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WARNING/Disclaimer: This is an approach for the brave or those who are desperate to get their Greasemonkey extensions working again. It’s by no means scientific, but I use Greasemonkey a lot (and a couple of other extensions too), and really wanted it back! What I have: Firefox 3.0 RC1, Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0 Go get yourself the Nightly Tester tools [...]
A session by Steve Jones and Duane Nickul Exploring the OASIS reference model, so that we can have a reference point for understanding and articulating SOA. It’s very tough when you ask questions like: - how does SOA differ from other types of architecture? - If SOA is x, what is the antipattern? - How does Java relate to SOA? We [...]
The first release candidate for Firefox has just surfaced.  You can get it over at Mozilla. It has a nice new look, a really useful address bar, and it is so much faster than 2.
This was session TS-6574 at JavaOne. A talk around implementing the OpenSocial APIs for your site.  OpencSocial defines a dingle API for social applications that covers the majority of interactions with social web tools. There are two basic parts.  The Server side contains a Gadget Server (think Google gadgets), and an OpenSocial JavaScript library. The client side [...]
Well, I made it to JavaOne this year, and here is the first session from the Community Day, delivered by John Smart. This session was really about how you can be more focussed in software development by utilising tools and process to take out some of the pain. Main focus of which was: Reducing bugs Using build scripts Managing dependencies Automating [...]
My DRAFT notes for the session (TS-6339) given by Cameron Purdy from the Oracle Coherence team at JavaOne. Current trends to reflect the move to lighter technologies. However, the patterns for scaling don’t change, and this was a session aimed at giving guidance to achieve that…without shooting yourself in the foot. 10. Understanding the Problem Initial expectations are [...]