http://tools.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for tools en Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716789 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: assbach | View Details | Give Thanks Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716789macos xDesignapplicationweb designpatternswebwikiphotoshopfireworksuiscreenshotsinspirationwordpressvia:mento.infojquery eklentileribusinessanalyticssalesfontsflickrAdobeweb devel securitybackgroundtoolsservicesSoftwareuser interfacetypographyhumorlistssynchfiles http://web2announcer.com/go/2716788 unknown@DZone.com Anybody could explain me why do you use maven. As I understand the main purpose of maven is a support of dependencies between modules/components in project. Other task such as reporting, documentation and others is not important. In this case it would be much more useful/simple to use less complicated tool. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:55:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716788opiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716242 unknown@DZone.com This post is about creating an agent that reads feeds and tracks things in blogs, using the Twitter API. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:59:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716242how-toopen sourcetoolsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716157 unknown@DZone.com In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector.
 
 Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:59:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716157.nethow-totoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715940 unknown@DZone.com We are proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.0-Beta1. FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715940announcementguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715879 unknown@DZone.com Occasionally, I have a maintenance task for one of my programs: something has to be done in the background every so often.
 From rsyncing content between servers to importing data received from external parties into my application. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715879toolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715776 unknown@DZone.com Think about what it would look like if a versioning system like git and a pastie had a while, and you'd probably came quite close what the folks behind the project hosting service Github let loose on the web just yesterday: Gist, a pastie that supports versioning and much more. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:41:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715776opiniontoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715661 unknown@DZone.com Java 6 Plus Yahoo Toolbar is this another crappy move by Sun? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:23:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715661javatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715604 unknown@DZone.com One of the software engineers that Chris Kutler, as a NetBeans technical writer, get to work with on the NetBeans Ruby project is Erno Mononen, who works in Prague. Erno works mostly on the NetBeans Ruby IDE, but is also involved in some parts of the Java EE support in the NetBeans IDE. Chris is finally catching up with the documentation for 6.1 and took some time to talk with Erno about the work that he is doing for the upcoming 6.5 release. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:15:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715604javarubytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715606 unknown@DZone.com I have been using Visual Studio since it first came out and have been big fan of it for quite a few years. Until just recently it had no real competition but with the NetBeans (and Eclipse) getting better every release I cannot say definitively that Visual Studio is the best editor anymore. Having said that there are still many features that Visual Studio has that I miss every time I use NetBeans. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715606MicrosoftopiniontoolsusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715557 unknown@DZone.com FormDev Software is pleased to announce the release of JFormDesigner 4.0,
 now with GroupLayout (Free Design) support (as in NetBeans GUI Builder;
 formerly Project Matisse) and JGoodies Forms 1.2 support. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:38:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715557announcementguijavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2716050 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency Saved By: Michael Montgomery | View Details | Give Thanks Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716050web designpatternsDesignuiscreenshotsinspirationtypographyhumormacos xapplicationphotoshopfireworkswebwikifontswordpressjquery eklentileribusinessanalyticssalesbookmarkedLOLweb devel securityvia:mento.infobackgroundtoolsservices http://web2announcer.com/go/2714712 unknown@DZone.com For a while now I have been working on an application called IronEditor, this is a simple application designed to make it easier to pick up and start coding against the DLR based languages. By taking advantage of the DLR's Hosting API, the application can execute code for any language built on top of the DLR platform. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:30:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714712announcementtoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714615 unknown@DZone.com Is this even possible? Yes, trust me, if I can do it, so can you. You may ask, from Groovy and Grails in one day, how did I shift gears to web services. It all started while I was reading and working the samples from chapter 9 Web Services of “Beginning Groovy and Grails from Novice to Professional“. With the help of the sample provided in the book, I was able to get a RESTful web services for the Grails application. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:59:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714615frameworksgroovytoolsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714234 unknown@DZone.com I just had an e-mail exchange with someone looking for a VB lead in Colorado Springs. I think they are going to have trouble filling it with an existing VB expert, and it occurred to me that someone who had led a successful VB 6 -> C# project could fit the bill, if they knew some key things about VB. I told the recruiter I thought the right person with a C# background and the right (respectful) attitude could be a good fit with two weeks work. But in the back of my mind I’m thinking “what resource could she possibly access during those two weeks.” Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:05:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714234.netopiniontoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714239 unknown@DZone.com Although Maven has its benefits, its documentation is often spartan and scattered, and sometimes it can be quite painful to figure out how to accomplish a task, although once you've figured out how to do it, it's usually not terrifically hard to repeat it in the future. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:48:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714239javatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714006 unknown@DZone.com Just few days back, I talked about that its rather a good practice to debug, not to run! While following that, I discovered another thing, which was there for quite some time, but I didn’t notice it, as I didn’t debug too often. