In this Practically Groovy article, Scott Davis tackles a topic that strikes fear into most server-side Java developers: Swing. As you’ll learn, Groovy’s SwingBuilder takes some of the sting out of this powerful yet complex GUI framework.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Veteran Rewards Detailed
Game Director Craig Morrison updates us on the state of Age of Conan with this month’s Letter from the Game Director. Much of the letters subject matter centers around the oft talked about Veteran Rewards system. This time, we’ve got solid details on how the system works and what you can expect to earn for your loyalty.
Madonna ‘to wed toyboy Jesus’
Madonna has revealed she wants to marry her toyboy model lover, Jesus Luz. The 51-year-old let her plans slip at a rehearsals.
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2010 Most Popular Christmas Gifts
Most Popular Christmas Gifts : This year made Christmas a memorable one for the kids, or the youngster on your file. Some children appear to just about everything, but here are some amazing gift dreams that the little ones are certain to darling and make you look like a HERO! Christmas timed is a great time to reveal with loved ones, especially the kids. Every little boy and daughter out there looks forwards to Christmas all year around, so make it the most memorable day of the year!
Popular Christmas Gift For The Kids : What are some of the most general Christmas gift thoughts this year for kids? That is very unfussy, cassette playoffs, accessories and willing systems. Kids just devotion the different sport for the Sony Playstation, Xbox or the Nintendo Gamecube. The kids truly look to have not only the playoffs and consoles, but also the accessories like a steering veer for a car ready, or a haulage instance for their order. Some other great gift thoughts for the children are the general scooters and thrilling steal bikes. Watching the kids experience the thrill of an authentic motorcycle without the rate and danger. Most only achieve about 15MPH, so they are appealing safe and the children have a lot of fun.
Popular Christmas Gift For Boys : Another prevalent Christmas gift idea for boys are the withdrawn controls. Trucks, tanks and cars. Boys fondness them all. There is nothing like allowing them to sentinel them appeal and work an isolated organize vehicle. Parents have this more than powerful themselves because kids’ eyes still light up when they hammer. Adults are just trying to get from direct A to summit B as swiftly as we can.
unique Christmas gifts : For Girls are a little more petty when it comes to gifts. Some genuinely good ideas are minimal gears like sing the long games, puzzles and games, but they also like those electric scooters to pester around the neighborhood. Of course girls darling dolls and stuffed animals, but they like to do things the boys do also.
Popular Christmas Gift : For Teens What about the youngster? They worship receiving gifts too on Christmas morning. They just get a little more costly. The good rumor is there are some unique presents they will enjoy gateway this year. Instead of sharp all over the place the most prevalent gifts for teens this year are iPod MP3 players and iPod accessories is Popular Christmas Gift.
Best christmas gifts : IPod for some intention is one of the most admired electronic method out there. One foremost plus of an Apple iPod MP3 player is the accessories made for it. Things like protective and trendy gear, speakers, radios and docking stations. They are completely portable, so teens can eavesdrop to their harmony anywhere. The accessory listed goes on and on. Alarm clocks, boom boxes, moving luggage and more. Even most home drama systems come with an iPod promote in.
Celebrity Bash
Celebrity Bash let�s you punch and knockout your worst celebrities. An exhilarating and funny boxing game.
Lily Allen quits music for good
Lily Allen has made some sensational claims in her time – but now she is set to stun the music world after saying she’s quit the recording business for good.
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Dynamic, typesafe queries in JPA 2.0
A query for persistent Java objects is typesafe if a compiler can verify it for syntactic correctness. Version 2.0 of the Java Persistence API (JPA) introduces the Criteria API, which brings the power of typesafe queries to Java applications for the first time and provides a mechanism for constructing queries dynamically at run time. This article describes how to write dynamic, typesafe queries using the Criteria API and the closely associated Metamodel API.
A Harding day’s night of partying
Hardcore party animal Sarah Harding kick-started London Fashion Week with a boozy bang after enduring a 3am ‘drink-a-thon’.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Last Bastion Machinima Director Q&A
Recently, we brought you news of an Age of Conan machinima project called The Last BAstion. Today, MMORPG.com AoC Correspondent Garrett Perkins brings us an interview with the director of that series.
Browns hi-vis start to his punishment
Chris Brown was spotted laughing and joking as he began his 180 days of community service for beating Rihanna.
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Cubi Kill
Play as a stressed out office worker and help him break and kill all that comes in his way!
memcached and Grails, Part 1: Installing and using memcached
In this first half of a two-part article focusing on memcached and Grails,
author James Goodwill introduces you to the open source caching solution memcached.
Topics covered in this article include installation, configuration, memcached client
commands, and evaluating the effectiveness of your cache. Unlike articles about using
memcached with a language-specific client, this one focuses on direct interaction with
the memcached server. The goal is to give you the tools you need to monitor your
instance of memcached as well as to prepare you for the second half of the article, in which you will integrate memcached into a Grails application.
Obama: Kanye West is a ‘jackass’
President’s off-the-record comment describing award-show interrupting rapper Kanye West as a ‘jackass’ is leaked.
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Film crew blast ‘dumb-as-a-rock’ Megan Fox
Megan Fox has been branded ‘dumb’ and ‘ungracious’ by some of the crew on the movie Transformers.
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Fish Tank’s intense look at fragile beauty
Wonderfully funny, yet profoundly uncomfortable, this is no middle-class tourist goggle at estate life. British film of the year? You bet.
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