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Sunday, March 14, 2010
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To Blog or to Tweet? [source: JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL ] 
Lately it seems like writing blogs is getting out of fashion, what with the rise of microblogging star Twitter. Something about Twitter is intriguing. I guess the simplicity of writing your thoughts within 140 characters is a force larger that anyone expected. Reminds me of the early days of Google, a sparse screen of white space with ten words. The sheer excitement of entering any word and hitting the enter key and seeing pages of results was a trip, whether the result set was of any use or not.read more
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Microsoft Loses Second i4i Appeal [source: XML JOURNAL ] 
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wednesday dashed Microsoft?s hopes of overturning the Texas decision ordering it to pay the tiny Canadian company i4i $290 million for infringing its custom XML editor patent.
The court also upheld the injunction that the district court had slapped on Word 2003 and 2007.
The appeals court however may give Microsoft an en banc hearing on the pricey charge of willful infringement ? as it is now the willfulness charge stands. The court said, ?A reasonable jury could have concluded that Microsoft ?willfully? infringed the ?449 patent based on the evidence presented at trial?.Similarly, there is no evidence that Microsoft made a good faith effort to avoid infringement; internal e-mails show that Microsoft intended to render i4i?s product ?obsolete? and assure ?there won?t be a need for [i4i?s] product.??read more
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The Value of Cloud Computing to Enterprises [source: XML JOURNAL ] 
A panel of industry analysts, practitioners, and HP experts outlined the value proposition of moving to the cloud, the danger of inaction, and how companies can get started on their cloud journey.read more
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Spring in Action, Second Edition
In this second edition, Spring in Action has been completely updated to cover the exciting new features of Spring 2.0. The book begins by introducing you to the core concepts of Spring and then quickly launches into a hands-on exploration of the framework.
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Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action
Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by-feature through the two libraries. First, you will use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you will dig into Prototype's elegant and sparse syntax. This book is written for web developers with a working knowledge of JavaScript.
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