Links for May 26th through May 29th

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Vinny

danwebb.net – It’s About The Hashbangs – Hashbangs(#!) URL syntax is destructive to the web. The implementation is inappropriate, even as a temporary measure or as a downgrade experience.
Videos Posted by Facebook Engineering: Push: Tech Talk- May 26, 2011 [HQ] – In this tech talk, Chuck Rossi will dig into the tools and processes built by our Release Engineering team that make it possible to push daily updates to the site.
Cookiejacking is a UI redressing attack that allows an attacker to hijack his victim’s cookies without any XSS. – Cookiejacking is a UI redressing attack that allows an attacker to hijack his victim's cookies without any XSS.
YouTube – RailsConf Workshop on using Cloud Foundry – The workshop takes you through creating a Sinatra application, then takes you through adding Redis http://redis.io to your application.
(def title nil): Quick(er)sort Through Parallelism – We will detail two effective synchronization policies for parallel Quicksort in Java. One is usable in production now, one is coming soon in JDK 7. Shared count down latch and Fork/Join framework, new in JDK 7 (JSR 166)
NoSQL Databases – A Look at Apache Cassandra – Cassandra is a fully distributed column-oriented data store that provides MapReduce implementation using Hadoop. All the nodes in the cluster play the same role. The data (existing and new) are shared automatically among the nodes
Monitis Blog – Picking the Right NoSQL Database Tool – Interesting read on the Monitis Blog about picking the right NoSQL tool. They dive into what it is, what's possibly wrong with RDBMS, describe the different categories of NoSQL and the pros and cons of the different types
Java EE6 Events, a lightweight alternative to JMS | Styled Ideas.be – The feature I’m going to talk about today is the event mechanism that is in java EE 6. The general idea is to fire an event and let an eventlistener pick it up
Java Use Increases Among Developers Worldwide: Survey – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com – Although Java has been recognized as the most popular and widely used programming language in the world, a new study from Evans Data indicates that Java use grew even more over the last year.
A Web Developer’s Wishlist for iOS 5 – The potential of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript — especially with frameworks like Sencha Touch — means that using web technologies for rich user experiences is now as viable as ever. We believe that the iOS browser will show the way, and are looking forward to hearing all about it next month.

Links for May 25th through May 26th

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Vinny

Enemies of Agility: The Dirty Dozen | Agile Zone – I present the "dirty dozen" impediments, or key enemies of successful agility that I've observed.
Head first into GWT game development. | skorulis.com – Here's a quick introduction into making a canvas based game using GWT and the problems that I ran into. If you’re even more hasty, here’s the source code so you can just get it building and running.
FunctionSource: SproutCore 2; Lean, Mean, and back to HTML – Today we got a sneak peak at the next version of SproutCore via a developer preview. One of the biggest differences that jumped out to me was the change from coding everything through JS APIs to being able to do much more via HTML, CSS, and templates
The 10 Commandments of Good Source Control Management – None of these things are hard. Honestly, they’re really very basic: commit early and often, know what you’re committing and that it should actually be in VCS, explain your commits and make sure you do it yourself, don’t forget the databases and don’t forget the dependencies. But please do forget VSS!
InfoQ: Making Apps That Don’t Suck – Mike Lee considers that a software engineer makes great applications not because he follows good rules but because he has a better way of looking at the world and he learns from experience.
Spiffy UI Framework – Beautiful fast flexible secure maintainable applications with GWT and REST – The Spiffy UI framework takes the power of GWT and adds patterns, widgets, and utilities to make beautiful, fast, secure, maintainable web applications.
JavaScript conquers the server | It’s BroadVision and Netscape LiveCycle all over again 🙂 – Node.js, Jaxer, EJScript, RingoJS, and AppengineJS combine the familiarity of JavaScript, low overhead, blazing speed, and unique twists
Codesta – Blog – Sencha Touch/PhoneGap Tips and Tricks – Sencha Touch/PhoneGap Tips and Tricks

Links for May 23rd through May 24th

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Vinny

Ahead Of IPO, Brightcove Launches A Whole New Business Making Apps – Brightcove's new "App Cloud" business is basically an app-building platform for companies that want mobile, tablet, and mobile web apps, but don't necessarily want to hire and manage an expensive developer team
AirPlay for Windows Media Center – Beta 1 « Thomas Pleasance – AirPlay for Windows Media Center – Beta 1
InfoQ: Gartner: Out of Necessity, Enterprise Architecture Begins to Align Closer with Business – Multiple factors have contributed to the acceleration towards a more business-integrated EA team. Gartner cites the business’s increased capability to make independent technology decisions, management pressure on EA teams to deliver tangible business value, and the growing CIO opinion that IT strategies should align with business priorities.
The Age of Software was fun. Welcome to the Age of Data. – tecosystems – Software support and services alone hasn’t produced a Top 20 revenue earner in over two decades, and doesn’t appear poised to anytime soon.
The Age of Software was fun. Welcome to the Age of Data.
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: The NoSQL Ecosystem – The NoSQL ecosystem is still in its infancy, and many of the systems we've discussed will change architectures, designs, and interfaces. The important takeaways in this chapter are not what each NoSQL system currently does, but rather the design decisions that led to a combination of features that make up these systems
Sencha Touch Customer Spotlight: Vimeo | Blog | Sencha – Sencha Touch gave us the benefits of native app-like performance and user interface but without the limitations of slower development time..
The Infinite Version – Somehow, we have to be able to automatically update software while it is running without interrupting the user at all.

