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  Holy Kaw!

• Google Buzz's official demo [video]

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am

  Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space—Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days. While this development is still unfolding, you can check out Google Buzz’s two-minute demo of Buzz in action both online and via mobile. What are your initial reactions? Another soon-to-be-forgotten Google product like Wave, or a Facebook/Twitter killer? Full story at Mashable. Total Google coverage. Permalink | Leave a…

• Darth Vader’s original wimpy voice [video]

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:15 am

  Imagine a galaxy far, far away where Darth Vader sounded like any other British bloke strolling down the corridors of the Death Star. Before James Earl Jones provided the menacing voice of the Dark Lord of the Sith, English actor and bodybuilder David Prowse delivered the lines from inside the Darth costume. While George Lucas never intended for Prowse’s voice to make the flick’s final cut, it’s weird to imagine how different Star Wars would have been with a different Vader voice. Full story at Huffington Post. Tons of Star Wars tidbits. Permalink | Leave a…

• 7 things you didn’t know about condoms

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

  Rubbers. Raincoats. Inconvenient. Whatever you call 'em, condoms remain a must-have in the safe sex tool box. Long before the days of Durex and Trojans, men used animal intestines to protect their willies (that sounds lovely, eh ladies?) and still to this day use lambskin condoms for latex allergies and supposed extra sensitivity. Want to learn even more fun facts about condoms that will surely impress your friends and potential lovers? Check out Asylum's seven things you probably didn't know about condoms that includes tantalizing tidbits like: Vaseline + condoms = Disintegrated rubber and…

• Horror flick mirror scare mash-up [video]

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am

  Horror movies love to rely on cliches to scare the bejeezus out of us, but does it really surprise anyone that the axe murderer is going to pop in the reflection of a mirror? Ok, yes, it still totally sparks a few pee-in-pants moments. Check out this mash-up of mirror scare moments (fair warning: don’t watch alone in a big, dark, scary house): Full story at Four Four. Boo! Tons of scary and not so scary movie news. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• 7 things you shouldn't do on Valentine's Day

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

  Ah, Valentine’s day. February fourteenth marks that special moment in the year when Hallmark cashes in on our emotions and cupid gets busy shooting arrows. Whether you’re indifferent, excited, upset, or madly in love—there are seven things you just shouldn’t do on this lovey-dovey holiday. See a few do-not-do’s below: Go on a first date. First dates are hard enough, why add the extra pressure? Call your ex. Abort mission! On a day like this, it’s normal for your thoughts to drift to the one you used to be with, but you broke up for a reason. So, spare…

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  A List Apart

• Words that Zing

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing at precisely the right time. Understanding the rhetorical concept of kairos can help us craft a context for the opportune moment and hit the mark with appropriately zingy text.

• The Problem with Passwords

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation. But with design patterns gleaned from offline applications, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feedback and reduce password errors without compromising the basic user experience or losing our visitors’ trust.

• Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page backgrounds: scalability.

• Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics of working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility.

• The Survey, 2009

  15 Dec 2009 | 2:00 am

  For the third year in a row, good citizens of the web, we ask that you take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more.

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  CSS-Tricks

• jQuery MagicLine Navigation

  Chris Coyier

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:58 am

  These “sliding” style navigation bars have been around a while, I just thought I’d take a crack at doing it myself as the opportunity came up recently. Turns out it’s really pretty darn easy. I put two examples together for it.The IdeaThe idea is to have a highlight of some kind (a background or an underline) follow you around as you mouse over the different links in the navigation. This will happen with jQuery and it’s animation abilities. As such, the “magic line” will only be appended via JavaScript. Once added to the list and styled, as you mouse…

• How nth-child Works

  Chris Coyier

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am

  There is a CSS selector, really a pseudo-selector, called nth-child. Here is an example of using it:ul li:nth-child(3n+3) { color: #ccc; }What the above CSS does, is select every third list item inside unordered lists. That is, the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, etc. But how does that work? And what other kinds of things can you do with nth-child? Let’s take a look.It boils down to what is in between those parentheses. nth-child accepts two keywords in that spot: even and odd. Those should be pretty obvious. “Even” selects even numbered elements, like the 2nd, 4th, 6th, etc.

• Threadsy Invites / Haiti Poster Project

  Chris Coyier

  5 Feb 2010 | 5:33 am

  Two things today.First, have you guys heard of Threadsy? I hadn’t, but apparently they got 2nd place at TechCrunch 50, which is pretty great. It’s a web application that combines several of your online “input streams” (e.g. Email, Twitter, and Facebook). I think that’s actually all they do right now, which I find kind of awesome, because those are the only ones I use anyway.I have 500 invites to give away for it. First come first serve as I understand it. Just click this to sign up.I really quite like it. The Threadsy team has done a killer job in creating an…

• Link Underlines Grow to Backgrounds on Hover

  Chris Coyier

  4 Feb 2010 | 7:10 am

  Reader Jaime Morrison emailed in:I’ve been mulling the idea of going with a link style in which a link’s underline “slides-up” to become a background highlight on hover.I started mulling over a few ideas on how to do this myself. Ultimately, I tried two different things but neither one of them is absolutely perfect.Take OneWe know we’re going to be using jQuery here (or some JavaScript library), because of the animation. My first though was to set relative positioning on the links, then use jQuery to append empty <span>’s to each link. The span would be…

• Free Template: DocTemplate

  Chris Coyier

  2 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am

  Little freebie template for ya’ll today. It was actually Doug Neiner’s idea, I ran with it, then he helped me out at the end tighten some stuff up.View Demo   Download FilesNoteIt’s PHP. So if you download it to check it out, throw it up on your web server to test it out (or somewhere you run PHP locally).NavigationThe navigation is all AJAX’d up using the jQuery .load() functionality. I just think it’s kinda fun. It supports “deep linking”, so if you were to link to this page with a hash-tag of a page (e.g. /DocTemplate/#parameters.php) , it…

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  Washington Post

• Lindsay Vonn is top U.S. hopeful

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:25 am

  25-year-old skier is widely expected to become the most decorated American ever in alpine skiing.

• House GOP may skip summit

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  44 | Leading House Republicans raise prospect unless existing reform bills are scrapped.

• Haiti relief efforts falling short

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Despite the world community's best intentions, coming weeks to test contributors, Haitian leaders.

• Toyota recalls hybrids worldwide

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:41 am

  Toyota will fix brake problems in more than 400,000 Prius and other hybrid cars worldwide.

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  BBC News

• Critics mock Palin 'helping hand'

  Sarah Palin is criticised for writing crib notes on her hands for Saturday's high-profile Tea Party speech.

• Fertile forties pregnancy warning

  Experts fear older women are ditching contraception in the mistaken belief that fertility inevitably wanes at a certain age.

• Obama steps up pressure on Iran

  US President Barack Obama says the US and allies are developing "significant sanctions" against Iran over its nuclear programme.

• Atom-smasher yields first result

  The spray of subatomic particles from the Large Hadron Collider's record-smashing December experiments has been analysed.

• Euro bounces back against dollar

  The euro strengthens against the pound and the dollar ahead of a meeting of EU leaders later this week.

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  Delicious

• Jane's Learning Pick of the Day: 25 places to find instructional videos

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

• PeteSearch: How to split up the US

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

• Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

• 70+ of the Best Free Fonts for Graphic Designers.- unstage

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

• New York Public Library's photosets on Flickr

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

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  Top Ten Paid IPhone Apps

• Doodle Jump - BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive! - Lima Sky

  iTunes Store

  Doodle Jump - BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive! Lima Sky Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: March 27, 2009 Considered as one of the best games for the iPhone and iPod touch. A must have! "Doodle Jump is to the iPhone what Super Mario Bros was to the NES""possibly the best iPhone game ever created" - Touch Arcade#1 TOP PAID APP in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, Sweden... Featured by Apple in "BEST GAMES OF 2009", "New and Noteworthy", "What's Hot", "Staff Favorites", and "Best Doodle Games"; Mentioned on a CBS sitcom - The Big Bang…

• ALL-IN-1 GAMEBOX - Triniti Interactive Limited

  iTunes Store

  ALL-IN-1 GAMEBOX Triniti Interactive Limited Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: October 14, 2009 24 HIGHLY-RATED GAMES in 1 APP! NEW GAMES ADDED w/ EVERY FREE UPDATE!NEW w/ 2.4 > 'ARCHER' in FULL 3D, 'HIRED GUN', OPENFEINT 2.4, & MORE! ACKNOWLEDGED as the BEST GAMING VALUE in the entire APP STORE!-----AND IT'S STILL GROWING…24 games [01/29/10]22 games [01/04/10]19 games [12/18/09]18 games [12/15/09]16 games [12/04/09]15 games [11/26/09]14 games [11/18/09]12 games [11/07/09]8 games [10/14/09]-----#1 App in 8 countries!-----MEDIA COVERAGE"... some of the…

• Qik Video Camera for any iPhone - Top Quality - Qik, Inc

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  Qik Video Camera for any iPhone - Top Quality Qik, Inc Genre: Photography Price: $1.99 Release Date: December 29, 2009 Finally, a quality Video Camera for any iPhone!• Facebook and SMS sharing, Effects, Zoom, up to 15 FPS• Brightness control, Audio boost, Landscape mode, Email sharing, and more!Scrollable effects bar puts 9 realtime effects at your fingertips:• Black & White• Black & White w/Red• Mirror• Avatar (blue skin)• Sepia• Spot zoom• Twirl mirror• X-Ray• Frosted glass (draw on the screen to see through the frost!)(some effects may reduce FPS a bit)Qik,…

• Hand Heater - Dworld Services

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  Hand Heater Dworld Services Genre: Utilities Price: $0.99 Release Date: January 29, 2010 Are you a little cold? Turn your mobile device into a heater with this application, easier to carry than a true heating, Hand Heater will improve your daily life. The application is able to quickly generate a heat wave, hot enough to warm your hands and your body. Really useful when you’re waiting for your train, bus or if you're in a cold place.- Hot interface for your eye's pleasure.- Works on all iPhone and iPod touch, all versions.- Do not use Internet- Produces no sound for maximum…

• Shopping Cart Hero - MonkeyWantBanana

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  Shopping Cart Hero MonkeyWantBanana Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: September 01, 2009 Many have tried. Many have failed. Do you have what it takes to be a hero?Shopping Cart Hero comes to your iPhone and iPod touch as an addicting jumper thats perfect for any free moment. Jump your cart and perform tricks to earn massive points for ultimate fame! Upgrade your cart to find new abilities and tricks. Combine tricks to make combos for more points. Use your skills to defeat the evil boss monsters!Online leaderboards let you compare your best jumps with the world, or just your friends.

