Monthly Archives: April 2011

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.

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Daily del.icio.us for April 13th

Posted on April 13, 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.
• 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.
• 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 13, 2011 by Vinny

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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 4th through April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Vinny

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• JSHint, A JavaScript Code Quality Tool – JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions. It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.
• Announcing Codegeist V: May The Best Plugins Win – Along with Codegeist we're introducing two new developer previews, Speakeasy Extensions and ActiveObjects. Speakeasy is a new super easy way to extend Atlassian products. Extensions are built entirely client-side, in HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc., and they're enabled on a per-user basis. ActiveObjects is an ORM that ultimately makes plugin data access and storage significantly faster and more efficient
• InfoQ: Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala – The team behind guardian.co.uk which, according to its editor, has the second highest readership of any on-line news site after the New York Times, is gradually switching from Java to Scala, starting with the Content API, which provides a mechanism for selecting and collecting Guardian content.
• tinySrc – A fast, easy and free way to reformat graphics and images for mobile devices. – A fast, easy and free way to reformat graphics and images for mobile devices.
• Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps – Novell has announced the general availability of Mono for Android today, the solution that lets developers use Windows technologies like C# and .NET to build Android applications
• Introduction to Sencha Touch MVC – Modus Create – In this screencast, I introduce you to the world of the Sencha Touch MVC and discuss some of the decisions behind developing with this relatively new tool.
• Sencha Expands Rapidly as Demand for HTML5 Web Apps Fuels Growth | Press | Company | Sencha – Application framework and tools vendor hires aggressively; HTML5 technologies drive demand for highly functional web apps that deliver native-like experiences on advanced mobile devices.
• What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School? – The results are pretty fascinating, as they show great adoption of technology among even very young students, but lingering resistance on the part of school administrators to sanction some of those tools into the classroom.
• Celerity | Easy and fast functional test automation for web applications – Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications. Celerity aims at being API compatible with Watir.
• PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API – PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

Daily del.icio.us for April 2nd through April 3rd

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Vinny

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• As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin: Cloud Computing News « – It turns out "big data" isn’t just a buzzword, but a legitimate concern for companies across the board. The action is centered around Hadoop, the flagship technology for storing and processing large amounts of unstructured data.
• SharePoint: Is It Worth Using as a Collaboration Tool? – In this post, I want to step back a bit and ask a more existential question: should you even be using SharePoint 2010 for your collaboration platform in the first place?
• The RSA Hack: How They Did It – NYTimes.com – How did a hacker manage to infiltrate one of the world’s top computer-security companies? And could the data that was stolen be used to impair its SecurID products, which are used by 40 million businesses that are trying to keep their own networks safe from intruders?
• Google mobile search gets redesigned results for stocks – When you search for your favorite stock ticker symbol on your smartphone, you'll be presented with a result page that can be seen to the left in the image above. It displays an interactive graph on a 'card', and you can switch the amount of time that the graph covers by simply tapping on the buttons below it.
• Clever Title: "Intro to Scala for Java Programmers": slides, code, and links – Last week, I presented a talk titled "An Introduction to Scala for Java Programmers". I had a lot of fun making it, and I learned a ton. I thought it was interesting that the more I learned, the more I liked Scala.
• JDK 7: The New Objects Class – The java.util.Objects class is new to JDK 7 and its Javadoc states that the class is "since 1.7" and describes the class as: "This class consists of static utility methods for operating on objects. These utilities include null-safe or null-tolerant methods for computing the hash code of an object, returning a string for an object, and comparing two objects."
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL – In this article, we will take a deeper look at the sequence of events that take place when you visit a URL
• The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com – This is the part that amazes me the most. I don’t know if a large organized industry has ever faced this fierce a form of competition – someone who is not trying to “win” in the classic sense. They want market share, but they don’t need economics
• kundera – JPA 1.0 Annotation based ORM library for the Cassandra database – The idea behind Kundera is to make working with Cassandra drop-dead simple and fun. Kundera does not reinvent the wheel by making another client library; rather it leverages the existing libraries and builds – on top of them – a wrap-around API to help developers do away with unnecessary boiler plate codes, and program a neater-and-cleaner code that reduces code-complexity and improves quality. And above all, improves productivity.
• The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have. – The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have.
• Cassandra gets ready for world domination and can MongoDB scale up like Cassandra? – After using Cassandra during development for the past 8 months my team and I made the decision to switch from Cassandra to MongoDB this morning. I thought I'd share some thoughts on why we did this and where Cassandra might benefit from improvement.

Daily del.icio.us for March 30th through April 2nd

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Vinny

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• Google mobile search gets redesigned results for stocks – When you search for your favorite stock ticker symbol on your smartphone, you'll be presented with a result page that can be seen to the left in the image above. It displays an interactive graph on a 'card', and you can switch the amount of time that the graph covers by simply tapping on the buttons below it.
• Clever Title: "Intro to Scala for Java Programmers": slides, code, and links – Last week, I presented a talk titled "An Introduction to Scala for Java Programmers". I had a lot of fun making it, and I learned a ton. I thought it was interesting that the more I learned, the more I liked Scala.
• JDK 7: The New Objects Class – The java.util.Objects class is new to JDK 7 and its Javadoc states that the class is "since 1.7" and describes the class as: "This class consists of static utility methods for operating on objects. These utilities include null-safe or null-tolerant methods for computing the hash code of an object, returning a string for an object, and comparing two objects."
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL – In this article, we will take a deeper look at the sequence of events that take place when you visit a URL
• The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com – This is the part that amazes me the most. I don’t know if a large organized industry has ever faced this fierce a form of competition – someone who is not trying to “win” in the classic sense. They want market share, but they don’t need economics
• kundera – JPA 1.0 Annotation based ORM library for the Cassandra database – The idea behind Kundera is to make working with Cassandra drop-dead simple and fun. Kundera does not reinvent the wheel by making another client library; rather it leverages the existing libraries and builds – on top of them – a wrap-around API to help developers do away with unnecessary boiler plate codes, and program a neater-and-cleaner code that reduces code-complexity and improves quality. And above all, improves productivity.
• The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have. – The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have.
• Cassandra gets ready for world domination and can MongoDB scale up like Cassandra? – After using Cassandra during development for the past 8 months my team and I made the decision to switch from Cassandra to MongoDB this morning. I thought I'd share some thoughts on why we did this and where Cassandra might benefit from improvement.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: Top Ten Reasons to use Google Plugin for Eclipse – So in no particular order, here are 10 reasons you should use Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE).
• Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year – It's pretty amazing what can happen when a group of talented people who trust each other get together and decide to make something awesome.