A developer's personal recap and impressions from attending the Devoxx 2008 technology conference, covering talks on Scala, Java performance, Spring, and REST.
Introduces Active Objects, a Scala library combining actors, supervisor hierarchies, and OO methods for fault-tolerant, concurrent asynchronous components.
Step-by-step guide to configuring SharePoint for Silverlight 2.0, including prerequisites and web part creation.
Explores using Scala's mixin composition and AOP to modularize cross-cutting concerns like logging and security, reducing code tangling.
Announcement of Hades 0.3, an open-source project release featuring a new EclipseLink-based DAO implementation and package refactorings.
A developer's preview of attending the Devoxx conference, including plans to present on the Hades project and share daily updates.
Introduces MVC XForms, a new ASP.NET MVC UI framework on CodePlex for generating clean HTML forms based on the W3C XForms specification.
Explains how to implement polymorphic behavior for Django model inheritance, allowing base class querysets to return subclass instances.
A 2008 article comparing REST web services to the Spring framework, highlighting their shared principles of simplicity and real-world influence.
Analyzes Sun Microsystems' business struggles and potential acquisition, focusing on risks to its patent portfolio and the broader Linux/OSS community.
Introduces CSSDOC, a standardized DocBlock-style commenting system for CSS to improve code organization, navigation, and maintainability.
A summary of the OpenXML Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) workshop in Brussels, covering Microsoft's efforts, conversion tools, and community discussions.
A developer reflects on a month of daily blogging, sharing traffic stats and popular posts about Python, Django, and web development.
PHPExcel library featured in php|architect magazine for generating Excel files and charts using PHP and the Google Charts API.
Technical analysis of optimizing an Identity Mapper in Django, focusing on query reduction and in-process caching strategies.
A technical guide on implementing an identity mapper with caching optimizations in Django to reduce database queries.
A programmer debates the ethics of downloading out-of-print, pirated ebooks when legal digital versions are unavailable, weighing copyright law against practical and environmental concerns.
A tutorial on implementing a basic identity map pattern in Django to optimize memory by ensuring duplicate database objects are represented by the same Python instance.
Django 1.1 introduces F() expressions for database queries, enabling field comparisons and arithmetic in filter() and update() methods.
Tutorial on adding custom controls to SharePoint Web Part property pane using ToolPart.