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  YouTube

• BEST ADVICE YOU COULD EVER RECEIVE!

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:13 pm

  BEST ADVICE YOU COULD EVER RECEIVE! My Twitter http://www.twitter.com/shaycarl My Dailybooth http://www.dailybooth.com/shaycarl Thanks to my friend lil G for the idea. http://www.youtube.com/totallysketch From: shaycarl Views: 45177 7533 ratings Time: 00:50 More in Entertainment

• cutting in

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:47 pm

  cutting in don't forget to breathe heavily when cutting in as well. It improves your chances by 15 % I also made the christmas video public again if you feel like checking that out. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/natalietran Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/community-channel/6783117830 Hope you're all well. Missed you and your funny comments. I'm back with no life, look forward to many interactions from this point on. *thrust* From: communitychannel Views: 118447 10500 ratings Time: 02:35 More in Entertainment

• COUNTIN SHEEP WITH SHANE DAWSON

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:31 pm

  COUNTIN SHEEP WITH SHANE DAWSON thanks for SUBSCRIBING :) ****NOTE***** If you add me on my social network sites (twitter facebook myspace etc) you can leave comments there when i asked questions and UR answers might end up in one of my videos! my youtube channels http://www.youtube.com/shanedawsontv http://www.youtube.com/shanedawsontv2 MY SHIRT STORE! http://www.shanedawson.spreadshirt.com (pick and choose color and design in the custom shop!) http://shanedawsoncustom.spreadshirt.com/ From the UK or Europe? Heres where you can get a shirt! http://shanedawsoncustom.spreadshirt.co.uk/ TWITTER…

• Wacked Prank Pack! A pack of 5 wacky pranks!

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:17 pm

  Wacked Prank Pack! A pack of 5 wacky pranks! Here is a pack of 5 wacked pranks for friends or enemies! From: kipkay Views: 31900 2305 ratings Time: 04:09 More in Howto & Style

• Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm

  Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money I just get a little ticked off when Coca Cola or Dove or any other big company pretends to care about something besides making lots of money. They don't care...they only attempt to adopt your values in order to get you to buy things. Brands are lame, corporations have no conscience, this is just how it is. From: vlogbrothers Views: 26591 3044 ratings Time: 03:59 More in Nonprofits & Activism

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  Digg.com

• [+1849] Stephen Colbert: Sarah Palin Is F***ing Retard

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:52 pm

• [+851] What English Sounds like to People in other Countries

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:23 pm

  Here are a few videos to show what English sounds like to people around the world. As English speakers, we have a lot of fun imitating what certain languages sound like to us, such as French, Italian, and Chinese.

• [+638] Launch (pic)

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:09 pm

• [+855] Side by Side??? (PIC)

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:13 pm

  Okay, my brain hurts now.

• [+1996] Why An Octopus is More Awesome Than Your Mom - The Oatmeal

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:07 pm

  I bet your mom couldn't take down a caribou using just her mouth

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  YouTube Most Viewed

• Amanda Seyfried Kills Blue People!

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:03 pm

  Amanda Seyfried Kills Blue People! http://PhillyD.tv Be sure to check out my other channels! The Vlog: http://youtube.com/philipdefranco The Gaming Channel: http://youtube.com/LiketotallyAwesome Watch the superbowl ads: http://www.youtube.com/user/adblitz?feature=ticker Soldier Waterboards his daughter: http://bit.ly/99RwbM Bill Murray in for GB3: http://bit.ly/bUazQ7 Christians for Hate Crimes?: http://bit.ly/d509Em Amanda Seyfried Gallery: http://bit.ly/aW0uKe Be sure to follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/phillyd and facebook: http://facebook.com/DeFrancoNation From: sxephil Views:…

• Copier Win

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am

  Copier Win This guys attempts one of the classic office pranks. For more FAIL videos and pictures, visit http://failblog.org/ From: failblog Views: 157166 5251 ratings Time: 00:40 More in Comedy

• Motorola Super Bowl Commercial

  7 Feb 2010 | 8:09 pm

  Motorola Super Bowl Commercial Check out Megan Fox tub-side using Motorola's MOTOBLUR service. Watch what happens when the power of MOTOBLUR is unleashed. From: how2moto Views: 160428 179 ratings Time: 00:31 More in Entertainment

• Megan Fox Motorola Devour at SuperBowl XLIV ad [HD]

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:56 pm

  Megan Fox Motorola Devour at SuperBowl XLIV ad [HD] Megan Fox for the Motorola Devour add at SuperBowl XLIV ***** FIVE STAR ***** From: MRTB78 Views: 174188 283 ratings Time: 00:31 More in Comedy

• Megan Fox Motorola Super Bowl Commercial 2010 Ad

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:48 pm

  Megan Fox Motorola Super Bowl Commercial 2010 Ad Megan Fox Motorola Super Bowl Commercial 2010 Ad Megan Fox Motorola Super Bowl Commercial 2010 Ad Megan Fox Motorola Super Bowl Commercial 2010 Ad From: TheSuperBowI Views: 251900 411 ratings Time: 00:30 More in Entertainment

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  iTunes Top Ten Songs

• 7. Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake) - Timbaland

  iTunes Music Store

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  Shock Value II Timbaland Release Date: December 08, 2009 Total Songs: 17 Genre: Pop Price: By Song Only Copyright 2009 Blackground Records/Interscope Records

• 1. Imma Be - Black Eyed Peas

  iTunes Music Store

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) Black Eyed Peas Release Date: June 09, 2009 Total Songs: 15 Genre: Pop Price: By Song Only Copyright 2009 Interscope

• 2. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

  iTunes Music Store

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  Need You Now Lady Antebellum Release Date: January 26, 2010 Total Songs: 12 Genre: Country Price: By Song Only Copyright (C) 2010 Capitol Records Nashville. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records Nashville, 3322 West End Avenue, 11th Floor, Nashville, TN 37203

• 9. Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3) - Ke$ha

  iTunes Music Store

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  Animal Ke$ha Release Date: January 05, 2010 Total Songs: 14 Genre: Pop Price: By Song Only Copyright 2010 RCA Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment

• 3. Hey, Soul Sister - Train

  iTunes Music Store

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  Hey, Soul Sister - Single Train Release Date: January 29, 2010 Total Songs: 1 Genre: Pop Price: By Song Only Copyright 2009 Sony Music Entertainment

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  Top Ten Free iPhone Apps

• Red Ball - Mid Atlantic Engineering

  iTunes Store

  Red Ball Mid Atlantic Engineering Genre: Games Price: Free Release Date: November 20, 2009 #1 In Denmarkalmost #1 in germany (#2)!was #1 in Norway!moving up in the usa fast!Thank you Thank you Thank you! I love you guys.I promise to make the controls better in Red Ball 2.My fingers are little skinnier than average..just takesa little practice to get good..Roll your red ball, knock over boxes, dodge swinging axes and even ride a train in this physics platformer. Reach the final flag to complete each level. © Evgeny Fedoseev

• Flood-It! 2 - LabPixies

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  Flood-It! 2 LabPixies Genre: Games Price: Free Release Date: February 03, 2010 From the creators of Flood-It! Comes the new and improved Flood-It! 2!More Features! Challenges! Sound Effects! And it's still free!Flood the whole board with one color. Wherever you go.========================================Cool new features:- 3 challenge modes: - Play against the clock - Move around obstacles - Finish the board with a defined color- Cool sound effects- Color blind color scheme- New dimmed game design========================================Ridiculously addictive and fun!Flood-It! 2 - Like…

• Valet Hero - Game Gatos LLC

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  Valet Hero Game Gatos LLC Genre: Games Price: Free Release Date: January 21, 2010 ******************************************Valet Hero is extending the FreeAppADay.com campaign for a limited time.******************************************The only thing that is as exciting, as exhilarating as performing the "perfect" park-job in real life, is tackling the same task on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Best of all, there's no need to worry about getting your car scratched by the "sloppy" parkers out there. With a touch of quick thinking, earning tips, is as easy as dragging your…

• Flick Kick Field Goal - PikPok

  iTunes Store

  Flick Kick Field Goal PikPok Genre: Games Price: Free Release Date: January 23, 2010 FREE DAY SUNDAY EXTENDED! The Big Game is over but the free sale will continue as long we keep climbing the charts!!On this given Sunday, Flick Kick Field Goal is FREE!! DO NOT MISS OUT!!OpenFeint Free Game of the Day!!**** If you like Flick Kick Field Goal - check out PikPok's latest most addictive concoction to date - Bird Strike!www.pikpokgames.com/birdstrike ****Arm yourself for game day with THE MOST ADDICTIVE and FUN Football app available today!!An absolute must for Football fans! – It’s…

• Burglar Alarm... FREE! - Sexy Fun Dating

  iTunes Store

  Burglar Alarm... FREE! Sexy Fun Dating Genre: Entertainment Price: Free Release Date: January 29, 2010 BURGLAR ALARM…FREESTOP PEOPLE TOUCHING YOUR PHONE!!!1. Set your PIN2. Arm the phone3. Leave the room4. ALARM!!!!!!!5. Our motion sensors let you know when your phone is moved6. Go bust them! © Sexy Fun Dating

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  The Dojo Toolkit blogs

• 1.4.1 release candidate 1 is ready

  peller

  21 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm

  The 1.4.1rc1 release is now available for testing at http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.4.1rc1/ Given the timing of the Firefox 3.6 release, this is a great opportunity to test for regressions. Please try testing on the new Firefox release (or any other browser) and report your results by EOB Friday. Thanks!

