POJ - Annotations in Faces

Duncan Mills discusses some of the possibilities that a broader adoption of annotations might bring to JSF.

http://www.groundside.com/blog/content/DuncanMills/J2EE%20Development/2005/09/16/Annotations_in_Faces.html

Misc - Missing lab mice infected with plague

September 15, 2005
The FBI and New Jersey officials have started a hushed but intensive search for three missing lab mice reportedly infected with deadly strains of plague.

The mice were discovered missing from separate cages at a bioterrorism research facility in Newark more than two weeks ago, but the incident was only confirmed Wednesday by the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.

http://www.physorg.com/news6533.html

Misc - IP Address Locator Tool

This IP Address Map lookup service is provided for FREE by Geobytes, inc to assist you in locating the geographical location of an IP Address.
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

Databases - ROWID & ROWNUM Two Famous Pseudocolumns

A pseudocolumn is a column that looks like a column but really is not a column. What! Stick around and find out what a pseudocolumn really is.
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/print.php/3548391

POJ - Blitz JavaSpaces Pure Java 1.13-pre8

The Blitz Project is pleased to announce a beta release of the Pure Java product with full support for JINI 2.1.

This release provides:

* Full support for the new JavaSpace05 interface which provides bulk operation, network efficient iteration and an advanced form of notify.
* A JINI 2.1 installer package
* Backward compatibility with JINI 2.0
* A new debugging tool - see exactly what your application did to all those Entry's.

http://www.dancres.org/blitz/

Misc - Eternity Travel - book your afterlife now!

We give the discerning, God(s)-fearing ancient Egyptian consumer the tools and information to plan for a safe, speedy, comfortable trip to the afterlife. Here on EternityTravel.com, you can:

* rent or buy the perfect tomb
* schedule reliable mummification services
* purchase a quality mummy case
* and order all the necessary Eternity Extras

all in a few easy steps, with no lines or waiting!

http://www.mos.org/quest/et/index.php

Misc - Learning guides and tutorials

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci532335,00.html

POJ - Building J2EE Projects with Maven

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/07/maven.html

AJAX / CSS - CSS Play

Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/index.html

AJAX / CSS - Getting started with Ajax

Hands-on examples on how to get you started with Ajax.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started

Misc - Guides to convert to and from almost any type of Video

This site will help you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF.
http://www.videohelp.com/

AJAX / CSS - Ajax Powered Online Dictionary

http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/

Misc - ODBMS.ORG Launches Educational Portal on Object Databases

a vendor-independent, non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the launch of ODBMS.ORG (www.odbms.org), the Internet's most up-to-date educational and research portal on object database technology.
http://www.odbms.org/about_news_20050915.html

Linux - Slackware Linux 10.2 Released

Slackware Linux 10.2 has finally been released. This release comes with Linux 2.4.31, with 2.6.13 available in the testing packages and glibc 2.3.5. This time, they've decided to get up with times and switch to Firefox, Thunderbird, and subversion instead of using the Mozilla suite and cvs from the previous distros.
http://slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php

Web App Frameworks - What's next for Rich Internet Applications?

http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/2005/9/15/whats_next_for_ria

*ware - Firefox 1.0.7 Release Candidate Builds available for testing

We now have release candidates for 1.0.7 and could use your help putting them through the paces. Please include the following in your testing:

*Installing extensions and themes
*Logging into webmail and banking sites (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc)
*Downloading files
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/09/107_release_candidate_builds_a_1.html

AJAX / CSS - Ajax Pages

Ajax Pages is a scripting template engine that enables rapid development of Ajax Web-based Applications, just like GMail, Google Maps, A9 and Backpack, but without having to manipulate complicated Document Object Models to make things dynamic.
http://ajax-pages.sourceforge.net/

POJ - Jayasoft is pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.2.

Ivy is a simple but powerful dependency manager. Its key features are ease of use, extreme flexibility, easy extensibility, Ant integration, and transitive dependencies. It is ready to use with the Maven ibiblio repository. It eases continuous integration, and makes your software component a lot simpler to use.
http://www.jayasoft.org/ivy

Misc - Browser Security Test

Scanit's Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems. When the test is finished you get a complete report explaining the discovered vulnerabilities, their impact and how to eliminate them.
http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/

*ware - OpenOffice.org v1.1.5 stable released

OpenOffice.org v1.1.5 is available for download for Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (SPARC and X86) platforms. OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 introduces import support for documents, spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format.
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.5/index.html

Misc - Query by Humming

A Query by Humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune. No musical training is needed.The idea is simple: you hum into the microphone. The computer records the hum and extracts certain features corresponding to the melody and rhythm characteristics, then it compares the features to the features of the songs in the database. Finally it returns a rank list of the songs or song segments most similar to the humming.
http://querybyhum.cs.nyu.edu/

Google - Google Blog Search

Google launched a blog search, in two flavors, one for blogger.com, and another as a beta at google.com
http://blogsearch.google.com/

POJ - Why unit tests are disappearing ?

