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PNG optimization tools

News - 15 days ago

I'm currently experimenting with different tools for optimizing PNG images to figure out strengths/weaknesses of each. Only considering free, ideally open-source, tools that can be run from the command line. For smush.it I just picked pngcrush for no particluar reason and I was thinking that once I read more

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Book review: ?Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks? by Wroblewski

News - 15 days ago

Usability and design guru Luke Wroblewski knows that web forms suck. More importantly, he knows why - and how to make them suck less.
For the past few years, the Yahoo! product design exec has been presenting his ongoing research into the humble HTML form at conferences and on his blog, Functi read more

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Steve?s State of Performance 2008

News - 19 days ago

Steve Souders has a nice performance roundup for 2008 that details some of the important utilities and knowledge that we gained this year.
His post gets even more interesting when he posits about the future, including:

Visibility into the Browser: Packet sniffers (like HTTPWatch, Fi read more

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SOA World Case Study: DataDirect Shadow Financial Services Firm

News - 20 days ago

A global financial services firm deployed DataDirect Shadow and its mainframe Web services technology at the early stages of its service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. The case study discusses how this strategy enabled the company to leverage existing mainframe assets while increasing develo read more

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SYS-CON Webinar: Best Practices for Building Java Installers

News - 20 days ago

What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Java developers. read more

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SYS-CON Download: Try InstallAnywhere 2009 for Free!

News - 20 days ago

Want an easy way to build installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, Mac OS X, and more? Try InstallAnywhere 2009! From the makers of InstallShield, InstallAnywhere is the most popular installation tool for Java developers. Create bulletproof installers for any platform in minutes – no exper read more

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SYS-CON White Paper: Data Direct on the Legacy of SOA

News - 20 days ago

Today's business imperative for IT is to do more with less, and to respond to ever-changing business requirements efficiently and inexpensively. It is vital, therefore, for organizations to get the most possible value out of legacy technology. The movement to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) dem read more

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RUI is not accessible? Check out Yahoo?s new Currency Converter

News - 20 days ago

I am proud to be able to announce the new currency converter on Yahoo finance. Why? Because it is a perfect example of how a complex rich user interface can be built in an accessible manner.

As the main developer, Dirk Ginader explains:
About 9 months ago my fellow co-worker, the U read more

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AJAX World RIA Magazine: Adobe Makes AIR Time for Linux

News - 20 days ago

Adobe’s AIR for Linux, the runtime engine that supports rich Internet apps (RIAs), has caught up with its Windows and Mac siblings. The company has released AIR 1.5 for Linux, the first time the Linux desktop variant has made it as a production-grade, Adobe-supported release. And now also for the f read more

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ICEfaces Integrates NetBeans and GlassFish into AJAX Framework

News - 20 days ago

ICEsoft Technologies and the NetBeans Community announced support of the ICEfaces open source AJAX framework in the development and deployment of rich, JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and GlassFish application server. ICEfaces extends read more

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