Monthly Archives: March 2011

Daily del.icio.us for March 26th through March 29th

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Vinny

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• IntelliJ IDEA Static Analysis: Custom Rules with Structural Search & Replace | JetBrains TV – This screencast demonstrates IDEA's static code analysis features and how to write your own rule using Structural Search & Replace. I'll give you a quick overview of IDEA inspections, show you how to use Structural Search, and then demonstate creating a new inspection and quick fix based on this search
• How Digg is Built | Digg About – At Digg we have substantially rebuilt our infrastructure over the last year in what we call "Digg V4". This blog post gives a high-level view of the systems and technologies involved and how we use them. Read on to find out the secrets of the Digg engineers!
• Hosting websites out of CouchDB :: myNoSQL – Together with Couchapps, support for virtual hosts and URL rewrites makes it easier to create and serve web applications directly from CouchDB with no additional middleware
• Useful Bookmarklets for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser – Unlike most desktop browsers, the Safari browser of your iOS device doesn’t support extensions but you can still add extra functionality to the browser with the help of bookmarklets
• Kindle From Another Planet – Despite being part of the microcomputer revolution from the beginning, the Kindle is the first piece of technology I've seen that feels alien to me. And I mean that in a good way
• Flex on the iPad – Trading system – Here is a video showing a sample Flex application running on the iPad. This Mobile Trader application shows chart manipulation and drill-downs using touch events, real time market data updates
• Everybody is an architect, except when they’re not – One software architect or many? Single point of responsibility or shared amongst the team? Agile or not, the software architecture role exists. Only the context will tell you the right answer
• Enterprise tablet adoption picks up steam; Bring your own PC doesn’t – Twenty six percent of enterprises are using or planning to use tablets, according to Forrester. However, only 2 percent will support employees who bring their own PC.
• GXT 3 ContentPanel Changes | Darrell Meyer’s Blog – We have been busy working on Ext GWT 3. I wanted take some time to discuss some of the changes we have made to ContentPanel which reflect design changes in Ext GWT 3.
• Needlebase – platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data – Needle is a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web. Using Needle through a web browser, without programmers or DBAs, your data team can easily:
• High Scalability – High Scalability – Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? – Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook.

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Daily del.icio.us for March 21st through March 24th

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Vinny

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• InfoQ: Security vs. Security Architecture – Marc Stiegler presents popular but faulty security architectures used – Independence Day Evil Alien Architecture, the Gilded Cage, and Gone Phishin' – along with effective architectures emerging today.
• InfoQ: Leaner Programmer Anarchy – Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results.
• Eclipse offers hosted access to Web dev tools effort | Application Development – InfoWorld – The Orion platform is intended to move development to the Web and features an editor and client-side architecture using HTML5
• Enterprise software getting more mobile | Application Development – InfoWorld – A new survey finds that 73 percent of developers plan to extend enterprise applications to mobile devices in the next year
• Twitter Engineering: Improving Browser Security with CSP – Over the past few weeks we've been testing a new security feature for our mobile site. It is called a Content Security Policy, or CSP. This policy is a standard developed by Mozilla that aims to thwart cross site scripting (XSS) attacks at their point of execution, the browser
• Dropbox Could Generate $100 Million In Revenue This Year – Dropbox, the startup that makes cloud backup and syncing incredibly easy, is cash-flow positive, on track to generate $100 million in revenue this year and could be worth $1-2 billion
• Twitter Engineering: The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011 – Under the hood, Twitter is a complex yet elegant distributed network of queues, daemons, caches, and databases. Today, the feed and care of Twitter requires more than 200 engineers to keep the site growing and running smoothly
• YouTube – O’Reilly Webcast: Introduction to Apache CouchDB – In this webcast, J. Chris Anderson gives a technical overview and describes some of CouchDB's existing users, with plenty of time for audience-driven questions and answers.
• Stomp on Web Sockets – Stomp is a simple text-orientated messaging protocol. It defines an interoperable wire format so that any of the available Stomp Clients can communicate with any Stomp Message Broker to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among languages, platforms and brokers.
• Getting Response through GWT using Http Protocol – In this article, we will see how to use GWT to send a HTTPRequest to the server and update the response on the client side using Ajax.

