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<title><![CDATA[TestNG Annotations Problem]]></title>
<link>http://nikhilsidhaye.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/testng-annotations-problem/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nikhilsidhaye</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nikhilsidhaye.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/testng-annotations-problem/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday one of my colleague come to my desk saying some problem in configuring TestNG in Eclipse. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div>Yesterday one of my colleague come to my desk saying some problem in configuring TestNG in Eclipse. I was surprise because I am using TestNG more than 2 years &#38; never ran into any problem.</div>
<p>&#160;</p>
<blockquote><p>RunInfo] Adding method selector: org.testng.internal.XmlMethodSelector@13f5d07 priority: 10<br />
[TestNGClassFinder] SKIPPING CLASS class com.test.TestController no TestNG annotations found<br />
[SuiteRunner] Created 1 TestRunners<br />
[TestRunner] Running test com.test.TestController on 0  classes,  included groups:[] excluded groups:[]<br />
[TestRunner] WILL BE RUN IN RANDOM ORDER:<br />
[TestRunner] WILL BE RUN SEQUENTIALLY:<br />
[TestRunner] ===<br />
[TestRunner] Found 0 applicable methods
<p>&#160;</p>
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<p>This problem is strange to me. Even I used my test classes to my colleagues&#8217; machine, problem not get solved.</p>
<p>When we started from scratch we observed that in run / debug configurations annotation compliance level is javadoc instead of jdk.</p>
<p>Because of this setting TestNG enable to read annotations &#38; throws error no TestNG annotations found.</p>
<p><img style="max-width:800px;" src="http://nikhilsidhaye.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/annotationeclipseproblem.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>The above image will clarify problem more.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[SOAPStone Annotations for Obama's Iowa Caucus Speech Due Monday, November 30th!]]></title>
<link>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/soapstone-annotations-for-obamas-iowa-caucus-speech-due-monday-november-30th/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrloeb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/soapstone-annotations-for-obamas-iowa-caucus-speech-due-monday-november-30th/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10th Grade English, This is a reminder that annotations and annotations for SOAPStone on President O]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>10th Grade English,</p>
<p>This is a reminder that annotations and annotations for SOAPStone on President Obama&#8217;s Iowa Caucus speech are due on Monday, November 30th. You are to read his speech over the weekend, and annotate the speech using our annotation codes. Additionally, students need to annotate for SOAPStone, answering ALL questions included on the SOAPStone handout that they were given on Monday.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Mr. Loeb via e-mail at any time.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[SOAPStone Annotations Due Tomorrow!]]></title>
<link>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/soapstone-annotations-due-tomorrow/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrloeb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/soapstone-annotations-due-tomorrow/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10th Grade English, This is a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday November 24th, your SOAPStone annotati]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>10th Grade English,</p>
<p>This is a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday November 24th, your SOAPStone annotations on the CNN article are due. I will be checking your annotations during our grammar PDN. Please make sure you have completed these annotations, and have them out during the PDN. If I do not see them, then I cannot give you a grade.</p>
<p>Tip: You are required to annotate the article for SOAPStone. I encourage you to make additional annotations as well. I would suggest writing SOAPStone down the left side of the back page, and annotating accordingly. Please do your best work, and accept only quality work from yourselves.</p>
<p>Until tomorrow&#8230;good luck!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Hibernate Annotations from a beginner's approach]]></title>
<link>http://jpgmr.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/hibernate-annotations-from-a-beginners-approach/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Patrick Grimard</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jpgmr.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/hibernate-annotations-from-a-beginners-approach/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Again this is going to be somewhat of a beginner&#8217;s view similar to my previous posts.  The las]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Again this is going to be somewhat of a beginner&#8217;s view similar to my previous posts.  The last couple weeks I&#8217;ve been trying to expand my knowledge into more than just straight Java.  I&#8217;ve been integrating the Spring framework into my projects for a while and I&#8217;ve become addicted to using it.  I&#8217;m even focusing most of my web projects on Spring MVC, but there were some things I still wanted to improve on.  Enter Hibernate.  So far, most of my projects have all been using straight JDBC, which is fine for small projects, but as you get into larger and modular projects, straight JDBC shows it&#8217;s limitations.</p>
<p>To familiarize myself with Hibernate, <a title="Quick introduction to Hibernate to get you up and running within an hour" href="http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/tutorial.html" target="_blank">I started with the tutorial at Hibernate&#8217;s website</a>.  Having assimilated the basics pretty easily, I moved on to Hibernate Annotations because the less XML configuration I have to write, the better.  Hibernate Annotations does allow you to use both Annotations and the XML mapping file strategy if your needs require it.  The initial tutorial walks you through an Event manager type application.  One of the classes you create is a utility class named HibernateUtil which is responsible for creating your Hibernate SessionFactory.</p>
<p>In the XML mapping version, you would have something like this:</p>
<pre class="brush: java;">
package com.mycompany;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

public class HibernateUtil {

	private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog ( HibernateUtil.class );
	private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

	private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
		SessionFactory sessionFactory = null;

		try {
			sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
		} catch ( Throwable e ) {
			if ( log.isErrorEnabled() ) {
				log.error ( &#34;Initial SessionFactory creation failed.&#34;, e );
				throw new ExceptionInInitializerError ( e );
			}
		}

		return sessionFactory;
	}

	public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
		return sessionFactory;
	}

}
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<p>Modifying it for Annotation based mapping was pretty simple.  I won&#8217;t list the changes you need to make to your persisted object class since that&#8217;s easy enough to achieve following the tutorial, but to change the way the SessionFactory instance is created, you simply need to use the AnnotationConfiguration class instead of Configuration.</p>
<pre class="brush: java;">
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
