http://trends.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for trends en Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:33:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675929 unknown@DZone.com We noticed an interesting thing the other day while doing some research with Google Trends. The number of searches in Google for the term “web hosting” has decreased a lot in the last four years. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:33:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675929servertrendsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675793 unknown@DZone.com People tend to complain about the Microsoft monopoly, but they forget that they depend on the company by the name of Google ;-)! Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:28:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675793opinionreviewstrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675532 unknown@DZone.com It will be easier for software development teams that use the Subversion open source software configuration management (SCM) product to keep track of their projects with Subversion 1.5, which was released last week. CollabNet, the online community that backs development of Subversion, says new features like merge tracking, interactive conflict resolution, and improved read performance make Subversion 1.5 the most significant release in the last four years. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:05:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675532open sourcetoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675445 unknown@DZone.com Ryan Norbauer has been there, done that and taken copious notes — where the “there” is his consulting firm, the “that” Indian outsourcing and the “notes” are contained in this refreshing article on the realities of using outsourced talent. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:57:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675445how-toopiniontrendsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674134 unknown@DZone.com I'm surprised how often I have to say this to other developers and engineers, but violations of this simple object-oriented mantra seems to be everywhere. Almost every time I look at a class inheritance hierarchy, I find this principle violated. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:40:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674134opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673971 unknown@DZone.com In Oracle's world nothing changes, everything stays the same and no products ever die. Except those things that get "converged" or downgraded. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:45:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673971javaservertrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673455 unknown@DZone.com My previous article about Bill Gates SQLAuthority News - Famous Quotes From Bill Gates got really lots of readers and got lots of request in email that I should have follow up article about other famous quotes from Bill Gates which are missing from original article. This blog is not about Quotes but SQL Server, but little fun never hurts. SQL Server is product of Microsoft, which Bill Gates is Chairman of, so indirectly this article is about SQL Server. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:54:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673455humorMicrosofttrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673406 unknown@DZone.com As I said in Requirements Are Required Reading, the real reason I'm a stickler for requirements documents is that a little extra effort upfront means I have to talk to fewer people later on -- and recall, I'm basically anti-social, which means I don't like to talk to people even in the best of situations. Luckily, David De Witt was there to set me straight, with his Top 10 reasons why you don't need a requirements document when upgrading software. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673406methodologytrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673256 unknown@DZone.com Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:12:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673256HardwaretrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673162 unknown@DZone.com Recently I began to write a paper on TDD Anti-Patterns, and decided to first quickly jot down some of the most common ones that others or myself have encountered “in the wild.” Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:02:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673162humormethodologytrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672988 unknown@DZone.com The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is being offered for free download (for personal use of course) from the University of Waterloo. This book covers a good swath of topics and will be a useful addition to your digital library. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:19:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672988booksSecuritytrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672989 unknown@DZone.com It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, the so called RIA trio. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:14:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672989opinionriatrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672722 unknown@DZone.com What language (or languages) should we be teaching at the high school level to introduce kids to computer science and programmatic thinking? I’m not talking about turning out programmers; I want kids to think algorithmically and know what I mean when I say high-level programming language. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:00:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672722trendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672723 unknown@DZone.com Development teams can use continuous integration (CI) to find and fix bugs, share knowledge and generally work better together, Agile coach Jared Richardson told attendees at the Better Software conference. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:47:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672723methodologytrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672615 unknown@DZone.com But even as Javascript—as well as the HTML elements it has access to— continues to mature, the general perception of what these technologies enable do not. It took the Web 2.0 revolution to dispel the view that Javascript and Dynamic HTML were mainly useful for form validation and making annoying websites. With Tamarin coming to Firefox and SquirrelFish coming to WebKit, we are ready to see the next wave of projects that again expand our understanding of what is possible on the Web. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:49:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672615javascripttrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672570 unknown@DZone.com An article about alternative places for telecommuniting and/or traveling technology workers types to be productive outside of home and work. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:20:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672570opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671485 unknown@DZone.com 50 ways for improving your software or be inspired to start programming one. