Artima Java BuzzA community of bloggers who post primarily about Java.MacMinute Dies With Stan Flack- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Soon after the death of Stan Flack, Stan&8217;s family decided to stop operating MacMinute. Initially they decided to close the site down but at the last minute were able to keep the archives of the site available as well as keep the forum running. I doubt the forum will continue to remain as popular now ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233558 ICompatible- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Brian McCallister: "To take a concrete example, a coworker (thanks Jax!) recently re-added first class support for callable statements to jDBI. jDBI uses a Handle interface to expose operations against a database. It has gained a method: public <ReturnType> Call<ReturnType> createCall(String callableSql,...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233504 Salesforce.com and Google integration: AtomPub- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Salesforce integrate with Google Data via GDataAtom Protocol: "The metadata APIs from Google Apps means you can read the APIs directly from Google and Salesforce servers into your own developer tools, most notably Eclipse. During his presentation at the developer conference, Benioff showed a demo in which all of the Google definitions, such as...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233513 How To Fix - Couldn't find per display information Error in Java Applications- (Found June 24, 2008 ) While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn&8217;t find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later. Let&8217;s find out more about it and how you can easily fix it. First of all the error doesn&8217;t originate in core ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233517 data storm - a new free database viewer for TDD- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Data Storm is a free open source data base browser. While there are millions of data base browsers freely available online, Data Storm is different as it can be launched directly from within your Java code. This enables you to see and modify data that otherwise may not be available to you (e.g. data that will be rolled back).It is freely...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233519 Leased Line Made Obsolete With Bonded Multiple ADSL for Most Businesses- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Leased Lines historically have been used as reliable, resilient internet and site-to-site data connections. The main benefits have been security, reliability, SLAs, private network and flexible speeds. Leased Lines were also known for high installation charges, long installation times, hefty monthly fees and unreasonable contracts. With the...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233522 5 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Development &38; QA- (Found June 24, 2008 ) These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform. They are: 1. Selenium IDE - Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233527 Party of one: Surviving the solo open source project- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Kirill Grouchnikov explores the challenges and pitfalls of starting and maintaining an open source software project, especially for the developer who codes alone. (An excerpt from Kirill's blog, Pushing Pixels.)http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233529 What is Your Most Favorite Firefox 3 Feature- (Found June 24, 2008 ) My most favorite Firefox 3 feature is the automatically generated Most Visited folder on Bookmarks tab. It allows me to quickly browse my important work related websites. The FastDial add-on also provides a similar feature but it does it the Opera way. Whenever you open a new tab window, it displays your 12 favorite ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233535 How To Use GMail for Corporate Email Filtering (Free)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime. First create a free GMail account if you do not have one already. Configure your corporate email account to forward all your emails to your free GMail account. For Linux based mail ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=233542 |