Ext JS 2.0.1 Released

The Ext team has released version 2.0.1 of their popular JavaScript framework. This is a maintenance release fixing several bugs.

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Happy Birthday Mozilla!!!

Celebrating 10 years since the Netscape Communicator source code was freed. Blog post here. Original Netscape  press release here.

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TDD and Research

Phil Haack has an interesting article on his blog this morning regarding the amount of scientific research behind Test-Driven Development. As a developer, I’ve had the displeasure of trying to convince multiple management types and teams of developers that Test-Driven Development would lead to better, cheaper, and easier to maintain software. Maybe armed with some of the research pointed out in this article you will have an easier time than I.

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JavaFx tutorial on developerWorks

This one is a few days old, but there is a nice JavaFx tutorial by Cathy Kegley and Greg Roberts up on IBM’s developerWorks.

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