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Ars has the Chrome scoop I am trying to get out of the bad habit of just posting links, but, I haven't had time to look into Chrome yet, and this is such a big story even the link might be valuable if you haven't heard about it. UPDATE
Ray tackles Chrome and the results are good: "Chrome looks to be twice as fast as the competition on real world apps." In his benchmarks Chrome is not only faster on a complicated app, but also takes up less memory (vs Firefox and Safari). Chrome smokes the competition on Chronoscope 
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Android Market, Google's App Store, Will Not Require Approval For Applications Great news. Now we all need to get cracking with some cool apps. Note that the article sort of swings and misses in trying to state that the app store for Google will have to be a lot more complicated than that of Apple, I think. Sure Android will have many more handsets to deal with, but hopefully the APIs will be robust enough (when they hit 1.0, they aren't yet) to gracefully degrade if one device doesn't have feature X, and so on. Yes, developers can still write crappy apps, and they can still cause problems, but the separate process space approach that Android has...
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I spent a few hours tonight making a GWT in Practice project over a Google Code Hosting. I found a few other books that were doing this, and I thought it was very helpful (a lot easier to peruse on example online sometimes than to grab a 30MB download for an entire book). This project includes the sample code in SVN, has links to the relevant GWT in Practice web pages, and has running samples for a few of the apps (for the ones that are only client side code, and therefore capable of being hosted at gCode). I am tooting this horn here to advertise the gCode GWTiP site. Lastly, if you have read...
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Dumbster: The Dumbster is a very simple fake SMTP server designed for unit and system testing applications that send email messages. It responds to all standard SMTP commands but does not deliver messages to the user. The messages are stored within the Dumbster for later extraction and verification.
... public class SimpleSmtpServerTest extends TestCase { ... public void testSend() { SimpleSmtpServer server = SimpleSmtpServer.start(); try { // Submits an email using javamail to the email server listening on port 25 // (method not shown here). Replace this with a call to your...
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I recently started a project where I am exploring whether or not to use GWT-Ext with GWT in order to leverage some of the widgets therein. One of the first things I ran up against, which seems to hit everyone at some point in this same process, is that GWT-Ext doesn't support GWT-RPC for data feeds out of the box (though they do offer a non-free "Plus" package that can do it - I didn't want to drop the cash though just for an evaluation - maybe more on that later).
So what do they use typically, if not GWT-RPC you ask? Well, JSON of course. JSON is actually pretty nice, and might come in...
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Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK Upgrading the SDK A first look at the Google Android SDK 
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Free, and often even free beer (thanks to the sponsors, you can get ripped even if the talk sucks ;)). ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Burr Sutter
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Subject: [ajug-announce] AJUG Tonight: Flex=Java+Flash
To: ajug-announce@ajug.org When: August 19th at 7:00 PM
Who: James Ward (Adobe)
Where: Holiday Inn Select - Chamblee-Dunwoody http://www.ajug.org/meetings.html#directions
What: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java The Session:
The Web 2.0 crowd has had significant debates about the use of plug-in based solutions to RIA vs JavaScript-based ones and in this presentation you will see how powerful a Flash-based business-focused web application can be. This presentation will...
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SDK delays for the general public notwithstanding, its on the way: A ‘Dream’ Come True: U.S. Approves the First Google Phone. 
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I know they are well aware that people check their feeds, and have manipulated the listings accordingly, but that only makes it a bit more shockingly clear: John McCain is officially way beyond losing his sanity (Drudge, and Fox News), and Barack has a brain (Chicago Sun Times, and The Daily Show). Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists 
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My DVD broke a while back (first one I have ever had that just stopped working, all the cheap ones over the years were fine, the fancy Toshiba upconverting one dies after a year - I digress). I had a Wii in the same room connected to the same TV, so I just threw out the DVD player thinking to myself - don't need it, will just play em on the Wii (if the need arises). Later I found out the Wii isn't a DVD player, sorry, no dice. I was literally sitting there one day going with my Wiimote going "you have to be kidding me, right? - this $200+ device that plays all sorts of...
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Stevey's Blog Rants - Business requirements are bullshit. I like the headline too, and the thoroughness of the article, and completely agree - so I thought I would try to do my little part to propagate this knowledge (link it here - etc). Really, I know how hard this is for many PMs and "business analysts" (don't get me started), but it's true.
Call it what you want, but it's a sign of organizational (or individual) cluelessness. If you don't already know exactly what to build, then you're in the wrong business. At the very least, you should hire someone who does know. Don't gather business requirements: hire domain experts.
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Two Georgians Say They Have Bigfoot’s Body Alternate headline - get yourself in the New York Times by throwing some deer entrails into a cooler on top of a monkey suit. This article is filed under humor, because these clowns are obviously full of crap, but still, it's a great marketing ploy. One of them just happens to own a *business* that "offers bigfoot tours." The perpetrators of this hoax are going to offer up the "proof," today. But, before that happens, let's take bets on what the excuse will eventually be as to why actual scientists won't be able to examine their "evidence." (Georgia has a great primatalogy institute at Emory university, arguably one of...
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. . . stepping up to soap box . . . I had an opinion or two about the US invading Iraq back in the day. Before the invasion I was concerned about the geopolitical standing of the US if we unilaterally invaded a "sovereign" country. I was also concerned about the actual effect on terrorism (repeatedly, and logically, noting that bombing the crap out of a group of religious zealots might not be the best way to make our country safer - in fact it might have the opposite affect - whereas dealing with the root causes of the ignorance and hatred might be more useful). I can't help but chuckle (yes chuckle, in order...
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I write, therefore the LHC hasn't destroyed the planet. 
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I was recently tasked with helping to create a Java class that had the same command line options and operation as a C executable. We already had a Java API that handled the actual work, so the goal was really just to handle the command line options and exit codes, hook into the API correctly for all the options, and output the correct stdout and stderr responses.
Sounds pretty easy at first, but, once you make a few options and then try to write a test for a class that only produces stdout (System.out) and stderr (System.err) output, and then exits the VM every time it does something, you realize there is a bit more to...
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