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<p>My first attempt had resulted in an Exception about not being able to determine the SQL dialect.  The reason for that was because instead of calling configure() on AnnotationConfiguration() first, I was just calling buildSessionFactory() from AnnotationConfiguration().  Since my dialect is defined in hibernate.cfg.xml, I have to call configure() on AnnotationConfiguration() before calling buildSessionFactory().</p>
<p>So for anybody wanting to learn the basics of Hibernate and take advantage of the Annotation based mapping all within an hour, I highly suggest you follow the online tutorial at Hibernate&#8217;s website first, and then <a title="Free sample chapter of Java Persistence with Hibernate from Manning" href="http://www.manning.com/bauer2/chapter2.pdf" target="_blank">follow it up with a look at section 2.2.1 of the free available chapter</a> from Manning to get your feet wet with Hibernate Annotations.</p>
<p>My next step will be using Hibernate in a Spring project.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Annotations]]></title>
<link>http://bankwell.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/annotations/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kamo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bankwell.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/annotations/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As we said in our first post &#8211; we love mixtapes. There&#8217;s magic in the best ones. A story]]></description>
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<p>As we said in our first post &#8211; we love mixtapes.  There&#8217;s magic in the best ones.  A story that winds through often disparate territory, connecting and revealing influences in both the DJ who mixes and the artists being mixed.<br />
Now despite the fact that we posted Bankwell Vol.1 nearly a month ago, our original intention was to have a sort-of annotated tracklisting to accompany the mix, giving us a chance to write about the tracks and maybe reveal a little of how we mashed all of &#8216;em together in the first place.<br />
So given that the tracklisting is quite long and in the interest of keeping these posts short and sweet, we&#8217;re gonna take it about three or four tracks at a time and try to tell everyone a little about the who, why and how&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifO6ki1JxnQ&#38;feature=related">Defunkt</a>, <a href="http://www.matthewherbert.com/">Cameras and Rocks</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOc_EwdE7Kk&#38;feature=fvw">Welcome</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p>Introductions are important.  Just listen to any hip hop mixtape and you&#8217;ll hear that the effort put into making the intro generally results in it trumping the rest of the tape for entertainment value.  Almost to the point where it seems a shame to continue on with the actual mix.<br />
Examples include&#8230;</p>
<p>DJ Babu &#8211; <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4tzjczemwuz">Comprehension</a><br />
DJ M-Boogie &#8211; <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vzz2vmhjio5">Laid In Full</a><br />
DJ Melo-D &#8211; <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?i33jirz5zl0"> Beat Junkies Volume 3</a><br />
Grandmaster Roc Raida &#8211; <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jmngnojxlhy">Crossfaderz</a><br />
Psychonauts &#8211; <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jnm2j5ejn0n">Time Machine</a><br />
And any DJ Rectangle&#8230;especially <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zzvmfyyzyzo">this</a>&#8230;and <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zmfzwmzkznj">this</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>(N.B &#8211; If by any chance you&#8217;re reading this and have a copy of Top Rawmen &#8220;My Sides Better, Naw Mine Is&#8221; by DJ&#8217;s Mike C &#38; Nando, please post it up and hit us with the link)</p>
<p>Now you&#8217;ll notice we didn&#8217;t do any scratching in this mix.  Ableton hasn&#8217;t yet developed a function which allows you to scratch (though their recent involvement with Serato could prove otherwise).  However we still don&#8217;t take the business of introductions lightly.  We didn&#8217;t want to blow our wads too quickly with huge basslines or beats &#8211; we just needed something that builds, intrigues and makes you want to listen on.<br />
Some of you may know Doctor Rockit by his more widely known pseudonym Matthew Herbert.  Nowadays he can mostly be heard/read from through his website where he makes highly politicised musique concrete utilising found sound and a strict manifesto for creating pure &#8220;sound&#8221; music (no drum machines!!).  Seriously, check out his <a href="http://thisisapig.blogspot.com/">blog</a> for a project involving only sounds recorded during the life cycle of a pig.<br />
Cameras and Rocks is a far cry from such projects.  Essentially it&#8217;s a nice little building synth pattern giving way to a clicky house groove that makes perfect bedding for the multi-layered hoo-ha&#8217;s of Defunkt.<br />
I&#8217;m not gonna act like I&#8217;m the hugest fan of Defunkt and their blend of funk, punk and disco.  We discovered the song via the excellently curated series New York Noise on Soul Jazz Records and it&#8217;s acapella intro hit us immediately as prime intro fodder.<br />
The lyrics are pretty straightforward.  Dance.  Party.  Get Down.  Something I think we can all aspire to and most importantly it sets the tone rather nicely for the next half hour.<br />
The inclusion of Art Blakey&#8217;s introductory announcement is a straight-up cue from hip hop mixtapes the world over.  Splicing a little thematically appopriate dialogue to say what would frankly sound pretty corny coming from the worldly portal of my own mouth.</p>
<p>And there it is.  We&#8217;ve been introduced.</p>
<p><a href="http://bankwell.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/bankwell-vol-1/">Bankwell Vol. 1</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Nashville, TN Downtown Presbyterian Church ~ interior]]></title>
<link>http://allthatissolid.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/nashville-tn-downtown-presbyterian-church-interior/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jeklee</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allthatissolid.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/nashville-tn-downtown-presbyterian-church-interior/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nashville, TN Downtown Presbyterian Church ~ interior, originally uploaded by army.arch. There are s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div style="text-align:left;padding:3px;"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/4086986870/"><img style="border:solid 2px #000000;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4086986870_d30c7c0307.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:.8em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/4086986870/">Nashville, TN Downtown Presbyterian Church ~ interior</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/army_arch/">army.arch</a>.</span></div>
<p>There are still plenty of surprises out there.<br />
I didn&#8217;t know about this building: an Egyptian Revival Presbyterian church by William Strickland, 1851, in Nashville, TN. What was going on among the Presbyterians of Nashville to make this thing happen? Thanks to ArmyArch for posting this mind-bending building.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Servizi di promozione dei siti web: Digg e Stumbleupon]]></title>
