Oct 12, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: InfoWorld's ace reporter Paul Krill was the first to spot a new project from Microsoft Office Labs and Microsoft developer Mike Wasserman that could bring those next-generation UIs one step closer. Begun by Wasserman as a college project, the Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to simulate the gestura (Read More)

Oct 12, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: The advent of AJAX and rich internet applications has changed all that. Modern websites don’t consist of a series of pages and forms, they consist of an interactive environment where the user modifies controls which communicate with the server. Think of Yahoo Mail, Google Maps, or NetVibes. And that means that the threading (Read More)

Oct 12, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: jQuery can bring tremendous productivity gains and it's easy to learn and work with. It's one of those tools that has drastically changed of how I think about client side development and frankly it has helped me improve my skill set significantly. It's also made me much more productive and more confident in being able to ta (Read More)

Oct 11, 2008

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Oct 09, 2008

Submitted by Bwana from Google Reader: The official announcement of the Blackberry Storm for the Verizon and Vodafone networks confirmed the phone's lack of WiFi.  This has some folks condemning RIM's decision to exclude WiFi as a connectivity option on the phone with some even saying it's a deal-breaker.  This got me to thinking about WiFi on phones (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: Exceptional is an error tracking and managing system for Rails apps. This documentation should be useful for anyone wanting to know more in-depth information about Exceptional and how things work. (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez from Delicious: Most test tools come bundled with vendor-specific scripting languages that I call vendorscripts. They are hard to learn, weakly implemented, and most important, they discourage collaboration between testers and developers. Testers deserve full-featured, standardized languages for their test development. Here’s why. (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: WebDriver has a simple API designed to be easy to work with and can drive both real browsers, for testing javascript heavy applications, and a pure 'in memory' solution for faster testing of simpler applications. (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility. (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: While there are many Web frameworks in the Java™ ecosystem, they all are based, directly or indirectly, on the Servlets infrastructure. The Servlets API provides a host of useful features, including state management through the HttpSession and ServletContext mechanisms, which allows the application to maintain state that pe (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: JSR 310 is an API for time- and calendar-related calculations that has been proposed for Java SE 7. The API aims to replace the two existing classes that form Java's current date and time API, java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar, while still providing backwards-compatible access to these older APIs. The JSR is currently i (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: Selenium is a common choice for writing integration tests for web application - and one that we have used on various projects in the past. The idea is that you interact with your web application using Firefox and the Selenium IDE plugin records the test. You can then replay this test as part of the ‘integration-test’ Maven (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Ars Technica Yahoo quickly turned around the acquisition of a web analytics firm to take on Google with "near real-time" access to raw data. Along with an upcoming developer API and an already established hosting platform, Yahoo has a shot at snagging its fair share of the market—if it acts fast.Read More... . (Read More)

Oct 10, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: The FSF high-priority projects list serves to foster the development of projects that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems. (Read More)

Oct 09, 2008

Submitted by Tabrez: Mono 2.0 contains an API complete implementation of .Net's System.Windows.Forms (winforms) namespace, allowing winforms applications to run on Linux, MacOX and other Unix systems. (Read More)

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