http://research.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for research en Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:03:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678792 unknown@DZone.com PHPLinq seems to be an interesting thing. But it's not the same as real LINQ used in .NET. Let me explain why... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:03:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678792.netopinionphpresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2676969 unknown@DZone.com Jeff Sutherland talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no engineering management, then gradually introduced Scrum without spoiling the development culture formed over the years. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:07:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2676969methodologyopinionresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675140 unknown@DZone.com Most developers know JUnit. Some know TestNG. You know you sjould write unit tests...but which should you choose? If you already have a suite of test cases in one or the other, should you switch? Let’s find out. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675140javaopinionresearchtoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673970 unknown@DZone.com This update compares the performance for some numerical benchmarks for Sun's JVM, IBM's JVM, Excelsior JET 6.4 and 6.0, Apache Harmony M6, LLVM 2.3 and GCC.
 The results show that GCC still has the best performance, followed closely by JET 6.4 and LLVM. Sun's Java 6 showed a poor performance in two of the benchmarks. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:03:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673970c-and-cppjavaresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673454 unknown@DZone.com I’m a bit taken aback by this post by Jason Harris over on the KDE Developer’s Journals site. Harris says that ” KDE, like many other open-source projects, doesn’t really need users at all, whether they are poisonous or not.” Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:09:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673454Newsopen sourceopinionresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672035 unknown@DZone.com When it comes to developing and scaling Web applications, performance is everything. Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, conducted a series of benchmarks to compare the performance of four popular PHP frameworks. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:40:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672035frameworksopen sourcephpresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037 unknown@DZone.com By now, OSGi has gained serious momentum in the entire Java ecosystem and I feel that OSGi is a topic that every Java developer should be aware of. In this article, I intend to guide you past the online resources that I found most relevant for gaining knowledge of OSGi. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:10:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671037frameworksjavaresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668371 unknown@DZone.com Runar recently made mention of these so-called Functors and Monads in his excellent post about concurrency/actors in Java. There are all sorts of tutorials out there for understanding what a Monad is, however, I am of the opinion that one must first understand what a Functor is. This is because it is less complex and more general (all monads are functors plus more). Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:06:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668371javamethodologyother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668070 unknown@DZone.com All the user interfaces are created within an established paradigm that we are used to. Is there a way of going beyond the paradigm? Is it possible to create the perfect UI? To make a brand new way of interaction between people and computers? Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:28:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668070guiopinionresearchusabilityProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663584 unknown@DZone.com There's always a debate going on about which programming language is the best. Let's find out! Create a small program in the language of your choice, keep track of the things that you need to tackle while doing that and we'll find out what programming language is the best. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:56:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663584announcementother languagesresearchtoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2656981 unknown@DZone.com What would you like to see in the next generation browsers? Can you help to make the web a slightly better place than where it is today? Various people from the Ajax community have put together a good list of feature requests (a total of over 40). Now it is time for everyone to cast your vote! Voting is easy. Just sign up at OpenAjax Wiki and... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:46:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2656981ajaxresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655634 unknown@DZone.com This is now the 3rd part of my current adventures in looking into CSS performance and how it performs in various states across various browsers.
