The Apache Tuscany team is working with Android phones to produce SOA apps. NTT and OpSource are working together to accelerate cloud adoption and Microsoft might strike a deal with NewsCorp. to have exclusive search rights to the Wall Street Journal.

It was at that moment I decided to make a go of it with Linux as my sole operating system. After nearly 2 years of tweaking, making mistakes, fixing those mistakes, and then making even more mistakes, I finally feel qualified to give you advice.

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.

A minimal way to notify users of success or error, based on Twitter's bar and jBar

Webpages to Render Faster

In here, we will discuss a few method that we can use to disable Wordpress admin menu from displaying and accessing by valid users.

TimeFinder allows universities and schools to reduce and even avoid conflicts in the timetable! It is Open Source and based on Spring Rich Client. Check it out!

This article describes the various refactorings available in Eclipse Java™ Development Tools (JDT), including what each refactoring does, when to use it, and how to use it. It also explores the refactoring script functionality in Eclipse, which allows library developers to share code refactorings with their clients.

We Riena committers smoothly shipped a fresh Riena Milestone last Friday, this time 1.2.0.M3 (download). Here’s the New & Noteworthy and the list of resolved items.

It is frustrating whenever personal medical questions become political questions. This happens all the time. Example A, ripped from the headlines, is the kerfluffle over mammograms. Women, doctors and politicians who hate having to go through the procedure are now screaming bloody murder over the non-existent “threat” to halt access to it.

Ever had an image where you want to change all of the pixels of one color to another color? At first glance, this task may seem a bit overwhelming, but with the Gimpshop software, this is really quite simple. Read on to see how to change pixel colors within an image…

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.

Generating S5-based presentations using Emacs' organization package.

Want to have a taste of the Chrome OS? Last week Google have released the source code of their new Chrome OS, but its only for developers… then what about the normal users? Can’t they at least see what this is? Well.. now they can easily download and preview this latest masterpiece of Google… Want to know how? Keep reading…

Installting the google go emacs mode under ubuntu 9.10

Ben Nadel reviews the jQuery UI 1.7 book - Have a look! "This weekend, I finished reading jQuery UI 1.7 [The User Interface Library For jQuery] by Dan Wellman (released by PACKT Publishing). It's a follow-up to his jQuery UI 1.6 book, which I reviewed in early 2009. Read more

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.

This article explains the use case of adding, updating, searching and deleting using JSF, Web Services and OJB in WebSphere Integration Developer. The article discusses the steps in developing each layer including the integration among these layers.

EGL Community Edition is a free Eclipse-based tool that simplifies the development of rich Web 2.0 style applications. Learn more from Will Smythe, Product manager, how EGL CE dramatically accelerates development of JavaScript and Java-based, rich Internet applications without needing to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML.

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.

I’m not sure if people noticed this last week, but there’s been discussion of providing a simplified p2 ui by refactoring out the Mylyn discovery user interface and pushing it down the stack. I think this enhancement would alleviate a common problem RCP developers have when it comes to providing a simpler user interface for their users. p2 does a great job in offering you a set of APIs to do many things, but in most cases… the operations and user interface should be simple.

This is a simple plugin for adding sliding captions to images. The image gets tinted too, when hovering.

Google exclaims, and everyone gasps and bows before the cloud embracing visionaries. But where's the step back, the deep breath, the wiping away of the 'oh gosh it's Google, it's the future' haze to reveal the problems that lurk beneath the surface? I'm far from being a luddite, I was an internet evangelist 20 years ago and an early adopter of everything from virtual worlds to social networks.

Google quietly announced last week that its cloud will run nothing but open source software. This is a big deal, but let’s first admit why Google did it. As I have written many times, Google has a big cost advantage when it comes to delivering Internet resources.

Google’s two operating systems, mobile Android and desktop Chrome OS, will likely converge as a single OS in the future, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “Android and Chrome will likely converge over time,” Brin said in an informal discussion with reporters after the company’s Chrome OS presentation last Thursday.