Things To Check Out

Things to check out:

Reverse AJax for scalable AJAX

http://atmosphere.java.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

Spring Integration

http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration

Jabber

JSON

GDoc

Canoo ULC

Gradle

Geb

Gaelyic

http://codemonkeyism.com/

Smalltalk Useful

Smalltalk Start Settings

http://www.instantiations.com/docs/FAQ/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=va03001.html

[abt.exe] -sp:blparams.in -i icxFile -mo128000000 -mn2000000 -mf16000000 -ml80000000 -mi8000000

-mfXXXX

This option sets the size of fixed space to XXXX bytes. The default is the size of the fixed space in the image when it was saved. In a newly packaged image, the default size is the actual byte size required by the image, plus a small amount.

-miXXXX

This option sets the segment increment for allocation from the operating system to XXXX bytes. When the executable is out of memory, a new segment of XXXX bytes is allocated from the operating system. The default allocation size is 2048K.

-mlXXXX

This option sets the minimum size of free memory after a global garbage collection to XXXX bytes. The garbage collector uses this value to determine if it needs to allocate additional memory or return memory to the operating system. You use this option to specify a minimum amount of oldspace to remain free after a global garbage collection, and thus defer a garbage collection. The default minimum size is 500K.

-mnXXXX

This option sets the size of new space to XXXX bytes. The default is the size of the new space in the image when it was saved. In a newly packaged image, the default size is 256K.

-moXXXX

This option sets the size of the largest old space to XXXX bytes. The default is the size of the old space in the image when it was saved. In a newly packaged image, the default size is the actual byte size required by the image.

Damaged Disk Rescue Tools

Saved My Life

For fixing badly damaged disks / partitions and whatnot
www.diskinternals.com

Useful GUI Mock Up Tools

Pretty cheap and ubiquitous

Also has hooks to confluence and jira - very good.

http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/jira#buy

Free open source

http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

Somore more good ones for jira / Confluence - diagrams in jira/confluence

www.gliffy.com

Grails & Cobertura Bug

Grails & Cobertura - Cobertura does not cover all classes even though there are tests

Found this by accident. It seems like uncompiled classes that are referenced in a Plugin.groovy script are not poperly instrumented when grails test-app --coverage is run.

However if you do "grails compile" then "grails test-app --coverage" everything then works

Wierd but useful to remember!

Useful Tools & Sites

SoapUI - www.soapui.org

Well handy for testing web services. Can import a WDSL and create a test suite.

Burp Suite

Java based proxy for HTTP(S) see what is being sent to a remote localation, manipulate it etc

WireShark

General Network Sniffing Tool - Handy when you aren't sure why a TCP connection is dropping

xSQL

Excellent tool for comparing 2 databases (SQL Server) to document schema differences

Hudson

Continuous Integration



http://www.javapractices.com
http://www.hibernate.org - ORM Mapping
http://www.springframework.org - IOC Server
http://www.quickserver.org/ - Multithreaded network apps
http://maven.apache.org - project building
http://www.theserverside.com - good  j2ee site
http://www.postgres.org - Opensource multiversioning database.  now supports windows
http://www.h2database.com/  Java based DB
http://www.myeclipse.org
http://www.jdocs.org
http://www.javalobby.org
http://cargo.codehaus.org - Container wrapper api.  makes it easier to start stop etc containers from ant