http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports - The world’s most powerful and widely used embeddable Java reporting library for report designers and developers. [getting started]

prompt> cd \program files
prompt> cd jasperreports-<ver>\demo\samples
prompt> dir
prompt> cd barbecue
prompt> ant –p
prompt> ant  javac
- Compiles the java source files of the test application
prompt> ant compile
- Compiles the XML report design and produces the .jasper file
prompt> ant fill
- Fills the compiled report design with data and produces the .jrprint file.
prompt> ant viewDesign

http://jasperforge.org/projects/ireport - iReport gives administrators and report designers total control over the contents as well as the look and feel of every report

Jasper reports includes some nice samples and tutorials:

http://jasperforge.org/uploads/publish/jasperreportswebsite/trunk/tutorial.html

http://jasperforge.org/uploads/publish/jasperreportswebsite/trunk/samples.html
Studio

http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/jw-presentations/JW11_JaspersoftStudioinAction_GiulioToffoli.pdf

Mark Cuban writes in with a  comment on bnet post and says:

Content owners still have a right to control what devices they want their content seen on and how its seen. Putting something on a website does not make it public domain

From dragonpointtvs is a post taking on Cuban’s points.

An interesting point in all of this is the bandwith by Netflix and other streaming option:

The language will shortly be changing, just as it has for mobile network users, where “unlimited” is basically gone now, and virtually all data plans have either a soft or hard cap.

Google TV isn’t stripping the video off the sites. It’s not inserting its own ads into the content. It’s not knocking down firewalls, eating small children nor sacrificing animals. It’s simply letting you use a web browser, exactly as you’d use a web browser on a Windows or Mac computer.

I don’t know about you, but there has been  litigation/settlements over sites who aggregate content that was written by others. Now, this is a different scenario where Google has money to be made in the adverstising arena by simply wrapping the networks content. This seems no different than a web site that aggregates a feed they do not own on their site. Where as Netflix pays the networks for their content and charges for it, Google TV content would be a free ride for the comsumer. Marc Cuban gives you his thoughts on this fact.

Another interesting point about Google TV ‘s ”open platform”  is by Mark Suster who thinks Google might impact video in a similar way the print industry has been affected by the web:

it would be an understatement to say that traditional media is skeptical about Google’s benevolence and many fear a world in which video content margins are crushed in the way that print & music have been with the primary beneficiary having been Google.

But as much as I would like to drive down to Best Buy and get the Google TV Blue Ray player, just keep in mind that Google TV is not the only game in town.

A new system software update for Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G gives this high-end Android OS smartphone support for the Media Hub, a service for renting and buying movies and TV shows that was unveiled just last week.

The new iTunes-like service is getting started with content from NBC Universal, Paramount, and MTV Networks. TV episodes sell for $1.99, movie rentals cost $2.99 to $3.99, while movie sales cost $9.99 to $17.99.

This site states what we think it is:

Based on what has been circulating around the net it appears that Google TV has formed a partnership with both Sony as well as NetFlix to offer streaming on demand video in the best quality possible. Movie Downloads will be in 1080 p HD resolution.

In addition, Google TV Boxes will be pre-installed with Google Chrome for web surfing, will have the ability to utilize and run Android applications. Google TV will integrate into your television, computer and cloud platforms rather seamlessly. Web applications like Twitter, Google’s online photo sharing and storage service will also be included.

As Tim says:

Apple TV / Google TV are throwing down the challenge to all Cable providers. The goal is to ditch your cable boxes, and Blu-ray and instead view live streams direct from the internet directly through TV monitors. This will have a significant impact on the cable television as we know it. It’s only a matter of time television will be an old dusty device that our children’s grand-parents still view due in part Web mania is still a fad…

The google tv developers

More info:

http://www.techweet.com/2010/09/14/evan-williams-coughed-up-7500-for-twitter-com-back-in-the-day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHDghBtK0A

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_is_not_a_social_network_says_twitter_exec.php

The difference between is-a and has-a relationships is well known and a fundamental part of OOAD, but what is less well known is that almost every is-a relationship would be better off re-articulated as a has-a relationship

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49002/prefer-composition-over-inheritance

Other good practice that was mentioned in software was http://www.kitchaiyong.net/2010/02/solid-principle.html

“We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future”.

The way we get news has been for a long time been changing.  Some companies have had for while  a problem on how we use their content.

With the way the content is shared and presented, there is bound to be people who wan’t a piece of the $$$ pie.  Here is a good post on some of the types of news aggregation, and some of the  litigation/settlements in the misunderstandings on who has a right to publish the data. Or even, who owns the data. On the outs is the  RSS feed reader.

