links for 2007-06-01

• Google Gears API Developer's Guide - Home
  "Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline." Sure seems like Adam Bosworth's Alchemy project has resurrected... Game-changing stuff. (BTW, we can do the same with JavaDB and applets)
  (tags: google project opensource browser offline extension plugin webdev store storage library database RDBMS client RIA api javascript)
• Mashups made easy - Google Mashup Blog
  "The Google Mashup Editor's simple online interface enables you to build, test, deploy and distribute your mashup.Using familiar technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS, you can create mashups in minutes and test them in our sandbox, a testing ground f
  (tags: project google mashup web web2.0 webdev AJAX mashups HTML Javascript CSS editor tool)
• [osol-discuss] Re: [SVOSUG] Tonight, Project Indiana,
  More info about project Indiana. Paraphrasing, is goals are to provide a simple answer to the questions: "How to get and Install OpenSolaris?", "How to upgrade it?", "how to manage packages?" and "what to do wrt support". (I'm not good at paraphrasing, cl
  (tags: mailing list post mail OpenSolaris Indiana ProjectIndiana community email message solaris distro distribution AlanCoopersmith IanMurdock)
• JavaOne 2007 : JavaFX PDF Viewer (video) [cld.blog-city.com]
  I guess the title says it all. Though I don't think this program has been made available. Hopefully it will sometime.
  (tags: blog post JavaFX Java PDF presentation app program demo ChrisOliver viewer)
• [osol-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)
  Solid info on Project Indiana: "Summary - This project proposes to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution, previously known as 'Project Indiana'." "Description - This project proposes to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution with a long term goal o
  (tags: project OpenSolaris Indiana OS distribution distro ProjectIndiana Solaris proposal GlynnFoster IanMurdock)

Evento "Falando em Java"

links for 2007-05-27

• Trey Drake : Weblog
  Cool. An atom publishing protocol interface to OpenDS LDAP directory server.
  (tags: blog post project opensource LDAP ATOM REST directory OpenDS Sun identity APP Atompub via:billdehora)

links for 2007-05-25

• Eric Newcomer's Weblog - WS-Transactions moves to OASIS Standard
  Eric Newcomer reminisces on his involvement with distributed transactions specifications. He also advises: "You don't always need it [2PC] . But when you do, there's no substitute. This is not something you want to try to code yourself and get right, alwa
  (tags: blog post article EricNewcomer Iona transaction WS-Tx WS-Transactions standard specification 2PC distributed systems OASIS WebServices WS-*)
• A comparison of Web services transaction protocols
  "A comparative analysis of WS-C/WS-Tx and OASIS BTP"2003 article by Mark Little and Thomas Freund.
  (tags: article SOA WebServices standard standards spec specs specification specifications WS-Tx WS-X BTP Oasis WS-*)
• Ian Robinson's Weblog: The roots of WS-Coordination
  From CORBA onwards.
  (tags: article blog post IanRobinson distributed transaction systems WS-Tx WS-Transaction WS-Coordination WS-C CORBA J2EE JavaEE WS-CAF WS-AT WS-BA WS-* WebServices history standard standards)

links for 2007-05-23

• Chuck Hinson: WSEC
  An example highliting benefits gained from the Uniform Interface constraint in RESTful web services. Namely, it is easier for a client to interoperate with multiple servers/services that deal with the same data type.
  (tags: blog post article software architecture web REST http verbs w3c WSEC WS-* wsdl Uniformity UniformInterface WebServices)
• sakaiproject.org - Project News - More New Sakai Pilots
  A brazillian company, in Niteroi (RJ), is deploying Sakai and working on a pt-br localization.
  (tags: news Sakai opensource brazil localization i18n l10n edu edtech translation)
• More New I/O APIs for Java
  In this interview with Artima, JSR 203 spec lead Alan Bateman explains how JSR 203's file API solves current shortcomings with java.io.File, the new Watchable interface, and asynchronous I/O programming.
  (tags: interview Artima Java JSR-203 JSR JCP FileSystem IO I/O AlanBateman NIO asynchronous asynchronicity)
• Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
  Author argues that UIs that attempt to emullate an existing "paradigm" instead of breaking away with it cause an impression akin to the Uncanny Valley effect (google for Clive Thompson's writing on it).
  (tags: article blog post BillHiggins UI GUI usability design LaF LookAndFeel web webdev ajax Swing SWF consistency conventions)

Metodista SESTINFO 16-Maio-2007

Na quarta-feira passada, dia 16/maio, eu tive o privilégio de participar da SESTINFO, um evento promovido pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. Minha palestra teve como tema as novidades em programação de clientes desktop em Java. Abordei as novas APIs Swing Application Framework e Beans Binding, também conhecidas pelos apelidos carinhosos de JSR-296 e JSR-295. A demo foi baseada neste tutorial, com algumas mudanças. A principal é que em vez de montar um banco de dados de carros como sugerido, fiz uma opção mais ecológica e criei um banco de montanhas. Veja um screenshot:

A imagem da montanha não é um recurso estático; eu usei o NASA WorldWind SDK para inserir esta visão geográfica 3D manipulável pelo usuário. E o mais legal é que a posição sendo visualizada está ligada à montanha selecionada atraves de Beans Binding. Mais tarde eu posto mais detalhes.

