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Linux was just deemed greener than Windows Server 2008 when running as the operating system for servers — a good 12 percent more efficient. Now that might not sound like much, but the same research also drove home just how difficult it is to get servers to run efficiently. So don’t scoff, and all […]

Good interview with Brendan Eich talking about the challenges of rolling out Javascript version 2.0. He talks about the work Mark Hammond (Python win32 extension fame) is doing with the Screaming Monkey project getting it running as a plugin for IE. Interesting theory that Adobe might roll it out with Flash in the future to force IE adoption.

“Only two lines of javascript and what a difference it makes!” That was my conclusion after trying out NicEdit on my personal blog - a script that puts RichText WYSIWYG functionality into a blog’s comment section.
As any blogger will tell you, the comments section of the blog is pretty much the life-blood of […]

A big list of useful wordpress plugins

Here at Graphing Social Patterns, Userplane will announce later today the launch of white label plugins for a variety of content management systems (CMS). Plug-ins for Userplane Webmessenger, Webchat and Webrecorder applications are now available for VBulletin, WordPress, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla and phpFoX.

This should help Userplane further their distribution by offering an easy integration for those users who utilize a CMS system. This isn’t as robust as what other white label social networks such as KickApps, Ning or Magnify.net provide but is an easy way to add additional functionality to a CMS quickly and easily. The key for users is to determine a strategy before installing any widget, plugin or social network addon. Changing strategies later on can be very costly.

I will report back with more details after the live announcement later today. In the meantime, check out our interview with CEO Michael Jones.

What we came up with, was an API that removed 95% of our exposed methods, and kept only one single overloaded method per plugin. It was extremely important that jQuery UI v1.5 was not only feature-rich but also stable. We took several steps to greatly improve our debugging and testing. Enchant is now a part of jQuery UI and jQuery users now have a unified solution for their effects and UI needs. ThemeRoller offers a unique approach to theming UI components specifically built for jQuery UI. The biggest improvements and changes were done on individual plugin code. Almost every plugin has been completely rewritten from scratch to optimize stability and performance.

The new release includes a reworked SDK that allows creating plugins for easier integration with third-party frameworks or containers. We have also open-sourced the integration part of JavaRebel as a special plugin. Additionally this release includes long-awaited support for IBM Websphere.

I know what your thinking. Oh crap here he goes again with recommending tools and or services. My question is have I ever steered you wrong?

Yes I normally deal in freeware tools. Mostly due to me being cheap and thinking my skills should push me past that latest issue with code. So why recommend an expensive tool? Good question. A friend recommended to me this tool. I had used tools like .net reflector to look into DLL’s to understand the application I am adding. I had heard rumor of NDepend however with all the different “N” products out there I was like another database OR mappers right? Or maybe another subversion type software.

So I downloaded the tool to see what if anything this tool had to offer. So once I downloaded the software and ran it. I was interested to see what it would do.

It installed nicely into Visual Studio 2005 as well as Visual 2008. A plugin for an Addin for Reflector.

I wanted to see what it would do with one of my most complicated E-commerce applications (http://www.Buylifetime.com). I was surprised to notice the amount of extra DLL’s I was not in need of to make the application to work.

Simply put this application should be included with all Visual Studio Installs. It is that important. If Performance as well as clean code is important to you or your business you should have this to view all your important applications.

I would like to go over all the great features as well as the benefits however they are too much and too many to list.Purchase your copy today and see how much more rapid your development becomes.

I have begun some basic work on the Grails Eclipse plugin that I outlined in a proposal in a previous post. One of the features I want to highlight will be the fact that I want the plugin to be almost exclusively written in Groovy instead of Java.

The complete suggestions framework for java, supporting single and multi field suggest, java suggest box, client/server with hessian or json-rpc, and GWT AJAX suggest box, phonetic plugins. Proven high performance for data sets > 1 Mio. License: LGPL