Daily del.icio.us for March 17th through March 19th

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Vinny

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• PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped – PyCon US Videos – 2009, 2010, 2011 – blip.tv – This talk will give an overview of the first two years of Dropbox, the team formation, our early guiding principles and philosophies, what worked for us and what we learned while building the company and engineering infrastructure. It will also cover why Python was essential to the success of the project and the rough edges we had to overcome to make it our long term programming environment and runtime
• High Scalability – High Scalability – 6 Lessons from Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes – Dropbox saves one million files every 15 minutes, more tweets than even Twitterers tweet
• Microsoft SQL Azure vs. Amazon RDS – DevelopMentor – There are two major differences between the Microsoft SQL Azure and Amazon RDS platforms: pricing and capabilities. If price is no object and the user wants full features and high performance, then RDS is the obvious choice
• InfoQ: Adopting Apache Cassandra – Eben Hewitt introduces the Apache Cassandra project to those interested in getting a quick clear picture of what Cassandra is, what are its main features, what is the the data model used and the API.
• codeartisan: RSA Public Key Cryptography in Java – Public key cryptography is a well-known concept, but for some reason the JCE (Java Cryptography Extensions) documentation doesn't at all make it clear how to interoperate with common public key formats such as those produced by openssl
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: Update on GWT support for IE9 – In keeping with the GWT philosophy of making it possible to write no-compromise AJAX in any modern browser, GWT 2.3 (in progress) will support IE9
• kryo.se: iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS tunnel) – iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed.
• Shearing FireSheep with the Cloud | Stratum Security Blog – Quite simply, the solution I came up with was to create an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server and setup OpenVPN and SideStep. This allows me to route all of my traffic over an SSL or SSH VPN to my EC2 instance and then out to the Internet.
• Learn Scala the Fun Way: With Processing – Processing is a simple programming language for creating visualizations. It's meant to be easy for non-programmers to learn. Artists can use Processing to create generative at programs known as sketches
• iPhone vs. Android – 45,000 Tests Prove Whose Browser is Faster | Blaze.io – Android’s browser is faster. MUCH faster. On average, Android 2.3 was a 52% faster than iPhone 4.3, with a median load time of 2.144 seconds vs. iPhone’s median load time of 3.254 seconds

