Sean Corfield talks about the the ColdFusion specification and explains the ways in which they hope to resolve code portability issues. Corfield is a strong proponent of open source and he has worked on open source projects for about fifteen years. The For ColdFusion Foundation, Corfield explains, is intended to make ColdFusion more open and to provide a central location for key projects. The foundation is in its early stages, but Corfield says that they already have a partnership with JBoss. Finally, Corfield talks about what's on the horizon for the ColdFusion ecosystem.

An updated guide to integrating Quartz into j2ee applications

This is the final part of the series on using IronPython together with the Entity Framework.

The newest version of Ruby in Steel, a Microsoft Visual Studio-based IDE for Ruby on Rails, is now available from SapphireSteel Software. The new 1.5 developer version supports integrated edit-and-run capabilities for Ruby 1.8.x, Ruby 1.9.x, and JRuby 1.4. Along with many improvements to IntelliSense and the product's debuggers, Cylon and JCylon, Ruby in Steel has also dropped its support for IronRuby.

A lot of agile literature is written for managment and driven by consultants. Very little focuses on the impacts agile (especially Scrum) has on developers. What does agile mean for the common developer? What to expect?

Agile is mostly driven driven by managment and consultants, seldom bottom up by developers. Some developes are suprised about agile and don’t know how to react. Lots of literature is written about agile, but very little with the developer in mind. What do you need to know about agile as a developer?

I recently read articles related to this topic but many were failure. so i thought of this article which is successful one . It is applied when Ubuntu is installed first .

So you want Distributed, Scalable and Highly Available Cache? If yes, then this is the right place for you. The Terracotta Ehcache release has these features inbuilt. The Express Installation mode has simplified Terracotta integration in your application

Continuing our series of articles, taking each design pattern one by one, we move onto the Adapter pattern. This pattern is used a lot in Eclipse, allowing plug-ins to be loosely coupled, yet still be integrated into the Eclipse runtime.

Agile development is often initiated by the development team itself. Whilst they may find some good advantages, the most profound benefits of agile software development will not be realised unless it is driven from the top.

With more than 275 fixed Bugzilla issues, Ant 1.8 flaunts some new performance improvements. A large directory scan, which would have taken 14 minutes in Ant 1.7.1, now takes as little as 22 seconds with Ant 1.8. The new version also scans smaller directory trees faster, going roughly from quadratic time to linear time when scanning directories.

Adam Leggett talks about how he has been using Codesion for their hosted subversion service.

Why do individuals and companies still say things like “We can't use Grails because we are a Java shop”? Do “Java shops” use Spring? Spring beans can be written in Groovy. Do “Java shops” use JSF? JSF backing beans can be written in Groovy. Contrariwise, most Grails artifacts can be written in Java. Grails is a Java framework, just like Spring, JSF, etc. It just happens to be the first one out with Groovy support.

Google is taking steps to acquire patents related to its Chrome browser technology. The company also got an endorsement for its Nexus One phone from the Linux Kernel project lead.

Step by step how-to on how to analyse Out Of Memory problems on Android. Includes lessons learned/tips.

This could be some thing big. Google is believed to be working on some killer social feature for GMail. This new feature could be out as early as this week end. The basic use of this feature will be to make it easy for users to share real time updates/information with their friends.

I had a terrific time spreading the word about Clojure tonight, followed by some fun and spirited discussions over dinner. People are intrigued by Clojure, even as they struggled with a strategy for bringing it into their organization. (Slideshow)

Oracle apologizes for its communication about kenai.com's future by saying that the future of kenai projects are secure at java.net

This post is all about CSS3 and Javascript. With all the new features that come with CSS3, there are whole lot of animation possibilites that can't be achieve before. So, Check this out and get inspired.

Have you ever thought of seeing the actual UIs on the web page under testing? Tellurium 0.7.0 added a cool feature to show this visual effect. The visual effect is implemented with STree build, outline visitor, and jQuery Simpletip plugin. Sample code and screen cast demo are available.

One of Java's most heard flaws (verbosity) isn't really tied to the language - it is rooted in a more deeply source: it comes from the way we use it.

This app does extractly what it named. You throw in a mess up, non-formatted CSS, choose a format you want and click "Do the magic" button. It will return you a proccessed CSS in your selected format. Fast and Simple. The utility right now support 4 different CSS formats. You could do it online or download the windows app for this. It's also include the source code for the solution (Core, Win App, Web App) in C# WPF an ASP.net.

Today Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010) RC for MSDN Subscriber. It will be available for the General people on RC on 10th February. If you are an MSDN subscriber you can go ahead and download the bits right now from the link below.

Today, Terracotta and Eucalyptus are announcing a partnership in which the two open source companies will provide tighter integration between Terracotta's data management solution and Eucalyptus' cloud solution. The two companies will also engage in joint sales and marketing activities, says Jeff Hartley the VP of Marketing and Products at Terracotta. DZone spoke with Hartley about the benefits of the deal. Generally, he says, technology on the compute side (virtualization, cloud) has advanced more quickly in recent years than technology on the data management side. He says many applications today are over-reliant on databases, which is causing bottlenecks and inefficiencies on cloud deployments.

I have seen an enormous amount of uninformed speculation regarding what the Flash and JS/HTML5 platforms are each capable of as of right now(February 2010). This post is an attempt to comprehensively round up the differences by going through the Flash API and filtering through it to create a "FAQ" of features worthy of direct comparison, with the focus being "what does Flash offer that is not covered in existing or proposed spec?"