<link>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/servizi-di-promozione-dei-siti-web-digg-it-e-stumbleupon/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nomenick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/servizi-di-promozione-dei-siti-web-digg-it-e-stumbleupon/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I servizi di valutazione dei siti web in base alle propensioni degli utenti hanno assunto un ruolo p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I servizi di valutazione dei siti web in base alle propensioni degli utenti hanno assunto un ruolo per la <strong>ricerca </strong>nel web perchè permettono di <strong>selezionare </strong>siti interessanti e, dal punto di vista <strong>commerciale</strong>, di <strong>promuovere </strong>siti web consigliandoli agli utenti.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span></p>
<p>Selezionare siti di qualità è alla base di servizi come <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">Stumbleupon</a><strong> </strong> o <a href="www.digg.com">Digg</a> in cui l’utente può <strong>segnalare un sito</strong> premendo in genere un pulsante contenuto in <strong>toolbar installate nel browser</strong> o evidenziate in <strong>fondo ai post dei blogs</strong> tra le icone dei servizi di social bookmarking come Delicious, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Questi siti vengono poi <strong>riproposti </strong>agli utenti sulla base <strong>al numero di segnalazioni ricevute</strong> o in base ai <strong>profili degli utenti</strong> stabiliti tramite <strong>preferenze </strong>espresse in modo <strong>esplicito</strong>, tramite la scelta di aree di interesse, o <strong>implicito</strong>, tramite l’analisi del comportamento. La ricerca nell’archivio dei siti selezionate offre la possibilità di <strong>votare </strong>(<em>I like this</em> in Stumbleupon, o <em>digg this</em> ovvero <em>bury </em>in Digg) i siti proposti.</p>
<p>In digg la visualizzazione di un risultato prevede oltre ad un testo descrittivo, l’<strong>indicazione di pagine simili</strong> in base alle keyword assegnate e la lista dei possibili commenti. Le pagine che ottengono il maggior numero di &#8220;voti&#8221; sono <strong>definite di qualità</strong> e vengono proposte sulla <strong>home page </strong>del sito e visualizzate per categorie e sottocategorie o in <strong>tabs </strong>(schede che raggruppano i risultati secondo le condizioni date) che sono: Popular, Upcoming, News, Videos, Images. Digg permette anche di esprimere <strong>commenti </strong>sui siti visitati condividendoli con la rete di “amici” creata tra gli utenti di Digg o in Twitter e Facebook.</p>
<p>Digg è stato criticato per <strong>pretese violazioni </strong>del copyright delle pagine commentate, dovute alla visualizzazione del documento con i <strong>frame</strong>– vecchia e irrisolta polemica &#8211; dei commenti,  e per il <strong>reindirizzamento </strong>dei link dal sito <strong>originale </strong>a quello <strong>abbreviato </strong>nell’archivio di digg su cui possono essere svolte una serie di azioni <strong>senza mai visitare il sito originale</strong> (si veda <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digggate_conspiracy_theory_or_brave_new_world_for.php">qui </a>) Un <a href="http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/theevancarroll/id/k350g2exZ1JLvWPifNxTCp9BZQU">commento</a> al sito di Digg assai votato su <strong>Sidewiki </strong> (<a href="http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/theevancarroll/id/k350g2exZ1JLvWPifNxTCp9BZQU">http://www.google.com/sidewiki/entry/theevancarroll/id/k350g2exZ1JLvWPifNxTCp9BZQU</a>), contiene poi l’<strong>eco</strong> del dibattito sviluppatosi nella <strong>blogsphere</strong>, sull’obiettività del <strong>meccanismo di promozione</strong> dei siti in Digg, col <strong>sospetto </strong>di manipolazioni dei risultati.</p>
<p>Anche in Stambleupon la <strong>promozione </strong>dei siti avviene col <strong>meccanismo del voto favorevole o negativo</strong> e oltre che sul sito tramite l’invio di news per posta elettronica. Stumbleupon ha anche costruito un servizio di <strong>link shortening</strong> chiamato <a href="http://su.pr/">Su.Pr</a>,  cioè di <strong>abbreviazione degli indirizzi html</strong> per favorirne la memorizzazione e distribuzione (analogo al più noto TinyURL <a href="http://tinyurl.com/">http://tinyurl.com/</a>) che <strong>invia </strong>automaticamente il link all’<strong>archivio di Stumbleupon</strong> per evidenziarlo ai suoi (presunti) 8 milioni di utenti, o anche in <strong>twitter </strong>e <strong>facebook</strong>.</p>
<p>Questa logica di promozione o selezione dei siti da parte degli utenti è stata ripresa dal gadget di igoogle <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&#38;url=www.google.com/ig/modules/pop/pop.xml" target="-blank">What’s Popular</a> nell’intento di integrare il page ranking automatico (per un confronto tra Digg e What&#8217;s popular , vedi <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/04/25/igadget-digg/">qui</a>).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Annotations for this week]]></title>
<link>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/annotations-for-this-week/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrloeb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/annotations-for-this-week/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10th Grade English, Please be sure to bring ALL of your annotations and copies of The Crucible to cl]]></description>
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<p>Please be sure to bring ALL of your annotations and copies of <em>The Crucible </em>to class each and every day this week, starting <strong>Thursday</strong>. We are going to be working on getting ourselves prepared for the mock trial, starting on Thursday. Please feel free to send me any questions or concerns you may have.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[YouTube Can Be a Serious Pain]]></title>
<link>http://cliffbumgardner.com/2009/10/25/youtube-can-be-a-serious-pain/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cliffbumgardner.com/2009/10/25/youtube-can-be-a-serious-pain/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So the other night I filmed and edited the Video of the Week video in just under an hour. I was rush]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So the other night I filmed and edited the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1ZrKVzNMo">Video of the Week </a>video in just under an hour. I was rushing to get it done and up because the next day I would be out at the NC State Fair filming and having fun so I would not have any time to work on a video. But that night I lost power TWICE so I couldn&#8217;t upload my video,</p>
<p>The next morning I got up, set my video to upload, did the title, description and tags, and thought I was done. I left, went to the fair, and didn&#8217;t get home until about 10:30 that night. I was so tired I just made sure my video was up and then I crashed, thinking everything was okay with the video.</p>
<p>Last night, however, I pull the video up on my phone and realize that my title, description, and tags had not saved an instead had reverted back to the file name. FRACK! I lost almost 2 days where that video could have been watched because of YouTube&#8217;s freaking uploader. Man YouTube is a pain sometimes.</p>
<p>The video is now completely fixed (though the annotations page is broken&#8230; jesus, YouTube&#8230;) and hopefully a few more views will come in. To watch the video you can either click the link above or right <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1ZrKVzNMo">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[XTractor knowledgebase crosses 300000+ facts]]></title>
