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

Linked List: 5 June 2007

• Netbeans with BlueJ
  Netbeans 5.5.1 BlueJ Edition helps teach Java and make the jump for BlueJ to Netbeans.
  
• Rod Johnson - Are We There Yet?
  Good video presentation from Rod Johnson, of the Spring Framework.
  
• [Podcast] Open Software Factory
  This project provides a set of tools and methods for effective Model Driven Software Development


• Making Sense Of Web Service Standards
  SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema and Transport Protocols are all covered here.


• Tutorial - Threads - the how and why of threads
  Interesting tutorial into using Threads in Java.


• Five Common Errors in Requirements Analysis and How to Avoid Them
  In the waterfall approach, getting requirements is the most important phase, so here's how to not mess it up.


• [Microsoft] Visual Studio 2008 Shell
  Build applications on top of Microsofts Visual Studio 2008 Shell.
• Advice to a newbie
  Article about starting off as a developer, and how pure coding is just one piece of the software development landscape.