• 3-day Online Dojo Conference - dojo.connect

  dmachi

  4 Jan 2010 | 11:15 am

  This year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and learn Dojo. The full conference is three days long, with the first two days consisting of practical sessions on how to use Dojo to build amazing web apps. The third day will consist of round tables and discussions centered around Dojo's future developmental goals. These days many conferences are simply big…

• Dijit 1.4

  bill

  14 Dec 2009 | 4:50 pm

  There are a lot of great new features in the 1.4 release, all of which are document in the release notes. I just wanted to document a few of the especially big changes in dijit: - Jared has done a lot of work on Editor, split between dijit.Editor and the dojox.editor plugins, including a full-screen mode plugin. - Shane implemented scrolling tab labels (you've seen these at the top of your browser window); they are quite useful when they are lots of tabs in a single TabContainer. - Multiple dialogs now can be opened too (one on top of the other). - Finally, there was a lot of refactoring work…

• New Dojo release ready for consumption: 1.4.0

  dante

  10 Dec 2009 | 5:42 am

  ... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date. While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple…

• Dojo 1.4 RC2

  bill

  2 Dec 2009 | 3:42 pm

  Hi all, A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket). If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday. Thanks! Bill

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  Yahoo! User Interface Blog

• YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Volume 1: The Early Years”

  Eric Miraglia

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:44 pm

  In the first part of Douglas Crockford’s five-part series on the JavaScript programming language, he explores the historical context from which JavaScript emerged. But he begins with a little bit of his own history, relating his efforts as a child to build a homemade computer: I found some pieces of particle board and a saw and I sketched out what it was going to look like, and started sawing. I sawed, and sawed, and sawed. The particle board was really, really hard, and the saw was really, really dull. I sawed for what must have been at least two minutes, and then I gave up. OK,…

• Fybit Riatrax4Js: Program YUI in Java

  Erol Koç

  2 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am

  About the Author: Erol Koç is a co-founder of Fybit, a Switzerland based startup company. Before joining Fybit, he worked as a software architect for a security company where he was the tech lead for the product’s web frontend. He has an MS degree in computer science from ETH Zurich. During an internship at IBM, he contributed to the Eclipse project. Fybit Riatrax4Js: Write YUI in Java YUI is not only a fantastic JavaScript library, it is also a great community. Developers contribute to YUI and allow others to benefit from it. Now, Fybit joins the YUI community with Riatrax4Js, a…

• The YUI Team is Looking for a World-Class Engineer to Work on Frontend CI, Build Systems, and QA

  Eric Miraglia

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am

  If working alongside people like Douglas Crockford and on the team that created YUI (Matt Sweeney, Adam Moore, Dav Glass, Jenny Donnelly, Luke Smith, Tripp Bridges, Allen Rabinovich, Alaric Cole, Satyen Desai, and others) sounds like a good way to spend your time, read on: We’re hiring. We’re looking for a great engineer to help us improve every aspect of our continuous integration (CI) process, including the way we build, document, test, and deploy our code. To succeed in this role, you’ll have to be: familiar with best practices in frontend engineering (e.g., this video…

• Crockford on JavaScript: Night One Recap, and More Tickets Released

  Eric Miraglia

  26 Jan 2010 | 2:25 pm

  About 200 people gathered in URLs Café at Yahoo! last night to take in the first installment of the Crockford on JavaScript lecture series. Douglas took the audience through a selective history of computer science and programming languages, focusing on the evolution of those features and conventions that would later give shape to JavaScript. While we’re working on video from last night, we wanted to share a few pictures and to let you know that we’re adjusting our ticketing limits — if you visit the lecture series page and follow the RSVP links, you’ll now see…

• In the Wild for January 19, 2010

  Eric Miraglia

  19 Jan 2010 | 7:32 am

  News and notes follow from the past week in the YUI community. As always, please let us know via the comments or @yuilibrary if we missed something good. YUI DataTable, TabView and More on SpokenWord.org (thanks, @dougkaye): Doug Kaye wrote in to tell us about YUI use at SpokenWord.org, his fantastic audio content portal.  They’ve done a nice job bringing TabView and DataTable together in their feed browser — check out the IT Conversations feed for a sample. (Original source.) YUI 2.7.0 on the Palm WebOS App Directory: Although I imagine this site is going to evolve a lot over…

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  Google Web Toolkit Blog

• GWT Developers: Hope to see you at Google I/O

  Chris Ramsdale

  13 Jan 2010 | 6:23 am

  As you may have heard from our announcement this morning, registration for Google I/O is now open. In addition to publishing access to registration, we've also included event details on the I/O website. We already have quite a few Google Web Toolkit I/O sessions and Developer Sandbox demos lined up, and we expect this number to grow over the coming months. Here's a partial list of the GWT sessions that are already listed on the I/O website: GWT + HTML5 can do what?! Architecting GWT applications for production at Google Measure in milliseconds redux: Meet Speed Tracer Faster apps faster:…

• Introducing Google Web Toolkit 2.0, now with Speed Tracer

  Bruce Johnson

  8 Dec 2009 | 5:07 pm

  Earlier tonight, we wrapped up a very exciting Campfire One at which we announced that GWT 2.0 is now officially available. In addition to major improvements in the GWT SDK and the Google Plugin for Eclipse, GWT 2.0 includes a brand new performance analysis tool for Chrome called Speed Tracer. Introducing Speed Tracer We hinted at it a few weeks ago, and now it's available: Speed Tracer is a powerful new performance analysis tool for Chrome that gives you unprecedented insight into the inner workings of any web application — not just those created with GWT. Want to know why your web app…

• New insights into web application performance

  Kelly Norton

  4 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am

  I've sometimes thought that optimizing web applications is as much a science as dowsing. (No offense intended, dowsers of the world — but you have to admit it's a hard thing to explain even when it does work out.) Even when you are completely willing to invest time and energy into optimizing an application, how do you actually go about it? Our team, along with everyone else in the world who cares about web application performance, has had to essentially guess at where time goes inside the browser. We've spent countless hours debating each others' wild-eyed speculations as to the true…

• The enterprise (apps) in your pocket

  Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:08 pm

  When building great enterprise apps for our users many of us often first target the desktop user. Did you know that GWT lets you just as easily build great user interfaces for your mobile users? Modern mobile phones such Android based devices and the iPhone ship will powerful web browsers which use the same Webkit rendering engine which GWT already supports and increasingly includes great capabilities like geo-location and offline storage. Today's guest blog post is from Navin Kumar, CTO of Socialwok who has offered to share some of their experiences around building mobile apps for the…

• Building Enterprise web apps in the cloud

  Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate

  8 Oct 2009 | 10:04 pm

  An important decision to make when building a web application is how to coordinate state between client and server. This includes how to create appropriate representations of your data to send over the wire There are many possible approaches. I'd like to present a straightforward one from Jerome Breche, CEO of TimZon, who was kind enough to share it with us today. When we started our first GWT project (TimZon.com), we found out that one of the major benefits of using GWT is its ability to transfer complex object data structure between client and server through the RPC mechanism. So when…

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  jQuery Blog

• The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 9 – David Artz, Aol.

