/Useless/Nonsense ideas list

2006-05-26T13:48:00.000+02:00

Here is a blog where snap ask for your ideas to

Help us to continue to change the face of search by posting comments, links and ideas that will move our technology and the industry in a positive direction.

You can read/vote/comment the ideas some of them are neat, some of them are funny, and of course lots of them are garbish :)

Seeking Scalable Web Authentication

2006-05-26T11:56:00.000+02:00

Read "Seeking Scalable Web Authentication" from Bill Verners here is what you'll read:

Considering clusters of clusters
The thousand servers thought experiment
Security implications
Implementing the embedded credentials approach
Design tradeoffs

happy reading.

Paul Graham's "How to be in silicon valley"

2006-05-26T11:52:00.000+02:00

Paul Graham released a new essay "How to be in silicon valley" here is what you'll read:

Two Types
Not Bureaucrats
Not Buildings
Universities
Personality
Nerds
Youth
Time
Competing

Paul's essays are always worth reading ! Take a look at them ...

5 deadly mistakes when starting a business

2006-05-26T11:33:00.000+02:00

Read this article called "5 deadly mistakes when starting a business", here is what you'll find:

Too little cash
Thinking small
Skimping on tech
Underestimating the importance of sales
Losing focus

#1 or you have to be smart :)
#4 is killer
#5 is procrastination

Getting the Real IP of your users in 6 languages

2006-05-26T10:56:00.000+02:00

Read this "Getting The Real IP Of Your Users" where you'll find the solution for

ASP/VB
C#
PHP
JAVA
Cold Fusion
Perl

It is basically about retrieving the following HTTP headers:

HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
REMOTE_ADDR
HTTP_CLIENT_IP

This may be handy for newbies ...

11 reasons why PHP sucks

2006-05-26T10:50:00.000+02:00

Edwin Martin wrote en entry called "What I don't like about PHP" where he gives 11 reasons

Bad recursion
Many PHP-modules are not thread safe
PHP is crippled for commercial reasons
No namespaces
Non-standard date format characters
Confusing licenses
Inconsequent function naming convention
Magic quotes hell
No standard framework
No Unicode
Slow

I do enjoy programming with PHP for simple websites.
What I really do not like is
#3/#11, this is right, why are the caching tools not included in PHP !?
#7, I find it soooo ennoying after using clean API in java ...

Code smells (stinks ?)

2006-05-24T20:55:00.000+02:00

Here is an entry called Coding Horror: Code Smells you'll get

Code Smells Within Classes
Comments
Long method
Long parameter list
Duplicated code
Conditional complexity
Combinitorial Explision
Large class
Tyoe Embedded in Name
uncommunicative Name
Inconsistence Names
Dead Code
Speculative Generality
Oddball Solution
Temporary Field
Code Smells Between Classes
Alternative Classes with Different Interfaces
Primitive Obsession
Data Class
Data Clumps
Refused Request
Inappropriate Intimacy
Indecent Exposure
Feature Envy
Lazy Class
Message Chains
Middle Man
Divergent Change
Shotgun Surgery
Parallel Inheritance Hierarchies
Incomplete Library Class
Solution Sprawl

Happy reading !

10 Tips for Becoming More Creative

2006-05-24T13:49:00.000+02:00

Found this entry

Hire people who have different talents than you.
Install a random control in the elevator so that everyone ends up on the wrong floor. Get a head start by pressing the wrong button today.
Exchange Filofaxes with each other.
Bring your children to work.
Invite your customers to participate in projects at an early stage.
Invite someone from the street to attend your next meeting.
Mix people in meetings: for example sales people and marketing people.
Change the setting of the meeting. Why not hold your next meeting at a kindergarten?
Create imbalance. Stand on one leg during a meeting and seek imbalance. Seek imbalance in the marketplace.
Use simple language. A good idea thrives on simplicity.
Always go the extra mile and do a little more than what’s on the list.

#1 is defenetly the way to go
#5 YES YES YES, do it ! It is an XP recommended pratice.
#8 I love this idea ! :):)
#7 it may give use more creativeness, but it will suck your time !
#10 I am always stunned by how cumbersome language can break creativity ...

5 reasons why we fail software estimation ... but I have a solution for you...

2006-05-23T18:40:00.000+02:00

Keith Pitty has an old entry titled Software Estimating and Economic Forecasting where he quotes the following:

Optimism
Over-Confidence
The False Concensus Effect: the tendency to assume that others think like us
The Curse of Knowledge: the tendency to assume that others have learnt from the same sources
Status Quo: the tendency to assume that things will remain the same

#1 & #2 are almost the same, and they are killers.
#3 should not be a problem for senior projects managers
#4 & #5 are complex things ...

Today, he wrote an entry called Tom Looy says "Stop Estimating!"
Here is what tom says:

Stop estimating
Prioritise requirements
Gather requirements just in time to enable developers to start coding
Measure progress (only completed tasks count)
Measure using smaller sized tasks
Start measuring as soon as possible
Use measurements to validate original estimates and adapt the plan to reality

Is it really doable in a real world scenario ? Come on ... It could be achieved only for internal projects only ...
I honestly think you need to get back to the old trick:

Internal project estimation * 3.14 = Project estimation !

Simple enough ! :)

Hack your way out of writer's (programmer's?) block

2006-05-23T11:24:00.000+02:00

I read this article called Hack your way out of writer’s block

It is intended to writers, but looks like it can be applied for programmers too :)

Talk to a monkey

Do something important that’s very easy -

Try freewriting

Take a walk

Take a shower; change clothes

Write from a persona

Get away from the computer; Write someplace new

Quit beating yourself up

Stretch

Add one ritual behavior

Listen to new music

Write crap

Unplug the router

Write the middle

Do one chore

Make a pointless rule

Work on the title

Write five words

happy reading, let's get all out of procrastination !

