Author: gagi
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Groovy meliorates and dries
Dynamic languages are very popular at this time and you probably had insight into at least one of them (Ruby, Python, Groovy). If you are bound to Java platform the best way to “be dynamic” IMHO is to work with Groovy. Apart from the http://groovy.codehaus.org/ where you can find documentation, getting started examples etc. there…
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Why would you spend time on warez sites?
Even if not being a “regular” warez user it would be good if you stay informed about what is happening inside warez community. One reason would be finding really popular and valuable programs by browsing warez sites. This is better than searching through regular download sites because programs found on these kind of sites are…
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HtmlUnit as Java Screen Scraping Library
If you are needing behavior ‘as though a real browser was scraping and using the page’ HtmlUnit is definitely the best option available. It was designed for testing websites but works great for screen scraping and navigating through multiple pages. It takes care of cookies and other session-related stuff and can execute (if you want…
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‘Awesome’ administrator
I am not sure if this clip is fake or not but it’s hilarious for sure. This guy is the administrator you don’t want to employ at your company (maybe you can recommend him to your competitors :). Watch it from here:
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Weblog for web-developers and designers
Smashing magazine is a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers. Its great because of its overview of interesting stuff for each month. Their published content is a must read if you want to become a good web developer or a designer that follows web design trends.
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Swing blog recommendation
Pushing-pixels by Kirill Grouchnikov is a dynamic blog on GUIs with a special attention to swing. It has weekly digest on popular swing links and is good place to start when searching for news in that field.
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Do you use launchy?
Launchy is a handy tool that can help you when you have messy folders and want to quickly find and open application, document or play the mp3 song. With it you can forgot about desktop, quicklaunch or start menu for starting applications. Iit’s free and makes your desktop life a lot easier. Try it!
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Advanced javascript tutorial
http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/ – A really good advanced javascript tutorial. If you want to be able to understand the code below, than this tutorial is the right thing.
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Freelancing site(s) …
If you are an active member of some programming community you won’t probably need any of existing freelancing sites since your friends usually have enough jobs to pass to you… But in case you still want a recommendation for a freelance site then here it is: Elance. You can however find more jobs on others…