Create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn't have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it's helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS.

The very latest in Java desktop news from the last week, covering Swing, JavaFX and Griffon.

Lots of people confuse “test first methodologies” with TDD, it is very common to listen comments like “TDD is just about writing your tests first”, which are completely wrong, these kind of affirmations are not describing TDD at all, they are talking about test first development.

Not too long ago Google announced their new experimental, open source, system language which was said to be a mix of Python and C called Go. Immediately the internet super highway’s lights lit up and the news spread like wild fire. Comments came from all over and besides the news that another language with the same name already existed, the enthusiasm did not let up. Writing the odd ‘Hello Go’ program or dabbling with the syntax is all well and good but, until you sit down and write something a tad more useful, you do not really get to know whether a new language holds any promise. I learned about a Twitter client written in Go and asked it’s author Dmitry Chestnykh to share his experience.

JTable uses some pretty weird index handling under the hood. Here is an example where it all broke down.

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development books and forums, few actually know much about it. However, if you need to apply agile to larger projects and teams, it is worthwhile taking the time to understand FDD a little more

Once in a while I’m stumbling on switch statements during a Code Review session. Whenever this is happening my first reaction is to understand why did the developer use it. Since using switch statement sometime implies spaghetti code and also can get very crowded (in case statements of course) in this post I’m going to show an alternative method that I pr...

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to learn how to implement our first jQuery plug-in.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.

This is a list of Rapid Application Development tools that might sometimes save your precious time. Some tools you already use might not be in this list so if you want it to be added here, please drop a comment.

Nice review of logging frameworks for Java.

Computing evolved with Desktop computing and then web apps. Browser Based apps are always slow and faulty, they can never as robust as a desktop can be. After The invention of web services and REST API, I would love to see web enabled desktop Apps. I love the concept of Portable Apps , When we mix concept of portable Apps and Cloud Based storage, we can achieve much better results. BUT Google will never let it happen, they are re-inventing all those age old things again in browser. I have posted a small video response on you tube.

A famous pioneer in web technology, creating the hottest search website in use today, Google stands at the front line of corporations pushing towards a future that is inextricably tied to the fast evolving sector of the internet.

Sam at CodeOder.com asks a rather interesting question; asking which is much like opening a can of worms.

Demonstrates the usage of Drag and Drop with the Eclipse framework.

This is a detailed post explaining the reasons high groth of Orkut in India and why Facebook has now started gaining share in India. A must read for any one remotely interest in social networking.

I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.

This is the home page for the First Class Methods (FCM) closures proposal for Java 7. The 'FCM' proposal consists of two parts - FCM and JCA. For clarity we recommend referring to the complete combined proposal as FCM+JCA.

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on Multi-Threading in C#. Before we even think about looking at any code, I think first, since this is the intro tutorial, we need to discuss what multi-threading is, and how it can benefit your application. We will also discuss some short falls in multi-threading capabilities.

This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community know which active containers are available and what is the general status of each container. The article can simply act as a start point for anyone need to select one of them for later use in development or product. Detailed comparison of these production cover many pages of a tick book.

One question that has been repeatedly asked is why JSR-310 wasn't simply the same as Joda-Time. I hope to expain some reasons here. Joda-Time as JSR-310? At its heart, JSR-310 is an effort to add a quality date and time library to the JDK. So, since most people consider Joda-Time to be a quality library, why not include it directly in the JDK? Well, there is one key reason - Joda-Time has design flaws. Now before everyone panics and abuses that line as a tweet, I need to say that Joda-Time is by far the best option curently available, and that most users won't appreciate the design flaws. But, I do want to document them, so the basis for the changes in JSR-310 is clear.

Today, Google announced the brand-new programming language, called “Go”. - golang.org This is a very impressive language for system researchers like me. It has pretty nice support for threading and networking. At first, I wrote the code to use “goroutine”, a light-weight thread prepared in Go. It only consumes several kilobytes per thread, so the programmer can create thousands of threads with littile overhead. This is very useful in writing networking codes (HTTPServer, ProxyServer, Crawler, etc.). I never want to write event-based server in C/C++.

Two computer programmers designed codes to falsify thousands of fake trade blotters and phantom records for swindler Bernard Madoff and took hush money to help keep the massive fraud going, U.S. authorities said. The FBI arrested Jerome O'Hara, 46, and George Perez, 43, at their homes on Friday morning on criminal charges of conspiracy for falsifying books and records at both the broker-dealer and investment arms of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) in New York. "The computer codes and random algorithms they allegedly designed served to deceive investors and regulators and concealed Madoff's crimes," said federal prosecutor Preet Bharara. "They have been charged for their roles in Madoff's epic fraud, and the investigation remains ongoing." O'Hara's attorney Gordon Mehler said "We intend to enter a plea of not guilty" after Manhattan federal court magistrate judge Ronald Ellis ordered the men released on $1 million bail each with travel restrictions.

After RubyConf 2006, I realized that Ruby was not on the right track for me. I went searching for a new language. I've been a JVM guy since '96, so finding a language that was as on the JVM was a plus for me. I was looking for a statically typed language with high performance, but with the syntactic economy of Ruby. I bounced around a couple of language listing sites and found Scala. Three years ago, I fell in total love with Scala. That love continues today. What is Scala to me?