<link>http://mcjack.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/xtractor-knowledgebase-crosses-300000-facts/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mcjack</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mcjack.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/xtractor-knowledgebase-crosses-300000-facts/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[XTractor is one of its kind biomedical literature knowledgebase which updates refined facts from Pub]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">XTractor</a> is one of its kind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_text_mining">biomedical literature</a> knowledgebase which updates refined facts from PubMed every single day.</p>
<p>The XTractor Premium Knowledgebase now has more than <strong>300000</strong> facts  with more coverage of manually annotated drug and disease related facts published in PubMed…</p>
<p>The product is currently being widely used by more than 2000 researchers across the globe.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">http://www.xtractor.in/premium</a></p>
<p>For a 1-month FREE Trial access: <a href="http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do">http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</a></p>
<p>For trial access contact:<a href="http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do"> http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[XTractor knowledgebase crosses 300000+ facts ]]></title>
<link>http://xtractorpremium.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/xtractor-knowledgebase-crosses-300000-facts/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xtractorpremium</dc:creator>
<guid>http://xtractorpremium.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/xtractor-knowledgebase-crosses-300000-facts/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[XTractor is one of its kind biomedical literature knowledgebase which updates refined facts from Pub]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">XTractor</a> is one of its kind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_text_mining">biomedical literature</a> knowledgebase which updates refined facts from PubMed every single day.</p>
<p>The XTractor Premium Knowledgebase now has more than <strong>300000</strong> facts  with more coverage of manually annotated drug and disease related facts published in PubMed…</p>
<p>The product is currently being widely used by more than 2000 researchers across the globe.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">http://www.xtractor.in/premium</a></p>
<p>For a 1-month FREE Trial access: <a href="http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do">http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</a></p>
<p>For trial access contact:<a href="http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do"> http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[XTractor outlink Integration with Entrez Gene]]></title>
<link>http://xtractorpremium.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/xtractor-outlink-integration-with-entrez-gene/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xtractorpremium</dc:creator>
<guid>http://xtractorpremium.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/xtractor-outlink-integration-with-entrez-gene/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Entrez gene is the most widely used data resource for Gene based information worldwide.  To enable r]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene">Entrez gene </a>is the most widely used data resource for Gene based information worldwide.  To enable researchers to obtain high quality manually annotated information from <a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">XTractor</a> when they search for a Gene on Entrez Gene,  we are now providing direct links from Entrez Gene records to corresponding Gene Reports in XTractor.</p>
<p>To use this outlinked option- when in Entrez Gene, for any human gene select the “Link Out” option from the Display menu in Entrez Gene and click on the XTractor link. You will be taken directly to the XTractor graphical report for the Gene of interest and also manually annotated facts on the associated Diseases, Drugs and the Biological Processes for the Gene.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-65" title="Entrez Outlink" src="http://xtractorpremium.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/entrez.jpg" alt="Entrez Outlink" width="455" height="217" /><br />
<a href="http://www.xtractor.in/ncbiSearch.do?xid=XT_15377&#38;symbol=BRCA1">http://www.xtractor.in/ncbiSearch.do?xid=XT_15377&#38;symbol=BRCA1</a></p>
<p>About XTractor Premium:</p>
<p>XTractor Premium &#8211; a platform for discovery, analysis and modelling of published biomedical facts. The application also comes with -XTractor Premium Knowledgebase &#8211; the only knowledgebase, which provides &#8220;manually&#8221; annotated facts from PubMed on a weekly basis. XTractor- (basic version) has been widely adopted by the life sciences research community and has more than 2000 users from 300 organizations across the globe.</p>
<p>http://www.xtractor.in/premium</p>
<p>For trial access write to us at: http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sidewiki]]></title>
<link>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/sidewiki/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nomenick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/sidewiki/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sidewiki è una applicazione per commentare pagine web recentemente distribuito da Google con la sua ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/it/"><strong>Sidewiki </strong></a>è una applicazione per <strong>commentare </strong>pagine web recentemente distribuito da <strong>Google </strong>con la sua <strong>barra delle applicazioni</strong>, disponibile ad oggi per <em>explorer </em>e per <em>firefox</em>. Essa si aggiunge ai numerosi strumenti (tools) che il motore di ricerca mette a disposizione dei propri utenti, da <em>gmail </em>a  <em>caledar</em>, <em>documents, feedreader, blogger, picasa</em>, etc. e che tendono a costituire un <strong>ambiente integrato </strong>di  servizi <strong>non comunicante</strong> con altre applicazioni concorrenti con i servizi di Google, quali ad es. <em>wodpress </em>per i blog o <em>flickr </em>per le foto.</p>
<p>L’applicazione in se è molto funzionale. <strong>Attivando </strong>Sidewiki dal pulsante sulla barra delle applicazioni di google si apre sulla sinistra dello schermo un’<strong>area </strong>(analoga a quella di <a href="http://wp.me/pEEcd-p">ReframeIt </a>ma dalla parte opposta) in cui è possibile scrivere<strong> commenti alla pagina visualizzata sullo schermo</strong>.  La struttura dell’editor è uguale a quella di un <strong>post</strong> di blog e presenta un’area titolo e un’area testo. E’ possibile anche scrivere un commento ad una <strong>testo selezionato</strong>. Anche in presenza di commenti la pagina visualizzata sullo schermo è sempre <strong>nella forma originale</strong>, e per visualizzare le parti di testo a cui i vari commenti si riferiscono bisogna attivarli con un click del mouse. Come per altre applicazioni analoghe, la <strong>selezione di testo</strong> non funziona per le pagine <strong>pdf </strong>e manca pertanto uno strumento di annotazione e commento dei documenti pdf simile ad es. a <a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=1&#38;ved=0CAkQFjAA&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffoxit-reader.softonic.it%2F&#38;ei=sNvVSvr4O4yW_QbLpczZAg&#38;usg=AFQjCNFcoI-UPCa9iZJFKN0PIC7NIj1Dow&#38;sig2=hTdcZ0tf53UD1wociYsuHw"><strong>foxit reader</strong></a> (che però va utilizzato solo  sul proprio computer).</p>
<p>Modifica e cancellazione dei commenti sono sempre possibili dalla pagina commentata e ogni commento può essere condiviso tramite invio per email dell’<strong>URL abbreviato</strong> (che riproduce la pagina con i commenti e le sottolineature) o tramite <strong>facebook </strong>e <strong>twitter</strong>.</p>
