Thanks in part to the many who forwarded, blogged, tweeted, and linked to my May 2009 plea to Telligent to turn GraffitiCMS over to the community, it now appears that Telligent will be doing exactly that.

Sun's Java SE team recently released the Milestone 5 build of JDK 7. This was expected to be a feature complete release of Java 7 but is some way short of that. InfoQ takes a look at what has been added and some of the major features still missing.

An easy 5 step tutorial to install Linux. You don't even have to believe in a higher power to participate in these steps.

We can use mysql_connect and mysql_select_db functions to create our connections. For closing the connections there is mysql_close function. These are basic functions of managing connections in PHP. There are also a lot of classes made by developers for free.

God bless Javascript, glorification of all sorts of butchers.

I want to share very useful in my opinion code snippets for WPF developers. Most of they were created my friend - Dmitrij Zakharov. Moreover I want to add a short description to each snippets. Note: The Code Snippet Inserter inserts a code snippet at the cursor location, or inserts a surround-with code snippet around the currently selected code.

What is Swype & how does it work? Putting it simply Swype allow users to trace their way between different letter on a touch screen (by actually dragging their hands on the screen) instead of tapping each letter one by one. Essentially the aim of Swype is to increase the typing speed by making touch typing more intuitive. Now, here comes the real interesting stuff. Today TechCrunch leaked a video that (attached with the post) shows the comparison between the typing speed on an iPhone and Samsung Omnia II. Both the phones are placed side by side and by now you won’t be surprised to learn that Samsung (using Swype) beats the iPhone. In fact the typist using Samsung finishes way before his iPhone counterpart. I am not saying that this is gonna be another iPhone killer. Ofcourse not. I have not used Swype personally so I can’t comment on its speed. But from outside I find it very impressive and this could be the direction in which touch technology might evolve.

Over the past 10 years, Java IDEs have evolved from Symantec's Visual Cafe to Eclipse and NetBeans of today. During this evolution, Java IDEs have added a large number of features, flexibility, and complexity. PremiumSoft's NaviCoder takes aim at these higher end Java IDEs with an easier to use IDE.

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In here, we will discuss a few method that we can use to disable Wordpress admin menu from displaying and accessing by valid users.

Adobe Premiere Pro is Non-Linear Editor of choice for millions of multimedia developers who working as video editing and audio editing with famous products and even using in movie editing too, most of film makers using this famous tool for professional work, Premier Pro to work seamlessly and dynamically with the industry heavy weight Photoshop and After Effects for a complete comprehensive workflow. Hope you like 40 Professional Trainings for Multimedia Developers which is really professional collection for professionals.

TimeFinder allows universities and schools to reduce and even avoid conflicts in the timetable! It is Open Source and based on Spring Rich Client. Check it out!

We have collected some of the very best 30+ professional website design tutorials mostly done in photoshop. It's no surprise to see there's a lot of photoshop tutorials out there about creating a professional business website design layout.

This article describes the various refactorings available in Eclipse Java™ Development Tools (JDT), including what each refactoring does, when to use it, and how to use it. It also explores the refactoring script functionality in Eclipse, which allows library developers to share code refactorings with their clients.

Joseph McCarthy from IBM Ireland has written a tutorial called "Using Comet for asynchronous user notification of autonomous server thread progression" about how to use polling and Comet (long polling) in Java with the ItsNat Java web framework to asynchronously notify end users by web about what is doing an autonomous thread (not a web thread) doing a long task in parallel. Note: to read this article use MSIE 6 or FireFox disabling styles (View/Page Style/No Style)

There are some great upcoming Certified ScrumMaster courses through Agile University that can jump start your resume and give your skill set a competitive edge. December 9-10 in Santa Clara use discount code = SC15 for 15% off December 15-16 in NYC, NY use discount code = DECNYC20 for 20% off Also be sure to check out Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn and 360 Degree Agile Workshop by David Bernstein.

Closures are reusable code blocks in Groovy. The code of the closure is executed against the delegate of the closure. By default the owner of the closure is the same as the delegate, but we can change this. We can define which object is the delegate for a closure, so we can change the object the closure is executed for.

There are some great upcoming Certified ScrumMaster courses through Agile University that can jump start your resume and give your skill set a competitive edge. December 9-10 in Santa Clara use discount code = SC15 for 15% off December 15-16 in NYC, NY use discount code = DECNYC20 for 20% off Also be sure to check out Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn and 360 Degree Agile Workshop by David Bernstein. Here are the course listings: Certified ScrumMaster Training Date: 12/9/09 – 12/10/09 Location: Santa Clara, CA Trainer: Hubert Smits – Rally Software Course Overview This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more! On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. Agenda • Introduction to Agile Principles • Introduction to Scrum Principles o Scrum Core Elements & Practices o Product Visioning o Roles & Responsibilities o Product Backlog & Release Planning o Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning o Sprint o Daily Standup Meeting o Burndown Charts & Project Reporting o Sprint Review & Retrospective o The 59 Minute Scrum Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute) New York City, NY: Certified ScrumMaster Training Date: 12/15/09 – 12/16/09 Location: New York City, NY Trainer: Tamara Sulaiman – Rally Software Course Overview This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more! On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. Agenda • Introduction to Agile Principles • Introduction to Scrum Principles o Scrum Core Elements & Practices o Product Visioning o Roles & Responsibilities o Product Backlog & Release Planning o Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning o Sprint o Daily Standup Meeting o Burndown Charts & Project Reporting o Sprint Review & Retrospective o The 59 Minute Scrum Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute) Cheers, Chase Doelling info@agileu.org Agile University

We recently updated CloudFoundry.com. With this update, we introduced several exciting new features that pave the way for future development. I want to take this opportunity to describe and explain these features, as well as provide some background in how they came about. We are excited for you to try them out and provide us with feedback.

WorkTime- powerful Internet monitoring software for companies to monitor Internet related activities by the employees. Analyze time spent browsing, chatting; find-out the most used web sites, discover employees spending too much time in the Internet.

We Riena committers smoothly shipped a fresh Riena Milestone last Friday, this time 1.2.0.M3 (download). Here’s the New & Noteworthy and the list of resolved items.

It is frustrating whenever personal medical questions become political questions. This happens all the time. Example A, ripped from the headlines, is the kerfluffle over mammograms. Women, doctors and politicians who hate having to go through the procedure are now screaming bloody murder over the non-existent “threat” to halt access to it.

If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a position of having to migrate a lot of code.

So you’ve hired a freelancer to help you achieve your business goals. Now what? It’s vitally important that you, as the client, do your part in fostering a positive working relationship with your contractor. Embarking on a new project can be overwhelming, especially if it involves technical aspects (such as web design). That’s why you’ve hired an expert!