Michael Feathers enumerates a set of rules defining unit tests:

A test is not a unit test if:
* It talks to the database
* It communicates across the network
* It touches the file system
* It can't run at the same time as any of your other unit tests
* You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing configuration files) to run it.


http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000319.html

Misc - Workshop Assets

Below you can find the tools, deliverables, and documentation templates used in Adaptive Path's workshops.
http://adaptivepath.com/events/workshops/beyond/files.php

Misc - Sun Censored but Not Silent

Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we're the radical engineers that build "ass-whoopin" technology - we're not Miss Manners and we never want to be

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/rejected/index.html

Microsoft / Windows - Microsoft Max

Microsoft® Codename Max is not like any other product. That's because it's not a product, it's your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft. Today Max lets you make lists of your photos and turn them into beautiful slide shows to share with your family and friends. Tomorrow...who knows?

With just a few clicks, you can create lists of your favorite photos, arrange them in the layout of your choice, and express them in beautiful views. Preview your photo lists as you build them until your presentation is perfect. You can even use our super hot 3D Mantle View? to really show off your work!
http://www.microsoft.com/max/

Web App Frameworks - Why Spring ?

Rick Hightower has written a "What's the value of Spring?" whitepaper, aimed at aimed at architects, managers and developers unfamiliar with the framework.
http://www.arc-mind.com/whitepapers/SpringIntroduction.pdf

Google - Java GDS API

GDAPI is a simple java api for access desktop search from any other java application.
Google Desktop Search is a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats and web pages you've viewed.

USAGE

JGDQuery q = new JGDQuery("google"); // construts a query (search desktop for 'google')
q.setNum( new Integer( 3 ) ); // op: Num of items per page
q.setStart( new Integer( 1 ) ); // op: Start number item
Results results = q.execute(); // Execute the query

http://gdapi.sourceforge.net/

Misc - How To Best Protect Children In Side-impact Crashes

Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will present today a series of findings aimed at enhancing protection for children in side-impact car crashes at the Scientific Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). The findings demonstrate that children fare better in side-impact crashes if they are restrained and if they are seated with other occupants in the back seat, and they emphasize the protective benefits of high back booster seats in these crashes for 4-to 8-year-olds.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050913083440.htm

Ajax / CSS - Lumberjack (The Javascript Logger)

Do you write javascript? Are you sick of using alerts to find out what is happening in your code? Then Lumberjack is for you! It helps beat down the nightmare that is cross-browser javascript debugging.
http://gleepglop.com/javascripts/logger/

Ajax / CSS - GreaseMonkey

Greasemonkey is a very powerful tool, which allows you to fix website annoyances or add desired functionality missing from a site. Additionally, the scripts can bring content from other sites and resources and embed them into the page you are viewing.
http://www.dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

Misc - Social events calendar

Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.
http://upcoming.org/

POJ - Apache Maven 1.1 Beta 2 released

Just pushed out Maven 1.1 Beta 2 to the mirrors. Notable improvements:
- problems with deployment have been fixed
- support for forkmode="once" on tests
- validation of the POM before building
- latest plugin updates
http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/001168_maven_11_beta_2_released.html

POJ - Apache MyFaces Passes JSF Tests

The MyFaces team is very proud to announce the fact, that the current codebase has just passed *all* JSF TCK 1.1 tests!
http://osdir.com/Article7263.phtml

Misc - The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements

A personal mission statement is a bit different from a company mission statement, but the fundamental principles are the same. Writing a personal mission statement offers the opportunity to establish what?s important and perhaps make a decision to stick to it before we even start a career. Or it enables us to chart a new course when we?re at a career crossroads.
http://www.quintcareers.com/creating_personal_mission_statements.html

Misc - Wikispaces

Wikispaces is a place where you can easily build web pages with other people. Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy.
http://www.wikispaces.org/

Misc - Resources for the Design Entrepreneur

Contract, legal, management, and financial resources for freelancers and entrepreneurs looking to more successfully manage their business.
http://yay.kenwallacedesign.com/Resources/Business/Entrepreneur/index.html

Misc - Open Solaris

The OpenSolaris project is an open source operating system, a community development effort and a place for collaboration and conversation about OpenSolaris technology. It is aimed at developers and users who want to develop and improve operating systems. The OpenSolaris technology represents cutting edge operating system design, but the innovation is just getting started!
http://opensolaris.org

Misc - How to Make a Million Dollars

http://marshallbrain.com/million.htm

Ajax / CSS - Ajax? What is it? Why are we interested?

http://texasvc.weblogswork.com/?p=203

Misc - Done deal: eBay acquires Skype

eBay Inc. has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration. The acquisition will strengthen eBay?s global marketplace and payments platform, while opening several new lines of business and creating significant new monetization opportunities for the company.
http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_ebay.html

POJ - Global Business Object

Global Business Object
Global Business Object (GBO) is a technology that provides a portable Java library enabling developers to generate culture-sensitive GUI (graphical user interface) controls in a J2EE environment. Currently, GBO includes five globalization features: Name, Address, Pop-up Calendar, Date Chooser, and Time Chooser and supports 24 languages and their corresponding locales.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/gbo

Web App Frameworks - Wicket 1.1-rc1 released

The wicket team is pleased to announce the Wicket 1.1-rc1 release!
The first release candidate for Wicket 1.1 is available for download and testing. We have started the countdown to Wicket 1.1 final, and expect to release 1.1 in two to three weeks.
http://wicket.sourceforge.net/