<p>Quando <strong>vi sono commenti</strong> ad una pagina compare sulla sinistra dello schermo una <strong>icona </strong>che apre l’area di Sidewiki. Analogamente a Searchwiki, con cui però <strong>non </strong>vi sarebbe alcun collegamento,  l’utente può indicare se il commento è <strong>utile o meno</strong>, oppure se si tratta di spam, contribuendo in tal modo a <strong>valutare </strong>i commenti. Vengono poi visualizzati per primi i commenti più votati, analogamente a come avviene in un altro sito abbastanza popolare, <a href="http://digg.com/"><strong>Digg </strong></a>che ambisce a selezionare il meglio della rete secondo le preferenze degli utenti mettendo sulla <strong>Home page</strong> per ogni categoria, i link ai siti più scelti (digg it) dagli utenti.</p>
<p>I <strong>propri </strong>commenti sono visualizzabili in sequenza nell’area del <strong>profilo </strong>utente (che, previa autorizzazione e a determinate condizioni, è consultabile <strong>pubblicamente</strong>) e possono essere condivisi tramite sottoscrizione dei relativi <strong>feed</strong>.</p>
<p>Sidewiki rispetto ad analoghi servizi <strong>non ha la funzionalità di ricerca</strong> dei commenti il che insieme alla visualizzazione nell’area personale fa pensare che la <strong>pubblicazione </strong>delle pagine commentate si debba realizzare oltre che con la pagina commentata, con<strong> strumenti integrati</strong> come <strong>Bookmarks</strong>, <strong>Blogger </strong>e <strong>Feedreader</strong>. L’icona di Bookmarks compare proprio accanto a Sidewiki nella barra delle applicazioni e la pubblicazione tramite blogger è immediata e senza intoppi.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Where's Dexter?]]></title>
<link>http://thecreativebazaar.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/wheres-dexter/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pianobcreative</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thecreativebazaar.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/wheres-dexter/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Livello 1: Livello 2: Livello 3: Livello 4:]]></description>
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<p>Livello 2:<br />
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<p>Livello 3:<br />
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<p>Livello 4:<br />
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<title><![CDATA[The Crucible Act IV Annotations Due Friday, October 16th!!!]]></title>
<link>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-crucible-act-iv-annotations-due-friday-october-16th/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrloeb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-crucible-act-iv-annotations-due-friday-october-16th/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10th Grade English, You have ten (10) reading annotations due on Friday, October 16, for The Crucibl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>10th Grade English,</p>
<p><strong>You have ten (10) reading annotations due on Friday, October 16, for The Crucible, ACT IV</strong>. You should complete at least one of each type of annotation element. Also, you should have read up to the end of Act IV by Friday, so please make sure you are doing your reading. Be prepared for a possible reading quiz on Act IV.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Diigo]]></title>
<link>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/diigo/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nomenick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/diigo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Uno strumento concorrente di ReframeIt per funzionalità offerte è Diigo un sito di social tagging pe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Uno strumento <strong>concorrente </strong>di <strong>ReframeIt </strong>per funzionalità offerte è <strong>Diigo </strong>un sito di social tagging per costruire bookmark di risorse web, avvalendosi di una struttura essenziale costituita da URL, titolo, descrizione e tag; l’archiviazione veloce non richiede nemmeno l’inserimento di una descrizione, né di tag.</p>
<p>Rispetto al <strong>capostipite </strong>del genere, cioè Delicious, Diigo ha però alcune<strong> funzionalità ulteriori</strong>. In primo luogo il campo descrizione è in grado di ospitare fino a <strong>2000</strong> caratteri (rispetto ai 1000 di Delicious) in secondo luogo presenta caratteristiche proprie dei <strong>servizi di social annotations</strong>.</p>
<p>Una volta installato in Firefox l’<strong>add on di Diigo</strong>, che compare anche come una <strong>barra di comandi</strong>, ogni selezione che l’utente compie col mouse sul testo html (non funziona con i file pdf) della pagina web visualizzata sullo schermo, apre un <strong>menu a finestra</strong> con le opzioni di <strong>illuminare </strong>(highlight)  in modo <strong>permanente </strong>il brano selezionato, <strong>costruire un segnalibro</strong> e illuminare il brano, fare una <strong>ricerca del testo nel web</strong>, <strong>copiarlo </strong>e infine disattivare quel menu. Queste operazioni possono essere fatte anche tramite la barra di Diigo.</p>
<p>Dopo aver creato una selezione permanente al <strong>passaggio del mouse su di essa</strong> compare una <strong>icona </strong>a forma di matita che, attivata, offre le <strong>opzioni </strong>di <strong>attaccare un post-it</strong>, cancellare la selezione, <strong>visualizzare l’URL della pagina annotata</strong> per condividerla, aprire la <strong>biblioteca personale </strong>(my library) e infine scegliere il <strong>colore </strong>della selezione. Il post-it può ospitare diversi commenti e rimane accanto alla selezione con indicato il <strong>numero </strong>dei commenti inseriti.</p>
<p>La pagina così commentata può esser <strong>condivisa in facebook e in twitter</strong> o inviata ad amici in forma annotata (annotated link)  che nella parte superiore presenta una icona che avverte sulla <strong>provenienza da Diigo</strong> del file e indica l’<strong>URL della risorsa originale</strong>. La barra presenta anche l’opzione “<strong>extract annotation</strong>s” che apre una finestra con tutte le annotazioni inserite nella pagina con l’opzione di <strong>copiarle nel clipboard</strong>. In tal modo i commenti possono essere incollati insieme in un word editor.</p>
<p>Nella biblioteca personale  le selezioni e i commenti vengono <strong>elencati sotto il record del bookmark</strong> della pagina. Questa presentazione dei commenti nella biblioteca dell’utente archiviata su Diigo si <strong>differenza </strong>da quella sul sito di ReframeIt dove i commenti dell’utente sono <strong>elencati cronologicamente</strong>, mentre vengono presentati insieme <strong>solo nel contesto</strong> della pagina una volta che sia richiamata sullo schermo.</p>
<p>Nel complesso Diigo è uno strumento funzionale per costruire annotare e commentare le risorse web soprattutto <strong>a fini di produttività personale</strong>, forse meno indicato per costruire “<strong>conversazioni</strong>” con altri utenti sulla risorsa web.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Servizi di annotazione per le pagine web]]></title>
<link>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/servizi-di-annotazione-per-le-pagine-web/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nomenick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/servizi-di-annotazione-per-le-pagine-web/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Applicazioni relativamente poco discusse nell’ambito dei sistemi di pubblicazione (selfpublishing) d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Applicazioni <strong>relativamente poco discusse </strong>nell’ambito dei sistemi di pubblicazione (<strong>selfpublishing</strong>) da parte degli utenti e dei sistemi di <strong>produttività personale</strong>, sono i servizi di note, commenti e rating (da ora in poi: <strong>servizi di annotazioni</strong>) di risorse in linea. Intendo qui servizi non limitati al <strong>campo di un record</strong> all’interno di cataloghi, come in <em><a href="http://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a>, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/">Librarything</a></em><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"> </a>o nei servizi di social bookmarking (su cui occasionalmente torneremo) in cui il contesto è fornito dalla struttura del record stesso che rappresenta il documento.</p>