  Ralph Whitbeck

  29 Jan 2010 | 6:34 pm

  In this prerecorded episode from Washington DC, we sit down with David Artz, Director of Website Optimization at Aol. David talks to us about the conviences and challenges of using jQuery at the enterprise level. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Permanent Sponsors Interview Who is David Artz? Director of Website Optimization Manage front-end development best practices (speed, SEO). How Aol. currently uses jQuery Plugins that Aol uses Challenges Corporations like Aol face by using jQuery at…

• 14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 8-14, jQuery 1.4.1 Released

  Ralph Whitbeck

  29 Jan 2010 | 10:13 am

  In case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released for days 8-14. Highlights On Day 12, the jQuery team released jQuery 1.4.1, the first bug release to jQuery 1.4. jQuery 1.4.1 is now the latest release of jQuery; take a moment to review the 1.4.1 release notes. On Day 13, the team announced the new jQuery Meetups site. We want to help foster local meetups and eventually try to provide more resources to your groups. On Day 14, the jQuery UI team released jQuery UI 1.8 Release Candidate 1. The team would love you to test and…

• The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 8 – api.jquery.com

  Ralph Whitbeck

  22 Jan 2010 | 9:25 am

  In this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with Karl Swedberg and Paul Irish about the new api.jquery.com documentation site. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Interview Api site overview Based on Packt Reference guide New features of the site Disqus XML Feed Mobile reference guide already using xml dump Fully working demos version change/addition log more relevant searches How can…

• 14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 1 – 7

  Ralph Whitbeck

  20 Jan 2010 | 11:08 am

  In case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released thus far. Pre Release Day 1 New jQuery API Site Pre Release Day 2 jQuery 1.4rc1 Day 1 jQuery 1.4 Released jQuery 1.4 Live Q&A Day 2 HD version of jQuery 1.4 Q&A Media Temple Giveaway jQuery Podcast episode 7 with John Resig Day 3 Internal Changes in jQuery 1.4, with John Resig Day 4 Getting Involved in the jQuery Community, with Karl Swedberg Day 5 appendTo Training Drawing jQuery 1.4 Hawtness #1, with Paul Irish Day 6 jQuery In The Enterprise Day 7 New jQuery Forum…

• The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 7 – jQuery 1.4 Release (John Resig)

  Ralph Whitbeck

  15 Jan 2010 | 11:38 am

  In this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with John Resig after the live uStream keynote to get more insight into the jQuery 1.4 release. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Interview jQuery 1.4 overview Major Contributors A look behind the scenes to get the release complete what are the main reasons people should upgrade to 1.4? Performance gains overview New functionality overview New…

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  AJAX MAGAZINE

• CopperLicht, fast WebGL JavaScript 3D Engine

  Hatem

  5 Feb 2010 | 10:40 pm

  WebGL is getting hot after being supported by modern browsers Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Now you can even create amazing apps with CopperLicht, a fast JavaScript 3D engine for creating games and 3d applications in the webbrowser. It uses the WebGL canvas supported by modern browsers and is able to render hardware accelerated 3d graphics without any plugins. Key features : 3D World editor: CopperLicht comes with a full 3D world editor named CopperCube. Many supported 3D file formats: .3ds, .obj, .x, .lwo, .b3d, .csm, .dae, .dmf, .oct, .irrmesh, .ms3d, .my3D, .mesh, .lmts, .bsp, .md2, .stl.

• ItsNat Natural Ajax v0.7 Released

  Hatem

  5 Feb 2010 | 10:08 pm

  ItsNat is a server centric Java AJAX web framework with the same style of programming as the client, because ItsNat approach is "The Browser Is The Server" (TBITS). ItsNat simulates a Universal W3C Java Browser in the server, client events are sent to the server via AJAX and converted to W3C Java DOM Events, changes in DOM server are automatically sent to the client as JavaScript updating the client DOM. In ItsNat templates are defined using pure X/HTML or SVG files with no logic. View logic is coded in pure Java using Java W3C DOM APIs promoting reuse and the goodness of Object Oriented…

• Websync, .NET and IIS Comet Server

  Hatem

  23 Jan 2010 | 12:06 am

  If you are looking to turn your IIS, ASP.NET server into a highly scalable HTTP Comet/Reverse Ajax server, your solution could be called Websync, by Frozen Mountain Software. Websync is cool, because unlike every other comet server currently available, it doesn't require a separate server, instead it runs directly with IIS. It takes about 2 lines in your web.config to get it going, and we've tested 30,000 users simultaneously on a single $400 Acer desktop with 3gig of RAM. More features include : - an embedded JavaScript client (only 9 KB!) and .NET client. - server-side publishers for .NET…

• Visual WebGui platform further enhances its SDK with the integration of jQuery in its new 6.4 version

  Hatem

  22 Jan 2010 | 11:26 pm

  The new version offers upgraded performance, scalability and complete developer and designer freedom to design and customize Web 2.0 like user interfaces Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform announced today the release of its Visual WebGui 6.4 beta 1 version. The new version offers enhanced performance as well as enhanced customization, extension and user interface designing capabilities. The expanded capabilities include the integration of the jQuery library for faster behavior customization and user interface extension. This enables developers to create Web…

• dhtmlxScheduler 2.1 Released

  Hatem

  7 Dec 2009 | 11:10 pm

  DHTMLX team has announced the availability of version 2.1 of dhtmlxScheduler, a lightweight and highly customizable Ajax calendar component for creating rich scheduling UI. The update includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, and introduces the following new features: - Agenda View, which allows users to see the list of oncoming events starting from the current date (if needed, this starting date may be easily changed). - In addition to Day/Week/Month Views, version 2.1 provides the ability to display events in the Year View. - The update includes multiple extensions for the most common…

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  AJAXIAN

• Rotating maps with CSS3 and jQuery

  Chris Heilmann

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:07 am

  One of the things I always want to do with online maps is rotate them – I am used to that with real, physical maps. As physical maps become a lot more clever these days (for example have you seen the zoomable map?) it is time we can do this with the online ones, too. Whilst Google supports this in the satellite and hybrid maps, the basic ones still can’t be turned. Which is why I took CSS3 transformations (wrapped in a very useful jQuery plugin) and voila – rotating is possible: Read more about the implementation and some of the things that need fixing in the original blog…

• Faye: Bayeaux protocol Comet server for Node.js

  Dion Almaer

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:24 am

  James Coglan has ported a Ruby/EventMachine Comet server to offer a new Node.js server on the Bayeux protocol. The project is Faye and you can check out the code on GitHub. On the client side: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   <script type="text/javascript" src="/comet.js"></script>   <script type="text/javascript">     CometClient = new Faye.Client('/comet');     CometClient.connect(); </script>   PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:     CometClient.subscribe('/path/to/channel', function(message) {     // process received…

• Think You Know Javascript? Try this Quiz!

  Michael Mahemoff

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:49 am

  If you know you think you know your objects from your arrays and your null from your undefined, here's a quiz for you from Perfection Kills. I was recently reminded about Dmitry Baranovsky’s Javascript test, when N. Zakas answered and explained it in a blog post. First time I saw those questions explained was by Richard Cornford in comp.lang.javascript, although not as thoroughly as by Nicholas. I decided to come up with my own little quiz. I wanted to keep question not very obscure, practical, yet challenging. They would also cover wider range of topics. There are fourteen questions in…

• Javascript ePub Readers

  Michael Mahemoff

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:34 am

  eBooks have gone mainstream, and right now the open ePub format is getting a lot of attention, being the iPad's book format of choice. Often overlooked in gadget-centric media is the fact that ePub is based on web standards, and therefore amenable to being rendered in the browser, sans plugins. Pure Javascript ePub readers are starting to crop up, and Keith Fahlgren has written about several of them: Just in the last few days, details emerged of two new JavaScript ePub readers, rePublish from Blaine Cook (@blaine) and JSEpub (screenshot) from August Lilleaas (@augustl). These two new readers…

• Pseudo 3D tricks from old computer games for all your Canvas needs

  Chris Heilmann

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:04 am

  It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to dig into the tricks arsenal of old-school game development on machines full of win like the Commodore 64 or Amiga. Louis Gorenfeld some very detailed explanations on how to fake 3D including some of the formulas used in the days of 8 bit. He is also working on some demo code which you can help him with by…

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  CMS Watch Trends and Features

• Microsoft leaves Linux-based FAST customers stranded

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Buyers of the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) got some bad news the other day: It'll now be necessary to switch to a Windows server platform, or else move to some other product for enterprise search. Microsoft Corporation, which as you may recall acquired FAST two years ago for $1.2 billion, has confirmed it will stop development of FAST's ESP core on Linux and Unix after the release of SharePoint 2010 later this year. Microsoft has in effect said it will now build its FAST search engine only for Windows. FAST chief technology officer Bjørn Olstad…

• Search fares well in sluggish economy

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:47 am

  At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good. For instance, French vendor Exalead proudly claims $22.7M in revenue, and 50 new customers. Canadian vendor Coveo isn't quite as open about the financial specifics, but notes 37 deals with new and existing customers in Q4 alone. I'll accept that there's at least some truth in the "record Q4 2009 results" and "significant growth" the company announced. (Though…

• ROI calculations are a joke

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:47 am

  Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM).  The overall finding was along the lines one might expect, "72% of respondents intend to expand their use of ECM technologies"... but there was an intriguing second key conclusion in the report: "49% could not estimate the ROI for any of their ECM systems." Let me state my take on ROI calculations as clearly as I can. ROI calculations for information technology are junk calculations, a fraud, a nonsense, and a…

• An iPad for DM and RM?

