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links for 2007-05-20

Monday, May 21st, 2007
  • The first part of a tutorial on RSpec, a behavior-driven testing framework written in Ruby.
  • The documentation of the Ruby RSpec framework.
  • What would happen if open source software disapeared the next day? Many open source haters just do not realize how the whole Internet would stop working :-)
  • Le point de vue sur la guerre des solutions de rich internet applciations par Olivier Ezratty (ex Microsoft donc point de vue forcémment un poil biaisé). Dommage qu’il oublie Mozilla XUL / XULRunner.
  • A very nice presentation to show to your management if they still don’t get why web standards are so important.
  • links for 2007-05-18

    Saturday, May 19th, 2007
  • If you believe that VI/VIM is an horrible editor for old-school Unix geeks, then go and read this article. It will walk you through many misconceptions regarding this editor and show you how powerful (and not that complicated) it can be.
  • A list of what will be in the next release of the excellent Derby relationnal database system. For those who don’t know about Derby: it’s a complete RDBMS written 100% in Java that you can either run as a standalone server or embedded in applications.
  • An article presenting a Java GUIs testing framework.
  • links for 2007-05-17

    Friday, May 18th, 2007
  • An interesting discussion, heavily based on opensource habits, but which also applies to traditional development environments.
  • This guy must be in Formula one next year!
  • An interview of Sebastien Bourdais after his latest test with Toro Rosso.
  • First video of the Extreme GUI Makeover sessions at JavaOne 2007 by Romain Guy. As usual with him, you can see some pretty nice effects.
  • What do you do when you have finished your PhD?
  • The Wikipedia entry of the companies that have been acquired by Google over the years.
    (tags: Google)
  • A discussion of why the JavaScript ‘alert()’ function is evil. In my opinion you should only use it for debugging purposes, not as a way to communicate with users.
  • links for 2007-05-16

    Thursday, May 17th, 2007