 
 Now before I get into the details and the pretty pictures, a couple of caveats Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:12:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655634css-htmlresearchweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655560 unknown@DZone.com The Java Real Time Specification is bringing Java to new places, including the unsuspecting PLC market. This year at JavaONE, Greg Bollella introduced the Blue Wonder system for industrial automation, built on top of Java Real Time. When you look at the details behind Blue Wonder, it's obvious that the Java Real Time specification is going to bring about a revival for the Java programming language, providing new opportunities in many industries from industrial automation and finance to military applications. I met up with Greg to talk about the real time specification in detail, the challenges in writing time critical applications and to see the infinite possibilities that it provides Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:19:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655560HardwarejavaresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655486 unknown@DZone.com There's gotta be a better way... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:06:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655486opinionresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651386 unknown@DZone.com Author talks about experience learning Python by writing a compiler and interpreter for a simple language. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:26:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651386how-toopen sourcepythonresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651118 unknown@DZone.com Much attention has been given by Sun, IBM, BEA and others to optimize lock management and synchronization in their respective Java 6 virtual machine offerings. Features like biased locking, lock coarsening, lock elision by escape analysis and adaptive spin locking are all designed to increase concurrency by allowing more effective sharing amongst application threads. As sophisticated and interesting as each of these features are, the question is; will they actually make good on these promises? In this two part article I will explore these features and attempt to answer the performance question with the aid of a single threaded benchmark. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:51:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651118javamethodologyresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647199 unknown@DZone.com A strong cup of coffee in the morning can feel like a life saver. Now, one of the largest and longest studies of coffee drinking suggests that coffee may indeed boost your lifespan – providing you drink enough of the stuff, that is. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:13:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647199researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2646830 unknown@DZone.com Computer science researchers have invented a new technique, Beautification, to enhance the aesthetic appeal of human faces, using a combination of machine learning and computer graphics algorithms. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:20:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646830researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2643376 unknown@DZone.com Quite some time ago, a smart cookie named Phillip Wadler published a paper explaining the concept of “parser combinators”, a method of representing the well-understood concept of text parsing as the composition of atomic constructs which behaved according to monadic law. This idea understandably captured the imaginations of a number of leading researchers, eventually developing into the Haskell parsec library. Being a functional language with academic roots, it is understandable that Scala would have an implementation of the combinator concept included in its standard library. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:37:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643376javaother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2642851 unknown@DZone.com Advice for corporate developers and open source project leaders to increase the chances of open source software being adopted by business and information technology executives. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:21:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2642851open sourceresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2642698 unknown@DZone.com This article details using the Windows hosts file in 2 very useful ways: To block access to specific domains, and to develop locally, while using the external domain name. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:10:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2642698how-toresearchservertoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2642558 unknown@DZone.com Under the category of "Concurrent Oriented Programming", Erlang has got some good attention recently due to some declared success from Facebook engineers of using Erlang in large scale applications. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:48:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2642558how-toresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2640740 unknown@DZone.com Over the last fifteen years, companies that employ IT staffers have made a regular practice of paying “skills pay.” These are bonuses in addition to the base salary, intended to retain workers with critical subsets of expertise. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:08:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2640740researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2633976 unknown@DZone.com RoboControl -- A Network controlled ROBOT! Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:05:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2633976javaNewsopen sourceresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2633977 unknown@DZone.com This book is the raw material for a hands-on, "workshop" type course for undergraduates or graduate students in parallel programming. It can also serves as the core of a more conventional course; and it might profitably be read (we hope and believe) by any professional or researcher who needs an up-to-date synthesis of this fast-growing, fast-changing and fast-maturing field. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:05:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2633977booksresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2633981 unknown@DZone.com An excellent collection of all the great color tools and resources for designers. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:05:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2633981how-toresearchtoolsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2633134 unknown@DZone.com I was just looking for a way to highlight differences between 2 strings for my Behavior-Driven Development library, specs. And reading the excellent Algorithm Design Manual. Intuitively, I was thinking that there was a better way to show string differences than the one used in jUnit Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:59:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2633134how-toother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2632961 unknown@DZone.com To prepare for my talk, in less than two months, I'd like to develop the same application with two different combinations: Flex + Rails and GWT + Grails. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:42:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2632961researchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2628767 unknown@ma.gnolia.com In 2007, the Associated Press commissioned the Context-Based Research group, an ethnographic research firm to study the news consumption patterns of young adult consumers, active participants in the shift from traditional to digital media. Saved By: nonprofit-tech | View Details | Give Thanks Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2628767presentationspresentation softwareonline appsinteraction designatmhuman-computer interactionreadabilityfontstutorialgraphic design280slidesslidesharepresentationcreateSecurityemailprivacyidentitytypographytypefacesoperating systemNone assignedsiliconfloristshareportlandOregonopenidinformation visualizationPlurktwitterMusicVideomysqlmacosxapplicationopen sourcecontent modelsresearchnews consumptiondigital media http://web2announcer.com/go/2627325 unknown@DZone.com I was recently wondering what the salary per specific programming language or API is. Here are 13 very popular programming languages, 3 popular operating systems, and 7 popular APIs and their average salary in the United States. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:19:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2627325researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2626127 unknown@DZone.com Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Joggee
 A video spoof shown during the CES 2008 keynote by Bill Gates about his last full day at Microsoft in July starring himself, Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaugheyr, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, .........http://blog.joggee.com/?p=181 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:51:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2626127.netdatabaseresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2625279 unknown@DZone.com IT leaders, analysts and in-the-trenches professionals say certifications mean little in the candidate selection process. Though not all were created equally, IT certifications once had an almost-guaranteed value. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:27:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2625279researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624999 unknown@DZone.com The hunt for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ethical problems that are inherent in technological progression. AI also open up a variety of other ethical problems that humanity will have little time to consider. The question of machines reaching the level of intelligence of humans is not a question of "if", it is a question of "when". Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:14:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624999opinionresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624551 unknown@DZone.com Java's type system has a serious flaw. It does not allow refactoring common exception handling code into methods. This article shows the various solutions people have suggested in response to the previous article in this series along with a revised proposal... 