  5 Feb 2010 | 4:40 am

  The launch of Apple's iPad last week has caught the imagination of armchair critics worldwide: "What's it for?" "What a funny name (snigger snigger)" "It's just a big iPhone" And so on.  But whether the Apple device itself is a success or not, we seem to be approaching a tipping point for improved user interfaces to manage documents. Be it the Kindle, Tablet, Nook, or iPad, keyboardless document reader devices are on the verge of becoming mainstream -- at least for consumers. For browsing and reading through large volumes of files, or large documents…

• Alterian drops Immediacy

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:42 am

  Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello. The U.K.-based vendor will be dropping the "Content Manager Corporate" edition product (CMC, formerly known as Immediacy) and concentrate its WCM efforts on the Enterprise Edition (CME, formerly Mediasurface Morello). The company expects to release "CM7" this fall as a successor to both CME and CMC, but this will really be an updated CME, not an integration of CME and CMC. Readers of our Web…

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  OpenCms News

• Update of Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms released

  Alkacon Software GmbH

  20 Jan 2010 | 6:18 am

  Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The latest OCEE release version 2.1.2 is a maintenance update that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the last release. The most important new features in OCEE 2 are: Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then…

• OpenCms 7.5.2 release notes

  Alkacon Software GmbH

  15 Jan 2010 | 5:21 am

  This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.2. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.1 version, including some OpenCms Workplace compatibility issues with newer browser versions. Main new features of OpenCms 7.5 Support for image cropping in image gallery New galleries with advanced AJAX features available in structured content and free page editor Galleries dialog now also support grouping of elements by category Support for tabs in the XML content editor Offline search indexing without publishing in the Lucene based full text search New demo…

• OpenCms 7.5.2 available

  Alkacon Software GmbH

  15 Jan 2010 | 5:21 am

  Version 7.5.2 of OpenCms is now available for download. OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.1 version, including some OpenCms Workplace compatibility issues with newer browser versions. Main fixed issues in OpenCms 7.5.2 Fixed issue #1542: Links to exported files containing anchors are not resolved correctly Fixed issue #1787: Error when…

• New Alkacon OCEE version for OpenCms available

  Alkacon Software GmbH

  12 Oct 2009 | 7:03 am

  Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The latest OCEE release version 2.1.1 is an important update that fixes a number of potential issues and introduces some new features and additions to OCEE version 2 for OpenCms 7.0 / 7.5. The most important new features in OCEE 2 are: Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to…

• OpenCms 7.5.1 release notes

  Alkacon Software GmbH

  28 Sep 2009 | 2:44 am

  This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.1. With OpenCms 7.5.1, some additional features have been added to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues have been fixed, including some reported security problems that affected the OpenCms Workplace. New features and improvements in OpenCms 7.5.1 Added context menu entry "Publish scheduled" to publish files at a specified date Added context menu entry "Comment content" to view and change the default properties of all files in a folder Added improved search dialog and delete resource option to all galleries Added selectable start…

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  CMSWire.com - All News

• Gilbane Acquired by Analyst Firm Outsell

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

  One of the most known analyst firms — the Gilbane Group (news, site) — has been on the research and consulting market since 1987. Today marks another historical point for the firm – their acquisition by Outsell, Inc., a younger analyst company that was founded in 1998. The transaction between the two started at a breakfast meeting one day and has been in discussions for the past 5 years. We talked to Frank Gilbane, who gave us some insight into the merger. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter

• DotNetNuke Adds $8 million in Funding to the Development Pool

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am

  DotNetNuke (news, site) is having a little party today to celebrate the landing of US$ 8 million in additional Series B funding for their open source .NET web content management platform.The financing, led by new investor UV Partners and including August Capital and Sierra Ventures (existing investors), will — of course — help fund product development and marketing and sales initiatives.2009 was a strong year for DotNetNuke, with a new version of their Web CMS platform, a revamped partner program, the launching of their commercial edition(s) and the acquisition of…

• Document Management Roll-up: Cloud Computing is Popular, Oracle Adds to SOA Platform

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:05 am

  Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter

• Google to Add Facebook-like Features to Gmail

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am

  Yesterday we reported that Facebook was taking a tiny slice of Google’s pie by adding a webmail feature. Today, it looks like Big G is taking that slice back by adding status updates to Gmail. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter

• Industry Event Planner (9-Feb-2010)

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am

  Ah yes, this is indeed a wonderful era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, hotspots a-plenty and if you’re lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar. Our weekly events list is designed to help you plan ahead. And if we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to our industry events calendar.   Featured Event: The STC Content Strategy Forum 2010 (Paris)(Two-day learning event runs April 15 & 16 in Paris, France) February Events February 9 (London): Agile Edge - Agile for E-business Now in its…

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  Slashdot

• BioShock 2 Released

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:50 am

  BioShock 2 launched today for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows, ending the wait for a sequel to the original 2007 blockbuster. The events in BioShock 2 take place 10 years after the story from the original game. This time around, players control a prototype Big Daddy in an attempt to overthrow the new leader of Rapture. Early reviews for the game are quite strong, though the developers were prepared for fan backlash over some of the changes they made. The Guardian's Nicky Woolf praises the new storyline, and adds that "there is a fundamentally excellent shooter here too, with some of the best…

• How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time?

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:11 am

  itwbennett writes "It can take a fairly stable team of programmers as long as six months to get to a point where they're estimating programming time fairly close to actuals, says Suvro Upadhyaya, a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations, he says. The programmers' experience, domain knowledge, and speed vs. quality all come into play, and it is highly dependent upon the culture of the team/organization. Upadhyaya uses Scrum to estimate programming time. How do you do it?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am

  Vigile writes "Transformers jokes aside, NVIDIA's newest technology offering hopes to radically change the way notebook computers are built and how customers use them. The promise of both extended battery life and high performance mobile computing has seemed like a pipe dream, and even the most recent updates to 'switchable graphics' left much to be desired in terms of the user experience. Having both an integrated and discrete graphics chip in your notebook does little good if you never switch between the two. Optimus allows the system to seamlessly and instantly change between IGP and…

• KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:29 am

  Cryophallion writes "KDE 4.4.0 has finally been released, along with a redesign of the KDE.org website. New features include tabbed windows, improved desktop search and social desktop features. 'Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.' A feature guide is also available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• Hardware TPM Hacked

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am

  BiggerIsBetter writes "Christopher Tarnovsky has pulled off the 'near impossible' TPM hardware hack. We all knew it was only a matter of time; this is why you shouldn't entrust your data to proprietary solutions. From the article: 'The technique can also be used to tap text messages and email belonging to the user of a lost or stolen phone. Tarnovsky said he can't be sure, however, whether his attack would work on TPM chips made by companies other than Infineon. Infineon said it knew this type of attack was possible when it was testing its chips. But the company said independent tests…

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  Dzone

• All The Young (Ex) Dudes

  Adam Leggett

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am

  We are currently in the final phases of testing the version of our platform that will form the basis of our commercial offering. Our acceptance testing work flow involves consuming services provided by other organisations to best simulate a real-world usage scenario for our platform. The primary third party service we use is hosted version control. In fact, it is only reasonable to state that Mike has a strong dependency on the existence of such services. It is the first link in the chain of what we here at Mike HQ refer to as the ‘hosted ALM continuum’ – the suite of co-operating and…

• ExtJS: How to Export DataGrid to Excel

  Loiane

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:42 am

  This tutorial will walk through how to export data from ExtJS DataGrid directly to Excel.

• Corfield on ColdFusion

  lyndsey

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am

  Sean Corfield talks about the the ColdFusion specification and explains the ways in which they hope to resolve code portability issues. Corfield is a strong proponent of open source and he has worked on open source projects for about fifteen years. The For ColdFusion Foundation, Corfield explains, is intended to make ColdFusion more open and to provide a central location for key projects. The foundation is in its early stages, but Corfield says that they already have a partnership with JBoss. Finally, Corfield talks about what's on the horizon for the ColdFusion ecosystem.

• Quartz Scheduled Jobs

  Antonio Gonzalez

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:51 am

  An updated guide to integrating Quartz into j2ee applications

• IronPython and the Entity Framework Part 5.0 – Concluded

  CodeJustin

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am

  This is the final part of the series on using IronPython together with the Entity Framework.

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  A List Apart

• Words that Zing

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing at precisely the right time. Understanding the rhetorical concept of kairos can help us craft a context for the opportune moment and hit the mark with appropriately zingy text.

• The Problem with Passwords

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation. But with design patterns gleaned from offline applications, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feedback and reduce password errors without compromising the basic user experience or losing our visitors’ trust.

• Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page backgrounds: scalability.

• Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics of working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility.

• The Survey, 2009

  15 Dec 2009 | 2:00 am

  For the third year in a row, good citizens of the web, we ask that you take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more.

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  IBM developerWorks

• Writing a custom Dojo application

  Explore the tips, techniques, and pitfalls when developing Web 2.0 and Dojo applications. Learn from the authors' experiences when moving from Object Oriented development techniques to creating a prototype using the Dojo widget and template pattern along with JavaScript/Dojo objects.

• Debug Java applications remotely with Eclipse

  Perform application debugging remotely using the Eclipse built-in remote Java application configuration type. In this article, get real-world examples such as debugging programs on dedicated machines like Web servers, whose services cannot be shut down.

• New IBM Business Process Management Journal

  In this journal's premier edition, discover how to develop a business event processing application and how to leverage BPM, SOA, and EA to align business and IT. Plus, get answers to some of your common questions about WebSphere Business Modeler.

• Dependency injection with Guice: Testable code with less boilerplate

  Get better testing and modularity while taking away the pain of writing your own factories with Guice, Google's open source dependency injection framework for Java development. Take a tour of the most important concepts, which will leave you ready to Guice up your applications.

• XSLT as a language compiler: Use XSLT to produce PostScript from XML

  Explore the concept of XSLT as a programming language compiler, specifically as you create an XML facade in front of PostScript, to produce PostScript files from XML documents. Learn about using a stylesheet as an implicit language definition, get the basics of PostScript, and see the layers of abstraction involved in creating an XML-to-PostScript compiler.

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  ASP.NET News

• Download ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate 2

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported framework that enables developers to quickly build standards-based, SEO-friendly Web sites by offering complete control over the HTML and URLs. Learn more about this release, and provide feedback to the team.

• New Articles and Updates to the ASP.NET Wiki

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Expand and share your knowledge about the AJAX Control Toolkit, ASP.NET Open Source Projects, Web Services, and more in the ASP.NET Wiki. Earn Community Recognition points by contributing!

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Start with the free download, review your website, and make changes fast. The SEO Toolkit with its detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions helps improve the relevance of your website in search results right away. The SEO Toolkit will help you increase website traffic and revenue, influence and update search engines, and improve customer experience. For more information or to download, please visit the Free SEO Toolkit page.