Links for May 20th through May 21st

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Vinny

The MessagePack Project – Extremely efficient object serialization library for cross-language communication. It’s like JSON, but very fast and small. – MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.
Guest Blog: You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential – "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts." —Albert Einstein
Internet security: Keys to the cloud castle | The Economist – What Dropbox provides is more than adequate for most users. Those with a more stringent need for privacy—most often because they are breaking either a just or unjust law—need to take responsibility for their own privacy, not count on a remote, third party service to provide it
InfoQ: Putting the "re" into Architecture – Kevlin Henney promotes live architecture through refactoring, recovery, re-envisioning, retrospection, re-engineering, repair, rewriting, reduction, reuse, reaction, re-evaluation and remembering.
Spark – A Sinatra inspired micro web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with minimal effort – A Sinatra inspired micro web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with minimal effort
Salman Khan: The Messiah of Math – BusinessWeek – Can an ex-hedge fund guy and his nonprofit Khan Academy make American schoolkids competitive again?

Links for May 18th through May 19th

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Vinny

InfoQ: Code is Liability, the Less the Better – Code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial cost of ownership. It might do us good to consider what we can do to minimize it.
Scale Fail (part 1) [LWN.net] – Companies hire me to "fix the database" because they think it's the source of their performance and downtime problems. This is very rarely the case. Failure to scale is almost always the result of poor management decisions
"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! – edw519 – I built this book the way any self-respecting programmer would: with lots of shortcuts and software.
Active Admin | The missing administration framework for business critical Ruby on Rails applications – Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.
Cloud Foundry for Ruby Developers: A Tutorial … | Cloud Foundry – This screencast is technical and focused on Developers, showing them how to use Cloud Foundry, the first Open Platform as a Service by VMware.
Code Coverage as a Refactoring Tool | Javalobby – Using code coverage to help with refactoring, when combined with TDD, is a powerful tool.

Links for May 16th through May 17th

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Vinny

Spring Roo 1.1.4 Released | SpringSource.org – We’re happy to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.4 (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes.
InfoQ: Five Static Code Audits Every Developer Should Know and Use – Mike Rozlog discusses the need for software audits, proposing five code reviews that every developer should use: Numerical Literal, String Literal, god Method, Shotgun Surgery and Duplicate Code.
sparklines-gwt – Sparklines for GWT and Vaadin – Google Project Hosting – Sparklines is a component for GWT and Vaadin that implements sparklines as described by Edward Tufte.
gwt-graphics – A cross-browser vector graphics library for GWT – Google Project Hosting – The goal of the GWT Graphics library is to provide a consistent cross-browser vector graphics library for Google Web Toolkit. GWT Graphics uses SVG and VML for creating graphics.
REVERT TO CONSOLE › Mock Unit Testing Services and Daos with Mockito and Spring 3 – Mock Unit Testing Services and Daos with Mockito and Spring 3
Google Boasts Of $64 Billion In Economic Impact – According to the company, Google provided $64 billion in economic activity for American businesses and non-profits in 2010, 18% greater than the 2009 number.
iPhone share of phone market in Q1: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit | asymco – iPhone share of phone market in Q1: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit

Links for May 15th through May 16th

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Vinny

MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist | Javalobby – MongoDB recently gained another adopter – The NoSQL data store is now being used to archive billions of records at Craigslist, the popular classifieds and job posting community that serves 570 cities in 50 countries
DZone Interviews: Peter Gromov on IntelliJ’s Groovy support | Groovy Zone – Without a doubt IntelliJ IDEA is the IDE of choice of many Groovy developers out there, simply because it was the first IDE to raise the bar in terms of support for the language — and continues to do so. Peter Gromov is currently in charge of all things Groovy on IntelliJ, let's hear what he has to say about his experiences with the language.
Scala Becomes a Platform | CTO Edge – One new programming language that is likely to get some traction in the enterprise is Scala, which is actually an extension to Java. As such, many corporate IT organizations are likely to see Scala as something that extends their existing programming capabilities to a new scale of distributed computing.
MapReduce: A Soft Introduction – Java Code Geeks – MapReduce is a programming model that lets developers focus on the writing code that processes their data without having to worry about the details of parallel execution.
Code coverage metrics and Functional Test Coverage | Javalobby – In short, you really need both functional and technical test coverage metrics. However high code coverage should be the natural outcome of good testing practices, not a goal to be aimed for.
VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS: Cloud Computing News « – VMware has less than twenty percent of Microsoft’s market cap today. But if I were tracking the growth, and more importantly, enterprise influence, VMware appears to be making the right moves.