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714006javatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714007 unknown@DZone.com This blog post shows a simple Powershell command that searches a log file for errors and warnings and adds the matched lines to either to the errors.txt file or to the warnings.txt files. It takes advantage of the most powerful operator in Powershell, which is the switch operator. In my example here I exported the log file from the Wonderware SMC logger. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714007.netother languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713782 unknown@DZone.com How to set up a LAMP developer workstation on a clean Ubuntu installation. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:47:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713782how-tophptoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713783 unknown@DZone.com Firefox offers a lot of advantages over other browsers, namely Internet Explorer. One of the greatest advantages it offers, is the ability to install add-ons. There are extensions that cover SQL, regular expressions, debugging, security issues, FTP, and more. Here is a list of 20 great Firefox extensions for developers. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:38:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713783opinionreviewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713612 unknown@DZone.com One of the nicest and coolest frameworks for organisation of the front-side testing (including javascript, styles and structures) just have released the version 2.0.2. At the same time the support resource has been lunched! You can find lots of useful things out there, fresh api-documentation, new articles, examples of usage and sure the live demo. Enjoy! And don't forget to push the thing up, we need your support! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:50:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713612ajaxjavascriptopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713509 unknown@DZone.com Subversion sounds pretty cool. It's a mature, powerful revision-control system that acts a lot like CVS, adds support for atomic commits and real renames, just won the Jolt award, and is free. What more can you ask for? Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:22:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713509how-toopen sourceservertoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713357 unknown@DZone.com Creating an OSGi bundle and deploying it to GlassFish. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:32:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713357javaserverstandardstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2713008 unknown@DZone.com Want to install linux on windows in the easiest way possible? See how you can. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:25:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2713008toolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2712959 unknown@DZone.com Apache Archiva 1.1 has been released with 89 fixes and features including RSS, virtual repositories, web-based artifact uploads, configurable remote proxy timeout, more compliant WebDAV using Jackrabbit, a switch to Spring under the hood, and an upgrade to Jetty 6.1 for the runtime bundle. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:13:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712959announcementjavaopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2712781 unknown@DZone.com I was asked through this blog how to become a good developers. I think this is the question that many beginners want to ask. For every question there are throusands of answers. Okay, there are many answers like these but these ones are mine. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:25:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712781opinionresearchtoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2712060 unknown@DZone.com What's the greater of these evils: contorting site designs around the standard Web-safe fonts, using images to render type, or relying on sIFR to render type with Flash?
 
 Who knows, but man, it sure would be nice if we could reliably use any font we wanted in our web work. And, as it turns out, IE4+ and Safari 3.1 offer mechanisms for doing just that. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712060standardstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711953 unknown@DZone.com FileSyncTask is a Phing extension for Unix systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer. FileSyncTask can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:45:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711953frameworksphptoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711643 unknown@DZone.com After having read the book Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional, I was wondering if it was ever going to be as simple as a few clicks in any IDE for Grails development. Just yesterday, I read an article by Geertjan Wielenga(who is also my colleague at Javalobby/DZone) about how to get started with Grails in NetBeans IDE 6.5 in 5 simple steps. I had worked with NetBeans quite a lot for EJB3 development but I had never used it for either Groovy or Grails; the choice earlier was always Eclipse IDE. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:30:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711643frameworksgroovytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711401 unknown@DZone.com One of the most annoying things about creating new SVN projects is the new project dance Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711401toolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711260 unknown@DZone.com This Wednesday, MyEclipse will host a FREE webinar that will explore the latest features of MyEclipse 6.5, specifically Maven4MyEclipse. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:59:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711260announcementjavatoolsusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2710856 unknown@DZone.com FirePHP is a plugin for Firebug, the web development plugin for Firefox, that allows PHP scripts to talk to a Firebug panel. FirePHP installs alongside Firebug, and provides a simple PHP library to bridge the two. FirePHP provides a window of insight into your PHP applications, with a simple debugging interface that won’t interfere with your page content. If you already use Firebug on PHP-powered applications, FirePHP is definitely worth a look. Here’s a quick guide to getting started. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:16:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710856phptoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2710802 unknown@DZone.com In this article, I'll discuss a skill that should be part of any serious developer's tool kit: the ability to hack. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:45:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710802javaopinionstandardstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2710698 unknown@DZone.com Apache Axis2 Eclipse Plugins allow Web service developers to easily and speedily expose the available plain old Java applications as Web services. This tutorial by Lahiru Sandakith consists of two parts, with two examples that walk you through developing and deploying a sample Web service using the Top-down (Contract First) and Bottom-up (Code First) approach using Axis2 Eclipse Plugins.
