Monthly Archives: April 2011

Links for April 30th

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Vinny

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• Responsive Data Tables | CSS-Tricks – Responsive design is all about adjusting designs to accomodate screens of different sizes. So what happens when a screen is narrower than the minimum width of a data table?
• Sencha Ext JS / Touch and Ruby on Rails component framework – Overview – Netzke is an elegant and powerful architectural solution to several known problems that accompany development of complex AJAX-driven RIA (Rich Internet Applications). No matter how complex your application is, Netzke will help you keep your code maintainable and clean.
• ExtJS/Rails CRUD Application in 7 Minutes – WriteLessCode – This post will lead you through simple steps of creating a task manager web application with Ext JS, Ruby on Rails, and Netzke.
• InfoQ: Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study – Nanjangud C Narendra presents a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman's laws of software evolution, along with observations on Agile practices used and their outcome.
• Gwt EventBus (HandlerManager) the easy way – With the event bus you are able to decouple the components and remove all the logic to deliver events. In fact you have a common bus where you can put events and forget about them
• This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language – This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language
• Bozho’s tech blog » Those evil frameworks and their complexity – Frameworks are there to ease development, not to make it more complex. They introduce initial complexity, but the good ones fix the complexity to a relatively-low level afterwards.

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Links for April 27th through April 29th

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Vinny

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• What’s New in Ext JS 4 | Ext JS 4 | Products | Sencha – Ext JS 4 brings a whole new way to build client applications, but introducing the popular model-view-controller pattern to Ext JS
• How CEOs Can Manage Information Technology – WSJ.com – Too many CEOs and other top executives often don't even know where to begin when it comes to managing IT. To that end, we offer the four IT questions that every CEO needs to think about—and answer.
• senchalearn/teagrams – Teagrams is an experimental app for the iPad 2 using Sencha Touch and the Instagram API. – Teagrams is an experimental app for the iPad 2 using Sencha Touch and the Instagram API. It makes a request to the Instagram API for all photos posted with the tag "tea" and the populates the images along with the user's name whom took it.
• Data Guru Abhi Mehta on Hadoop as a Major Disruptive Force | siliconANGLE TV – Data guru Abhi Mehta talks about Hadoop as the most significant open source movement since Linux. Mehta puts forth a vision of how analytics and big data, powered by Hadoop is fundamentally and permanently changing businesses
• Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D (AMZN) – Service-oriented architecture — or SOA — is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies
• Getting Started with Redis, Spring Data & Cloud Foundry | SpringSource Team Blog – I am going to quickly showcase what it takes to work with a key value store (Redis) using Spring (Spring Redis) through one of Spring Data samples (RetwisJ) and deploy the app into the cloud (through Cloud Foundry) to share it with the world.

Links for April 24th through April 27th

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Vinny

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• Google Chrome Can Now Clean Up Flash’s Cookie Mess – The newest builds of Chrome now bring this Flash cookie clearing right within the browser settings.
• How to beat Apple – Apple also has some weak spots which a canny competitor should be able to exploit to make compelling products that Apple won't be able to duplicate or directly compete with.
• The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet – stu.mp – The cloud isn’t a silver bullet. You still have to build proper redundancy into your systems and applications. And, most importantly, you, not Amazon, is ultimately responsible for your system’s uptime.
• Stashboard: The open source status dashboard – Stashboard is a status dashboard for APIs and software services. It's similar to the Amazon AWS Status Page or the Google Apps Status Page.
• How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse « SmugMug’s Don MacAskill – There’s a lot of noise on the net about how cloud computing is dead, stupid, flawed, makes no sense, is coming crashing down, etc. Anyone selling that stuff is simply trying to get page views and doesn’t know what on earth they’re talking about
• Geek Time with Josh Bloch – Google Open Source Blog – In addition to being known as "The Mother of Java", Josh Bloch is also the Chief Java Architect at Google. Josh sat down with fellow Open Source Programs Office colleague Jeremy Allison to chat about APIs, the importance of openness, and the successes and failures of Java.

Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 24th

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Vinny

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• Molly | The open source mobile portal – Molly is a framework for the rapid development of information and service portals targeted at mobile internet devices
• From DocVerse to Cloud Connect: Shan Sinha reflects on year one at Google | Technology | Los Angeles Times – Google is banking that its Cloud Connect software, which allows users to sync Microsoft Office documents with its own Google Docs suite, will be a major part of its moves to own the enterprise space.
• VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass – On the meta-level, the almost complete focus on developers highlights how operations obsessed much of the recent (private) cloud talk has been. It’s almost as if the rhetoric of this Cloud Foundry announcement is implicitly saying: all that doesn’t really matter to developers, they don’t care about those “legacy” corporate IT concerns
• Message to Executives: Stop Multitasking – NYTimes.com – Always on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy
• Orchestrated ALM: The Secret to Developing "Killer Apps" — Enterprise Systems – Orchestrated ALM is based on the idea of creating open lines of communication between everyone involved in the application life cycle. The goal is to help software developers work more effectively and reduce the challenges of siloed project teams working with multiple development tools and methodologies.
• InfoQ: Failures and Successes with Reuse – Herbjörn Wilhelmsen discusses the reasons why an SOA project failed while trying to reuse existing resources, and how it succeeded later starting from the same business case with reuse in mind.
• InfoQ: Using Spring with NoSQL Databases – Mark Pollack and Chris Richardson discuss NoSQL, exemplifying with Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB, and Spring Data, a project meant to provide a unified programming model for accessing NoSQL DBs.

Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 22nd

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Vinny

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• Cloud Foundry–A Beautiful Thing for Users, Questions for Vendors | Cloud Zone – CloudFoundry, like OpenStack before it are simply beautiful. Open is good. Moving up the stack with open is even better. I love what it means for the industry and dearly hope that vendors can see ways to avoid fighting a commodity battle but instead determine paths to providing customers with real value built on top of these commodity platforms.
• Today’s EC2 / EBS Outage: Lessons learned – – One, albeit major, outage in one region of one cloud vendor doesn’t mean the cloud was a big con, a waste of time.
• Metamarkets Blog » Node.js and the Javascript Age – The Javascript age brings us closer to a web that is not a global digital library, but a global digital nervous system, whose implications we are only beginning to apprehend.
• Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project | Deep Tech – CNET News – Node.js is built with the V8 JavaScript engine from Google's Chrome browser, but Mozilla is transplanting Firefox's JavaScript technology in a project called SpiderNode.
• InfoQ: Annotation-Driven Dependency Injection with Google Guice 3.0 – The most notable change to Guice 3.0 is the inclusion of a fully compliant JSR 330 injector. (JSR 330 was finalized in 2009.) In fact, “Guice 3.0 is the reference implementation for JSR 330,” according to Dhanji Prasanna of the Guice development team.
• Sencha Touch application with Ruby on Rails – Part 2 « Recalibrate – This tutorial describes a Ruby on Rails application with a mobile application UI written using the Sencha Touch Framework
• Short Introduction to iOS for Java Developers: Objective-C | blog.codecentric.de – For Java developers starting iOS development, the hardest shift will probably be the Objective-C, the Apple’s language of choice
• bodgeit – The BodgeIt Store is a vulnerable web application suitable for pen testing – Google Project Hosting – The BodgeIt Store is a vulnerable web application which is currently aimed at people who are new to pen testing.
• New in 10.5: Spring Roo console | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – Latest IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAPs introduce a dedicated console view for a popular Spring Roo tool. It allows you to run Roo commands using the standard IntelliJ IDEA code completion and documentation features

Apple iPhone and location data

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Vinny

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

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Vinny

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• Amazon Web Services Blog: Live Streaming With Amazon CloudFront and Adobe Flash Media Server – You can now stream live audio or video through AWS using the Adobe Flash Media Server using a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model that makes uses of Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, all configured and launched via a single CloudFormation template.
• FunctionSource: Coping with Over Four Hundred Devices: How Netflix Uses HTML5 to Deliver Amazing User Interfaces – The Netflix story provides a clear example of a company achieving success with cross-platform HTML5.
• A writable API competition – O’Reilly Radar – In conjunction with the Fluidinfo writable API for O'Reilly books and authors that was announced today, we're holding a developer competition.
• How the mobile web will win | VentureBeat – So I’m here today to say that the debate is over: The web will win, but it won’t be the web of 2005. The iPhone and other mobile devices have forever changed the way users perceive software
• A Java package dependency analyzer that generates design quality metrics. – GitHub – JDepend traverses Java class and source file directories and generates design quality metrics for each Java package. JDepend allows you to automatically measure the quality of a design in terms of its extensibility, reusability, and maintainability to effectively manage and control package dependencies.
• Defying Data Gravity « McCrory’s Blog – Data Gravity is a theory around which data has mass. As data (mass) accumulates, it begins to have gravity. This Data Gravity pulls services and applications closer to the data
• CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. – CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.
• JavaScript Garden – collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language – JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.
• Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets – Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
• State Street modernizing with cloud, Linux technologies – Virtualization, State Street, software, server, operating systems, open source, non-Windows, Linux, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing – ARN – State Street Corporation says technology must evolve to meet the increasingly demanding needs of financial services, and within its own data centers is adopting new cloud-like technologies and placing a greater emphasis on Linux and open source.

Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 15th

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Vinny

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• Programming in Scala, First Edition available for free online – We are publishing the first edition of Programming in Scala here to support the Scala community. We hope to benefit the community by providing a high-quality introduction and reference online and for free.
• Twitter clone written in Java using Spring Data and Redis key-value database – GitHub – GitHub repo for source code of a NoSQL-powered Twitter clone written in Java using Spring Data and Redis key-value database.
• Spring Roo 1.1.3 Released | SpringSource.org – We're happy to announce integration the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.3. Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes
• cssmin – A (simple) css minifier with benefits – Google Project Hosting – CssMin is a css parser and minfier. It minifies css by removing unneeded whitespace character, comments, empty blocks and empty declarations. In addition declaration values can get rewritten to shorter notation if available.
• 2011 Product Roadmap Update for Sencha products including Sencha Touch & Ext GWT – Sencha Touch 2.0 will be an evolutionary step in our Touch product, and we’re looking to bring greater consistency in the core platform between Ext JS and Touch. In the spring, we’ll also release a touch compatible version of our charting package so developers can make beautiful, mobile-friendly, plugin-free charts.
• store.js exposes a simple API for cross browser local storage – GitHub – store.js exposes a simple API for cross browser local storage – localStorage wrapper for all browsers without using cookies or flash. Uses localStorage, globalStorage, and userData behavior under the hood
• New in 10.5: Spring 3.1 bean definition profiles | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – With the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 you can try one of the most requested Spring 3.1 feature — environment profiles for application contexts.
• Rdd.me Is a Readability-Powered URL Shortener – While all URL shorteners intend to simplify the process of sharing links, Rdd.me, a new URL shortener from the creators of distraction-free tool Readability, is special in that it simplifies the process of sharing content.
• Cloud Developers’ Bill of Rights – Our mission is to enable you to build and run great cloud applications that delight users. Many developers take certain principles for granted, like choice, openness and portability. We will honor these by providing a robust platform with excellent support, without the risk of lock-in.
• SpringSource’s Samples for Cloud Foundry hosted at Github (Java and Groovy) – SpringSource's Samples for Cloud Foundry hosted at Github (Java and Groovy)

Daily del.icio.us for April 13th

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Vinny

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• InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it.
• The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project – The Ceylon Project aims to create a programming language and SDK for business computing, designed with an eye to the successes and failures of the Java. It is built to run on the JVM, uses static typing, and supports high-order functions, while maintaining a strong focus on being easy learn and easy to read.
• Webcast Series: Java EE 6 Support in Oracle WebLogic Server – This webcast series walks you through how to build an application using the APIs currently supported in WebLogic Server, including JPA 2.0, JAX-RS 1.1 and JSF 2.0.
• Learn Sencha Touch w/ Drew Neil on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) walks you through the basics of Sencha Touch in these getting started tutorials.
• InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it.
• The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project – The Ceylon Project aims to create a programming language and SDK for business computing, designed with an eye to the successes and failures of the Java. It is built to run on the JVM, uses static typing, and supports high-order functions, while maintaining a strong focus on being easy learn and easy to read.
• Webcast Series: Java EE 6 Support in Oracle WebLogic Server – This webcast series walks you through how to build an application using the APIs currently supported in WebLogic Server, including JPA 2.0, JAX-RS 1.1 and JSF 2.0.
• Learn Sencha Touch w/ Drew Neil on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) walks you through the basics of Sencha Touch in these getting started tutorials.

Daily del.icio.us for April 13th

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Vinny

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• InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it.
• The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project – The Ceylon Project aims to create a programming language and SDK for business computing, designed with an eye to the successes and failures of the Java. It is built to run on the JVM, uses static typing, and supports high-order functions, while maintaining a strong focus on being easy learn and easy to read.
• Webcast Series: Java EE 6 Support in Oracle WebLogic Server – This webcast series walks you through how to build an application using the APIs currently supported in WebLogic Server, including JPA 2.0, JAX-RS 1.1 and JSF 2.0.
• Learn Sencha Touch w/ Drew Neil on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) walks you through the basics of Sencha Touch in these getting started tutorials.
• InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it.
• The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project – The Ceylon Project aims to create a programming language and SDK for business computing, designed with an eye to the successes and failures of the Java. It is built to run on the JVM, uses static typing, and supports high-order functions, while maintaining a strong focus on being easy learn and easy to read.
• Webcast Series: Java EE 6 Support in Oracle WebLogic Server – This webcast series walks you through how to build an application using the APIs currently supported in WebLogic Server, including JPA 2.0, JAX-RS 1.1 and JSF 2.0.
• Learn Sencha Touch w/ Drew Neil on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) walks you through the basics of Sencha Touch in these getting started tutorials.