Archive for August 2009

SQL Prompt - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for SQL Developers

August 31, 2009 11:45 PM

I am always wondering why Microsoft has not introduced intelligent editor for SQL Server. SQL Server has come a long way and with the enhancements in SQL Server Management Studio, it is anybody’s guess why it has not been incorporated. But I am using SQL Prompt for that missing functionality and it is definitely a cool tool, which gives the same feel as if we are working with Visual Studio for SQL. I hope Microsoft will include some of its features in next versions of SQL Server so that we don’t have to buy licenses of Red Gate.

posted by Rohit Srinath

Resharper - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for .NET Developers

August 30, 2009 11:43 PM

Resharper - The Must-Have Productivity Tool for .NET Developers I have been using Resharper since a year and am very impressed with it. Microsoft development environments have always been very developer friendly, right since early Visual Studio days. This tool [Resharper] sits on top of Visual Studio and helps developers in finding errors on the fly, helps in code refactoring, navigating, code reformatting, clean up and yes in automatic code generation. It makes developer’s life easier, helps in producing high quality code and adds values. It has support for C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, XML, XAML.

posted by Rohit Srinath

iPhone Development - Stay on Target

August 28, 2009 3:33 AM

It’s no good, I can’t maneuver! Stay on target. We’re too close! Stay on target! My wife will probably call me a geek for quoting Star Wars in my post, but I feel like our lunch time iPhone development adventure is closely mirroring Luke’s quest to destroy the Death Star.

posted by Jeff Schwartz

iTeam - CMIS Alpha Demo

August 28, 2009 3:25 AM

A quick peek at the iTeam’s latest CMIS development efforts:

posted by George Korsnick

JBoss HornetQ

August 27, 2009 5:53 PM

One of the things that I love about JBoss is that they have some really cool technology. It is my impression that the power of their technology often gets lost in the shuffle as they try to position themselves to compete against Weblogic, Websphere, Glassfish, etc. One recent example is HornetQ, formally know as JBoss Messaging 2.0. They have a blog post about the shear speed they are getting from the message persistence on HornetQ, and it is pretty awesome. Stuff like this is what makes JBoss products a pleasure to work with as a Software Engineer.

posted by Matt Campbell

CITYTECH is Excited for JBoss World

August 25, 2009 9:15 PM

CITYTECH is busy gearing up for next week’s JBoss World 2009 here in Chicago. There’s a lot for us to be excited about! We’re looking forward to having JBoss World right in our backyard this year. It should be a great event and a chance to connect with old friends and meet some new ones. We’re ready to show the city off! If anyone coming from out of town wants advice on things to see, places to eat or what to do at night, let me know!

posted by Bridget Kulla

Creating a Bordered Panel in JavaFX

August 23, 2009 2:10 AM

Recently I was looking for an easy, relatively general way to visually separate arbitrary groups of components with a border. Behold the BorderPanel: BorderPanel is simply a CustomNode that wraps any number of nodes in a Panel (which is a custom layout Container), and sticks a border around it.

posted by Sten Anderson

An Animated Chart in JavaFX

August 18, 2009 8:50 PM

For an upcoming demo I had some data in chart format, which would be changing frequently, so I wanted the charts to smoothly animate the value transitions rather than abruptly change to the new dataset.

posted by Sten Anderson

Music Explorer FX Source Code Available

August 9, 2009 3:49 AM

Music Explorer FX has been open sourced and is available for download on the JFXtras community site (it’s about halfway down the page). Thanks to Stephen Chin for encouraging me to release it under open source.

posted by Sten Anderson

Content Management Systems (CMS) from a Marketer’s Point of View

August 4, 2009 8:37 PM

I’ve been writing web content for a number of years now and I’ve tried out a fair share of content management systems. In terms of usability, most have ranged from being a pain in the butt to being decent at best. Without exception, however, I’ve always had to rely heavily on IT staff and designers to make the final page look like I envisioned it. This was before I started using Day CQ content management system, but I’ll get to that in a minute.

posted by Bridget Kulla

Book Review: Pro JavaFX Platform

August 4, 2009 5:13 AM

Early adopters of new technology platforms seem to have a masochistic side in that they must put up with the pain of unimplemented features, poor or non-existent documentation, and incomplete APIs. Their reward for all of this hard effort and needless suffering once a new version of the platform is released is often hopelessly broken code and a relearning/unlearning of all that has changed.

posted by Sten Anderson

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