Semantic web has public and private link information. Microformats standard, but no common model. RDF is new enabling technology to focus on concepts that provides a global guide to webs of data.Information has a context so people can use it.  Purl.org web site example that uses foaf (friend of a friend) with birthday handle. DBpedia data set.  Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) W3C recommendation structured content.  RRFa   is RDF attributes (metadata). RDFa is a way to label content to describe a specific type of information, such as a restaurant review, an event, a person, or a product listing. These information types are called entities. Each entity has a number of properties . Freebase , Adaptive Blue. The Curie processing / RDFa spec.  The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. Enables any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page. The Web Ontology for eCommerce can be found at Good Relations (see best buy). Semantic Web at InfoQueue . Rdfa split. ODF use of RDFA . Books: Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business. CommonTag. RDFa test page. RDFa distiller. rdfa.info web site. RDFa parser for fragments.   Details on Whitehouse. gov site that  uses RDFa .Taxonomy blog. Basics, Long tail

RDF triple , librdf.org/query , rdf about ,rdf-sparql-query , linked data , mulgara.org , sparql query , twinkle, govtrack sparql , reyvu.com with twinkle , relfinder with Kill Bill. Lastly, google supports RDFA

If you’ve spent any time at all trying to add dynamic functionality to your pages, you’ve found that you’re constantly following a pattern of selecting an element or group of elements and operating upon those elements in some fashion. You could be hiding or revealing the elements, adding a CSS class to them, animating them, or modifying their attributes.

This javascript library make it easier to accomplish these routine blocks of code in your client code.
To collect a group of elements, we use the simple syntax:

$(selector)
or
jQuery(selector)

Known as a wrapper or a wrapped set.

The tutorial(s) for Droids is where I decided where to start learning about Phone Gap .

Using phonegap guide on windows , I got Ruby186 with 0.9.1 phonegap-android , and execute command with git (unix) bash:

 $  c:/ruby186/bin/ruby droidgap c:/appdev/java/android-sdk-windows/ TestGap TestGap.com.example “c:/www/” “c:/aocapps3″

Other resources:

• Getting-started-with-Android-PhoneGap-in-Eclipse 
• Android Adventure
• Phone Gap Development (both)
• Multiplatform Mobile (both)

 a good presentation by Brian LeRoux of Nitobi for Ben & Dion on Phone Gap:

• native app fragmentation  : “Every Android device had a different screen resolution. Every hardware feature had to be checked, since every Android device had different hardware configurations”
• dom manipulation for cross  rowser incompatibilities
• offline storage
• Phone gap internals for apple’s platform uses the public sdk and objective C .
• How you get your app to work for multiplatforms.  Mobile web is the solution.  Write once, get everywhere using web.
• write web apps use phone gap to package applications
• phone gap abstracts native browser agugment s javascript apis for device sensors data
• iphone devcamp  aug 2008- instantiate web view call out from javscript api to native object c, only was throw url browser
• gap://
• geo, camera, sensor, vibration, sound, video, contacts, compass,anything browser can do
• phonegap.jss www folder and index.html
• starting point , can still do native at same time
• create a browser instance, execute javascript from native code, call out from javascript thru url execute native code
• androisbind java object right to browser instance become available as javascript objects
• compatiblity among platforms : mobile spec written in Qunit which is async

Phone Gap tutorial(s) for Iphone:

• Jessie Macfadyen tutorial
• Jonathan’s Stark’s Book with Phone Gap coverage
• Quick Start Guide
• Phone Gap vs Titanium

http://www.infoq.com/articles/mobile-web-development

Phone Gap reccomendation

Cross Platform Titanium and Phone Gap

http://phonegap.pbworks.com/

jQuery byNathan Schutta : jQuery Fundamentals , jquery.com, jqueryui.com. More on topic from jquery tuts

Testing web layer: yuitest , js spec , qunit,  jsunit ,jslint

Ipod touch is not an Iphone without a phone, its an iPhone without the contract .

The cloud centric  set top box called AppleTV  that integrates (AirTunes) with the Ipad for $99 :

“Apple TV, which will be available within a month, will also display shows, movies, photos and music streamed over Wi-Fi from other devices – computers with iTunes installed, as well as iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch. For example, an iPad owner could start watching a movie on the tablet, then walk into the living room and, with a few taps, finish watching it on the TV screen.”

Apple 99 cent rentals

Apple announces Ping, the social network for music built into iTunes. Don’t forget the GameCenter either

I attended No Fluff Just Stuff 2010. I will cover what I learned in this blog post.

Collections By Ted Neward: The collection API is seperated by the interfaces, implementation, and the algorithims.  Although a Map contains key/value pairs, it is not a collection. This was something Joshua Bloch fought for, and ten years later it still makes sense.  Use of initializing collections to null was a mistake. Its better to initialize it to a zero sized collection value (i.e. new ArrayList()).   Of coure, certain collections are synchronized where others are not. Refer to the book Java Concurrency in Practice which is a good for learning about thread safe issues. Note of Google Collections (now called Guava).Lastly, use for loops for iteration.