Daily del.icio.us for March 13th through March 15th

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Vinny

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• Using git with Spring Roo and the git addon « poornerd – Spring Roo finally has an instal­lable git addon (since Ver­sion 1.1.2) which will setup, con­fig and auto com­mit your files to git for you.
• Another Double Espresso Please!: CriteriaBuilder and Dynamic Queries in JPA 2.0 – A major new feature of Java EE 6 is JPA 2.0 and in particular the addition of the Criteria API which provides the ability to dynamically construct object-based queries.
• Use Chrome Developer Tools to find and fix performance problems – In this post I will only write about using Chrome Dev Tools for detecting performance problems, auditing problems (Chrome also suggests you how to fix them), and a possible implementation for fixing them
• LEGO® Java: Apache Camel Context and Route Basics – Camel offers you Java implementations of the EIPs that you can mix and match to get some functionality done, without having to construct the blocks yourself. If you are open and eager to learn new ways of building Java applications, let’s start with some practical Camel examples.
• Securing an Ubuntu Server « andrewault.net – In this post, we are going to meet the security challenge in with multi-pronged effort that will include: system analysis, changing settings for additional hardening against attack, installing a firewall maintenance system, scanning for rootkits, and offering a regular maintenance regimen.
• Oracle releases Java mobile development framework | Application Development – InfoWorld – Oracle has released a mobile client and associated framework, nearly two years in the making, to help developers quickly build Java applications for industrial mobile devices.
• The Canadian Press: Time Warner Cable launches iPad application that shows live TV in the home – Time Warner Cable Inc. is launching an iPad application that plays live TV, becoming the first cable company to do so
• Japan brings money home to rebuild | Reuters – Shaken by the prospect of nuclear meltdown after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Japanese investors will dump overseas assets on Monday and bring their money home to help finance reconstruction
• Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors. | Morgsatlarge – blogorific. – I am writing this text (Mar 12) to give you some peace of mind regarding some of the troubles in Japan, that is the safety of Japan’s nuclear reactors. Up front, the situation is serious, but under control
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Integration by Summa – At its core, SOA allows business application functions to be exposed as loosely coupled services to other applications (and vice versa), providing real time exchange of information using a standards-based approach
• Which Technology Should I Choose? | Summa Blog – You will rarely, if ever find a set of technologies that completely fits your needs. Be ready to make tradeoffs – a concession here, in favor of a significant advantage there. Making the best technology tradeoffs can put your application on the right path for a long time
• A simple example using the GWT SplitLayoutPanel with UiBinder | Giant Flying Saucer – I’m going to show how to easily use the GWT SplitLayoutPanel. If you haven't read my article on the DockLayoutPanel you might want to do that because in this article I will assume you have read that one first.
• Apple’s Safari browser embarrassed at Pwn2Own, hacked in 5 seconds | BGR – Google issued a challenge, promising $20,000 to any person or team that could crack Chrome on the conferences opening day, but the two teams scheduled to take a swing backed down.

Daily del.icio.us for March 10th through March 13th

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Vinny

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• Structuring GWT modules for large applications | Summa Blog – The "right" approach to structuring a large-scale GWT application completely depends on the requirements of the project. I hope this post has at least shed some light on a few of the factors that are important to consider
• Give Me Something To Read – A hand-picked selection of the finest articles and essays saved with Instapaper.
• GContracts 1.2.0 Released! | Grails Inside – GContracts, the AST transformation framework enabling programmers to use contracts (aka Design by Contract) in Groovy.
• Doclava: Custom Javadoc Doclet from Google | Java * Scala * Open Source * Felipe Oliveira – Doclava is custom Javadoc Doclet from Google, used by Google Guice (see their slight cooler Javadocs). Doclava uses JSilver as its templating engine, a pure-Java implementation of Clearsilver.
• Collaborating through Streams of Information – Technology Review – JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.com, explains why his company's new tool for collaboration could pave the way for productive game-like interactions in the office.
• Dubai on Empty | Dubai is a cautionary tale about what money can’t buy: a culture of its own – The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: "There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
• Dell and Hewlett-Packard: Rebooting their systems | The Economist –
• Democratizing the ESB Market — Application Development Trends – "Camel takes the concept and provides a vocabulary for application integration developers," Walsh told me, "so that they can take what are fairly complex implementations of integration and have a common language and set of templates that allow them to be more productive as they use tools and build out their integration solutions and projects. We've incorporated that into the Talend Integration Factory."
• New XML Standard for Super-Fast, Lightweight Applications Announced by W3C – The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), announced official support for a new standardized data format Efficient XML Interchange, or EXI for super-efficient transmission of data.
• Adobe’s Flash-to-HTML5 translator: Smart but not pretty | Application Development – InfoWorld – Adobe's experimental Wallaby tool makes the case for a multiformat Web, but in a hands-on test, it leaves much to be desired
• Software Rants & Other Miscellany: Foursquare, Facebook, Founders, and Passion – The most common way that people talk about the Passion Gap is when they advise you to “start a company that scratches your own itch”. I posit that the underlying logic in that advice is that the best startup you can create is one where you will be constantly engaged in thinking about improving the product, maximizing the user experience, and planning for the future -where you have real passion for making it work.

Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 10th

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Vinny

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• Website wireframes: Mockingbird – Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
• Why Everyone Is Talking About Node – Node is an interesting, accessible and efficient technology for real-time applications
• mobile-bookmark-bubble – Promote your mobile web application by helping users bookmark it – The Mobile Bookmark Bubble is a JavaScript library that adds a promo bubble to the bottom of your mobile web application, inviting users to bookmark the app to their device's home screen.
• InfoQ: Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter – Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages
• InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB – Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.
• HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms – The newest specs for HTML forms give programmers more control over data input and validation, while offloading much of the work to the browsers
• Amazon Web Services Blog: JumpBox for the AWS Free Usage Tier – We've teamed up with JumpBox to make it even easier and less expensive for you to host a WordPress blog, publish a web site with Drupal, run a Wiki with MediaWiki, or publish content with Joomla.
• Mobile GWT – Welcome to the Mobile Widgets for GWT demo site! Here are some examples of the exciting things you can achieve building with the Mobile-GWT framework:
• LinkedIn, GitHub team up on collaboration tool for programmers | VentureBeat – Professional social networking startup LinkedIn has joined forces with well-known open source coding repository GitHub, which will allow others in a user’s network to see what projects they and their connections are working on at any given time
• Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem, it will now become an integral part of the Spring family and VMware’s cloud strategy
• TextFixer.com – Webmaster Online HTML tools for fixing, changing and manipulating text and html. – This website features text and html making, changing, converting, generating tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication or other uses.

Daily del.icio.us for March 6th

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Vinny

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• How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – These are notes gathered from talking with many friends at Facebook about how the company develops and releases software.
• InfoQ: IT And Architecture: Inside-Out Perspectives – The enterprise that understands the need for a coherent strategy within IT to meet the needs of the business, will invest in a business architecture consisting of a business activity model and a business information model
• InfoQ: JasperSoft 4 Released with Big Data Support – JasperSoft this week announced support for reporting against big data systems, including support for a variety of modes for reporting on Hadoop, several popular NoSQL databases, as well as three MPP analytic relational databases
• InfoQ: RESTful SOA or Domain-Driven Design – A Compromise? – Vaughn Vernon advocates using DDD’s strategic modeling patterns when integrating services in a RESTful SOA implementation, avoiding one of SOA’s pitfalls: focusing on services rather than the domain.
• InfoQ: How Facebook Ships Code – most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it’s just that they don’t have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there’s a QA department, it’s easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors.
• As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat – During periods of peak Internet use, a full fifth of all American bandwidth consumption is people watching movies on Netflix.com
• InfoQ: Book Excerpt and Interview: 100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered – A new "100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered " book by Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani provides a deep insight into SOA covering a wide spectrum of topics from SOA basics to its business and organizational impact, to SOA methods and architecture, to the future of SOA.
• InfoQ: Proving the Business Value of SOA – Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
• InfoQ: REST and the Web as a Platform, with Subbu Allamaraju – In this interview, Subbu Allamaraju talks about real life issues of RESTful architectures. He also describes a pragmatic approach of adopting the Web as an integration platform and shares his opinion on OAuth.
• InfoQ: Developing Social-Ready Web Applications – Craig Walls discusses social web applications, how to integrate them, how to provide social data in a RESTful and secure way, introducing Spring Social, a framework for developing social web apps.
• InfoQ: SOA Security in Practice – Nicolai M. Josuttis discusses various issues encountered when implementing SOA security: heterogeneity and debugging are problematic, ESB plays an important role, and costs involved.
• Left-Handedness Loses Its Stigma but Retains Its Mystery – NYTimes.com – Dr. Francks said he was "quite happy with the sentiment of reassuring people that left-handedness is not some weird disability." But, he added, "There’s no reason to go beyond that and say that left-handers are even more talented."
• Social objects in the enterprise: Part 3 – confused of calcutta – Enterprises are changing from being hierarchies of customers and products to networks of relationships and capabilities, that human and social capital are gaining in prominence
• Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Mobility Atrix 4G vs. Apple iPhone 4 | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld – Motorola's versatile new Android smartphone outshines the iPhone in some ways, but falls short overall