 
 The tutorial is written for Eclipse SDK v3.2 and Axis2 Eclipse Plugin v1.3. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:38:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710698open sourcetoolsweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2710148 unknown@DZone.com This release includes number of bug fixes and the most notable new feature is the form-based editor for the Maven pom.xml. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:47:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710148announcementeclipsejavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2709645 unknown@DZone.com Here's how to get started with Grails in NetBeans IDE 6.5. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:03:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709645frameworksgroovytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2709065 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday's post called them distributed in memory cache / storage, but I was reminded that the proper term for what I am talking about is distributed hash tables (DHT). I presented the problem of dealing with DHT in this post, mainly, the fact that we have only key based access and no way to compose several actions into a single transaction. I'll let you go read that post for all the gory details, and continue on with some useful patterns for dealing with this issue. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:11:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709065methodologytoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2708789 unknown@DZone.com In my previous blog I forgot to mention the most important benefit of Netbeans 6.5 - the ability to seamlessly mix Groovy and Java within the same project (zero developer effort required). Whilst this is a property of Groovy/JVM, Netbeans removes all the hassle of buildscripts, library management, classpaths, ever growing command lines, etc. The support for calling Groovy from Java is excellent - with full code completion (and includes things like automatic getter and setters you don’t need to write in Groovy). Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:06:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2708789groovyjavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2708360 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: kazuhito | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2708360illustratorvectorresourcesfreereferenceimagesfreebiesideasjoss whedonInternetsillyDesigninspirationminimalismminimal4chanculturecomicssupermanbatmanwerewolfgamegamingstrategymactools http://web2announcer.com/go/2709454 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency Saved By: Michael Montgomery | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709454vectorresourcesfreereferenceillustratorimagesfreebiesDesignideasNone assignedcomicssupermanbatmancompressionVideowebdiffusionpatternsbackgroundtoolsservices http://web2announcer.com/go/2709610 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: geetarista | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709610imagesfreebiesvectorresourcesfreereferenceillustratorDesignideasNone assignedcomicssupermanbatmanjavascriptie6pngemailcompressionVideowebdiffusionpatternsbackgroundtoolsservicesmacexercisehealthsystem:unfiledleopardcrocodileanimalsphotosinspirationminimalismminimal4chanInternetculturewebdesign http://web2announcer.com/go/2707939 unknown@DZone.com The latest 0.2.DEV release of the Java SwingBuilder introduces SWT-style API for creating menu items in the YAML file, thus allowing you to specify the text, mnemonic and accelerator all in one property. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:57:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2707939frameworksjavatoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2707813 unknown@DZone.com I recently went through the exercise of reinstalling all of my developer tools on my home development system. This involved uninstalling everything, including Visual Studio and SQL and then reinstalling. While this wasn’t exactly a painless experience, it was good to get back to a relatively clean slate and re-evaluate all of the various tools and add-ins I’ve accumulated. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:33:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2707813reviewstoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2707406 unknown@DZone.com Have you ever been a team member in a web framework or web product development? You may have noticed although UI prototyping is a fast process but UI integration is disappointingly slow. Have you thought why does this happen? Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:29:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2707406javatoolsweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2706847 unknown@DZone.com Ah, in last 7 days I had written few examples of Java FX and it's nothing of use. I have installed the new plugin of JavaFX on Netbeans6.1. Quite a cool plugin, with FX builder, debugger and many more features. But all with these, the API of JavaFX also got changed. And none of the old code is running on new API base. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:07:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2706847other languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2706818 unknown@DZone.com Interesting first-hand account of how a software development team integrated its UK team with Bangalore India and the process it utilized. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:44:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2706818how-tomethodologyopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2706223 unknown@DZone.com There is a quite good crash course and introduction into using of the gettext library with ruby-on-rails. Described reasons why use gettext, some initial techniques, solutions, links.
 Interesting stuff. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:25:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2706223how-torubytoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2705072 unknown@DZone.com I have tried some tools for Continuous Integration before, like Cruise Control and Continuum. At the time I have tested them, some years ago, the first one was not very simple to configure and the last one used to be visually more interesting, but the project was just starting, so it had some problematic bugs. Because of that and because of the project build that I was working was simple without dependencies (it was just checkout the code from SVN, compile, run the tests, publish the results, deploy the application and notify about breaks sending and email and a SMS), it was decided schedule the Ant scripts directly as cron jobs. It actually worked very nice in that context. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2705072opinionservertoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2705073 unknown@DZone.com If you're reading this article you are probably interested in this last point: you want to have a 3D world in your website or Facebook profile.
 This first part covers 3 of the 6. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:53:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2705073how-toreviewstoolsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2704923 unknown@DZone.com Over the past several weeks Github has been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd and is a replacement for the stock git-daemon that ships with git. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:17:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2704923open sourceother languagestoolstrendsProgramming