Steven Hatch’s Blog

links for 2006-07-28

FT.com / World / Europe – Tour de France victor fails drugs test

No! No! No! “Floyd Landis, the American cyclist who on Sunday won one of the most thrilling Tours de France of recent years, could be stripped of his title after a drugs test showed an abnormally high level of testosterone in his body.”

(tags: Cycling TdF tourdefrance)
Google Code – Project Hosting

“Release early, release often.”

(tags: Google Code Dev development Open_Source opensource)
Enterprise Java Community: Ajax and the Spring Framework with TIBCO General Interface

“Brian Walsh has written an exceedingly well documented tutorial on combining Spring MVC, XStream and TIBCO GI.”

(tags: Java AJAX springframework Web webdev development Dev)
Spring MVC step-by-step Part 1

“This is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.”

(tags: java tutorial framework springframework mvc spring Web webdev)
Spring MVC step-by-step

“This is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework. It is divided into a number of parts.”

(tags: java tutorial programming j2ee framework spring Web webdev springframework)
Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development

“Here I discuss our experiences and lessons learned in doing offshore agile development.”

(tags: Dev outsourcing Agile Development methodology outsource)

Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search

“Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user ex

(tags: search web2.0 web internet web20 Folksonomy tags semanticweb Collaboration Business)

Uni-Directional WIFI Range Extender

“Easily receive WIFI signals from far away using a standard USB WIFI adaptor and a bit of ingenuity. This Simple idea requires no modifications to a USB WIFI adaptor or your computer. A simple way to increase the signal strength and range of your WIFI. Pl

(tags: WiFi Wireless Networking HOWTO Hacks Hack geek DIY hardware)

Javascript Sound Kit

“The Javascript Sound Kit is a wrapper around the ActionScript Sound Object, it makes it possible to use the Sound Object in Javascript the same way you do it in ActionScript.”

(tags: AJAX API Code JavaScript Flash MP3 Multimedia opensource sound music)

Cycling – Legendary Landis – Eurosport

The ride yesterday by Floyd Landis was amazing. Many agree: “In a performance that will go down as one of the greatest in the history of the Tour de France, Landis made his bid for glory on the Cat. 1 Col des Saisies, the first of five climbs.”

(tags: Cycling Sports TdF)

How to use Subversion with Eclipse

Read on to see how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE.

(tags: java programming development Dev Software subversion svn tutorial eclipse)

What He’s Been Pedaling – New York Times

Go Floyd! Go! “All of which transforms Landis into the embodiment of an intriguing question: Is it possible for someone with a ruined hip to win the Tour de France?”

(tags: Cycling TdF Sports)

Tour de France 2006 – New York Times

“Interactive Feature: Tour de France from the NYTimes.”

(tags: Cycling Sports tourdefrance TdF)

Welcome – TheOpenCD

TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation.

(tags: opensource Software tools Windows)
Book Publishing Statistics

“Here are some interesting facts and figures about the book industry.”

(tags: books statistics stats Business reference Print)