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Following the trend (or madness) that currently rocks the Java world a leading java clustering solution has been open sourced. Teracotta becomes OpenTeracotta and it seems they have decided against having more then one edition (professional/community) so basically if you need any of these features you might be in luck: Heap-Level Replication Cross-JVM Coordination Large Virtual Heaps Fine-Grained Changes Runtime Management and Control No Serialization This brings some high-end enterprise features in reach to anyone and I hope this strategy will bring more clients to the Teracota team. In the end, if an open source solution brings quality to your enterprise, you should give something back. Download here. Tutorials here.

Firebug, l’estensione di Firefox, sta finalmente giungendo alla 1.0. L’altro giorno era alla 0.4 (ossia 4 features implementate) e ora siamo gia alla 1.0 beta ( 10 features implementate. ). Tra le ultime troviamo: Ispezione e modifica in tempo reale del DOM XHTML. Ispezione e modifica in tempo reale del CSS. Visualizzazione delle metriche in pixel del box-model CSS. Console JavaScript con stack trace. Shell JavaScript. Ispezione, debugger in tempo reale di JavaScript (incluse chiamate XMLHttpRequest). Ispezione delle variabili in tempo reale. Visualizzatore di oggetti a runtime. Profiler per verificare quali componenti rallentano la pagina. Non credo proverò la beta, aspettero (per un po) la versione 1.0 definitiva (che non dovrebbe tardare molto data la stabilità della beta). Insieme a Firebug 1.0 beta è stata rilasciata anche un'altra beta quella di Firebug Lite che permette di inserire una console firebug all'interno di un sito attraverso una library javascript, veramente notevole. Ah, Firebug ha ora una tripla licenza MPL/GPL/LGPL.

This is a gallery with some very nice and though of flash animations. Sweet!

Some overly creative people have decided to create the ultimate keyboard and if it didn't cost 1200$ I'd actually want one. Check it out, the Optimus keyboard (concept). If I can give them advice, I'd like it to be able to pick up the characters from the keyboard used, even if not official ones, as now we can modify our layouts using MKLC (and I intend to use it). I think it would be feasible to write a driver that can hook up to the system and read the current keyboard layout and the characters to map. If you could also choose the font to display it would be even sweeter. :) No need to make the keyboard too smart, just put some userspace component that can hook up to the OS internals, read layout, rasterize bitmaps for the LED's and shut down itself if not necessary (especially if you decide to write it in .net under windows).

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. I think we posted about it before but I found out they released a version 2 of the library (now featuring also a Gallery mode) so it deserves a bump. Featuring: Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions Backwards Compatibility: yes!

Bhe eguagliare TextMate il miglior editor sul mercato è un’impresa ardua però ci si può andare vicino, alcuni ragazzi lo stanno facendo sotto windows il risultato spero di vederlo presto magari per Natale sarebbe una bella sorpresa da mettere sotto l’albero. Se siete ancora legati alla gonnella di windows vi consiglio di tenerlo d’occhio.

Very soon (it should come out with the next pre-release of jetty 6.1.0) Jetty will come out with the EasyBeans EJB3 container that (hopefully) means just as you were able to quicken your web application development cycle with Jetty standalone, you might accelerate as well you EJB development cycle. EasyBeans is an open source implementation by ObjectWeb of the EJB3 container specification. Now we have to wait and see just how capable of a container EasyBeans is but ObjectWeb is getting a very good reputation in the enterprise java space and just the fact that EasyBeans builds on the OSGi infrastucture promises some nifty stuff. I bet Jetty and EasyBeans are to become even more popular now. The question burning inside right now is: would Pitchfork work as well?