• Six New Upcoming Webcasts!

  28 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Don't miss upcoming webcasts on ASP.NET Web Forms and AJAX 4! Register for an upcoming webcast to hear directly from the product team and industry experts on current and upcoming technologies, or watch the archived webcasts.

• Listen to New Podcasts

  26 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  We’ve added more shows to the Podcasts page. Listen to hours of podcasts on issues of interest to all ASP.NET developers from .NET Rocks!, Hanselminutes, the Misfit Geek, and more.

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  Ed Brill

• New Domino CAL pricing is fully in effect as of today

  Ed Brill

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:29 am

  In October, IBM announced that licensing for Lotus Notes/Domino would be changing.  We announced a client access license model for Domino, replacing various software licensing schemes for Lotus Notes, iNotes, Domino Designer, and Notes Traveler.  The two client access licenses defined are the Domino Messaging CAL and the Domino Enterprise CAL.  Domino Designer became a free/entitled product -- free to download and test, entitled in the Domino CAL to connect to Domino.  Lotus Mobile Connect's client became entitled in the Enterprise CAL.  Otherwise, the Enterprise CAL…

• Lotusphere 2010: Lotus Knows how to help you tell your story

  Ed Brill

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:14 am

  Somewhere in the myriad of offers, giveaways, and promotions at Lotusphere, I missed one we were running ourselves.   I am a huge fan of sites that allow you to create photo books out of digital images, and mypublisher.com and I are good friends.  I've tried Snapfish, iPhoto books, and others.  A site that wasn't on my radar until today is panraven.com.  IBM partnered with Panraven to help you tell your story from Lotusphere 2010 -- and we'll even buy the book. Now Lotus knows many of you created excellent photo imagery from Lotusphere 2010.  Here's a chance to…

• Richard Schwartz: Better Late Than Never, My Take On Lotusphere 2010 And Project Vulcan

  Ed Brill

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  I've read a ton of blog postings on IBM Project Vulcan since Lotusphere a few weeks ago... perhaps because of the iterative thinking in the community, or time to reflect, Richard Schwartz's analysis seems to me to be a good read on the project:Five years ago, IBM introduced something with the potential to be quite revolutionary, but they saw that potential could not be realized on its own. They melded activity-centric collaboration into their Connections offering in order to tie a revolutionary concept into a larger framework of social collaboration first and foremost, and only secondarily…

• Symphony 3.0 beta now available

  Ed Brill

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:15 pm

  As promised at Lotusphere, the beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0 is now available on symphony.lotus.com... Key new features in Symphony 3.0: VB Macros support ODF 1.2 support for improved file interoperability embedded audio/video allows users to add media directly to slides, documents and sheets autotext support to create "chunks" of text that are used frequently and quickly inserted digital signatures redline support  --- shows edits made to document usability enhancements I know some are asking, "What happened to Symphony 2.0?"  The answer is, since this new release is aligned with the…

• Michael Sampson: Lotus roadmap and user adoption surveys

  Ed Brill

  3 Feb 2010 | 2:47 pm

  Michael Sampson looks to me like he can see the future.  Though he was never briefed on what was coming at Lotusphere 2010, in January, he published a white paper on the Lotus roadmap:Lotus Notes has been around for a long time. Since its release in 1989 it has always been viewed as a "different" piece of technology, loved by some people and reviled by others. It takes a different approach to information management and collaboration tasks, it looks different from the standard Microsoft offering which many people view as being "authoritatively correct", and it offers capability for being…

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  DontPanic

• Another small update on the XPages API Inspector

  Tommy Valand

  1 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am

  I've added a clear-button, and a subheader with the toString-value that's visible if the expression corresponds with a server side object.>> Download tool>> Original post with description

• XPages: Using the powerful Design Definition in custom controls

  Tommy Valand

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:36 am

  I've recently started using the Design Definition in my custom controls to save space on the XPages they are included in.When I first encountered this new (since Domino 8.5.1) feature, I believed it was a static feature. It turns out it's highly dynamic, and quite powerful. Immediately, when I read the "Providing illustration for your XPage custom controls" article from the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki, I thought of JSP. What reminded me of JSP was this little snippet:<%=this.viewName %>I've only tested if/else statements, as I know very little JSP/haven't had the…

• Small bugfix for the XPages API tool

  Tommy Valand

  28 Jan 2010 | 1:14 am

  When you inspected a class, using the class name, e.g. java.util.ArrayList, you got the API for java.lang.Class every time. This is now fixed.Also, when you write the name of a global object, e.g. view, the class name of the object is now the header for the table containing the methods/properties.>> Original post with API tool>> Download tool

• XPages: Custom Control that can help prevent save conflicts

  Tommy Valand

  26 Jan 2010 | 9:26 am

  Today, I share with you a demoapp with a basic "has document been modified validation" (in lack of a better description) custom control, ccValidateModified. Just pop it into an XPage with a document data source, and it should in theory work out of the box. Plug and play.This is by no means an absolute protection against save conflicts. For applications that it's critical to avoid save conflicts, you need better protection.Below is a movie of the control in action. A document is open in Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer. When the document is saved in one of the browsers, the "other…

• Office 2007 MIME headers fixed in Domino 8.5.2

  Tommy Valand

  26 Jan 2010 | 7:36 am

  Just got word that IBM finally have implemented the Office 2007 MIME headers.

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  Lotus Geek

• New Orleans Saints - Super Bowl Champs!

  Rocky Oliver

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:19 am

  As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I have always loved the friendly rivalry between my Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints - we've always had a great time traveling to each other's cities and giving each other some good-natured ribbing when one would beat the other. Well, now the Saints have the ultimate bragging rights - they are the Super Bowl Champions. It doesn't get bigger than that. Congratulations, New Orleans Saints - and I don't imagine you're going to quit smiling for quite some time. (Now I just need my Falcons to win a Super Bowl so I can quit being so jealous!) Rock

• Congratulations to the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS

  Rocky Oliver

  24 Jan 2010 | 2:31 pm

  Just wanted to drop a quick note to say CONGRATULATIONS SAINTS. Normally the "Aints" are the division rival of my favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints joined the National Football League (NFL) the year after my Falcons, in 1967 - and they have been "fightin' like brothers" ever since. We started out together in the NFC West divison, and then we both moved to the NFC South when it was formed because our rivalry is so strong. Usually the Saints and Falcons have "up" and "down" years together, but we always manage to make our 2 games/year against each other a lot of fun. But the…

• I have a new look for 2010...

  Rocky Oliver

  20 Jan 2010 | 12:14 pm

  I forgot to mention earlier this week that I have unveiled my "new look" while here at Lotusphere 2010. As I mentioned last month I have believed for some time that my hair had receded enough to warrant a change in my look, because I am not one of those who would try to hide the balding head I have so richly earned. I took the suggestions made by you to heart, along with my family, and decided on what had humorously become known as "Malkovich #2" (from the earlier post) - a short crop along with a beard. Well, without further delay, here is my new look as unveiled this week: I must say that…

• Lotusphere 2010: End of Tuesday, Beginning of Wednesday...

  Rocky Oliver

  20 Jan 2010 | 7:44 am

  Let's pick up where our story left off last. I had begun my Tuesday, and was looking forward to the rest of the day... TUESDAY (AFTERNOON/EVENING) The lab on building Symphony plugins that I attended yesterday was pretty good, and Paul Bastide and his crew have done a good job with these labs. I really like the idea of bulding plugins for Symphony products, and that surprises me. I have always done integration between Notes and productivity suites (read: Lotus SmartSuite and MS Office) with a "Notes-centric" point-of-view. However as I saw the power of plugins in Symphony, it made me realize…

• Lotusphere 2010: End of Monday, Beginning of Tuesday...

  Rocky Oliver

  19 Jan 2010 | 5:44 am

  MONDAY Monday was a good, but hectic, day. I actually got to do what I wanted to do this year - attend some sessions, and spend a bit of time in the Product Showcase. Many of the same players are there, but there are some new ones too. I stopped by Teamstudio's booth to say hi, and I love their tie-died shirts they're wearing (and giving away) this year. They also have a new product out, called Voyager, which is an app that allows you to surface any Notes/Domino app on a Blackberry (and I think any smartphone) with only a bit of code. I like it. The Lotus Store is in the back of the Product…

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  Lotus Notes and Domino wiki

• Demo: Creating stationery in Lotus iNotes

  Dana St. Clair

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:35 pm

  The following demonstration shows you how to create and use stationery when sending messages in Lotus iNotes 8.5.1. ...

• IDVault_Max_Auth_Failure_Cache_Size

  Professor INI

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:47 am

• DominoExcludeMIMETypes

  Pam Gilday

  4 Feb 2010 | 11:15 am

  Explanation: Specify the MIME types to be excluded from consideration for compression. Output types specified here should be a subset of those types specified in the "DominoIncludeMIMETypes" NOTES.INI setting. To enter multiple MIME types, separate each type with a semicolon (;). Applies to: ...

• DominoIncludeMIMETypes

  Pam Gilday

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am

  Explanation: Specify the MIME types to consider for compression. MIME types that are specified in the "DominoExcludeMIMETypes" NOTES.INI setting will not be compressed even if they fit the parameters of MIME types to be included for compression. To enter multiple MIME types, separate each type ...

