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Web App Frameworks - Spring Framework 2.0 M1 released

Spring Framework 2.0 M1 has been released. This release marks the start of the next generation of Spring. New features include:

* simplified, extensible XML configuration
* new powerful Spring AOP features and AspectJ integration
* new asynchronous JMS containers enabling message-driven POJO's in the Spring container
* and much more

Spring 2.0 will remain 100% backwards compatible with Spring 1.2 and will run on Java 1.3 and upwards. Spring 2.0 uses XML Schema next to the classic DTD to support custom XML in the application context. The M1 release includes convenient XML tags for AOP, transaction configuration, JNDI lookup and loading properties files. The JPetstore sample application already includes some of these features and sample applications will be further upgraded in subsequent releases.
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AJAX / CSS - Ajax Translator

AjaxTrans is an Ajax Translator (via AjaxBlog). Translate to and from English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese or Protuguese :-), and French.
http://oaks.gracebridge.org/translator/

Web App Framewoks - RIFE 1.3.1 released

RIFE is a full-stack, open-source Java web application framework, providing request-based and component-based approaches and blending them together into a consistent component object model.

Below are the highlights:

* Workaround for JDK 1.4 bug on Windows
* Bug-fixes to some new features that 1.3 offered
* Support for Derby network driver
http://rifers.org/downloads

Misc - Ten Predictions

http://opal.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/ten-predictions.html

Misc - How To's For Windows XP

http://www.robert.to/reports/howtos.html

*ware - Thunderbird 1.5 RC 2 released

Thunderbird is a full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5.html

Misc - Practicing Programming

"Back in October 2004 I wrote an essay in which I compared programming to other professions. In it, I made the unsubstantiated claim that programming is unusual, in that most programmers don't practice their craft -- at least, not in any disciplined or regular way. Those are, of course, fightin' words, so I figured I'd write a bit more about it. This essay is a sort of mini-manual about practicing to be a better programmer."
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Misc - Learn Fancy Napkin Folds

http://kitchen.robbiehaf.com/NapkinFolds.html

*ware - OpenOffice 2.0.1 released

free office suite

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
http://www.openoffice.org/

Misc - Web Patterns

WebPatterns is a place to discuss, document and collaborate on patterns for web design and development.
What are WebPatterns

WebPatterns are design patterns for web development.
http://www.webpatterns.org/

Misc - Understanding Evolution

Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php

*ware - SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" ? and have it stable enough for corporate use.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Misc - Learn Music online

http://www.musictheory.net/

AJAX / CSS - Search for lyrics

http://lyricsfly.com/

AJAX / CSS - OpenCourseWare Finder

Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags from left to right.
Browse the results in real time below and find what you're looking for!
The OCW Finder currently shows results from:

* MIT OCW
* Utah State University OCW
* Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
* Tufts University OCW
* Foothill De-Anza SOFIA
* Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/

Web App Frameworks - Jakarta Tapestry 4.0-rc-2 released

The second release candidate for Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse.

This release supplies some missing documentation, including user input validation. It also fixes a subtle startup bug that affects deployments under JDK 1.3.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/

Misc - Animation Festival 2005

These are the nominations and winners of the third annual Suzanne awards, this year entirely devoted to animations created in Blender.
http://www.blender.org/cms/Animation_Festival_200.718.0.html