 
 Keywords:Exception handling, Refactoring, Java Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:26:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624551how-tojavaopinionresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2623161 unknown@DZone.com According to Google Trends software development is slowly dying. People are not interested in it anymore. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:33:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2623161researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2622443 unknown@DZone.com Curl addresses questions to its Adobe Flex performance benchmark and the benefits of high-performance rich Internet application platforms. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:13:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2622443flash-flexresearchriatrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2622039 unknown@DZone.com Our old site was a typical JSP / Servlet site. Last week, we switched to the technology we love the best: JBoss Seam. The site would deploy but went down after about an hour. We also noticed that the site was acting as an inadvertent spider trap for Googlebot. These problems needed to be fixed. Figuring them out required a methodical investigation, which we performed, and we present the results for you to learn from. We show how to use the amazing URLrewrite filter to interact properly with Googlebot, and we derive a formula for calculating the PermGen allocation necessary for a JBoss deployment. Enjoy! Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:37:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2622039javaresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2621863 unknown@DZone.com Computer scientist and compiler expert Alfred V. Aho is a man at the forefront of computer science research. He has been involved in the development of programming languages from his days working as the vice president of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs to his current position as Lawrence Gussman Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:31:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2621863open sourceother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2621808 unknown@DZone.com Programming language that uses colors for making programs Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:29:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2621808announcementNewsother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2619837 unknown@DZone.com In an earlier series of articles ending with Multi-Core Ant Colony Optimization for TSP in Erlang I evaluated the performance of the Standard ML, Haskell, and Erlang functional programming languages using a test problem of solving the traveling salesman problem using ant colony optimization. At the time I only had available a dual-core machine. I have re-run the tests using a quad-core machine and the latest language versions available for Debian Linux. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:38:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2619837Hardwareother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2619591 unknown@DZone.com I thought it’d be interesting to look at some download statistics for Hudson and CruiseControl, probably the 2 OpenSource CI tools with the most mindshare currently. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:38:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2619591open sourceopinionresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2619036 unknown@DZone.com The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:08:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2619036researchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2617066 unknown@DZone.com Great article about the problems of an ever increasing complexity in Java at the cost of readability and understandability of the code - especially for newcommers to the language. The article is well written, and argues well for its points. It's main point should be included in discussions on the future of Java... Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:12:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2617066javaopinionresearchtrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2615799 unknown@DZone.com This article explains how to do the usual "Did you mean... ?" suggestions for search engines easily. Sat, 31 May 2008 17:14:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2615799how-tophpresearchweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2612509 unknown@DZone.com Following on my earlier entry on modules in Scala, I'll give an encoding of Standard ML style functors here. You can get a pretty close approximation by using class constructor arguments. However, I am going to cheat a little to get the closest encoding I think is possible by using the experimental support for dependent method types. Thu, 29 May 2008 22:38:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2612509how-toother languagesresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2610115 unknown@DZone.com Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear: I'd like to become a Development Team Leader Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2610115methodologyNewsopinionresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2609972 unknown@DZone.com I guess these guys are speaking out of their experience. Nice read, if you can read between the lines, which means identify and relate to it from your own experience rather than taking in these tips as generalizations. Wed, 28 May 2008 13:44:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2609972frameworksjavaresearchstandardsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2608743 unknown@DZone.com It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do. Tue, 27 May 2008 19:18:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2608743NewsresearchProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2607692 unknown@DZone.com A list of 40 different services that will convert your PSD files to HTML and CSS, with some details on each. Tue, 27 May 2008 04:33:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2607692css-htmlresearchweb designweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2606639 unknown@DZone.com A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig. I've always been a great admirer of Peter and have kept in touch with him through his short stint at NASA and then at Google. He's now taking a short leave of absence from Google to update his AI textbook. We had a fascinating discussion, and I'll be writing a couple of posts on topics we covered. Mon, 26 May 2008 11:39:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2606639researchserverProgramming