OSGI by Craig Walls : Modularity spec for Java is OSGI. Bundle lifecycle is installed, resolved (everything i need), starting, active (running). Everything defaults to private unless you tell it otherwise.  Fragments are partial bundles. You don’t write manifest files yourself. Tools such as Bnd or Bundlor. Apparently OSGI didn’t incorporate JPA (see apache Arries) into it and because of that the springsource community realized that they did not have resources among itslef to take it to new level. As a result, it was taken to a new open source community to get help with it. Eclipse Gemini is the new project. Also, the Spring DM server is now Eclipse Virgo . Other projects include Apache Felix, Paxrunner. See Book Modular Java. See www.habuma.com/osgi/osgi-examples.html

Groovy On GAE (gaelyk) by Tim Berglund :  The session started with a discussion of the book The Shallows which covers what the interent does to our brains.  This framework is for small quick web applications (page centric). Mention of suitable and non-suitable architectures. Its syntax like coding jsps. Small size war files. Application server in cloud, Data store (big table noSql),  Authentication, caaching (MemCache), XMPP (IM), Email, Task Queue, Image API, URL fetching, OAuth, Blobstore.  github link . Mention of Dr. Laurie Williams and Pair programming.

Html5 by Brian Sletten : Despite what this website says, HTML5  by w3 is here. There is an ie enabling script even as mentioned here. Microsoft will support HTML5 in their browsers in ie9, and in a sense will be aiding in the phase out of the flash technology.  With html5,  the multimedia experience is achieved without the plugin that is neccesary with flash. The recourse for flash is supporting html5. Especially, since Steve Jobs changed the licensing agreement not allowing the Apple software to cross compile for adobe. As this html5 preview shows, the new section and article tags are part of the new standard, and replace the need for div tags to achieve this. html5 has a tool to create outlines of html5 conent. The new visual elements progress ,  meter  (shows measurement within a range), details (dropdown with detailed info), input (such as time,date), canvas coordinate system. edspencer  has a nice site covering html5 topics like Canvas,  web storage api . A chrome html5 demo.  The site html5 tutorial is a nice resource such as its canvas cheat cheat. The Codec Hell situation in which Google tried to move theVP8 codec along.  The audio part of html5. html5 video player demo , and here is an example of html5 video that can be rotated , and more. The geolocation demo. The offline storage demo. Web workers/socket chat. Lastly, quake on html5.  Some other html5 goodies: http://html5boilerplate.com/ , page in chrome http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/index.html. Silverlight doom ?

In the Burnette book, his first chapter is dedicated to getting started with the sdk and the eclipse plugin (https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse) and the emulator. Much like this blog post and the android developer Hello World.

[wiki] [forum]

Pectin Basics :

“data up” – frameworks that  map the form data  from domain bean definition(i.e struts) . The data is collected in regard to the bean definition. There is no business logic based on the User Interface in this model. Moreover, the UI is passive, and the logic is on the server side.

“bottom down” – the “data up” does not work well for GWT, since most of the logic moves to the client, and the server side is just a thin DAO wrapper. Pectin works with the domain bean without being constrained by it.

1. View : may implement view or delegate to presenter model
2. Bindings : binding widgets to model
3. Presentation Model (with plugins) : data and handlers required by view, whereas plugins add additional state to data
4. Adapters : creating ValueModel‘s from your domain data (dirty data or not)
5. Domain – the data

Value model in Presentation model:  provides access and mutation methods (get/set) and notifications when the value is modified using  a (gin/juice like) declarative style api. (ValueModel , MutableValueModel)

FieldModels are a ValueModel that hold a reference back to the form that created it.

Related [MVP]

That is the Best description of Rest Ive read! Now I get it – I used to think it was just another competing way of getting information like RPC, SOAP, etc. But I understand from your article that it is a universal way of mapping information

• Roy Fielding’s name is on the HTTP specification.
• The HTTP protocol capabilities are not always utilized.
• http address tells you the location of something anywhere in the world
• REST is an architectural style. It defines a resource which the web address points to.  Each resource are simply concepts
• A web page is a representation of a resource. There are many other formats for resources. Therefore, browser can prompt for a certain representation of a concept. Thus, the URL or web address to “the something” can be thought of as a noun.
• Rest allows you to assign verbs to the nouns in away that makes sense (get,put,delete).

• The Apple html5 showcase
• Google’s Html5 Rocks

To get up to speed on the technology, this is a nice overview of html5 .

There is a html5 showcase running on Google’s  AppEngine  gwthtml5.appspot.com via http://www.ongwt.com/post/2010/05/10/html5-slides-:-GWT-Version

GWT+ html5 : http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html#GWT video: http://tinyurl.com/26ppnjg