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Top 25 Blog Posts for the Past Month

1. anycar anylane anywhere drivers:
   Posted by isolatednetworks on April 10, 2008 at 09:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

2. Starting with Sun SPOT using NetBeans 6.1: If you do not have a Sun SPOT, do not be bored, you can still have a lot of fun! In this entry, I gonna explain how to start programming the world using NetBeans 6.1!
   Posted by brunogh on April 11, 2008 at 21:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

3. Google App Engine: Request Java Runtime: I was at the Google Campfire One event a few days ago where Google App Engine was officially launched. The whole thing was recorded. So, you didn't miss anything except for the *cold*. Good thing there were camp fires and hot chocolate. Brrrr! Anyway, it sounds like a real sweet and free web application hosting environment. The problem is the only runtime supported initially is Python. Read the full post to find out how you can help get Java runtime support added.
   Posted by van_riper on April 09, 2008 at 22:26 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

4. Nexus - my next Maven repository manager: The lads at Sonatype have just released a new Maven Repository Manager, called Nexus. And it looks good!
   Posted by johnsmart on April 10, 2008 at 14:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

5. RepaintManager's side effect: A little-known side effect of setting a custom RepaintManager or using RepaintManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled() method
   Posted by alexfromsun on April 13, 2008 at 07:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

6. Oh My Golly!: One heck of a deal for college students... also:
   Java Today: JavaOne 2008 Student Program, NetBeans 6.1 Release Candidate, and SigTest project
   java.net Poll: How far have you ever taken a dispute over code?
   Weblogs: Requesting Java support in Google App Engine, Nexus Maven repository manager, and DOA 2008 CFP
   Forum posts: The story behind SwingSet3, animating Swing pane collapses, and JMS reconnect issues
   Posted by invalidname on April 11, 2008 at 04:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

7. I think my daughter is on the right track...: I have a daughter who just became turned three, and she's already quite into Java!
   Posted by kohsuke on April 13, 2008 at 21:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

8. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: When the DSL provider's lights go out... also:
   Java Today: Java SE 6 update 10 in detail, JUG Events site, and JavaTools Community Newsletter
   Spotlight: JavaOne 2008 Student Program
   Weblogs: SPOT-less SunSPOT programming, RepaintManager side-effect, and Grails on GlassFish
   Forum Posts: Why Vista matters, Wonderland APIs, and proxies in Java SE 6u10
   Posted by invalidname on April 14, 2008 at 06:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

9. All Over The World: New thinking for educational challenges... also:
   Weblogs: Ideas for computer science in schools, "Hello Buddy" for international education, and Grizzly 1.73
   Feature Article: Source Code Analysis Using Java 6 APIs
   Java Today: JFugue Music NotePad project, JSR 303 (Bean Validation) examined, and NetBeans + Ruby + AppleScript
   Forum Posts: JXTable with 1.6 sorting/filtering, SwingSet 3 demos, and JDIC's rendering path on the Mac
   Posted by invalidname on April 10, 2008 at 04:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

10. Character Conversion points: You'd think this sort of problem would be resolved by now, but it's not. It's still almost impossible to quickly and easily migrate an application from the too common default Latin-1 to UTF-8 character set encoding.
    Posted by joconner on April 13, 2008 at 09:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

11. 6u10beta is available.. please test it..!:
    Posted by robogeek on April 16, 2008 at 16:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

12. Tell Me Why: Announcements in the forums... also:
    Forum Posts: Swing Explorer 1.0, Mobicents Sip Servlets 0.3, ME options, and does JavaFX need a seekTime()
    Java Today: NetBeans 6.1 RC1 acceptance survey, Terrence Barr on ME at Tech Days, and the Java Posse interviews James Gosling
    Weblogs: Tracking space junk with real-time Java, and character conversion points, Rails on GlassFish
    Posted by invalidname on April 15, 2008 at 07:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

13. What technology evangelists really do for a living: We shot some video on our recent whirlwind tour of South America. This fun video shows one of our adventures.
    Posted by timboudreau on April 11, 2008 at 08:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

14. Joint Sun/Microsoft J1 talk on Web Services: Kevin Wittkopf (Microsoft) and I (Sun) will be giving a joint talk on Java (using Metro and GlassFish) and .NET 3.5 interoperable web services at JavaOne. The blog entry gives the details.
    Posted by haroldcarr on April 10, 2008 at 10:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

15. What do we do about Computer Science education?: So much needs to be done to improve CS education worldwide. What can we do? Where should we start?
    Posted by sonyabarry on April 09, 2008 at 14:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

16. Benchmarks and surprises: I'm posting some results from my latest benchmarks on the Metadata facility of blueMarine - take them with half a pinch of salt, since I've checked them but not double-checked, sorry but I have just a little time in these days. They gave some little surprise to me.
    Posted by fabriziogiudici on April 14, 2008 at 14:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

17. Net Beans (6.1) Page Flows: NetBeans (6.1) Page Flows may be a small step towards Model Driven development.
    Posted by johnreynolds on April 14, 2008 at 11:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

18. Getting Started with Grails on GlassFish:
    Posted by arungupta on April 11, 2008 at 09:07 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

19. Substance 4.3 official release: Announcement of the 4.3 release for Substance look-and-feel project. The list of new features and a few screenshots inside.
    Posted by kirillcool on April 14, 2008 at 11:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

20. Java on iPhone: "Hello world" x2:
    Posted by terrencebarr on April 14, 2008 at 13:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

21. Out On The Weekend: Getting Java ME running on the iPhone... also:
    Java Today: Java ME "hello world" on iPhone SDK, Substance 4.3, and GlassFish unconference and CommunityOne
    Weblogs: GlassFish v3 on OSGi, blueMarine benchmarks, and welcoming Dalibor
    Forum Posts: Scene graph packaging, designing a JXTA game, and ME Framework 1.2 security plugin
    Posted by invalidname on April 16, 2008 at 07:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

22. A good reference for Agile SCM: Henrik Kniberg has written a good description of how to use the so-called "stable-trunk" SCM pattern for version control in an Agile project.
    Posted by johnsmart on April 09, 2008 at 17:17 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

23. GlassFish V3 on OSGi - Part I: We have put back initial code that enables GlassFish V3 to run on an *OSGi* R4 platform. This is in addition to it being able to run on its own runtime, i.e., HK2. Since I have been involved in this effort from the very beginning, I will be blogging about it in days to come. Today is just the start.
    Posted by ss141213 on April 15, 2008 at 19:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

24. Using SailFin as Instant Messaging (IM/Chat) server: It is very easy to use SailFin server as an Instant Messaging server (IM server). All that you need is to write a SipServlet and deploy it in SailFin server.
    Posted by bhavanishankar on April 13, 2008 at 23:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

25. Dalibor Topic, welcome to Sun!:
    Posted by terrencebarr on April 14, 2008 at 18:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

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