• DominoGzipMinBytesToCompress

  Pam Gilday

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:29 am

  Explanation: Specify the minimum size of content that can be compressed. Applies to : Servers Default Value: 300 bytes UI equivalent: Available on Web Site document from the Internet Sites view of Domino Web Server Configuration document. Syntax: DominoGzipMinBytesToCompress

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  Notes Design Blog

• Here are the slides and other materials from our Lotusphere session: SHOW111: Extending your reach by extending the sidebar

  Mary Beth Raven

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:25 am

   Jamie Liu and I did a Show and tell session about widgets and sidebar at Lotusphere last month. Here are our slides and the other materials, in case you'd like a "do it yourself" sidebar and widget tutorial.

• The My Widgets Sidebar Panel is a way to add and manage additional sidebar panels

  Mary Beth Raven

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm

  We introduced "My Widgets" in Notes 8.0.1. The Panel is hidden by default; you have to turn it on. (The Domino Admin can also control it using a desktop policy). Here is how to turn it on-- and if your organization has not deployed any kind of widget catalog, you can see if you can build your own or pull a few from either Open ntg or the Turtleweb partnership (72.51.41.44). I hope to post more about how to use public catalog and/or build your own in subsequent posts.

• Need your opinion on some new policy settings for Mail and a new "cache mode" approach

  Mary Beth Raven

  5 Feb 2010 | 9:41 am

  Potential Policy setters, We are working on some POTENTIAL (no promises!) changes to local mail replicas, and we're calling it "cache mode" (the term is not final, if you have suggestions, make them). I want to check with you to ensure that our proposed new/changed desktop policy settings are OK with you.  Please read thru and see the questions at the end. Description Cache mode: essentially a copy of Samantha's data from the mail file is kept locally and Replicated/synchronized automatically with the data stored on the server.  Samantha works with her mail file the same as if she…

• Question about how important it is to have pretty application icons for roaming users

  Mary Beth Raven

  5 Feb 2010 | 3:33 am

  Patient programmers (and others), We are making headway with the idea of allowing you to use image resources (e.g. .gif, .png) as database.. er.. application icons. These pretty icons would appear in the open list,  in the tabs, and of course, in the workspace chicklets. (YOU, or someone at your organization has to create said pretty new image resources and put them into your Notes application, of course.) Our next deadline is fast approaching and we're trying to fit all the work in to make this happen-- I cannot promise anything yet. My question for you today is:  If we got most of…

• What is on the sidebar Panel menu and why

  Mary Beth Raven

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:25 am

  As of Notes 8.5, we've simplified the titlebar so that it has: An icon The title A "panel menu" (on the far right). The panel menu is divided into 3 parts:  Actions specific to that panel (e.g. Specific to Calendar, or Activities or Feeds) (Yeah, the Day-at-a-Glance sidebar panel menu has a bug because one of the  "Calendar Footer" menu item specific to calendar got stuck at the bottom... I hope to be able to fix that) Actions generic to all panels (e.g. Manipulating the panel like opening it in a new window) Actions for showing or hiding specific sidebar panels and the state of the…

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  wissel.net

• % complete is a useless measure

  Stephan H Wissel

  7 Feb 2010 | 8:50 pm

  At least when it comes to software development. Rather use "tasks/units of work left to do". Geek and poke sum it up nicely: Do you want to know more®? Read a book and sign the manifesto

• Latest Banking Scam?

  Stephan H Wissel

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:41 am

  The phone rings. He: Hello this is [name changed to protect the innocent] from [insert a big bank]. Can I speak to Mr. Stephan? Me: Hello there, Stephan speaking He: This is regarding [pretty usual transaction] Me: OK He: Let me ask you some questions to establish your identity Me: OK He: What is your account # and [secret question about pets, sports, cities, keywords - you know] Me: Ah - why would I tell you that? He: To establish your identity Me: You called my mobile, so? How should I know you are from the bank He: Sir I work for [insert a big bank] Me: Yeah, how should I know that you are…

• The power adaptors in my "RoadWarrior Toolbox"

  Stephan H Wissel

  2 Feb 2010 | 5:23 pm

  I kissed a lot of frogs before I found the optimal travel power adaptor. Finally the Mitch & Mark travel adaptor available from the Krisshop made it. These are my criteria: Must support all countries (a no brainer) Must have an indicator light (places I go often have dead sockets) Must have a USB outlet for charging devices or powering one or the other gadget. Must not have any fragile pieces sticking out, so it can survive my chronical equipment mistreatment The Mitch & Mark fulfils all these criteria, all plugs retract for transport mode (I also carry a slim minimalistic adaptor…

• New addition to my "RoadWarrior Toolbox" - GR1102

  Stephan H Wissel

  2 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pm

  I'm using a 3G modem for a while now. Works well as long as I'm in Singapore, once leaving it becomes an extortionist tool (30$ per MB is 10x more expensive than SMS and that's a rip off already). So typically I borrow the local modem from my colleagues in the country I visit, leaving me with guilt of depriving them from salvation in boring meetings. Not any more. I just added a Sapido GR1102 mobile hotspot to my toolbox. It's a bit bulky compared to dedicated devices like the Huawei E5 and even doesn't have 3G connectivity. However it has 2 USB ports where you can plug-in your off-the-mill…

• When reality catches up with fiction

  Stephan H. Wissel

  2 Feb 2010 | 6:48 am

  Walking military vehicles were a novelty in the earlier Starwars® and I always wondered what are they good for other than stumble over rebel wires. Now Boston Dynamics is actually building them (and they are much smarter than me, so they know what they are good for): Boston Dynamics has a wide range of really kewl robots and it probably is fun to work there, even if some of the robots are outright creepy and really small.

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  Steve Castledine

• Lotusphere 2010 warm up videos

  Steve Castledine

  14 Jan 2010 | 6:57 am

  Found these warm up videos for Lotusphere 2010, getting excited yet?: and of course:

• XPages Discussion Template - new build available on OpenNTF

  Steve Castledine

  13 Jan 2010 | 7:31 am

  I have uploaded a new build of the XPages Discussion forum to OpenNTF. You can download from here. This update enhances the existing XPage interface allowing more topics to be visible within the views and enhanced discussion thread viewing. Enjoy :)

• Millies first snowman

  Steve Castledine

  6 Jan 2010 | 4:34 am

  We finally have a winter this year. The rest of the country has had a fair bit of snow, but we have had about 2cm max. But we still have a snowman:

• For those building Lotusphere Schedule applications

  Steve Castledine

  6 Jan 2010 | 4:27 am

  Can I ask you to add this session to your databases (thank you): Meeting Name: OpenNTF Annual General Meeting Date of Meeting/Function: Tuesday, 1/19 – 6pm – 7pm Hotel: Yacht and Beach Conference Center Room/Function Area Name: Cape Cod C

• OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday

  Steve Castledine

  4 Jan 2010 | 5:25 am

  Just a quick reminder that the OpenNTF Open Source Lotus Awards nominations close Wednesday, see here. A reminder also that there are entries where the submitter has been asked to add a licence file etc and so far have not. These queries by the IP manager will need resolving to qualify for entry.

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  E L S U A

• Are Blog Comments Worth It? Treasure the Conversations

  Luis Suarez

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:42 pm

  WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read providing lots of insightful thoughts on what are some of the pros and cons of such a bold move. Well, here’s my take: keep them! Turn comments on. They are worth it. And here is why. As most of you folks know already, I have been blogging for…

• How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation

  Luis Suarez

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:54 pm

  I have mentioned already a couple of times how my first contact with social software tools inside IBM, my current employer, was around the year 2000, when one of the communities I still belong to (And still one of my favourite ones, too!) decided to put together a wiki where we could all contribute and share our knowledge across. From there onwards, the continuous learning experience of transitioning from traditional collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to these social tools has been quite exciting, to say the least. But I am sure you may be wondering when did IBM *really* got started…

• A World Without Email – Year 2, Weeks 49 to 51 (EMail Is Where Knowledge Goes to Die)

  Luis Suarez

  2 Feb 2010 | 3:11 pm

  It has been nearly a month since the last time I put together a blog post over here on how I’m doing living "A World Without Email" and, while looking into the last few weeks, I have just realised that I’m almost on the closure of the second year experiment of giving up on corporate email altogether. So I thought I would write down today the one before last blog entry for Year #2 of those weekly (Now probably more monthly) progress reports sharing some further insights on the state of things at this point, as I am about to close the second year of this my new reality.

• The Unconsidered Life by A.C. Grayling

  Luis Suarez

  1 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am

  One of the reasons why I have always enjoyed Twitter quite a bit is how sometimes serendipity does its magic and it helps you bump into a URL link that will make you think quite a bit and / or WOW you in the process. It doesn’t happen too often, and probably that’s a good thing, too! (So that you don’t get overwhelmed by the whole thing), but when it does you just can’t stop thinking about the content you have just kindly been provided by those social networks you nurture and cultivate preciously through something so trivial as Twitter. Check the latest example; a…

• The Web in Twenty

  Luis Suarez

  31 Jan 2010 | 8:27 am

  A few days back my good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Aneel Lakhani, tagged me on an on-going meme that’s been going around for a little while now called "The Web in Twenty" where participants have to eventually provide answers to three different questions: How has the Web changed your life? How has the Web changed business and society? What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years? So, since it’s been quite a while that I have last embarked on chiming in on one of those blogging memes I thought it would be a good time to do that over the course of the weekend…

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  developerWorks : Lotus

• Best practices: Developing IBM Lotus Forms for Webform Server

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Developing IBM Lotus® Forms for Webform Server is different from developing forms for IBM Lotus Forms Viewer and can consume more development effort. By understanding the nature of Webform Server and applying the practices listed in this article, you can resolve the potential issues during the development phase.