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Vinny

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• QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
• Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
• CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
• Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
• The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
• IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
• InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
• Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
• High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
• Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Vinny

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• QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
• Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
• CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
• Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
• The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
• IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
• InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
• Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
• High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
• Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Vinny

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• Using the HTML5 Canvas Element with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) | Giant Flying Saucer – With the release of the Google Web Toolkit 2.2 (GWT) they added experimental support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Looking over their sample application I was able to craft my own demo
• IBatis (MyBatis): Handling Joins: Advanced Result Mapping, Association, Collections, N+1 Select Problem | Javalobby – This tutorial will walk you through how to setup iBatis (MyBatis) in a simple Java project and will present examples using advanced result mapings, how to hadle mappings with association, collections, n+1 problem
• Introducing Spring Social’s Service Provider Framework | SpringSource Team Blog – The most significant new feature in Spring Social 1.0.0.M2 is the introduction of a Service Provider "Connect" framework. Today I want to introduce you to this framework and show you how to use it to manage "connections" to SaaS providers.
• Spring 3.1 Cache support. @Cacheable in Spring. Spring Caching supports | ViralPatel.net – Spring Framework provides support for transparently adding caching into an existing Spring application. Similar to the transaction support, the caching abstraction allows consistent use of various caching solutions with minimal impact on the code.
• Codesion – Has Git Killed Subversion & CVS? – Video killed the radio star, and the Internet killed both. Many believe Git is on it’s way to killing Subversion (which all but killed CVS), but let’s let the numbers speak for themselves
• The new and improved Java.net – After years of serving as a critical resource for Java developers, Java.net has gotten a major facelift.
• InfoQ: Forrester’s Top Technology Trends: Mobile Collaboration and Process-Centric Data & Intelligence – Mobile collaboration and process-centric data & business intelligence are among Forrester's top technology trends. Gene Leganza, Principal Analyst at Forrester, spoke last month about the top 15 technology trends that Enterprise Architecture (EA) professionals should watch for in next three year
• Tutorial: a Vaadin Application on Google App Engine in 5 Minutes – In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create your very first Vaadin web application, how to run it on a local AppEngine development server and how to deploy it to the Google App Engine
• 10 Features You Need When Creating Interactive HTML Prototypes [In Pictures] | Javalobby – Drop your pencil and start creating real and interactive web and mobile HTML prototypes using Tiggr. Tiggr is Web-based, so there is nothing to install
• Setting up a Cassandra Cluster in Under 2 Minutes :: myNoSQL – You’d imagine setting up a cluster would be a complex task, but having one up and running in less than 2 minutes that’s something
• InfoQ: Adopting the JVM – Ola Bini offers advice to those interested in using the JVM with languages other than Java, talking about language interoperability, polyglot patterns, build tools, tweaking the JVM, and JVM tools.
• Google extensions could aid Java security | Security Central – InfoWorld – Borrowing a technique from Eiffel, Google is adding Design-By-Contract functionality to Java to protect it against buffer overflow attacks
• Motorola’s big plans to fix Android’s security woes | Mobile security – InfoWorld – Execs confirm plans to develop APIs for the missing capabilities, letting Android devices match the security level of BlackBerrys and iPhones
• Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise | Dawn Wires: World News 2.0 – Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise – It's The Onion Material without the Onion 🙂
• Berkshire Hathaway Inc – Warren Buffett gives his verdict on the economy and the investment outlook – The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and
  effective.
• Singapore Leads the Good Life Under a Benevolent Dictator – Singapore has achieved the American dream, but not in the American way. It is a prosperous, clean city, with imposing skyscrapers and glittering shopping centers. The multinational corporations of the world are welcome here; you can buy any brand name you've ever heard of. The highways are lined with tropical flowers and crowded with BMWs. And at the head of this thriving free-market state is a clever, socialist dictator.