Archive for May, 2009

Five things I used to forget about Java

When I re-pick-up Java, after having dealt with really different programming languages in the months before, I encounter these moments of “damn-you-know-this”. So when I came back to java this time, I recorded my top five missing Java pieces.

Ubuntu Themes: 61 Awesome Themes for Linux

awesome themes for linux

PHP on Google App Engine

A blog about running PHP on Google App Engine with Quercus, the Caucho’s Java implementation of PHP.

Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop

In this web development tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web page template from a Photoshop mock-up from a previous tutorial called “How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop” using HTML/CSS and the jQuery library.

Has Oracle figured out the optimal “virtual event” for developers?

Many enterprises are reducing travel, conference and training budgets for their Java developers without any change in expectation for the results those developers must deliver. How can you keep up? By leveraging a cloud development environment for virtual hands-on training on Java and Rich Enterprise Applications—all on your terms and schedule.

Google Wave as infrastructure

All of the things in the Wave demo are possible without Wave. The interesting thing about Wave is not so much the application, but the infrastructure, the protocol and the underlying concepts. Many limited collaboration apps have offered various subsets of the Wave functionality, for example, and the superficial functionality can be built using existing [...]

Map of all Google data center locations

So how many data centers do Google use, and where are they?

Benefits of looking at other people’s code

Programmers are fond of telling each other that you can be a better programmer by reading other people’s code. It’s a common bit of advice.

22 Excellent Fruit Photo Manipulations

In this post you will see an examples of photo manipulation. Here is 22 Excellent Fruit Photo Manipulations. These showcase is more on manipulated fruits combining with other elements to come up an impressive art-form.

Authorization Example using WS-Trust

Article describing how to secure a Web Service using a central Token Server. The standards WS-Trust, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy and Web Services Security, formerly known WS-Security, are used. A simple scenerio with a consumer, a service and a Security Token Service (in short STS) would serve as an example.