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ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs.
As of today, DTracing Java is cool as long as you’re doing relatively general performance analysis of the software - questions about “which method?”, “which class?”, “which monitor?” can be answered - to open the ultimate insight into application space (“which query?”, “which dataset?”, “which url?”) we need to work a little harder.
There has been a great deal of interest in closures lately, driven in great part by the fact that there is talk of adding some form of anonymous functions to the Java. Most of the time, people talk about “adding closures” to Java, and that prompts a flurry of questions of the form “what is a closure and why should I care?”
I’ve decided to stop being polite about the WS-* stack.
At some point in the past rolling out an application to 300,000 people was the pinnacle of engineering excellence. Today it means you passed your second round of funding and can move out of your parents garage.
If you’ve ever written a piece of code that worked fine in a Rails app but bombed elsewhere, you’ve probably been relying on a Railism unknowingly.
There’s an awful lot of sound and fury right now about adding syntax support for properties to Java 7. However, all the proposals are vastly too complex for what little benefit they offer. They need new keywords, operators, rules, and best practices. Could we have done better? Yes. Can we still do better? Maybe. Let’s find out.
Here’s a compilation of silly and stupid ways companies are hindering adoption of their products and services.
Guy actually lists 14 items, among them enforced registration and stupidly long (and unreadable) URLs.