31May/071
links for 2007-05-30
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The latest release candidate of GWT 1.4 is available. This entry of the Google Web Toolkit Blog will show you the impressive list of changes!
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Pictures of the Linux-sponsored Chastain Motorsports IndyCar racecar that took part in this year Indy500.
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The Linux-sponsored car driven by Roberto Moreno was incidentally the first to retire by crashing out of the race!
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A list of why new programmers would be wise to start with Python as a programming language.
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Still not convinced by using PNG? Then I highly suggest that you read this
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A very good OpenID introduction.
29May/072
New TreePacksPanel
Vladimir Ralev from JBoss / RedHat has just check-in a new panel for the IzPack Java installer.
It acts like the classical packs panels but it can display the packs as trees. It will also report the required disk space sizes accordingly. I have included the following screenshots that Vladimir had sent to the developers mailing-list before getting the green flag for the merge:
You can test it now by checking out the latest version of IzPack from the trunk at http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/izpack/izpack-src/ or see http://izpack.org/developers if you need further instructions.
26May/070
links for 2007-05-25
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XStream 1.2.2 is released with JettisonMappedXmlDriver used for serialization and deserialization from JSON.
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A tutorial on using the query parser from Apache Lucene to provide Google-style query input and hence avoid having to build complex search forms.
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A mashup that uses Google Maps, FlickR feeds and Google's AJAX Feed API.
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The good reasons of a Google Search Quality team member to actually attend conferences all around the world.
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"Microsoft wants to expand the OSS landscape for .NET, so they’re recruiting people to lead open source projects built on .NET."
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A very good article on relationnal database systems by the Hibernate team.