The Seven Myths of Pair Programming

2006-05-22T21:54:00.000+02:00

Just read this blog entry called "The Seven Myths of Pair Programming"
Here are the myths he described:

It will double the workload with two doing the work one can do
I'll never get to work alone. I couldn't stand that!
It will work well only with the right partner
Pair programming is good for training. But, once you know what you're doing, it's a waste of time
I'll never get credit for doing anything I'll have to share all recognition with my partner
The navigator fins only syntax mistakes. How boring is that! Compilers can do that better than humans can any way
The only time I ever get any real work done is when I'm alone. Now, Ill never get anything done! Pair programming would drive me crazy!

He did this list after reading Pair Programming Illuminated .

Open source reader

A Comparison of Bug Finding Tools for Java

4 monitoring tools for your sysadmin

*!* Hibernate users, do not skip this *!* The great object Equals and hashCode pattern proposal !

Do you Hadoop ?

7 online tools I **CANNOT** live without !

So you want to buy websites online ? Here is the resource you need !

The Report On Google's Click Fraud Detection Practices !

Real-World Experiences With Hibernate, a *must* read !

5 SEO links

A Walking Tour of the Action 2 with WebWork

6 Tips for Raising Capital !

An EJB 3 Glossary for Elvis or for mere mortals

5 Tips For a Beginning Programmer

A digg like site for Model 2/Webwork news

Geocoding Service : Adress --> Location

10 Cheat sheet (Ruby/mod_rewrite/PHP/....)

Many java tools, some of them were new to me ...

Searching in your beans using Spring/Lucene

Online Marketing for Beginners *great article* ! :)

The Art of the Start Video by Guy Kawasaki !

The new Paul Graham is out !

A modular Java SMTP Daemon.

Do you know jasen ?

The process, steps and options of starting a new business

2 *promising* apache incubator projects

Resources for the Design Entrepreneur

Have a good idea ? It may be a *misguided* one !

Modify spring Spring beans and Log4j levels using JMX and JConsole ...

Do you know what a transactionnal search engine is ?

Subversion replication - Finally a solution

Simple Effective CashFlow Spreadsheet (with *style*)

*Design* your own anti-procrastination plan !

Online tools I use frequently

53 Internet/SEO keywords, I learned some of them ... How many will you ?

HTTP Caching techniques

XSLT is for XML, JsonT is for Json !

A Reluctant Cache Pattern

7 *deadly* sins of email

Introducing SEO

10 Ways To *Improve* Your Website Conversion Rate !

Hot deploy in Tomcat...

JCaptcha & Security made *easy*

13 SOA *anti*patterns !

Beiing lazy with Hibernate

An *alternative* to the displayTag

A captcha *decoder* !

CSS Navigation showcase ... *Impressive* !

Tiny scrolling ... nice effect

command line web screenshots

*free* IP geolocation !

a rapid html prototyping tool !

Simple intro of webwork ... the next Struts !

Secure PHP with suPHP

10 reasons why startups condense in America

Software Team Turnover: Why Developers Leave (And What You Can Do About It)

Introducing Subversion

IP <--> Latitude/Longitude

A *great* Ruby on Rails flash presentation ! (pdf available too)

Features, Tasks and Defeats

Car mechanics *are treated better* than java developpers !

*simple* date API

a *mini* working scheduler in 4 lines !

*easy* integration of a javascript online spell checker

*Yes* PHP developers can laugh at Java developers (+ stupid rant)...

Want to *secure* your web applications ? mod_security may be a good option !

A *simple* POJO aspect example in Spring 2.0:

Getting Started With JPA in Spring 2.0.

What an impressive speedup !

What Is A Professional Programmer?

When you *suck* at CSS

Google mysql performance tuning best pratice

Have you seen valuable java html multi-languages syntax highlighting lately ?

26 Entrepreneurial Proverbs

Marketing your company to your employees

8 steps to look at ESB with Celtix

9 new and *noteworthy* features in Eclipse 3.2

Taking a(n RSS) tour of ROME

4 rss/atom frameworks on my shortlist

The accuracy of Alexa metrics *sucks*

! Hibernate users, do not skip this ! The great object Equals and hashCode pattern proposal !

7 online tools I CANNOT live without !

Real-World Experiences With Hibernate, a must read !

Online Marketing for Beginners great article ! :)

2 promising apache incubator projects

Have a good idea ? It may be a misguided one !

Simple Effective CashFlow Spreadsheet (with style)

Design your own anti-procrastination plan !

7 deadly sins of email

10 Ways To Improve Your Website Conversion Rate !

JCaptcha & Security made easy

13 SOA antipatterns !

An alternative to the displayTag

A captcha decoder !

CSS Navigation showcase ... Impressive !

free IP geolocation !

A great Ruby on Rails flash presentation ! (pdf available too)

Car mechanics are treated better than java developpers !

simple date API

a mini working scheduler in 4 lines !

easy integration of a javascript online spell checker

Yes PHP developers can laugh at Java developers (+ stupid rant)...

Want to secure your web applications ? mod_security may be a good option !

A simple POJO aspect example in Spring 2.0:

When you suck at CSS

9 new and noteworthy features in Eclipse 3.2

The accuracy of Alexa metrics sucks

19 rules to be a demo GOD

Mobile is the next big internet phenomenon !

Debugging JDBC with a Logging Driver, please do not reinvent the wheel !