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Google Notebook is a free service that allows users to save and share notes and Web clippings in an online journal. A REST-based API allows developers to build PHP applications around this service using SimpleXML. In this article, you will learn how to use the API, with examples of reading notebooks and notebook contents using PHP.

Discover Distributed Image Management for Linux Clusters, a scalable image management tool that allows blades to run a Linux distribution over the network without a local disk. Furthermore, learn how this tool can be used for fast incremental maintenance of images.

Learning good habits in XML can make all the difference between taking advantage of the functionality offered by XML and struggling against the XML standard to get the basics of validation and parsing right. Discover 10 good habits that improve your effectiveness and efficiency as you work with XML documents and data.

Discover Broadband Transmission-line Characterization Using Short-Pulse Propagation, a software toolkit that contains an advanced 2D field solver and signal-processing facility for extracting broadband transmission line properties. Furthermore, become familiar with its two key components, CZ2D and Gamma-Z.

In this article, learn to use Firebug, a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser that provides many useful developer features and tools. Using Firebug, you can monitor, edit, and debug live pages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript code, and network traffic.

Learn how Team Integrator for Eclipse-Based Tools enables collaboration between developers using different tools. This package provides team integration for business process management, an exemplar implementation of the package, and projects built using WebSphere Business Modeler and Websphere Integration Developer.

Discover PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more robust, as well as more international.

Discover Apache Synapse, a high-performance enterprise service bus with simple configuration, extensible architecture, and a minimal footprint. It is a versatile tool that you can use for a variety of tasks. This article examines how you can use Apache Synapse to create mock Web services.

Discover the Simple Text Transformation Tool, an extensible, Eclipse-RCP-based tool that allows you to perform transformations to text data. Also, become familiar with the tool’s built-in features for processing text files.

Discover a tool that enables developers of Java EE applications to migrate from WebSphere Application Server, Community Edition, to the more advanced WebSphere Application Server family of products. Remove a lot of the manual intervention involved in migrating the specific deployment descriptors.

This article provides a basic knowledge of Eclipse Mono Integration and Nant, which are the most active C# and .NET toolkits available for Eclipse. You will also learn how both Emonic and Nant can help build .NET applications in Eclipse and how to migrate and existing C# project into Eclipse.

Discover an Eclipse-based application designed to help Java developers create a GUI-based, online help system or a Web-based information center. The help system can run on a server so that the content can be accessed by client machines and so that it is viewable in the client browsers.

Discover OpenDocument for Office Applications, an XML standard that lets you store and exchange documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Learn about OpenDocument files as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and how to structure text and tabular information in OpenDocument.

Learn how to extend the Eclipse Modeling Framework Ecore metamodel by adding elements to reusable Java snippets. Discover, step by step, how to use dynamic templates with JET to generate the implementation code for the extended model elements.

Discover a tool that simplifies the creation and deployment of MapReduce applications. The Eclipse plug-in uses the Hadoop open-source MapReduce framework, which enables data-intensive applications to run on large clusters of commodity hardware.

Discover a set of standard graphics built into the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse that provide both new widget controls and an animation framework. Standard Widget Graphics facilitates the building of advanced, animated, rich-client applications, targeting business graphics.

To make computers relate to the real world, we need sensors and analog-to-digital conversion. An exercise bicycle is a great example of how to interface a computer and a DB2 database to sensor data. All the steps are presented in an easy-to-follow format.

Programming problems can be solved using multiple solutions. Discover the first approach in a four part series for creating an Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML weather badge, a reusable widget that's easily embedded on any Web page.

Discover a tool that analyzes javacore and diagnoses monitor locks and thread activities. Using Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer Version 2.2, learn to identify the root cause of hangs, deadlocks, resource contention, and bottlenecks in Java threads.

Learn how to develop complex applications consisting of many components and Web services using BPEL V2.0. This article describes how to combine the Eclipse BPEL plug-in for development of processes and Apache ODE for their execution.