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:30:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671485how-tomethodologytrendsusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671154 unknown@DZone.com There is a common misconception that all programmers enjoy fascinating solitary pursuits like solving a Rubik’s Cube or reciting Pi beyond one hundred decimal places. These impressions are perpetuated by entertaining, yet grossly exaggerated stereotypes found on TV shows like Beauty and the Geek. It is ironic though that these very same geeks, who are unwittingly at odds with the opposite sex, are extroverted enough to engage in social activities on national television. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:47:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671154opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037 unknown@DZone.com By now, OSGi has gained serious momentum in the entire Java ecosystem and I feel that OSGi is a topic that every Java developer should be aware of. In this article, I intend to guide you past the online resources that I found most relevant for gaining knowledge of OSGi. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037frameworksjavaresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670767 unknown@DZone.com The product manager and developer repeat this approach again and again. After the fifth iteration, the product manager thinks to himself, "Wow, this way of working together is really agile." Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:57:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670767frameworksmethodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670512 unknown@DZone.com To summarize what Wired's editor suggests: Correlation is enough. Causation is irrelevant. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:46:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670512methodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670287 unknown@DZone.com On Google having a hard time retaining employees... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:25:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670287MicrosoftopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670289 unknown@DZone.com There’s a lot of features of Ruby that I like, but there are some that just drive me nuts like blocks not taking blocks and the ampersand operator. Raganwald did a great job of explaining blocks, procs, and the ampersand in this blog post: Explanation of Ruby’s Unary operator. I came away with the feeling, “Wow! It took that much explanation just to tell how to send blocks around?” If blocks were first-class citizens, Ruby would be more elegant. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670289open sourcerubytrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669868 unknown@DZone.com Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:58:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669868trendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669416 unknown@DZone.com An excellent talk that I really enjoyed. I used to lead a much smaller service that also used a lot of NetApp storage and I recognized many of the problems Jason mentioned. Throughout the introductory part of the talk I found myself thinking they need to move to a cheap, directly attached blob store. And that’s essentially the topic of remainder of the talk. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:15:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669416trendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669019 unknown@DZone.com This is my advice to the young developer. This is targeted to pre-college age people who are interested in programming. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:20:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669019opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668592 unknown@DZone.com This is too painfully true! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:33:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668592humortrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668464 unknown@DZone.com Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers. Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuable information, experience and demonstrations on each of these niche topics that might otherwise go hidden in the more advanced section of a bigger book. I also chose to write them in the eBook format because I like the model they offer. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668464booksopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668465 unknown@DZone.com Software systems seem to be ruled by a fundamental law: As they get larger, their complexity increases exponentially. The reason for this is actually simple: Complexity is due not just to the number of parts in the system, but also to the relationship between the parts. Event-Based Architectures (EBAs) simplify system design, development, and testing because they minimize the relationships between the parts of a system. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:11:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668465frameworksopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668467 unknown@DZone.com I'm thinking of using agile software development - but should I use Lean software development instead? -- This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the relationship between lean and agile. So first I need to go into some history to help explain that relationship. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:57:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668467methodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668326 unknown@DZone.com Closures are the current hot feature for programming languages. The inclusion of closures in Java appears to be around the corner, and the C++ committee has recently voted on closures in the upcoming C++ 0x standard. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:51:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668326opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667747 unknown@DZone.com It seems as if everyone in .net land has chimed in on the whole Entity Framework "Vote Of No Confidence" petition recently, and up until now I have mostly stayed on the sidelines. As with any seemingly risky move, I was quite torn on the issue. And to a certain extent, I still am. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667747.netopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667645 unknown@DZone.com Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader’s mind. Here is an amazing collection of over 30 Vector illustrated websites. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:26:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667645trendsweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667610 unknown@DZone.com As Ted Neward aptly pointed out in his post: ORM is the Vietnam of Computer Science(credit to Justin Etheredge for reminding me of this). You need to do it, but there's no real good end solution here. RDBMS do what they do very well (that is, persist things to disk and load them back up quickly and reliably). Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:05:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667610opiniontoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2666597 unknown@DZone.com Kilim is a message-passing framework for Java that claims provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads.
