Linked List - Week 33

It's been a long time since that last one, but now that the summer lull is reaching an end, I'll try and make my updates to the blog more frequent.

First link of interest is a Glassfish Wiki page created to contain all the screencasts related to GlassFish. I have to admit, I know very little about Glassfish to date - I'm hoping these screencasts will change that. To keep up to date, I'd recommend visiting The Aquarium blog.

Currently, I'm working on an update to a PHP site I wrote a few years ago, which lead me to find this article about the 5 tools every PHP Programmer should know about.
And while on the topic of the rework on the site mentioned above, I wish that YouTube would publish an Upload API so that I don't need to go round to YouTube to force video uploads each time - there has been a workaround written, but it's based on the POST format - if that changes, I'd need to change round my own code. Lazy I know, but that's what APIs are for. Anyway, rant over. If you're messing around with PHP, this best practices article is a worth scanning through.

Google Interviews - anytime I see a link about them, I have to check it out. I found two such links this week. This one discusses someone's interview experience with Google, from start to finish (without the interview questions of course!). Makes for good reading. Also, this guys talks about his telephone interview, with even more detail on the interview (with code) here.

Finally, a useful link here of the best free web hosting providers - if you're looking!

Looking Ahead to Java7

Java.net has started a new column about Java7 here .

It lists projects of interest, discusses the release schedule, which at the moment looks like early 2009.
There's some good links in there to keep track of what's going on.

Linked List - 25 June 2007

Been a little busy recently, so this list will hopefully act as a catchup for the past week or so..

• Replication in JavaDB
  Open source addition to Apache Derby to enable replication.
  
• Effective Unit Testing with DBUnit
  Good article focusing on easy database unit testing
  
• Introducing Continuous Integration
  How Continuous Integration reduces assumptions :-)
  
• The Top Ten Questions Every Programmer Should Ask On A Job Interview
  
• Slides and Examples From SpringONE 2007
  In particular, Spring & OSGi.
  
• 10 Ways To Reduce Stress
  
  
  

Linked List: 15 June 2007

• John Ousterhout on Software Production
  The use of metrics in software, how to judge a project's health and developer attitudes.


• Can ITunes do what JINI couldn't
  When you install ITunes, Apple's open source Bonjour software is installed too- making your pc part of a dynamic network....

Getting Started With OSGi

Useful tutorial series to get you started with OSGi from EclipseZone, http://neilbartlett.name/blog/osgi-articles/

And if you're wondering what OSGi is, here's a link to the Wikipedia entry.

Eclipse News

Eclipse Europa, part 1: Modeling project supports SOA is a really good article, that shows just how important modelling is to the Eclipse project (and a lesson to software development everywhere). The Eclipse Modelling Project technology can be used to bridge from a Web Services front end to an OSGi service running inside.

With the Eclipse Europa release on June 29th, there will be a lot more news coming up on it.
There's this this interview interview with Mike Milinkovich on "The Vision for Eclipse"

Also, there's a whole new way of downloading Eclipse based on profiles - (see Help Wanted : Test the new download page and packages) - Java Developer, J2EE Developer, C/C++ Developer and RCP/Plugin Developer. Quite clever really.

Linked List: 8 June 2007

• Downloading a Binary File From a Web Service using Axis2 and SOAP with Attachments
  Good tutorial into using Axis2 for handling attachments
• Project Failure Prevention: 10 Principles For Project Control
  Theory into how to prevent a project from being a flop.
• Java 6.0 New Features: Scripting Language For The Java Platform
• Java 6.0 Features: New Features in JDBC API 4.0
• Coding Against The Grain
  How to recognise when code is about to go wrong.
• What is GlassFish? New Sun Article Explains All...
  For people who haven't been keeping up, here's a good introduction to GlassFish.

Automate Your Home With Java!

I've been threatening to do this for ages, so maybe I'll finally get around to it now - Home Automation.

There's a Java library currently being written (it's early days yet 0.3) - jHomeNet

The suite can be used to collect sensor data and controls devices around the house. It interfaces with Dallas Semiconductor's 1-Wire and X-10 network hardware.

If you've had any experience using this suite, let me know.

Sun Tech Days Presentations

Found these presentations these presentations from the Sun Tech Days on the Sun web site.

Good to see this stuff is made available to those of us who can't make it to them.

Interesting bits:

• Ajax and Web 2.0 Frameworks
• Java SE: Beyond Basics - JMX and Concurrency
• Visualizing and Developing BPEL and SOA Applications in Java EE

Linked List: 7 June 2007

• How To Get Rich Programming
Interesting....

• Another 10 Things I Wish I Had Known...
  Another list of things someone wishes they knew before they started software development
• I Finally Get It - Dependency Injection
  A good explanation of Dependency Injection and it's advantages
• Six Ways To Write More Comprehensible Code