YASDW – yet another software developer weblog

• Beautiful Examples of Transparent Screen Trick Photos
  Excellent photos!
• PyMT
  An open source python multitouch library. Cross-platform!
• JUnit 4 in a minute !!
  Really in one minute.

• How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling
  “Do what you love”
• TDD, small steps and no need for comments
  Comment driven development ????
• Why Does FOSS Development Lag the Innovation Curve?
  git, Android, Firefox/Chrome, just to name a few

• Tablets: The Next Big Open Source Opportunity?
  I’m curious if this tablet hype is really such a big opportunity.
• What makes a programmer “senior”?
  Well it needs a bit more, but that’s quite a good start.
• Making Sense of Color Codes
  A comprehensive guide

• Pencil
  “The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.”
• Groovy and CSV: How to Get Your Data Out?
  csv … omg
• Mercurial 1.6 released!
  New Features:  Extending the Mercurial protocol with pushkey and bookmarks

• Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS
  Interesting discussion in the comments
• World Cup Vuvuzela Noise Driving You Crazy? Filter it With Open Source Tools
  Censorship with Open Source?
• Book: Real World Java EE Patterns – Rethinking Best Practices (review & digest)
  “I’d absolutely recommend it to any architect or developer serious with Java EE 5 or 6 development”

Twohundred. I didn’t expect this would happen

• Zombies are open source; humans are proprietary
  And how does this fit into that analogy?
• Rethinking Cron
  Or Norc for/in python
• On Version Control
  git plus dropbox
• Paper Browser
  Simple but effective?

• Groovy web console
  A groovy console on the Google App Engine
• Gaelyk
  Groovy toolkit for the Google App Engine
• On MS, OSS, and Java
  “It appeared that as Microsoft became more focused on innovation they started listening more to the technology leaders of smaller companies, not a bad thing by itself.”

• Vim Commands Mindmap
  Clear, good collection of commands.
• Aves: HTML5 Game Engine w/ Social Built In
  Powerfull and promising game framework. I wish it were Open Source
• Sketch your UI
  Tool for drawing a wireframe. Again, an Open Source license would be great.

• Freeplane
  Open Source Mindmapping Software. I like it.
• Every Time Zone
  This is an interesting App!
• My current setup
  Two 24″ screens in portrait orientation. Wow.

• A Short Guide To Open-Source And Similar Licenses
  gpl, mit, lgpl, apache, cc ?
• For the Love of Vaadin: RIAs Done Right
  Yes! RIAs done right!
• Using the changelist and jumplist
  Another nice and short vimcast.