Not long ago i came across this cool Java framework for building your own web applications. Actually I think someone posted it at Twitter ( @playframework ). At first i saw the invitational presentation which you can find here or at the framework’s page.

JPA has standardized the interfaces for persistence frameworks. However how much is standardized regarding the runtime behaviour of frameworks. These small code samples show different uses cases to test with your JPA framworks. Additionally hints on the actual framework behaviour, will help to improve usage.

JBoss' Manik Surtani provides an overview of the scope and capabilities of the Infinispan open source data grid platform, along with usage examples and a brief tour of the APIs. An upcoming second part will take a deep-dive into the architecture, more advanced APIs and extending Infinispan.

Are there cases where a scripting language is more advisable than using Java for both speed of development and performance? How can you identify them? What are the performance implications?

I have attended a presentation by Simon Guest from Microsoft on their cloud computing architecture. Although there was no new concept or idea introduced, Simon has provided an excellent summary on the major patterns of doing cloud computing. I have to admit that I am not familiar with Azure and this is my first time hearing a Microsoft cloud computing presentation. I felt Microsoft has explained their Azure platform in a very comprehensible way. I am quite impressed. Simon talked about 5 patterns of Cloud computing. Let me summarize it (and mix-in a lot of my own thoughts) ...

This article specifies the steps to create the commonly used charts in a JSF application with the use of Primefaces.

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 screenshots

This is a really cool jQuery selector tester that let's you try selectors and automatically highlights them in the html. Lots of fun to play with and helps with the understanding of how jQuery selectors work! A must try!

This text compares Java's two stream oriented XML parsers, SAX and StAX, and explains the difference in a "push" model and "pull" model. It also lists other differences in these two API's. If you have ever wondered which of these two API's to use, this text may help you decide.

How and why a large financial organization is using the NetBeans Platform.

This is a list of Rapid Application Development tools that might sometimes save your precious time. Some tools you already use might not be in this list so if you want it to be added here, please drop a comment.

This corner plugin is pulling off its magic by adding more elements to the page. Specifically, it adds div "strips" to the item to be cornered and sets a solid background color on these strips in order to hide the actual corners of the real item. Recently I added support for native border-radius rounding in browsers that support it (Firefox, Safari, and Chrome).

This article is used to configure JSF and Richfaces in Netbeans 6.x

Pystachio is an early-stage Python-to-JavaScript translator (written in JavaScript) aimed at providing Python scripting in any modern browser.

JTable uses some pretty weird index handling under the hood. Here is an example where it all broke down.

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to learn how to implement our first jQuery plug-in.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.