<p>L’annotazione web di cui si parla è invece <strong>associata </strong>non a un record ma direttamente <strong>ad una pagina web</strong> visualizzata sullo schermo del computer: l’utente può annotare e commentare la risorsa web (e in seguito modificare o rimuovere tali note)  <strong>senza modificare la risorsa stessa</strong>.  <a href="http://annozilla.mozdev.org/index.html">Annozilla</a> è una estensione di Firefox 3/3.5  costruito seguendo le specifiche del  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/">W3C Annotea project</a>.  Esso mira ad archiviare le annotazioni su un server <strong>in formato RDF</strong>, usando XPointer (o costrutti analoghi) per identificare la regione del documento da annotare.</p>
<p>L’utente che abbia il plug in installato nel suo browser può navigando <strong>scoprire annotazioni </strong>(che devono ovviamente essere contrassegnate come “pubbliche”) di altri<strong> </strong>utenti sulle pagine che visita, e a sua volta commentare sia la <strong>pagina web </strong>che le <strong>annotazioni fatte da altri</strong>. Le annotazioni  sono poi archiviate sul server del servizio prescelto. Tali annotazioni non si limitano a richiamare la pagina commentata, ma riproducono anche  le <strong>selezioni </strong>a cui si riferisce il commento e che possono essere sia <strong>brani di testo</strong> che <strong>immagini</strong>.</p>
<p>Prima della implementazione di questi servizi, <strong>annotazioni </strong>e <strong>documento </strong>(i.e.pagina web) rimanevano <strong>separati. </strong> In alternativa si poteva utilizzare un servizio di <strong>bookmarking </strong>utilizzando in campo Note (p.e. in <a href="http://delicious.com/"><em>Delicious</em></a>).  <strong>L&#8217;archivio in linea </strong>contiene invece solo  le <strong>annotazioni </strong>e <strong>non i documenti </strong>(come nelle repositories) <strong>né i loro surrogati</strong> (come nei servizi di <strong>bookmarking </strong>in linea).</p>
<p>Questa peculiare <strong>organizzazione della conoscenza</strong> modifica anche la <strong>logica </strong>della ricerca per parole che si riferisce al testo <strong>non </strong>dei <strong>documenti </strong>ma  dei <strong>commenti </strong>degli utenti – quindi ai <strong>significati </strong>che l’utente  ha ritenuto di evidenziare in uno <strong>specifico contesto e situazione</strong>: verrebbe a dire che si riferisce <strong>non</strong> <strong>all’informazion</strong>e ma alla <strong>conoscenza personale.</strong></p>
<p>Comparando questi servizi con <strong>analoghi </strong>strumenti di informazione e conoscenza su supporto cartaceo, viene in mente il <strong>quaderno di appunti</strong> o le <strong>glosse a margine </strong>delle pagine dei libri. Le potenzialità di questi servizi sono quindi notevoli e possono essere <strong>utilmente utilizzati anche dalle biblioteche</strong>. Per le loro implicazioni nella <strong>evoluzione della filosofia e delle tecniche di ricerca</strong> nei prossimi post  esaminerò alcuni di questi servizi.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Crucible ACT III and Annotations Due Friday! ]]></title>
<link>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/the-crucible-act-iii-and-annotations-due-friday/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrloeb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://msaenglish.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/the-crucible-act-iii-and-annotations-due-friday/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10th Grade English, You have ten (10) reading annotations due on Friday, October 9, for The Crucible]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>10th Grade English,</p>
<p><strong>You have ten (10) reading annotations due on Friday, October 9, for The Crucible, ACT III</strong>. Also, you should have read up to the end of Act III by Friday, so please make sure you are doing your reading. Be prepared for a possible reading quiz on Act III.</p>
<p>Also, please be sure to <strong>study for the PDN quiz on Friday</strong>. <strong>This week&#8217;s quiz will cover linking, auxiliary, transitive, and intransitive verbs</strong>. Students will be asked to locate, identify, and label these different types of verbs. Additionally, students will be quizzed on at least 5-6 different vocabulary words.</p>
<p><strong>The vocabulary words from this week are&#8211;licentious, sublime, facetious, and methodical</strong>. Please make sure you have the definition of these words in your PDNs. If you did not copy these down earlier in the week, either get the definitions from a fellow scholar, or look it up in a dictionary!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[XTractor Premium – Semantic Search over manually indexed data]]></title>
<link>http://mcjack.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/xtractor-premium-%e2%80%93-semantic-search-over-manually-indexed-data/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mcjack</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mcjack.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/xtractor-premium-%e2%80%93-semantic-search-over-manually-indexed-data/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Searching through the vast repositories of biomedical literature, has been a long standing problem. ]]></description>
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<p>Searching through the vast repositories of biomedical literature, has been a long standing problem.  <a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">XTractor Premium</a> comes with a highly advanced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search">semantic search</a> feature which enables you to mine the most relevant information in matter of seconds. In comparison to similar application which guarantee results – <a href="http://www.xtractor.in/premium">XTractor Premium</a> is far more effective in addressing scientific problems. We have multiple ontologies integrated into our semantic search panel, so that your search time is reduced.</p>
<p>EG: You could ask questions like:<br />
Which are the GPCR class I receptors that are involved in colon cancer<br />
OR which of the anti asthmatic drugs are also used for treatment diabetes type 2.</p>
<p>The search retrieves you the most significant results- due to the fact that XTractor relies on manual annotation of data. Manual annotation enables us to reduce the false positive mapping and also enables the correct alias/synonym mapping to a large extent. So inturn better results and faster discovery.</p>
<p>Many biomedical search engines talk about searching through the entire <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/">Medline</a> but results are highly erroneous as they do not handle cases such as isoform specificity of a proteins and also since they are limited to keyword based or single entity based searching it gives the end user a limited chance to view all the published findings. Many of these search engines just run their query on the top 100 or 200 abstracts for refining purposes- but XTractor Premium with its inbuilt semantic search indexes is able to quickly compute multiple relationships across entities and enables faster generation of scientific hypothesis from the evergrowing XTractor knowledgebase of more than 250000 facts.</p>