Os slides estão disponíveis em .odp e pdf.

links for 2007-05-21

• Re: netbeans support for scala ?
  Some level of support for Scala coming for NetBeans. Interesting.
  (tags: scala language NetBeans plugin Java JaroslavTulach MartinKrauskopf newsgroup mailing list post thread news)
• openide: API Fest
  This article describes a game called API Fest that the NetBeans core team created and played as part of improving their design skills.
  (tags: article NetBeans Java API design OO game interesting APIFest)
• rest-discuss : Message: Re: [rest-discuss] Re: REST intro slides
  In this post from REST-discuss, Roy Fielding explains just WTF does "hypermedia is the engine of application state" means.
  (tags: REST thread post mailing list email RoyFielding REST-discuss state hypermeida link links web software architecture distributed system systems)

links for 2007-05-20

• IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Patrick Mueller
  Twitter web ui doesn't support ETags.
  (tags: article blog post http Twitter ETag ETags cache caching header headers performance)
• Chet Haase's Blog: Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java
  We have several outstanding issues with Java as a consumer desktop platform... The good news is that we are aware of these issues. The better news is that we're working on the problems. The best news is that we are close to solutions and intend to delilve
  (tags: blog post ChetHaase Java JRE JavaSE desktop applet development consumer ConsumerJRE JDK 6 Java6 jvm launch startup quickstart kernel JavaKernel)
• Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?
  Very well made VI tutorial.
  (tags: tutorial howto VI editor VIM tips)
• NetBeans Visual Library EPS
  Another cool screencast by Roman Strobl, now presenting NetBean Visual Library. It's purpose is to facilitate the development of graph/flowchart GUIs. In the screencast Roman creates a complete mind-map app in 10 minutes or so.
  (tags: screencast RomanStrobl NetBeans Java module platform VisualLibrary graph drawing GUI visualization)
• Comments on Comments
  From old SunOS code: "Enter zombie state. Wake up parent and init processes, and dispose of children." Perfectly normal operating system comment, and yet...
  (tags: article fun SunOS Solaris code kernel comment comments funny interesting history)

links for 2007-05-16

• Navigating WS-* (application/pdf Object)
  20-page quick reference for the main WS-* standards, including product support information.
  (tags: paper reference WebServices WS-* DanDiephouse via:infoq SOA WS-Addressing WS-Policy WS-ReliableMessaging WS-A WS-RM WS-Security WS-Trust WS-SecureConversation standard standards)
• Regenerative Build Tools
  "is an example of something I call a regenerative build tool. There are others. Jester is a regenerative build tool which uses mutation testing to find problems. It changes your code in subtle ways and runs your tests to see whether they still pass..."
  (tags: article Artima MichaelFeathers software build engineering SE softwareengineering test testing SCM tool tools)
• http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005
  How to figh trolls. If I understand correctly, Cory sees the most successful tactic the employment of a skilled and tactful moderator, whom he calls a ' 'troll whisperer' ' "
  (tags: article CoryDoctorow InformationWeek internet community communities troll trolls social society groups forum forums lists tips TrollWhisperer)
• WorldWind Java SDK- World Wind Wiki
  Wikipage for the NASA Worldwind java component.
  (tags: project opensource Java NASA worldwind mapping globe virtual earth Swing JOGL JavaSE)
• Mixing-in an Enum - Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog
  Cool idiom for allowing Java 5 enums extensibility.
  (tags: blog post JosephDDarcy JosephDarcy Java Java5 enum idiom pattern extension extensibility interface interfaces enumeration switch language)

links for 2007-05-15

• Requirements
  Eric Sink on, oddly enough, requirements.
  (tags: blog post article EricSink software requirements SE SoftwareEngineering engineering PM project management specification specifications development specs toread)

