Many has been written about Android, Google’s new platform for mobile applications, lately and the Java community is no exception. To catch up here’s a small reading list, most of it regarding Dalvik, Google’s tweaked Java virtual machine used in Android:

• The first week of the Android SDK [The Server Side]
• Android: First Impressions. [OnJava]
• Android is out: First Looks [Javalobby]
• Is Google the New Microsoft? [Javalobby]
• Google’s Android for the server-side please [Javalobby]
• Dalvik - Google’s tweaked, non-standard JVM for Android!!!! [OnJava]
• Google Android: Initial Impressions and Criticism [Javalobby]
• Google Android, Now 100% Java-Free! [Neil’s point-free blog]
• Google’s Android SDK Bypasses Java ME in Favor of Java Lite and Apache Harmony [InfoQ]

Ode To The Code has a very in depth article that goes to the guts of Master Pages, one of the new features of ASP.Net 2.0, showing some implementation details and clearing some common misconceptions.

The conclusion is quite simple, while being perfect for designing the common sections of a web page to be used across a web site, Master Pages shouldn’t be treated as a base page that other pages can extend ( just like an abstract class), instead they should be seen as a control that will be placed inside the page.
 

ASP.Net 2.0 - Master Pages: Tips, Tricks, and Traps

Photographer’s Work Stolen - Used as a Book Cover!!!

The work of popular deviantART photographer, gnato, was stolen and used as a book cover! Does anyone know a good copyright attorney?

I guess this is an alarm call to all those who have artwork available in public galeries all over the Internet, just like myself. Honestly I don’t believe in watermarks, to work properly they must be placed in the center of a photo, usually over the main theme, and with some work and Photoshop they can be removed. Perhaps the best thing to do is to upload in a low resolution, thus preventing its use almost everywhere (like prints, books or similar)…

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. Originally uploaded by bcaptured

She has one of the most interesting photoblogs I’ve come across lately, it’s really worth a lengthy visit.

bCaptured Weblog

Now here’s a wacky thing, this web page randomly grabs photos from Flickr and creates a really cool multimedia presentation. This is very vague, but it resembles a dream or some kind of alternative music video.

…And coolest thing is, since it’s completely random, you have a different presentation each time you check the page.

Flickeur

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Some quick links time about best practices when using unit testing in .Net:

Unit Testing and Code Coverage Guidelines

Best and Worst Practices for Mock Objects

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Of course this is a hack, but it works and is pretty simple to do…

Add all the needed references, and also add the following line in the .csproj file.


{14822709-B5A1-4724-98CA-57A101D1B079};
{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}

Put it under the first
item right beneath the item.

See the rest of the thread here: Re: IMemberCreationService missing - MSDN Forums

When JBoss says this:

Caused by:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URL cannot be null
	
at org.jboss.webservice.metadata.jaxrpcmapping.
JavaWsdlMappingFactory.parse(JavaWsdlMappingFactory.java:55)

it may mean (well, it did in my case) that you’ve accidentally mis-typed the name of jaxrpc-mapping.xml. I guess the error arises whenever files referenced by webservices.xml don’t exactly match the actual file names. A reasonable problem, but rather an opaque error message.

Thanks to Ian I figured this out, he saved me a considerable amount of debug time.

Technorati Tags: Maven, JBoss, XDoclet, EJB, Web Services

This is a photo gallery different from anything you may have ever seen; is an old cemetery shown in four views, corresponding to each season of the year. It’s amazing how the same scenery can look so different throughout the year.

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Here’s a list of things you should say in an antique shop:

1. Do you receive new stuff often?
2. I never heard someone say: It’s my birthday and what I want is a piece of old russian wood.
3. This could be from anytime really.
4. He’s a guy who got mugged in Russia, went to live in the woods, people would visit him and it make him feel better. Why does that man got a plaque? Everybody was a saint years ago, if nowadays someone got fed up living in London or New York and went to live in the woods, no one would see him there and he wouldn’t get a piece of wood with his face. 
5. What do you do when you sell all the antiques?

Yes, again the Ricky Gervais podcast…