Links for May 13th through May 15th

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Vinny

Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity – Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says – NYTimes.com – Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
Make: Online | Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)? – I’m going to talk about Google choosing the open source hardware platform (Arduino) for the “Android Open Accessory” kit, and why this matters. I’m also going to talk a little about how Google could make it better
The Ballmer Days Are Over — The Brooks Review – Microsoft isn’t dead yet, nor will it be soon. It is however in the early stages of death and Ballmer isn’t going to the hospital — he’s running to go party some more. Microsoft needs a swift kick in the ass.
Makes boring code look pretty… – Simply click the Syntaclet Bookmarklet and it will automatically apply language specific syntax coloring with line numbers to all the code on the page.
Google I/O 2011 session videos available in HD – Google I/O 2011 session videos available in HD
Java Concurrency: Java Puzzlers at Google I/O – Josh Bloch and I gave one of his Java Puzzlers talk at Google I/O this year. If you hate Java, you can waste a perfectly good hour listening to us make unfunny jokes at its expense.
InfoQ: Juergen Hoeller on Spring 3.1 and Spring 3.2 – Juergen Hoeller talks to Charles Humble about the upcoming features in Spring 3.1 and Spring 3.2. The interview also explores SpringSource's attitude to standardisation, and the impact of the Java 7 and 8 language changes, and the Jave EE 6, on the framework.
Basic Java CRUD Operations with MongoDB | Javalobby – In this post I’d like to show how to perform basic CRUD operations against a MongoDB database using the Java drive
Git tutorial – How to version projects with Git – Git tutorial – How to version projects with Git

Links for May 11th through May 13th

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Vinny

5 Lightweight Alternatives to Apache and IIS Web Servers – There are many excellent web servers available that provide a high-performance alternative to Apache and IIS
JetBrains .NET Tools Blog » dotPeek – Free .NET Decompiler is Available for Early Access – The long-awaited free standalone .NET decompiler from JetBrains goes public today: please welcome JetBrains dotPeek!
How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture – The dynaTrace Blog – We see that while the three JVMs are essentially trying to achieve the same goal, they do so via different strategies. This leads to different behaviour that needs tuning.
Courses – Google Code University – Google Code – Here is a list of courses and innovative resources to help CS students, faculty, and instructors. These are examples of the training Google engineers use to learn new skills.
The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – MongoDB Powering MTV’s Web Properties – An interview with Jeff Yemin, Director of Content Management Systems at MTV Networks and a presenter at the upcoming MongoNYC conference.
FunctionSource: Google Chrome Store and Angry Birds; GWT, WebGL, Canvas, and 95% – I am curious to see what Rovio leveraged when building the app with GWT. Is much of their Android codebase in there (given that although Java, the lower level platform is quite different
Typesafe – A 100% open source, integrated distribution offering Scala, Akka, sbt, and the Scala plugin for Eclipse – The Typesafe Stack is a modern software platform that makes it easy for developers to build scalable software applications. It combines the Scala programming language, Akka middleware, and robust developer tools in a simple package that integrates seamlessly with existing Java infrastructure.
Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg – BusinessWeek – Mark Zuckerberg's second-in-command provides "adult supervision" at the company, trying to keep growth at an optimum level
gwt-voices – Sound Library for Google-Web-Toolkit (GWT) – Google Project Hosting – Library providing easy to use cross-platform browser sound capabilities to Google Web Toolkit (GWT) projects.

Links for May 9th through May 11th

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Vinny

Social networking behind the corporate firewall increases 500%, creates big vulnerabilities | IT Systems News – Betanews – In total, social networking within the corporate firewall has increased 500% in one year's time. The reason this is important is because Palo Alto highlights this as a huge vulnerability, since most SSL-encoded traffic is invisible to corporate IT, and it is a potential vector for serious security breaches.
forplay – A cross-platform game abstraction library – Google Project Hosting – ForPlay is a cross-platform game abstraction library for writing games that compile to HTML5 (WebGL and Canvas), Java, Android and Flash
Google Think Insights – research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions – At Google we believe data beats opinion. So we work hard to study the worlds of consumer behavior, digital and media, and we’re pleased to share what we’ve learned with you.
InfoQ: Evolution of Code Design at Facebook – Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents – introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.
InfoQ: Agile Architecture Interactions – By simplifying agile methods to a perspective such as the one presented here and being influential at the critical interaction points, a skilled architect can adapt to agile development while staying focused on the core architectural work
Google announces Android @ Home | BGR – Google announced on Tuesday a new feature of the Android operating system called Android @ Home. The framework and associated functions transform an Android device into a home automation controller that connects and directs all of the devices and appliances in the user’s home
Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby – GitHub – Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.
Github as a CMS to end CMSes – Github can be used as a site serving tool. It is actually a pretty usable CMS even for non-technical folks. With some more tweaks it could be a killer platform for content with all the wonderful potential from forking and pull requests
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad | Cult of Mac – My advice to parents: Unplug that TV and run, don’t walk, to Toys R Us and buy each of your kids an iPad 2 — before TV turns them into "average Americans."

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