Monthly Archives: October 2006

Optimizing Page Load Time – die.net “It is widely accepted that fast-loading pages improve the user experience.” (tags: web performance optimization webdesign Bandwidth architecture) Dynamic Drive CSS Layouts- Tableless, CSS based templates This is Dynamic Drive’s new CSS layouts section. … Continue reading →

The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites (Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog) “Continuous release cycles. The bigger the release, the more unwieldy it becomes (more dependencies, more planning, more disruption.) Organic growth is the most powerful, adaptive, and resilient.” … Continue reading →

Cory Foy: Principles, not Processes True: “The only way to really become agile is to look at the practices and understand the principles behind why you would want to do them, then fit them into your organization.” (tags: Agile scrum … Continue reading →

Ajaxian.com 2006 Survey Results “Prototype, the most popular Ajax framework, by a considerable margin: 43% of you use it. Script.aculo.us is next, at 33%, confirming observations that many of made of the popularity of that duo.” (tags: AJAX JavaScript Java … Continue reading →

InfoQ: Presentation: The Role of the Enterprise Service Bus “Mark Richards tells us what an ESB is, its role, what capabilities it provides, and the various ways an ESB can be implemented.” (tags: architecture ESB SOA video presentation webservices) LogicBlaze … Continue reading →

Test Driven Development "add a test, get it to fail, and write code to pass the test (DoSimpleThings, CodeUnitTestFirst); remove duplication (OnceAndOnlyOnce, DontRepeatYourself, ThreeStrikesAndYouAutomate)" (tags: programming testing QA development Agile XP)

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) “The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.” (tags: AJAX API Dev reference … Continue reading →

Scrum Agile Process “Scrum is an agile process for developing software. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of month-long iterations called sprints.Scrum is an agile process for developing software. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of month-long iterations … Continue reading →

Scrum et al. – Google Video “Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many, many changes when it is implemented.” Thank you Google for sharing (tags: Agile Scrum Dev methodology management process programming productivity software video) What is SCRUM? … Continue reading →

Download details: XML Notepad 2006 XML Notepad 2006 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents. (tags: XML utilities Freeware Editors development tools software Microsoft)

Google Docs to go ‘offline’ and more | Googling Google | ZDNet.com “Google is working on a solution that will allow you to install Writely on your local machine” … as well as integration with Salesforce.com (tags: Google Web integration … Continue reading →

Celtix – ESB for Open Source SOA Celtix is a fully featured Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (tags: ESB framework Java opensource SOA Enterprise architecture) Software Life Cycle Quality Management Solution – from Borland “Lifecycle Quality Management is a pragmatic approach … Continue reading →

New York Daily News – Daily Dish & Gossip – Final curtain at CBGB I spent so much of the 80′s there, it’s hard to imagine that it will be gone. “The club is exiting stage left after 32 years, … Continue reading →