The latest version of Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/helios/ was just released - maybe yesterday?
A bunch of new things in Helios: http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2010/06/23/top-10-eclipse-helios-features/
A big one is Git: http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2010/06/22/git-support-eclipse-helios-feature-2/
STS is looking to rev 2.3.3 to Helios soon: http://forum.springsource.org/showpost.php?p=305680&postcount=14
“Offices make less and less sense for smaller, agile businesses like the kind many of you work in. Every time I hear about a small company opening up an office with plans to have the employees spend most of their time there, I’m a bit dumbfounded.”
“Micro$oft’s Dirty Secret: SharePoint Sucks”
Rather interesting point of view… not saying I disagree.
“If we were starting this whole office thing today, it’s inconceivable we’d pay the rent/time/commuting cost to get what we get. I think in ten years the TV show ‘the Office’ will be seen as a quaint antique.When you need to have a meeting, have a meeting. When you need to collaborate, collaborate. The rest of the time, do the work, wherever you like.”
“New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. ‘Linux is open source and we feel good about it,’ said one employee. ‘Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.’”
via FT.com / Technology – Google ditches Windows on security concerns.
Perhaps we need this policy at ESDO…
Good testing utility script for building out random data.
“A common step in the development cycle is to substitute fake data until real data is created, generated, or the API is set up to retrieve it. Creating this fake data isn’t usually difficult, but it can be a tedious and repetitive task. Club AJAX has added a new library item to create mock data for use in application development. Using the Club AJAX Randomizer, you can easily generate random numbers, booleans, colors, dates, characters, words, sentences, titles, names, and even website names. Helper functions are also available to scramble or return random elements from your own data.”
“Collecting examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.”
Good resource.
via HTML5 Watch.
An excellent article on how to make some really dynamic websites that work well on everything from a widescreen monitor to a smartphone held vertically with just CSS and HTML. Read through the whole thing and look at the demos while resizing your browser – wow.
“Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design, but it also requires a different way of thinking. Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts. That’s not to say there isn’t a business case for separate sites geared toward specific devices; for example, if the user goals for your mobile site are more limited in scope than its desktop equivalent, then serving different content to each might be the best approach.”
In the Woods – 7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery.
Some great tips about jQuery and efficient use of it.
Lots of new stuff coming out at Google I/O, May 19th and 20th.
@googleio on Twitter.
Matt Cutts live waving the keynote.
Cloud Portability from Google and VMware.
Google Storage for Developers.
Google’s summary of the first day.
