Rob Schlüter

Use the Eclipse IDE and Java SE 6 to create a stand-alone Web services application that can be run from the console. This tutorial, the first in a series, starts by getting familiar with the Eclipse IDE. Configure the environment; create projects, packages, and classes; then run the application from the command line. - Rob Schlüter

The Eyes on the Skies is a movie that explores the many facets of the Hubble space telescope, the historical development, the scientific importance, the technological breakthroughs, and also the people behind this ground-breaking invention, their triumphs and failures. The movie is presented by Dr. J, aka Dr. Joe Liske, a professional astronomer from the European Southern Observatory and host of the Hubblecast video podcast. - Rob Schlüter

PDF document containing a list of search engine optimization best practices used inside Google. It covers common areas like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, etc. - Rob Schlüter

Introduction to REST and WSDL 2.0, and how to create a WSDL 2.0 description of a REST Web service. - Rob Schlüter

A list of tech podcasts about Internet, computer software, gadgets, viral web videos, productivity and online culture. - Rob Schlüter

BPM is a strategy for managing and improving the performance of the business through the continuous optimization of business processes in a closed-loop cycle of modeling, execution and measurement. - Rob Schlüter

Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift in interface design is the adoption of REST by mainstream Web 2.0 service providers—including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook—who have deprecated or passed on SOAP and WSDL-based interfaces in favor of an easier-to-use, resource-oriented model to expose their services. In this article, Alex Rodriguez introduces you to the basic principles of REST: use HTTP methods explicitly, be stateless, expose directory structure-like URIs and transfer XML, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), or both. - Rob Schlüter

You need an appropriate governance process model in place to effectively realize the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development life-cycle activities. This article describes SOA governance processes based on scenarios that are adopted in a typical enterprise during the SOA development life cycle. Take a close look at important life-cycle activities, such as service identification, service creation and reuse, service testing, service versioning and change management, service-level management (quality of service), and service security. Learn about the challenges that your organization might face in a typical SOA development life cycle and how to address these challenges by implementing governance subprocesses and by delegating certain roles and responsibilities to the respective layers of a governance body for each scenario. - Rob Schlüter

Application lifecycle management (ALM) encompasses all steps of developing software, from gathering requirements and writing functional specifications to regression testing and defect tracking. Automating as much of the process as possible reduces the amount of time spent performing tasks like organizing and reviewing priorities and lets you spend more time on more enjoyable activities like designing and coding. Your ultimate goal when designing an ALM process should be to create a transparent process that keeps you on track but doesn't distract you from activities that require more focus. - Rob Schlüter

Presentation about the changes businesses need to make to be part of the new networked way of human interaction that's happning al over the internet. - Rob Schlüter

A home for libraries that ease the development of applications that support ODF, process ODF or check ODF conformance. The ODF Toolkit provides Mercurial for hosting code, forums, mailing lists, wikis, an issue tracking system, and personalized home pages. - Rob Schlüter

Firefox plugin that adds an intelligent discovery engine to your browser. Highlight and move a chunk of text, and Juice directly delivers a set of rich, relevant content to you. - Rob Schlüter

Nieuwsverzamelaar op basis van een RSS feeds van nieuwssites. - Rob Schlüter

Het nieuws in 70 foto's - Rob Schlüter

Tips to address the inherent challenges of complex requirements in an agile manner without resorting to the documentation-heavy practices favored by the traditional community. - Rob Schlüter

Short link collection about agile software development. - Rob Schlüter

JavaScript that detects which social bookmarking sites your reader uses. It does this by loading URLs for the most popular social bookmarking sites in an iframe and see which of those links are purple and which are blue. - Rob Schlüter

Monitor changes to web pages and get notified by RSS. - Rob Schlüter

Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering - Rob Schlüter

Scientific American article by Martin Bojowald. Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce—an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects - Rob Schlüter

This article shows how to leverage the Spring Framework and Apache OpenJPA to improve the productivity and application development experience for J2EE projects, specifically using Spring’s mechanisms to support loose coupling, transaction management, exception handling, data access and distribution. A sample application demonstrates the use of Spring in several scenarios in different architectural layers of a Web application, focusing on the business tier, particularly the service and data access layers. - Rob Schlüter

These seven habits will help you get started in the transition between procedural programming and OO programming. While using PHP code the concepts are also valid for other OO languages: use public accessors, let each module handles its own errors, use interfaces, strive for loose coupling between objects, embrace high cohesion, leverage inheritance and add objects, in concert, composed in patterns. - Rob Schlüter

An article about SOA testing and the presentation of a SOA test harness. This is implemented as a simple record-and-playback style test harness in Ruby using SOAP4R and YAML. - Rob Schlüter

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings. - Rob Schlüter

KITE tests and measures your site from a variety of locations worldwide by collecting data about the specific site transactions you want to study. To tell KITE exactly what you want to measure, simply create a script by navigating through your site just as a user would. Once you're satisfied with the script, you'll then deploy it from the specific locations in the Keynote Global Network, specifying when and how often to run the script. When testing is completed, you'll know exactly what users experience at each location. - Rob Schlüter

LiveWeb is a Powerpoint add-in to insert web pages into a PowerPoint slide and refresh the pages real-time during slide show. Display web pages without ever leaving the confines of your PowerPoint slide show. - Rob Schlüter

Article about using the <link> element in BPEL to gain control over the execution order and define dependencies between activities in different branches in the Flow. - Rob Schlüter

Testability-explorer is a tool which analyzes java byte-codes and computes how difficult it will be to write unit-test. This may help determine how hard code is to test and, where to focus to make it more testable. It calculates Non-Mockable Total Recursive Cyclomatic Complexity (!) and Global Mutable State. - Rob Schlüter

A PHP script to generate tutorial parts based on comments in the JavaScript source code. The tool creates a displayable version with line numbers, a downloadable version, an executable version without comments to link to with a script element and can even minify the script. - Rob Schlüter

JSDoc is a tool written in Perl that parses inline documentation in JavaScript source files, and produces an documentation of the JavaScript code like JavaDoc does for Java. It can output HTML, XML and XMI (UML). - Rob Schlüter