In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, we have a task list to help TekEvent organizers and volunteers keep track of what's left to be done for their event. It's pretty handy, but it could be a bit easier to use. Specifically, it would be great if we didn't have to click on a task to open the show view and then click again to edit it, just to mark a task as completed. What would be really nifty is if we could mark a task as completed by clicking on a simple checkbox. And it turns out that Grails provides an Ajax tag that's just what we need.

Thanks in part to the many who forwarded, blogged, tweeted, and linked to my May 2009 plea to Telligent to turn GraffitiCMS over to the community, it now appears that Telligent will be doing exactly that.

Joseph McCarthy from IBM Ireland has written a tutorial called "Using Comet for asynchronous user notification of autonomous server thread progression" about how to use polling and Comet (long polling) in Java with the ItsNat Java web framework to asynchronously notify end users by web about what is doing an autonomous thread (not a web thread) doing a long task in parallel. Note: to read this article use MSIE 6 or FireFox disabling styles (View/Page Style/No Style)

We recently updated CloudFoundry.com. With this update, we introduced several exciting new features that pave the way for future development. I want to take this opportunity to describe and explain these features, as well as provide some background in how they came about. We are excited for you to try them out and provide us with feedback.

I've got a few ASP.NET MVC projects burning that will be leveraging Facebook Connect for user identity and profile data. I was impressed with how quickly I could get things running using the Facebook Developer Toolkit. Well-documented, good examples, and the API makes sense.

One of the frustrating aspects of working with CSS (one of many, actually) is the amount of duplication in a .css file. CSS does allow us to separate content from presentation, but, if I had a nickel for every time I did a search and replace for some hexadecimal RGB code replicated 5 times in a CSS file

So you want to write an application in .NET that’s location-aware? Let’s start with a code sample (console application) that will show you how to use a GeoLocationProvider to respond to location updates, and print those updates out to the console.

Daniel Mellgaard Frost talks with Ayende Rahien. Øredev has its origins and focus on the software development process, from programming to project management

I casually mentioned two tricks for sharing the same XAML across Silverlight and WPF in the notes of a post a couple weeks ago. I used both techniques in my DataVisualizationDemos project (which compiles for Silverlight and WPF from the same source code) and wanted to call them out for others in similar situations. The feedback I got was quite positive - until someone tried the subclassing trick with HierarchicalDataTemplate. While there's no reason that shouldn't work, it doesn't.

When someone asked my former manager David Treadwell what he did on a daily basis his answer was “Go to meetings and delete email”. Unfortunately that often describes my life as well. It is always challenging to manage your time. I want to ensure I’m spending enough on technology, people, customers, etc.

.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 has been out for a little while now. There are some subtle improvements to the ScriptManager control in ASP.NET 4.0 that few have picked up on yet. Allow me to introduce you to them! First, let me say that this is strictly about features in the server-side ASP.NET ScriptManager control, not the Ajax library in general. Also – if you do not use the ASP.NET Ajax library but you are a WebForms developer, I assume you, this article is still for you!

OK, just discovered an interesting implementation detail of JQuery Validator (one that I should have known about already as well).

The following steps explain how to serialize any .NET object into a JSON string. This tip uses the .NET 3.0 Framework. You'll find this capability particularly helpful in applications that use AJAX to pass objects from the server to the client code.

Many Spec Explorer users have asked the question of how and when to choose between static or instance-based at the time of creating a model. The Base Solution Wizard (Visual Studio File menu -> New -> Project… -> Visual C# -> Spec Explorer Base Solution) shortly explains in its second step the difference between these two kinds of models, while leaving the choice to the user

Spec Explorer supports two topologies for connecting generated test cases to the implementation of your System Under Test (SUT). They can be either connected directly or through a test adapter.

Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been out for about a month, most of you have probably seen it and tried many of its new features. For those interested in writing extensions for VS, we wanted to share a couple of updates around editor extensibility, particularly for people who wrote extensions in Beta 1 and want to upgrade to Beta 2.

Some days ago I found the useful Facebook Java API (v3.0) and I began to use this library. I loose some hours to understand how to make a server-side login (without facebook-side authentication).

Custom jQuery accordion for vertical navigation with subpages for wordpress ready to be pasted in a template.

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

There’s no Architecture in Business Service Orientation ! There, I’ve said it, there are no two types of SOA. I am not trying to say that business-level service orientation doesn’t exist or isn’t valuable. However I am trying to say that labeling that SOA harms both Service Orientation at the business level and SOA (a.k.a. “technical SOA”)

Taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4. We will be focusing this episode on Named and Optional Parameters. Optional Parameters all you to default values for your methods which can reduce the need to for overloading methods. Named parameters allow you to specify the exact parameter by Name when calling a method

Now, you can get the public BETA2 SharePoint 2010 from Microsoft Download center. Get it now.

This is the slideshare of my talk on Esper. The talk covers the concepts behind CEP, its advantages over traditional approaches like RDBMS and Rules Engine and finally the API details of Esper.

Need to wrap content around an image? ...really around an image? jQSlickWrap is a plugin for jQuery which enables you to easily and accurately wrap your text around the content of floated images. It's as simple as $('img').slickWrap();

A shameless plug for my book "Spring Enterprise Recipes," from Apress. The book covers all manner of topics including business process management, batch processing, web services, messaging, schedulers, application integration, distributed computing and clustered caching. The book provides a discussion of all these techniques as well as prescriptions for Spring and various other libraries to build real-world, practical solutions. I hope you'll consider it for your next purchase.