links for 2007-05-14

• trinity - Open Letter to Jonathan Schwartz
  Yeah, maybe this (http://tinyurl.com/js6ka) could be handy.
  (tags: forum post opensource OOffice neooffice MacOS JonathanSchwartz funny humor letter)
• Ken Russell's Weblog : Weblog - NASA World Wind Java at JavaOne
  "Chris Campbell and I met with the World Wind development team at NASA Ames to discuss the feasibility of a Java platform port of World Wind. It turned out that NASA had already been discussing this internally and ..."
  (tags: blog post Sun NASA WorldWind map mapping globe 3D Swing JOGL KenRussell Java)
• Hello NASA World Wind
  Geertjan little tutorial (there will be follow-ups) on running NASA WorldWind with NetBeans.
  (tags: java blog post WorldWind Geertjan NetBeans Swing 3D JOGL tutorial NASA Map mapping)
• Adam Bien's Weblog : Weblog - JPA 2.0 update from JavaONE - important improvements
  Preliminary JPA 2.0 feature set.
  (tags: blog post JPA JavaEE JPA2 Java EJB3 AdamBien)

links for 2007-05-12

• PLT Scheme Blog: XML Transformation in Scheme
  (tags: toread scheme xml functional programming example snippet PLT transformation selenium)
• 2007 JavaOne Conference - General Sessions
  Recorded videos of JavaOne 2007 general sessions.
  (tags: video videos movie list catalog towatch Sun JavaOne 2007 JavaOne2007)
• SapphireSteel :: Ruby The Smalltalk Way #1 - Fundamentals
  Nice for Ruby programmers wanting to learn Smalltalk or vice-versa.
  (tags: article tutorial introduction Ruby Smalltalk OO SapphireSteel Huw comparison)
• Roumen's Weblog - An Important Promise From This Java One
  Roumen: "The most exciting thing for me coming from this Java One is the promise that Sun is going to fix the web browser applet plug-in and various issues with deployment of Java applications on the desktop."
  (tags: java JavaSE desktop JRE applet JavaWS deployment installation install plugin web development javaone 2007 JavaOne2007)

Not so del.icio.us

So, the del.icio.us daily blog posting thing is botched. I'll post a few of my recent bookmarks here, including some interesting JavaOne commentary. And sorry about the formatting, its usually bad, now it is awful, but I hope that I didn't cross the line to unreadable yet.

• A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels at OpenSolaris.org

  So much toread, so little time.

  to article Solaris Sun OpenSolaris via:RafaelVanoni for:ambassadors_brazil OS kernel Linux BSD FreeBSD OperatingSystem comparison versus ...
  
  
  

• Recommended Installation Locations for Solaris-compatible Software Components at OpenSolaris.org

  Useful reference when I forget again what is the difference between /usr/sbin and /usr/bin

  to document reference Solaris OpenSolaris FS filesystem direcotry tree directories installation package software location ...
  
  

• Per Bothner - Per working for Sun on JavaFX

  Per Bothner will work on JavaFX!

  to mailinglist email thread mail posting post PerBothner announcement Sun JavaFX Kawa bytecode compiler compilation for:ambassadors_brazil ...
  
  

• F3 is now openjfx | Lambda the Ultimate

  Sean McDirmid likes JavaFX.

  to forum thread LtU SeanMcDirmid JavaFX Superglue F3 for:ambassadors_brazil
  
  

• The Kawa language framework

  [Gnu] Kawa is: * A framework written in Java for implementing high-level and dynamic languages, compiling them into Java bytecodes. * An implementation of Scheme ...

  to project language java Scheme bytecode compiler runtime PerBothner Kawa ...
  
  

• Alarming Development » Blog Archive » JavaFX

  Jonathan "Subtext" Edwards likes JavaFX.

  to blog post JavaFX JonathanEdwards language review for:ambassadors_brazil ...
  
  

• raganwald: Hard-Core Concurrency Considerations

  Insightful considerations about purely functional data structures on a concurrent setting (memory consistency requiring synchronization and IO devices that are optimal for large sequencial transfers are two points of note).

  to blog post functional programming FP KevinGreer datastructures concurrency datastructure DS haskell raganwald ReginaldBraithwaite RegBraithwaite ...
  
  

• Revisiting Coroutines (ResearchIndex)

  From the Lua team. "[this] paper defends the revival of coroutines as a general control abstraction. After proposing a new classification of coroutines, we introduce the concept of full asymmetric coroutines and provide a precise definition for it through

  to paper Lua language Coroutines Coroutine control abstraction concurrency continuation continuations AnaLuciaDeMoura RobertoIerusalimschy AnaLuciaMoura AnaMoura ...
  