• Configuring IBM Tivoli Access Manager SSO for IBM Lotus Connections 2.5

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  This white paper explains how to configure IBM Tivoli Access Manager as a single sign-on (SSO) solution for IBM Lotus Connections 2.5. Though this is an optional configuration, it is recommended in order to provide a more secure environment, especially if users are accessing Lotus Connections from a wide area network (WAN).

• Configuring single sign-on for IBM Lotus Connections in the Kerberos environment

  1 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  In this article, we discuss the configuration of a Kerberos-based single sign-on solution from a Microsoft® Windows® desktop to IBM® Lotus® Connections running on IBM WebSphere® Application Server.

• Mash active and archived data using IBM Mashup Center and Optim

  20 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  For cost, operational efficiency, and regulatory requirements, enterprises are required to archive transactional data. But that data might still be useful for reporting purposes. This article shows how easily you can use IBM Mashup Center to modify a reporting mashup to combine data from a DB2(R) relational database with data that was archived using the Optim(TM) Data Growth Solution.

• Monitoring availability, performance, infrastructure, and beyond using IBM Lotus Sametime

  19 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Ever wonder how to really know what the status of your IBM Lotus Sametime environment is? Discover how Lotus Sametime can be monitored, in terms of both function and performance, from the user perspective. This article describes (and provides) a simple lightweight proactive tool to assist administrators in better understanding the Lotus Sametime user experience to reduce outages, respond to issues more quickly, and improve the customer experience. In addition to monitoring capabilities, this tool can assist in debug collection and take the burden off users for problem recreates and data…

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  developerWorks : Open source

• Python basics for PHP developers

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Are you an experienced PHP developer who needs to learn Python? This article approaches the world of Python development from a PHP developer's perspective, translating familiar PHP concepts, such as variables, lists, and functions, into their Python equivalents.

• OpenLaszlo -- A platform to rapidly build and deploy rich Internet applications

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Meet OpenLaszlo, an open source platform, released under the Common Public License (CPL), for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications (RIAs). OpenLaszlo is based on LZX, which is an object-oriented language utilizing XML and JavaScript. Rich-client applications written with OpenLaszlo run across browsers and across platforms. In this article, we look at the architecture and APIs of OpenLaszlo with several examples. We also cover the basic debugging tools.

• Java Web services: Introducing CXF

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  The Apache CXF Web services stack is another alternative from the Apache Software Foundation, the same group behind the Axis2 stack. Even though they come from the same organization, Axis 2 and CXF take very different approaches to how Web services are configured and delivered. In this article, Java Web services series author Dennis Sosnoski shows you the basics of using JAXB 2.x and JAX-WS 2.x for Web services working with CXF, and he'll compare CFX to the other JAXB/JAX-WS stacks — Axis2 and Metro — discussed in prior articles.

• Using QEMU for cross-platform development

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  One of Linux's strengths is its cross-platform nature: you can run it on x86, x86-64, SPARC, PowerPC, and many other central processing units (CPUs). This wealth of hardware choices poses a challenge for software developers, though. Ensuring that software compiles, and runs correctly, on all platforms can be difficult. The use of the QEMU package can help ease this burden. QEMU is a machine emulator that supports a wide range of CPUs, so you can run PowerPC software on an x86 computer, x86-64 software on an SPARC computer, or what have you. This facility is particularly useful for…

• Search and update Google Base with PHP

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Google Base allows users to store any type of content online in Google's version of a massive online database. Web application developers are able to access and search this content through the Google Base Data API. This article introduces the Google Base Data API and demonstrates it in the context of a PHP application, explaining how to use SimpleXML and the Zend_Gdata module to search, retrieve, add, and edit different types of data on Google Base.

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  developerWorks : Web development

• RESTful Web services with Apache Wink, Part 1: Build an Apache Wink REST service

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  In this article, the first in a three-part series, discover the basics of Apache Wink 1.0, the new Java framework for implementing and consuming REST-based Web services.

• Using Apache Wink, Eclipse, and Maven to develop RESTful Web services

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Apache Wink is an open source implementation of the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) specification. Learn how to develop, deploy, and run RESTful Web services using Apache Wink along with the Eclipse IDE and the Maven project management tool.

• sMashing your application... the Ajax way

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

• Ajax resource center

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

• Web service simulator framework solution using Spring

  1 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Large Web development initiatives generally comprise multiple development projects executed simultaneously by geographically distributed teams who work around the clock. Specific components developed by these teams are expected to interoperate as seamlessly as possible. One key requirement for such development is the definition of the contracts between the teams charted with building the different components. A good simulator framework provides the best possible team isolation and potentially accelerates productivity by supporting the full suite of requests and responses supported by each…

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  developerWorks : XML

• Creating a NIEM IEPD, Part 2: Map and subset NIEM

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Part 1 of this series described the process of creating a UML model of an XML information exchange to be implemented in the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). In this article, take the next step -- map the model to NIEM to determine what parts of NIEM the exchange can reuse. Also learn how to create a subset of the NIEM model to include in an IEPD.

• Search and update Google Base with PHP

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Google Base allows users to store any type of content online in Google's version of a massive online database. Web application developers are able to access and search this content through the Google Base Data API. This article introduces the Google Base Data API and demonstrates it in the context of a PHP application, explaining how to use SimpleXML and the Zend_Gdata module to search, retrieve, add, and edit different types of data on Google Base.

• Creating a NIEM IEPD, Part 1: Model your NIEM exchange

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is rapidly becoming the most important XML exchange standard for the U.S. government and its information partners. This article, the first in a four-part series, provides an overview of the process for defining a NIEM information exchange. It then takes you through the first step -- modeling your exchange using UML -- with special considerations for NIEM modeling concepts. A simple case study is used to illustrate the process.

• Manage XML Schemas in DB2, Part 1: Manage XML schemas and validate XML data

  1 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  XML schemas come in various types, including an XML schema with or without a namespace, XML schemas consisting of multiple definitions, and XML schemas consisting of multiple namespaces. This article takes those kinds of XML schemas, and introduces ways to register XML schemas, ways to validate XML data, ways to get the XML schema used for validating XML data, and so on. This article is described based on DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

• Connect your data to the outside world with SugarCRM connectors

  1 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  SugarCRM is the world's leading open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software provider, with over 5,000 customers and 500,000 downloads of the SugarCRM application all around the world. SugarCRM has long had a very useful Web Services framework, allowing applications to access the SugarCRM instance and work with data on it. But new to SugarCRM 5.2 is a framework for accessing other outside Web services from inside the application itself. SugarCRM 5.2 ships with a LinkedIn connector by default that uses this framework. Thus, users of the SugarCRM instance can check on the…

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  Interface Matters

• The WildFire Is Spreading...And It's Hot! Update Your Status Across Multiple Networks From Lotus Notes!

  Chris Blatnick

  12 Jan 2010 | 2:57 pm

  A new OpenNTF project hit the ground running today and it is hot! I installed it this morning and think it's a great piece of work. The project is WildFire, a Lotus Notes 8.5 sidebar application that allows the user to update status messages across a ton of different social platforms. Networks supported in this initial release include Facebook, Twitter, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections and many more! While this type of client for allowing simultaneous updates of your micro-conversations is not new, the implementation, interface and integration with the Notes client is top notch. Installation…

• Folder Name Issue Causing Java UI Rendering Problem In Notes 8 Mail File

  Chris Blatnick

  8 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm

  I was working with one of my customers and was told about an interesting problem. They are currently in the process of upgrading to Notes 8.5.1 and so far, most of the client upgrades have been nice and smooth. One user had an unusual issue that was causing a bit of angst. After being upgraded and getting the new mail template, most of his folders were not visible in the UI. Here's what it looked like. Notice anything odd?A quick check using File - Go To confirmed that the folders were indeed still in the database. However, this was the only way the user could navigate to these folders.

• Changes Ahead For Interface Matters

  Chris Blatnick

  18 Dec 2009 | 5:49 am

  The winds of change are blowing here at Interface Matters and in my opinion are way, way overdue. The only excuse I have is lack of time to devote to these changes (or at least lack of desire to devote the time since other things have been occupying my attention of late). I have been wanting to make some changes here for quite some time, and as the new year rolls around, it's probably as good a time as any to make the leap.First, I want Interface Matters to expand beyond a single voice. This has always been my plan and I have just failed to execute. This site was never designed to be my…

• On Productivity: My Paper Processing Workflow

  Chris Blatnick

  17 Dec 2009 | 7:44 am

  I've always been a fan of performing tasks as efficiently as possible and eliminating the drudgery of those tasks that don't add a lot of value to my work or personal life. One of those tasks which is a necessary evil is the maintenance of paper-based documents. Everyone has them...bills that need to be paid, bank statements, tax documents, owner's manuals, receipts. As much as possible, many of us have tried to digitize these things so we don't receive them as paper in the first place. I've pretty much successfully eliminated any kind of bill coming to me in the mail and have turned every…

• Forgive Them...For They Know Not What They Do...With Your App

  Chris Blatnick

  8 Dec 2009 | 12:26 pm

  If you've been following along with the home game, then you are aware that there are many excellent UI patterns that you can use to improve the user experience you deliver to your users in your applications.  Today, I wanted to explore another simple yet powerful pattern: "Forgiving Formats".  This pattern is perfect for those applications in which speed to data entry is key (or at least desirable in most circumstances).  I know in many of the business applications I have encountered over the years, we tend to develop nice, complex forms to capture all of the data the customer says they…