<p><strong>To use Semantic search feature-  get a free access at:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do">http://www.xtractor.in/trial.do</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Me against the web #2 - MVC]]></title>
<link>http://812bits.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/me-against-the-web-2-mvc/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simone Pezzano</dc:creator>
<guid>http://812bits.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/me-against-the-web-2-mvc/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here we are with chapter two of &#8220;Me against the web&#8221;. In the previous chapter we saw how]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Here we are with chapter two of &#8220;Me against the web&#8221;.</p>
<div style="text-align:justify;">In the previous chapter we saw how templates engine can definitely change our idea on how a web page can be written. But we&#8217;re missing the main point: where do we put the logic the web page should not handle?<br />
Here it comes, the famous Model View Controller pattern.</div>
<div style="text-align:justify;"><!--more--> But what is it all about?<img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8131adf3-b51e-8066-8930-c12f91d5e59b" alt="" /> It&#8217;s pretty simple and, in a certain way, we&#8217;ve already talked about this. It is about separating the logic and the way it is presented. In a simplier way, the viewer has <em>the key</em> to -graphically or logically, if you want- interprete what the model says.<br />
You might now affirm that this is not a technology or a pattern, but just a good way to write things. Pretty true, but if you don&#8217;t find a tool to impose a managed way to do stuff, you&#8217;d find yourself into the usual big mess pretty soon.</div>
<div style="text-align:justify;">For these reasons, a lot of web oriented model view controllers born to help us. There are tons, but thanks to my familiarity with Spring (in terms of inversion of control), I thought Spring Web MVC would be a good idea for some reasons:</div>
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<li>It is Spring, what else?</li>
<li>It goes straight to the point</li>
<li>It requires little configuration</li>
<li>Most of its functionalities can be driven by annotations</li>
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<p>We&#8217;ll see the installation details in the last chapter of this series, let&#8217;s now concentate on how the things work. In web.xml we&#8217;re going to inform our friend Tomcat that every *.html request will be mapped to the Spring MVC Servlet.<br />
Our main interest is now in the controllers. There are tons of ways to define a Spring MVC controller, but the one I prefer is Annotated POJO, in other words, create a class and annotate it with @Controller&#8230; here it is.<br />
After you&#8217;re done, create a method you can call just how you like and annotate it with something like:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>@RequestMapping(value=&#8221;/index.html&#8221;,method=RequestMethod.GET)</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yes it does what you think, it will actually create the mapping. Now, what&#8217;s the needed signature for the method? <strong>There are tons available</strong>, list of parameters, maps etc, but  here I present you the most open one, is something like:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>public ModelAndView initIndex(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It receives our usual request and response and returns a ModelAndView object. What you have to return is something like:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>return new ModelAndView(&#8220;view&#8221;,mapOfAttributes);</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Where model is the actual file name of the view (be it a JSP or Velocity template) and mapOfAttributes is a key-value map that&#8217;ll be available during view manipulation.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What else? Nothing, it&#8217;s all here, pretty clean.<br />
Of course now you&#8217;re impatient to know how to implement this, but take your time to read some <a href="http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/reference/mvc.html" target="_blank">Web MVC Framework documentation</a>. I guarantee you&#8217;ll read all the simplified technical steps in the next chapter <strong>&#8220;Me against the web #3 : glueing controllers and templates&#8221;</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple caching with Spring AOP]]></title>
<link>http://urmincek.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/simple-caching-with-spring-aop/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Igor Urminček</dc:creator>
<guid>http://urmincek.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/simple-caching-with-spring-aop/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s recommended to read Simple caching with AspectJ before you continue. Only difference is i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It&#8217;s recommended to read <a href="http://urmincek.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/simple-caching-with-aspectj/">Simple caching with AspectJ</a> before you continue. Only difference is in using Spring AOP.<br />
At first we need to create spring-config.xml and define Spring beans and enable Spring AOP autoproxy for AspectJ:</p>
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&#60;?xml version=&#34;1.0&#34; encoding=&#34;UTF-8&#34;?&#62;
&#60;beans xmlns=&#34;http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans&#34;
	xmlns:xsi=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#34;
	xmlns:aop=&#34;http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop&#34;
	xsi:schemaLocation=&#34;http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd&#34;&#62;

	&#60;aop:aspectj-autoproxy /&#62;
	&#60;bean class=&#34;caching.springaop.CacheAspect&#34; /&#62;

	&#60;bean id=&#34;calc&#34; class=&#34;caching.springaop.Calculator&#34; /&#62;

&#60;/beans&#62;
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<p>Now we can use <code>Calculator</code> bean created by Spring:</p>
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ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(&#34;spring-config.xml&#34;);
Calculator calc = (Calculator) ctx.getBean(&#34;calc&#34;);

// result will be calculated and stored in cache
logger.info(&#34;1 + 2 = &#34; + calc.sum(1, 2));

// result will be retrieved from cache
logger.info(&#34;1 + 2 = &#34; + calc.sum(1, 2));
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<p>Download full source code as a <a href="http://github.com/igo/demo-caching-with-spring-aop/zipball/master">zip</a> or <a href="http://github.com/igo/demo-caching-with-spring-aop/tarball/master">tar.gz</a> file or <a href="http://github.com/igo/demo-caching-with-spring-aop/tree/master">browse code online on GitHub</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Little annotations about Morocco]]></title>
<link>http://blackinkproject.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/little-annotations-about-morocco/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>isaure</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blackinkproject.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/little-annotations-about-morocco/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Isaure Cointreau Here are a few things I experienced while in Morocco. Loves and hates are part o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>By Isaure Cointreau</strong></p>
<p>Here are a few things I experienced while in Morocco. Loves and hates are part of any experience though as you will see there are more enjoyable things to encounter than the opposite.</p>
