Make your grails unit test DRY with the grails build-test-data plugin. This presentation shows the benefits of the plugin to tdd styles of development.

Find recently expired domain names.

Run Android OS from a CD or a USB stick using the opensource live-android project to add Android operating system to your bootable portable media.

Another DZone RefCard - this one on Java Concurrency Concepts, Collections, Threads and Coordination.

Simon Fraser University offers a Diploma in Applied Project Management with a focus on managing technology projects.

fun tutorial on how to generate fake words using python

A Best practices book on how to program applications for interactions involving date and times. The book focuses on Php development but the basic concepts could be relevant to any web based technology.

Some performance benchmarks that show the huge overhead of ws-security enabled web services.

Add Google analytics to your Grails based web applications with this plugin.

A collection of handy groovy scripts for common scenarios.

How to justify and find value in Pair Programming. This could be of interest to anyone who wants to be PCI Complient (require 100% code reviews)

How to do smart software estimation - some basic best practices to follow to develop your own estimates.

The key to a productive software maintenance is building a simple to understand and easy to maintain system. This article discusses some of the key philosophy behind making even the largest systems maintainable.

Martin Fowler defines an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and has a nice little diagram to show the various layers and their function.

List of 5 popular static analysis plugins for Eclipse IDE.

A collection of JQuery plugins to add a variety of capabilities to web applications.

jescape has more than a dozen examples of various encoding schemes.

Short movie on using GeoMaker to take a set of location names and translate them into lat/long coordinates for viewing on Yahoo Maps, includes some simple validation and false positive checking.

A discussion of software architectural design patterns primarilly focused on .net development, but applicable to any object oriented programming.

Generate fake receipts using this service.

Architectural review of how friendfeed's flexible schema is implemented using MySQL.

Java source for taking a screenshot of the desktop.

LogDigger servlet filter publishes web logs to your browser - useful with the LogDigger FireFox addon that helps to request and display the logs in real time, helping add another level of debugging to your java web apps.

Java xource code for adding an icon to the System Tray/Taskbar Status Area/Notification Area.

A short tutorial on how to calculate driving distance between 2 addresses using JavaScript & Google Maps.

There are a variety of ways to get your own (legitimate) JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA license.

Very detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to setup an Amazon EC2 based cloud computing service.

A list of Spring, Hibernate, Struts and Struts2 tutorials. That is all…

A VERY detailed tutorial on how to build an Amazon EC2 hosted Grails application.

Grails transactions, rollbacks and batch processing using the embedded Session Management from Hibernate and Spring Transaction Status, both already part of the standard Grails stack.

The reasoning and how-to behind teams migrate to more sophisticated version control schemes starting from the lone gunman, building a team, to running multiple teams on the same code base.

Add instant messaging capability to your Grails application using the Jabber plugin.

How to setup Grails Continuous Integration with Hudson.

A simple tutorial showing how to develop a Google AppEngine based Grails backend, JQuery front-end web application.

Add easy paypal integration to your grails site with the Paypal pro plugin.

A beginners introduction to the oft mentioned, but poorly understood "Buffer Overflow Exploit"

There are lots of options that fit scenarios that typically cause issues for relational databases. This post has a list of some of the options like BigTable, Document Databases, Graph Databases, MapReduce and Distributed Key-Value stores. It also includes links to many open and closed source products & services available for each technology so you can evaluate the options best suited to your needs.

Implementing a document management system using Google Appengine for Java (gae/j). This tutorial steps through an explanation of what makes gae different from the standard java enterprise stack, and how to work with it's particular limitations. If the limitations don't work with your needs then perhaps EC2 from Amazon Web Services is your cloud computing platform of choice.

Defines some Software development archetypes and outlines their basic strengths and weaknesses. Also includes some suggestions on how to help motivate and grow each type.