Links: 26-05-2007

• Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents - e-book about java for kids :),
• Law Of Demeter and Law of Demeter: Canary in a coal mine,
• Show don’t tell: Consulting with GraphViz,
• Estimation considered harmful and If estimation is harmful… then, what’s not?,
• Writing Better Code: A Conversation With Sun Microsystems Technology Evangelist Brian Goetz,
• Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Project Portfolio Management.

Opteron faster than Xeon in SQL Database Test

Neal Nelson Benchmarking Laboratory has made comparison between AMD server and Intel server using practically identical machines.
Result is: AMD Opteron Processor Faster than Xeon Woodcrest in SQL Database Test.
"The firm (Neal Nelson Benchmarking Laboratory) uses its own SQL transaction benchmark, generating traffic from up to 500 WWW clients at once, and aims to give the major subsystems in servers a thorough kicking." (More about this you can find there).

Links: 11-04-2007

• Palm Prepares Linux Platform for Future Smartphones - Palm is planning to run PalmOS on Linux Kernel,
• PostgreSQL Autodoc - "This is a utility which will run through PostgreSQL system tables and returns HTML, Dia and DocBook XML which describes the database." - seems to be very interesting. I must try to use it,
• What’s So Great About Inspections?!? - interesting essay about inspections,
• example source code - examples of source code in many computer languages,
• Why is it so hard to write good tests? - some valuable ideas about writing good tests and ... good code,
• How to build a scalable derivatives risk & pricing platform using open source software - some thoughts about a selection of open-source software,
• Project documentation in agile development - brief document about how and what document in agile.
  

Links: 04-04-2007

• google-guice - Spring competitor from google (Guice User's Guide),
• JSON is not as safe as people think it is part 1 and part 2 - two article about safety of JSON,

Links: 17-03-2007

• Don't Swallow Exceptions, revisited - something interesting about exceptions,
• Better Builds with Maven - a book about Maven - it is free and seems to be quite good,
• Hotpatching A Java 6 Application, Hotpatching A Java 6 Application - how to change class without restarting VM (terminating application),
• Design patterns in C# and VB.NET - catalog of design patterns and examples in C# and VB.NET.

Links: 04-03-2007

• The DebugBar V4.02 is an Internet Explorer plug-in that bring you new powerful features,
• StubbornSoft & MammothSoft - a piece of poetry about software :>,
• Nulls need special love - how and why null values are so different from other values,
• vimrc for Ruby - for everybody who uses vim and is interested in Ruby,
• It’s not good enough to blame the computer. Blame the lack of tests - interesting story why tests are so important and where is the real problem.

Links: 03-03-2007

• The state of software quality, part 1: Problems remain, but all is not doomed - interesting text about software quality, about problems with software quality,
• How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming - i've started reading text and comments after it and it seems to be quite actual because recently I have been thinking about it,
• SimpleTest - Unit Testing for PHP - very useful library for unit testing (and other) in PHP.
  

Links: 25-02-2007

• Building A Software Team: Five ways to hire the wrong person - I haven't seen this blog yet, but Russ Olsen writes interesting things about a software team,
• Pretty Please, we need Properties. Here's the Middle Ground, 100% Compatible JavaBeans, Fraction Of Code, No Language Changes! - two votes in discussion about propertites in Java language and about future changes in this subject,
• TSS.NET Asks: What do you think of IronPython? - Microsoft has released new version of Python for .NET. it seems to be very interesting,
• IronPython - homepage of Python for .NET,
• Java Web Development with Stripes, Stripes Homepage - "Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies. The main driver behind Stripes is that web application development in Java is just too much work!" - sounds interesting,
• Better SQLExceptions in Java 6 - short discussion about sql exceptions in Java6.
  

Links: 24-02-2007

• The Web's Best Calendars - I don't like use web calendar, but this summary about the best web's calendar is very interesting. Maybe someday I will use one of them, but now I'm using paper one and Outlook with PocketPC,
  
• Anemic Domain Models and Code Generators and and anit-pattern Anemic Domain Model
  
- two notes about one of the anti-patterns. For me it is worth reading.

Links: 08-02-2007

• Seo tutorial - seo tips - quite interesting seo (search engine optimization) tutorial,
• Firefox Popup Blocker Allows Reading Arbitrary Local Files - "interesting" security bug in FF1.5.0.9 found by Michał Zalewski,
• Aptana IDE - cross platform (win, MacOSX, Linux ...) for JavaScript/HTML/CSS.

Links: 01-02-2007

• New to Java Center - very interesting and thorough introduction to Java Language.
  
• Simplify Unit Testing for Spring Web Components - testing is one of important issues while I'm creating new code - code without tests might work or might not: effect cannot be predictable for me. This article is about unit testing in Spring - everybody should read it.
  
• Google Testing Blog - new and very interesting blog about testing. I'm going to read it. And You?
  

Links: 21-01-2007

• selfconsciousness in the Agile rythm (in Polish: "Samoświadomość w rytmie Agile") - text about connections between agile development (test-driven development) and agile design (test-driven design). text in Polish :/
• Back to Basics: The Perfect .NET Bean Property - quite interesing article (note) about bean properties in .net - new point of view for beans in .net
  

Links: 17-01-2007

• Offline tutorials for Netbeans - collection of zipped tutorials for Netbeans,
• Cell Phone On Fire, It's Serious - how dangerous can be cell phones

"The Django Book"

today i've found very interesting thing on wired.com - book about Django. it looks very good and it is free.
recently, i'm trying to learn Python. for me it's very interesting computer language and there are my interesting features (lambda function, collections and other). very important is that this language is very simple to learn.
all what i can said about this language is that i like it and it willl be my first language for writing simple things (today i'm using php and sometimes perl).

"Top ten mistakes of Web design" and others

today i've found very interesting ariticle: Top ten mistakes of Web desing and very useful site:
useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
who is Jakob Nielsen i don't have to write or if you don't know him you can read about him in wikipedia. he is one of titans of usability of gui (desktop programs, web pages and other) and his site contains many useful articles and links about usability.
i think that everybody who desing and make user interface should dig this site up.

"Using JMock with Test Driven Development"

i've found article written by Paulo Caroli "Using JMock with Test Driven Development". this discussion shows how to use JMock with Test Driven Development. For me JMock is very useful library, which I uses in my everyday work, because it simplifies writing tests. I think it is excellent library and everybody should use it - test driven development is better way of writing better programmes.

thePeoplesToolbox

sometimes I have to do something for web (i think about css, html, color, fonts etc), but i'm not very skillful webmaster (now I'm working as an Java programmer for web).
today i've found sth what for me is very interesting: thePeoplesToolbox. on this web page i've found many links for useful sites for everbody who wants to do something on web.

How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters

today I've found very interesting presenstation "How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters" by Joshua Bloch.
Joshua talks about designing and writing good API. For me it's very, very good because subject is very interesting and teacher is very good (I don't have to announce who Josuha Bloch is because every Java programmer know, who he is).

refactoring database

sometimes I've got a situation while I have to change something in a database. This db is rather old and badly made, so I have to do something with it.
it's a huge problem, because redesining this database can't be done - this is working db.
i've found interesting site Agile DBA. you can found there many tips.
i've also found out interesting book about this
Refactoring Databases - Evolutionary Database Design.

hibernate tips

recently I've found very interesting thing. all, but rather old hibernate tips. you can found it here