 It consists of a bytecode postprocessor (a “weaver”), a run time library with buffered mailboxes (multi-producer, single consumer queues) and a user-level scheduler and a type system that puts certain constraints on pointer aliasing within messages to ensure interference-freedom between threads. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:46:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2666597javatrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2666600 unknown@DZone.com Cloud computing and multi-core CPU's are forcing us to change the way we think about writing software. Gone are the days of simply depending on faster machines to build more ambitious applications. New programming paradigms will be necessary to use these new tools. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:36:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2666600frameworkstrendsusabilityweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2666039 unknown@DZone.com Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:05:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2666039ajaxcoldfusiontrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2665904 unknown@DZone.com Are you looking to know how does JSF job market compare with other frameworks like tapestry, wicket, flex, RoR and ASP.net? Then this entry is for you to take a look. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:26:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665904frameworksjavaopen sourcetrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2665474 unknown@DZone.com Many business deals depend so much on networking. This may sound unfair, but sometimes our success in business is more about who you know than how good you really are. It also usually follows that the more varied your contacts are, the more insights and opportunities you’ll encounter. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:04:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665474opiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663867 unknown@DZone.com EventMachine is an event-driver framework for network and concurrent programming, based on the Reactor design pattern. InfoQ talked to EventMachine developer Francis Cianfrocca about the current developments and the benefits of event-driven programming. Also: explains how Ruby 1.9's Fibers and Rubinius will help improve working with EventMachine. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:12:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663867rubyservertrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2662989 unknown@DZone.com A brief account of an MDA approach. Sometimes systems refactoring evolve in an odd way... How a banking legacy system turn from a developing mess to an upper level of abstraction? Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662989methodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2662401 unknown@DZone.com You'll often here the argument, "the end user doesn't care about the technology" and therefore, neither should you. Wrong! Picking the right technology could mean the difference between success and failure. Find out why. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:47:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2662401methodologytoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661644 unknown@DZone.com It's a phrase held dearly to all agile developers, but it's also a common source of disagreement. I recently saw two different interpretations of the phrase that I considered to be worth sharing. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:50:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661644methodologyopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661645 unknown@DZone.com ..or the organic software visualization of Eclipse (SDK). Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:47:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661645eclipsejavaopen sourcetrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661546 unknown@DZone.com Most of us have at least one computer at home, some may even have a few. And then there are the ones that almost run their own data center at home, for private use. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:58:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661546HardwaretrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661378 unknown@DZone.com The ambition of the Cloud technology is to offer a "pay per kilobyte" model for using a software development infrastructure. How will this change the life of the developers? Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:02:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661378Newsopiniontrendsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660948 unknown@DZone.com When I teach Silverlight 2, I stress an important lesson that I thought that we (as developers) had learned the importance of linkability of the web. Early usage of Flash was the first time I noticed this. A number of those sites would create nested functionality that never changed the URL. If the URL doesn't change, i can't bookmark it. Most Flash guys learned their lessons pretty quick, but now I am inundated with AJAX driven sites that try hard to not to do post-backs. That's cool, but if the URL doesn't change I can't link to it. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:05:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660948.netajaxtrendsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660859 unknown@DZone.com Here's a peripheral argument to the current EF ruckus: Is the focus on visual tooling hindering the rate of innovation in the .Net world? At the ALT.NET event in Seattle, we started with a fishbowl session on polyglot programming (basically, using different languages and even writing little languages for the particular tasks that they're best suited for). One of the attendees thought polyglot programming was a bad idea because of all the tooling that each new language was going to require. True, but hopefully false. High ceremony languages like C# and Java require more tooling like ReSharper and IntelliJ to be efficient than lower ceremony languages or terser languages. What if the alternative languages were usable for some specialized task without a lot of new tooling? Think about scripting languages or external DSL's that are tuned for specific purposes and really don't require Intellisense and wizardry to be useful. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:00:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660859.netopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660243 unknown@DZone.com A few years ago I was a firm believer in the Rich Connected Client application model, which was based on running applications installed locally on the users desktop. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:30:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660243ajaxtrendsweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660142 unknown@DZone.com One of the main innovations in the Eclipse Foundation's Ganymede synchronized release of 24 projects this year, out today, is a feature called Usage Data Collector (UDC). Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:54:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660142eclipsejavatrendsProgramming