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SLOOH.com Delivers Astronomy to the Mainstream SLOOH.com is the world's first and only source of live deep-sky celestial images. Every night SLOOH's telescopes scan the skies and deliver stunning images to computer screens around the world in seconds. SLOOH offers a schedule o... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 17,888  Replies: 1

Beyond Patterns: Thinking Objects Algorithm: A detailed sequence of actions to perform to accomplish some task. - Webster 'Interaction is more powerful than algorithms.' - Wegner Metaphor: Using a known idea to impart understanding of a new unknown idea. Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 20,761

SOA, MSOA, and Java SOA is obviously the new buzzword of the day. Among the many acronyms, one that is seen very often is 'Same Old Architecture.' In many ways, this is true. The key differentiator between the paradigms that have been prevalent in th... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 19,529  Replies: 1

XP: eXtremely Provocative? In a world bristling with TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms), it's interesting that one acronym that has often caused an upset in the world of software development should be one containing just two letters: XP. (No, not *that* XP. What ... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 27,813  Replies: 18

Java Naming Services Internals The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a standard API to access different naming and directory service implementations like LDAP. A naming service provides naming functionality and a directory service provides applicati... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 22,514

2005 Marks Ten Years of Java Technology This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the official launch of Java technology. It seems like only yesterday. No doubt there will be celebrations similar to the five-year anniversary, so I thought I would take this opportunit... Mar. 21, 2005  Reads: 32,889  Replies: 10

Java Annotation Facility - A Primer The 5.0 release of JDK introduced a slew of new features. A powerful technique that resulted from the JSR-175 recommendation is the Program Annotation Facility. It can annotate code in a standard way and automate the generation of... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 62,278  Replies: 5

Development of Component-Oriented Web Interfaces The latest trend in information portals and Web applications has been to build complex Web pages. To present large amounts of information and functionality without compromising usability, designers have imposed a clear structure by ... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 28,101  Replies: 4

Cover Story: Log4j vs java.util.logging Are your Java programs littered with a multitude of randomly placed System.out.println statements and stack traces? When you add debugging messages to a class in a project, are the outputs of your messages interleaved among dozens... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 74,465  Replies: 1

Casting Perlin's Movie Magic in Java3D Reach behind your television and yank the cable out of the wall. Do you hear that noise? Not the kids screaming about their movie. Look at the screen. What you see is white noise: random bits of white, black and gray changing constantly. Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 28,806  Replies: 2

Making PDFs Portable: Integrating PDF and Java Technology Since Adobe released the first public PDF Reference in 1993, a number of PDF utilities and libraries, supporting all kinds of languages and platforms, have been made available to users and developers alike. However, support for Ad... Mar. 24, 2005  Reads: 58,660  Replies: 3

Using JDBC and the Template Method Pattern for Database Access JDBC is a simple and flexible way to access a relational database. The knock on JDBC is that it forces a developer to familiarize himself with its API, whose use can often result in reams of duplicate or similar code: get a connecti... Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 27,169  Replies: 18

Go Fast It Runs Too Slow Go fast, it runs too slow, you've got to make the number show. Diddle de bop, da la de doop, sitting around and feeling groovy. Mar. 9, 2005  Reads: 23,025