Links: 27-02-2009

• InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List,
• Quickly Set an Egg Timer in your Browser - something very funny but sometimes there is a lack of a timer. And this is it :),
• Monitor Internet Censorship Around the World - quite valuable note about internet censorship around the world. And there is a few tools (e.g. just-ping) for checking if your site is visible in different countries,
• WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License - my favorite public license :).

Links: 26-02-2009

• Do unit tests find bugs? - an interesting note about unit tests. The answer to the question is YES and I completely agree with Brain,
• Agile: Re-estimating cards - Mark writes about a reverse feedback in process of estimation cards,
• Advice for experienced devs when pairing with freshers - several advices for more experienced developers about pair programming,
• Average velocity from High School Physics and Agile Projects - Paulo tries to extrapolate physics definition of velocity to velocity of development in agile projects,
• Download an entire static website to your local machine - usually I was using tools such as WinHTTrack to download an entire website but here you can find how to achive the same using wget - so simple,
• Blogging - funny and interesting. Worth to see :),
• Add Your Current Location to Gmail Signatures Automatically,
• Twitter Guide: How To Do Things With Twitter,
• The Most Popular Twitter Acronyms,
• Google AJAX APIs,
• Future-Proofing A Design - I think that every architect knows about it but I think it is worth reading it,


• Back to the Future for Data Storage - a concise note about non-relational datastores such as BigTable, SimpleDB, etc.,


• Comparison of Different Open Source Licenses -“With Comparison Chart!” - a brief comparison of various Open Source Licenses. I think it is useful for everybody who starts an OS project.

Links: 25-02-2009

• Collections.EMPTY_SET - rather use Collections.emptyList() not Collections.EMPTY_SET,
• Supported Values for @SuppressWarnings - a list of values which may be used in @SuppressWarnings,
• Project-Level License Settings in NetBeans IDE 6.0 - how to use different licenses (GPL, LPGL, Apache.2.0, etc. ) in NetBeans IDE,
• Implementing Serializable - important but often forgotten thing - how to generate serialVersionUID and why it is so important,
• Why blog?,
• The secret driven-development/design acronyms - a list of various "driven development". My favourite is YDD :),
• Xenocode Browser Sandbox - Run any browser from the web - several browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) can be run without installation - excellent tools for a tester of webapplication and webmaster.

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