Best of this Week Summary 29 September - 05 October 2008

• Check the elaborate 95 slides comparison of Javascript libraries at the bottom of this post. It's a presentation by John Resig, Mr JQuery. The presentation is very objective. Compared are: Prototype, jQuery, Yahoo UI, Dojo and Mootools. Another short comparison of 14 RIA/Ajax/Javascript frameworks shows jQuery as the winner, as seen by the User eXperience reviewer. Great news for jQuery this week anyway: both Nokia and Microsoft are adopting it as part of their official application development platform.
  


• Can't get enough of these RIA frameworks comparisons? Here's another one, which is a short comparison/intro of three Rich Internet Application frameworks: Adobe AIR, Google Gears and Silverlight. See also my (bit older) post here, which also includes JavaFX.
  


• Summary of an article by Martin Fowler on how Agile can be used in building SOA implementations. The answer: yes you can quickly get value out of it. The biggest proof is the internet: loosely coupled and many unexpected changes.
  


• Quick-start JSF book free for download. Only 65 pages. Beginners level, step-by-step. With some mixed "infomercials" about the soon to be open source Eclipse IDE extension Exadel Studio Pro, but not in an annoying way.
  


• Key API design points from Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google
  


• An explanation why a canonical message model (CMM) is a "good thing" in SOA and ESB.
  


• How to manage and lead geeks in a team. For technical and non-technical teamleaders.