<p><img src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs254.snc1/10117_512774301742_271100615_574841_5562537_n.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>When we arrived in Marrakech our first mission was to find a place to stay the night as cheap as one could find. We eventually stayed at a hostel called Essaouira. It is a hotel where all backpackers seem to meet and the roof terrace is set up as a giant dormitory. During the night you sleep under the stars a few bloks away from the city’s wild plaza Jemaa El Fna. Don’t forget to grab a thick cover before you go to sleep, the air can get really fresh around two O’clock. At sunrise you’ll wake up at the sound of the Muezzin but after a minute you’ll go right back to sleep for a few hours because at 9 the heat is out and you won’t be able to breathe under the pounding sun. Seems horrible? Not at all, I loved it!</p>
<p>The food in Morroco is amazing. Maybe after a couple of weeks it can seem to have a lack of variety between the Tajines, couscous and bastilla but there are two things you’ll never get tired of: Mint tea and cakes. Both can be drank and eaten endlessly, one is refreshing the other is a mouthwatering delight of honey and almonds. However as we all know that all good things have to be consumed with moderation, try not to forget that this heavy food is not compatible with a light diet.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bosphore-egb.fr/hammam/images/hammam.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The last day of my trip I walked by a local hammam. It was nothing fussy or touristy hence the enjoyable price. The entry was 10 Drhms (1 Euro) and the massage 50. For an hour I was in a hot and humid room, and had the most hardcore body scrub of my entire life. The masseuse guided me around as I had no clue what to do or where to go, and with her glove she grated my skin. Although a little brutal I came out of there with a soft baby skin. I would do this every week if I could for that glowing result, it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Although you can see that I really enjoyed my stay there are however some details that have greatly annoyed me. Of course in the end it wasn&#8217;t that much of  a problem as I will only remember the good times  in this wonderful country. However here are the things that irritated me, just so you know what could come to you:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.casafree.com/modules/xcgal/albums/userpics/11907/normal_mouton.jpg" alt="Mouton sur motocyclette Galerie photo" /></p>
<p>Bikes and motorcycles are always on the run so watch out for your life because they won’t acknowledge your presence if you are on their route. However if you keep on the side of the road although it can get at times difficult you’ll be all right. Another little detail that annoyed me was the prejudice they have upon the tourist as “the one that has money to spare”. Some times you’ll see that bargains are hard to make as they see you as a giant bank to rob nice and easy with a little pressure and a smile. So try to know what you want and at what price, comparing with other stands, when shopping in the market (souk), or elsewhere.</p>
<p>My last little annotation will be dedicated to the ladies. The Moroccan people will respect you as a foreigner therefore you can feel secure and free even if it is a country where Islam is predominant. You don’t have to wear a veil; though try to cover yourself up avoiding mini shorts and provocative wears. It is just more respectful that way.</p>
<p>Don’t worry if they call you a Gazelle it is not a pejorative term as it only indicates that you are a foreigner and a women. Men although it is less common can at time be called Gazeau (its masculine). However try to forget about feminism during your stay, although the women rights are evolving over there, it doesn’t stick to the culture yet.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[ReframeIt]]></title>
<link>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/reframeit/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nomenick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://4lib.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/reframeit/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ReframeIt è tra gli add on consigliati da Firefox per archiviare note e commenti relativi a pagine w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>ReframeIt</strong> è tra gli <strong>add on</strong> consigliati da Firefox per archiviare <strong>note</strong> e <strong>commenti </strong>relativi a pagine web che si stanno visitando <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reframe_integrates_facebook_and_twitter.php">(ReadWriteWeb</a> gli ha dedicato un post nel marzo 09). Una volta installato l&#8217;add on, cliccando l&#8217;icona del servizio che appare a destra sulla barra di stato del browser, si apre (o si chiude) un <strong>frame</strong> (lett. cornice) sul lato destro del browser su tutta la sua altezza.</p>
<p>Nel frame compaiono i <strong>commenti alla pagina che si sta visualizzando</strong> lasciati dagli utenti di ReframeIt che possono essere <strong>visualizzati in tre modi</strong>: uno per volta a seconda della frazione di pagine visualizzata, in una lista abbreviata, o graficamente in <strong>stubs </strong>(lett. mozziconi), icone che se cliccate fanno comparire il commento e visualizzano il punto della pagina a cui il commento si riferisce. Gli stubs danno anche la <strong>raffigurazione grafica </strong>dei <strong>threads </strong>di commenti che si sono succeduti sulle varie sezioni della pagina.</p>
<p>L’utente può a questo punto <strong>inserire </strong>un commento sull’<strong>intero </strong>documento, su una <strong>selezione </strong>(parti del <strong>testo </strong>o <strong>immagini</strong>), o su i <strong>commenti lasciati</strong> da altri utenti;  il commento viene quindi memorizzato sul proprio accout nel server di reframe it.</p>
<p>Reframe it ha anche un particolare meccanismo di <strong>condivisione dei commenti</strong>, che possono essere <strong>privati </strong>o <strong>pubblici</strong>. Il menu a tendina <strong>Share Comment</strong> offre 4 opzioni di condivisione: <strong>Social Networks, Groups, Friends, Email</strong>. L’ultima invia il commento a uno o più <strong>indirizzi email</strong> inseriti manualmente. I <strong>Friends </strong>sono altri utenti di reframe it che come nei social networks, è possibile reperire con una ricerca tra gli utenti oppure facendo scansire la propria <strong>rubrica dell’email</strong> per trovare contatti già presenti su reframe it o per <strong>invitare </strong>i propri contatti ad aderire al servizio. E’ anche possibile <strong>sottoscrivere </strong>(follow) i commenti di altri utenti di cui si voglia seguire l’attività. I <strong>Groups</strong> possono essere preesistenti o creati ad hoc dall’utente.</p>
<p>La condivisione in <strong>Social Networks</strong> prevede che i commenti, una volta salvati, siano  pubblicati direttamente negli <strong>accounts </strong>dell’utente su social networks opportunamente settati, quali <strong>facebook, twitter, friendfeed</strong>, su blog costruiti con blogger o <strong>metaweblog </strong>(WordPress o movable type), o tramite <strong>feeds </strong>che possono appaire con un widget per <strong>igoogle</strong>, o per il <strong>proprio sito web</strong> o in qualsiasi <strong>feedreader</strong>. E’ anzi possibile sottoscrivere i feeds di qualsiasi lista di commenti, sia personali che di gruppi.</p>
<p>Grazie anche alla sua amichevole <strong>interfaccia</strong>, ReframeIt non solo si presta molto  a fini di <strong>produttività personale</strong>, trasformando il proprio account in un quaderno di appunti su documenti web rilevanti, ma se ne intuiscono altri usi assai proficui ad esempio in campo <strong>educativo </strong>e per <strong>valutare le risorse web.</strong></p>
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