  

• Project Caroline Home (Sun Research)

  "Project Caroline is a hosting platform for development and delivery of dynamically scalable Internet-based services. It is designed to serve an emerging market of small and medium sized software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers."

  to sun research project Caroline deployment host hosting grid virtualization scalability SaaS service web infrastructure infra
  
  

• David Van Couvering 's Blog: JavaOne Tuesday Afternoon General Session - Java Technology

  Nice wrap-up of JavaOne 2007 day 1.

  to DavidVanCouvering blog post Java JavaOne JavaOne2007 2007 JavaFX Glassfish JRuby Nasa ...
  
  

• IRIS - Browse Flickr Photos

  Web2.0 + Mashup + Flickr + JOGL + JavaWS + Applets (yes, applets) = Very cool demo.

  to mashup demo techdemo sun Web2.0 Flickr JOGL JavaWS Applets JavaOne2007 JavaOne 2007 webdev JasperPotts ...
  
  

• Sun To Develop New Communications Application Server Through Open Source GlassFish Community

  Java taking a stand in the VOIP technology camp. And it is open-source. And take a look at who is partnering with us. Good javaone news day.

  to news Sun java VOIP communications telecom Ericsson SIP jsr-289 CDDL GPL project opensource Glassfish SailFin JavaEE javaone 2007 JavaOne2007
  
  

• Sun Fulfills Promise of Open and Free Java Technology and Releases Java SE Platform to OpenJDK Community

  It is here! The community is lead by a provisional governing board consisting of: Doug Lea, Dalibor Topiç, Fabiane Biznella Nardon (a Brazilian famous for the SUS Healthcare system), Mark Reinhold and Simon Phipps.

  to news Sun OpenJDK Java OpenSource free FreeSoftware press pressrelease
  
  

• PLT Scheme Blog - Macros Matter

  First post on the PLT Scheme team blog, argues that macros is one most important features next-next-gen languages will have to focus on, next to concurrency (of course).

  to blog post lisp scheme macro macros PLT language design future ...
  
  

• openjfx: Home

  Fun times ahead :-)

  to project JavaFX JFX java Sun language scripting F3 code Swing Java2D ChrisOliver client desktop RichClient javaone2007 javaone 2007 for:ambassadors_brazil ria GUI UI ...
  
  

• Interview with Simon Phipps | Linux Journal

  
  

• collision detection: Should you pick an unusual name for yourself -- so you'll be more Googleable?

  More curious science from Clive Thompson.

  to blog post CliveThompson science google society identity name names presence online search blogging web interesting ...
  
  

links for 2007-05-09

• How to use OpenID (a screencast)
  Simon Willison explains how to use OpenID from the perspective of a new user.
  (tags: SimonWillison openid security authentication identity protocol standard screencast)
• Announcing the FLUID Project - sakaiproject.org
  "the FLUID Project, a new (..) project to improve the user experience of community source software. FLUID includes members of the Sakai, uPortal, and Moodle communities who are working (...) [on] usability, accessibility, internationalization, and more wi
  (tags: project edtech edu opensource FLUID sakai uPortal Moodle usability accessibility internationalization i18n LMS web UI)
• collision detection: Should you pick an unusual name for yourself -- so you'll be more Googleable?
  More curious science from Clive Thompson.
  (tags: blog post CliveThompson science google society identity name names presence online search blogging web interesting)

links for 2007-05-08

• SELFMAN Project - SELFMAN Wiki
  "making the systems self managing: the systems will reconfigure themselves to handle changes in their environment or requirements....""A major innovation of SELFMAN is to combine the strengths of structured overlay networks and advanced component models."
  (tags: PeterVanRoy research project CS ComputerScience distributed system systems grid p2p autonomic autonomous computing self-healing self-organizing self-organization Oz Mozart component CBD)
• A Chat with Aaron Swartz
  Aaron talks about how work begun on reddit and how he was subsequently fired, about Chomky and politics, and about prejudices in the tech community.
  (tags: interview AaronSwartz reddit YCombinator politics technology wikipedia CC CreativeCommons startup founder prejudice misoginy racism)
• Sun Connection screencast
  Satellite Deployment Architecture demonstration screencast.
  (tags: screencast video sun solaris Connection SunConnection deployment system administration)
• collision detection: Resuscitation science
  "If Becker's right, current emergency practices actually kill people -- because when (..) you're not breathing, the first thing they do is flood you with oxygen. But all that does, Becker claims, is radically accelerate the speed at which your cells die."
  (tags: blog post CliveThompson science medicine interesting)
• Eigenfactor (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Academic Publishing System? Dept.)
  Nice description of the biases in the traditional "impact factor" metric for scholarly papers and a proposal for a better system.
  (tags: CosmaShalizi paper statistics papers blog post academia scholar metric metrics stats impact measure ISI ISI/ThompsonScientific Eigenfactor markov markovchains rank ranking publication science publications)