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Google's VP9 Open Video Format Rolls Out in Chromium Build

For years now, Google has been looking to take a leadership stance in web-based video formats. We've reported on its efforts to facilitate 3D online video, and we covered Google's acquisition of On2, giving Google control of the VP8 video codec. Show More Summary

Getting Ready for Google Readers Demise

If, like me, you are franticly searching for a replacement for Google Reader, Fabian Scherschel over at the H Open has a great rundown of currently available alternatives, both closed and open source. Google announced that they would...Show More Summary

Useful jQuery code snippets

jQuery is definitely a great tool when it comes to front-end web development. Today, I'm sharing with you a bunch of super useful jQuery snippets from my personal favorites.

jQGrid PDF Export

Export your content from JQGrid to PDF format with less pain using iTextSharp

CodeSOD: Pot o' Gold

Since the first caveman first discovered the concept of this is more valuable than that, the science of alchemy has captured the imagination of many an enterprising soul. Unfortunately, to date, nobody has had any real success in transforming worthless metal into gold. Show More Summary

A universal gauge for your web dashboard

JavaScript plugin gaugeSVG to generate widely configurable SVG gauge for a web dashboard

Packing a Symfony full-stack Framework Application in one File -- Bootstrapping - Fabien Potencier

This article is part of a series of articles that explains how to pack a Symfony full-stack application in one file. The first article explains why this might actually be useful: 1) Introduction, 2) Bootstrapping, ... The most common...Show More Summary

Five Essential Front-End Tools That Should be Used with Modern MVC Projects

VS 2012 web templates come preloaded with standard front-end libraries. This post is meant to complete the list with other essential and productive libraries that should be used in modern public-facing MVC and webform projects.

How to Use Spring Hadoop—a Spring Batch Example

Engineers from Spring Source and Pivotal outline some examples of how to use Spring Hadoop with other Spring Projects and drill into an example of configuring Spring Batch with Spring Hadoop.

The right time to use the builder pattern in Java

Builder design pattern is a creational pattern like Factory pattern but has a very specific use case. You should be using Builder pattern, when you are creating object with too many optional and some mandatory properties in Java.

Small catch up - Michael Kimsal

So… I didn’t write much since April.  I took a bit of time off and went to Russia (some pics here - more to come later), and have been finishing up some contracts in May/June, and am now looking for the next thing to sink my teeth in...Show More Summary

Deploying Applications to GlassFish Using curl

Over the past few months, I’ve been posting tips on how to use the REST interface in GlassFish v3 and later to perform various functions. My last post used Scala. In this much briefer and far less ambitious post, I thought I’d share how to deploy an app using curl (from the shell of your choice). Show More Summary

Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone

A new blogpost has been posted by Jes Schultz Borland (grrlgeek) on Jun 17, 2013 in category Professional Development

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