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[jugmilano] The JavaFX Circle

A quick post to advertise a new, nice initiative of my good friends of the Java User Group Milano: The JavaFX circle.
For four weeks, they’re going to have a meeting every Wednesday night to explore JavaFX, and try to understand how (and… if) this technology is going to change the Java desktop landscape.
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WhosWhoo?!? - new features

I worked on WhosWhoo?!? in these last nights and now I’ve just released a new version. There are a lot of new features:

a new logo! It’s not perfect but really better than the previous

‘Popular searches’ now works!

Real-time ‘Recent searches’

del.icio.us-style Browse people by category

a lot of minor adjustements in the database

I [...]

‘whoswho’ command for YubNub

You know, as I first saw YubNub, I could not resist to create a command for my pet project WhosWhoo?!?.
So now you have another way to use your favourite people search engine: launch YubNub and type

whoswho firstname lastname

For example:
whoswho Michael Jordan
While you are at WhosWhoo?!? you will notice that I’ve added a bunch of new [...]

Whoswhoo?!?: new features

I’m exploring further the concept of Whoswhoo?!?: browse the web through people, rather than through websites.
So I added a simple system to categorize people using tags; it’s still a manual categorization, but it should be enough to start exporing the idea.
So how can you get started? Try some famous american politician, or any NBA star….

Fun with Yahoo!Search

As you probably know, Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Search Web Services, a service that allows users to access Yahoo content and services using REST-style requests. There’s also a Y!Q Challenge for developers (US only) who want to create new applications using these services.
Anyway, this night I spent two hours trying Yahoo! Search Web Services and [...]

Daily Caffeine - Issue no. 11 - On “Inversion of Control” and “Dependency Injection”

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Sometime the terms Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection are used interchangeably, but they actually denotes different things…

  Stefano’s Linotype ~ On Inversion of Control
  Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
  Pyrasun 2.0 - The Spille Blog: Inversion of Control Containers

del.icio.us: New user interface

del.icio.us has a new (though hidden) user interface. To try it, simply open your broswer to the page http://del.icio.us/new/your_account.
There are two visible new features: the ‘tags’ index adopts the same style of 43Things, and the popularity of a link is now represented visually with a bar.

Daily Caffeine - Issue no.10 - On getters and setters

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In this issue, Allen Holub’s article “Why getter and setter methods are evil” raises an hot discussion among bloggers.
  Why getter and setter methods are evil
  More on getters and setters
  Holub is at it again
  Getters and setters are here to stay
  More on “More on getters and setters”

Craigslist in Italy

craigslist is opening two websites dedicated to Italy: Milan and Rome.
Now they are moving in their first steps: I’m really curious to see whether they will be successful…

Daily Caffeine - Issue no.9 - Comparing Java Web Frameworks

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  Comparison of Java Web Framework
  Comparing web frameworks presentation (PDF, 280KB)