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January 25, 2006

IE7 screenshots and code find way onto Blog site

eWeek.com reported yesterday that screenshots of IE7 have been posted on the web, and also for a limited time a download of beta code (although this was later removed).

Major changes in the browser are security enhancements and the addition of tabs for browsing multiple pages, similar to what Opera and Firefox have been providing for number of years now (I remember seeing tabbed browsing in Opera back around 2001/2002 and thought it was an awesome feature).

Seems like MS feels a need to keep up with the Joneses.

January 24, 2006

Using Lucene to index Code

This is an interesting project if you have some spare time to play with this – Lucene is a facinating open source project from the Apache stable that builds and searches full text indexes.

OnJava.com have an article showing how you can use the Lucene engine and API to build a facility to index and search source code. It would be interesting to compare how this is similar/different from the source search facility in Eclipse, as I believe the search facilities in Eclipse are also based on Lucene.

January 23, 2006

Intro to StAX XML API

DevX.com have an introductory article to using the StAX XML API. Whereas the DOM API loads the entire document into memory and treats it as a tree structure and SAX parses the document one-time on the fly, pushing events to document code when matching nodes are found, StAX takes a different approach, somewhere between both. StAX treats the XML as a stream, and can pull content from the stream on demand, when needed.

January 20, 2006

Building a Web App with the Tapestry Web Framework

DevX.com have a good introductory article on building a web app using the Tapestry Web Framework.

The article walks you through setting up a simple webapp, defining pages and application logic, and defining events in the web page to methods on Java classes – Tapestry uses an event based model.