Actuate Corporation and Zend Technologies have teamed up to allow PHP developers to quickly add reporting capabilities to web applications using Actuate BIRT.
The collaboration between Zend and Actuate has resulted in new capabilities in the 3.0 version of the Zend Platform. Zend Platform 3.0 allows PHP developers to quickly integrate reporting capabilities, including charting, to web applications by calling Actuate BIRT reports via the Zend Java Bridge. Web application developers are often faced with strong end-user demands for reports that integrate and summarize application data.…
Great resources for MSSQL DBAs.
Taken from InfoQ:
Mark Souza of Microsoft has announced a new web site for database administrators and developers called SQL Server - Best Practices. This site offers a wide range of material from top 10 lists suitable for novices to the in-depth technical white papers needed by seasoned professionals.
Topics include capacity planning, database mirroring, and bulk data loading. Over a dozen scripts for troubleshooting and performance tuning are also available.…
For those who want to take off into the wide blue yonder of ASP.NET 2.0, read Cristian and Zak’s ASP.NET 2.0: A Getting Started Guide.
You’ll tame the installation process, sink your teeth into two ASP.NET languages, and conquer .NET programming basics with your bare hands. Finally, you’ll pull server controls, user controls, master pages, and CSS into the beginnings of an application.…
It’s finally here as you can see in Free and Open Source Java.
The key behind moving to the GPL is to drive more volume and more adoption for the platform. The GPL helps get Java into some markets that it hasn’t served as fully as it should - such as educational markets, governments in the developing world, and some commercial customers - as well as, obviously, some distributions of Linux which insist not on Linux-friendly licenses but on actual GPL licensing.…
If you have ever tried to draw gantt charts with JFreeChart you have already noticed that it’s a very simplistic implementation - it doesn’t have the facility to display dependency lines or milestones.
Gantt chart demo from JFreeChart samples:
In a recent project I needed some additional features like:
Summary tasks Milestones/deliverables Dependencies between task and milestones/deliverables So I modified BarRenderer.java, GanttRenderer.java, GanttCategoryDataset.java, Task.java, and TaskSeriesCollection.java appropriately and also created my own class called LineAndShapeGanttRenderer.…
The first development build (2.0.1) of Apache Struts 2 project has been released.
Struts 2 was originally known as WebWork 2. After working independently for several years, the WebWork and Struts communities joined forces to create Struts 2. This new version of Struts is designed to be simpler to use and closer to how Struts was always meant to be. Some key changes are:
Smarter! Improved Design - All Struts 2 classes are based on interfaces.…
Great news for embedded devices developers. Eclipse has recently released the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) 1.0.
eRCP is for J2ME what RCP is for the desktop, and includes among other things
Eclipse Core which provides OSGI and Extension Point Framework support a version of SWT called embedded Standard Widget Toolkit (eSWT) eJFace a set of classes which enable eRCP applications to integrate with an eRCP workbench, and provide more complex widgets like MVC oriented viewers eUpdate for dynamically updating device software and microXML a smaller, faster XML parser supporting SAX and DOM API eRCP currently support Windows Mobile 2003/5.…
A while back (May 24th) I’ve written a post trying to explain what was Alfresco, and some misunderstands about it.
At that time Alfresco wasn’t yet a full Web Content Management system. But that is about to change starting at Release 1.4.
I think it may worth the shoot…
Related Links Alfresco Wiki Release 1.4 Release WCM Preview Alfresco Forum Web Content Management Other Alfresco Enterprise CMS Implementation book…
Ajaxian has published their second annual Ajaxian.com survey.
The first three by categories are:
Most Popular Ajax Frameworks Prototype - 43% Script.aculo.us - 33% Dojo - 19% Most Popular Ajax Platforms PHP - 50% Java - 37% .NET - 16% Read the original article here.
Update from Joe Walker’s Blog (with a Java perspective):
Most Popular Java / Ajax Frameworks DWR - 53% GWT - 15% AjaxTags - 7%…