Monthly Archives: May 2011

Links for May 7th through May 8th

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Vinny

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• Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment – Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment
• Html Content / Article Extractor in Java open sourced from Gravity Labs – GitHub – Project Goose is an article extractor written in Java and its goal is to take a webpage, perform calculations and extract the main text of the article as well as make recommendations on what image might be the most relevant image on the page
• Congress Bans Scientific Collaboration with China, Cites High Espionage Risks – William Pentland – Clean Beta – Forbes – A two-sentence clause included in the U.S. spending bill prohibits the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from coordinating any joint scientific activity with China
• June 8th: the day your phone won’t stop ringing – Users with broken IPv6 connectivity will experience long delays connecting to major public web sites. Their workstations will try to reach the content over IPv6 first and will have to experience a TCP-level timeout before retrying to get the same content over IPv4
• CouchApp: Standalone CouchDB Application Development Made Simple – GitHub – CouchApp is designed to structure standalone CouchDB application development for maximum application portability. CouchApp is a set of scripts and a jQuery plugin designed to bring clarity and order to the freedom of CouchDB's document-based approach.
• Why there are so many engineers in India – TNW India – Becoming an engineer in India virtually guarantees financial security for life, and this blinds parents into forcing their children to choose engineering. It is a romanticized notion, but I often wonder how many David Beckhams, Quentin Tarantinos and Carlos Santanas are currently pulling off 9-5 shifts for IT firms.
• LevelDB – a fast and lightweight key/value database library – LevelDB is a library that implements a fast key-value store. Keys and values are arbitrary byte arrays, Data is stored sorted by key, Callers can provide a custom comparison function to override the sort order.
• Three helpful SSH tips for developers – Atlassian Developer Blog – If you're a developer that deploys stuff to unix systems, then one of the most common tools you interact with is SSH. It never ceases to amaze me, in spite of this, how little developers really know about SSH.
• 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years | zen habits – The destination is just a tiny slice of the journey. We’re so worried about goals, about our future, that we miss all the great things along the way.

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Links for May 6th

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Vinny

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• Attachments.Me – Tips from a Production MongoDB Deployment – This post goes over some of my lessons learned, while undertaking a production MongoDB deployment:
• Fuzz Box: Code Fitness – Visualize your java classes and identify complexity – jSizer comes to the rescue. It is a small swing-based app which reads a jar file and produces a graph depicting packages, classes node hierarchy while effective coloring and shaping helps to differentiate each node based on some vital metrics.
• InfoQ: Functional Programming: A Pragmatic Introduction – Jim Duey explains functional programming through Java code samples, emphasizing the need for a mindset change in approaching coding and why the functional paradigm is useful.
• MongoDB Adoption in the Java World :: myNoSQL – Over the last few months, the Java MongoDB ecosystem has started to drastically evolve. New features in the core MongoDB server continue to distinguish the product from the crowd and new engineers are joining the MongoDB open source community by contributing Java persistence (mappers) frameworks and libraries.
• Development Chaos Theory » Strategy for validating text input in a TextBox during input in GWT – Strategy for validating text input in a TextBox during input in GWT
• Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports Tomcat 7 – We've added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments

Links for May 3rd through May 5th

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Vinny

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• Springfuse Quickstart – Generate Spring MVC3, JQuery, JPA CRUD application – Springfuse reverses your database structure and generates top-quality source code that you can use immediately as the foundation of your web application.
• Spring 3.1.M1 @Cacheable Doesn’t Evict – A Workaround – davidsalter.co.uk – Spring 3.1 introduces a new feature to allow methods to be cached and evicted thus allowing resource heavy methods to be avoided where possible. Caching is enabled via the new @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations
• Security Expert: Sony Knew Its Software Was Obsolete Months Before PSN Breach – The Consumerist – Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf – Uncomfortable with Agile by Andy Hunt who wants you to be uncomfortable. – Time to wake up! Time to shake things up. Refactor your process. Refactor your code. Refactor your customers. Refactor your priorities. If you find yourself going through your project on automatic, without thinking about what you're doing, then you aren’t thinking. You might want to look to that first.
• Building mobile apps with Sencha Touch and Phonegap • Blog Archive • Lonely Code – This post will describe how to go about building a andriod app without having to learn Java, but instead build the entire thing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry Application | SpringSource Team Blog – Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry applications
• HBase Do’s and Don’ts | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera – The impetus for my talk and this follow up blog post is to clarify some of the good applications for HBase, warn against some poor applications and highlight important steps to a successful HBase deployment.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.3: Final Release Now Available! – Today we’re happy to announce that the final releases of GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) are now available
• Ext GWT 3.0 XTemplate Redesign | Blog | Sencha – In summary, the new XTemplate design is a much improved design over the previous XTemplate. We are leveraging GWT Deferred Binding to provide a GWT like solution.
• Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night – So this morning I'm grateful for the innovators pushing forward technologies that bring us together and enable us to share these human experiences. And, I can’t help but be hopeful for what the next 10 years will bring.

Links for May 3rd through May 5th

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Vinny

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• Springfuse Quickstart – Generate Spring MVC3, JQuery, JPA CRUD application – Springfuse reverses your database structure and generates top-quality source code that you can use immediately as the foundation of your web application.
• Spring 3.1.M1 @Cacheable Doesn’t Evict – A Workaround – davidsalter.co.uk – Spring 3.1 introduces a new feature to allow methods to be cached and evicted thus allowing resource heavy methods to be avoided where possible. Caching is enabled via the new @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations
• Security Expert: Sony Knew Its Software Was Obsolete Months Before PSN Breach – The Consumerist – Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf – Uncomfortable with Agile by Andy Hunt who wants you to be uncomfortable. – Time to wake up! Time to shake things up. Refactor your process. Refactor your code. Refactor your customers. Refactor your priorities. If you find yourself going through your project on automatic, without thinking about what you're doing, then you aren’t thinking. You might want to look to that first.
• Building mobile apps with Sencha Touch and Phonegap • Blog Archive • Lonely Code – This post will describe how to go about building a andriod app without having to learn Java, but instead build the entire thing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry Application | SpringSource Team Blog – Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry applications
• HBase Do’s and Don’ts | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera – The impetus for my talk and this follow up blog post is to clarify some of the good applications for HBase, warn against some poor applications and highlight important steps to a successful HBase deployment.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.3: Final Release Now Available! – Today we’re happy to announce that the final releases of GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) are now available
• Ext GWT 3.0 XTemplate Redesign | Blog | Sencha – In summary, the new XTemplate design is a much improved design over the previous XTemplate. We are leveraging GWT Deferred Binding to provide a GWT like solution.
• Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night – So this morning I'm grateful for the innovators pushing forward technologies that bring us together and enable us to share these human experiences. And, I can’t help but be hopeful for what the next 10 years will bring.

Links for May 1st through May 2nd

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Vinny

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• Spring GemFire 1.0.1 Released for Java and .NET | SpringSource.org – I am pleased to announce that 1.0.1 GA release of the Spring GemFire project is now available for both Java and .NET! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.
• The OpenGamma Platform – Unified Financial Analytics – OpenGamma provides technology for financial institutions to improve analytics calculation and delivery to front-office and risk users.
• The "book" is dead [dive into mark] – The "book" is dead. Long live "content". And God help us all if world-class writers like David can’t make a living from it.
• Coding Horror: The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale – Solid state hard drives are so freaking amazing performance wise, and the experience you will have with them is so transformative, that I don't even care if they fail every 12 months on average
• Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second – Twitter has just revised its preliminary measurements of 4,000 tweets per second from last night’s announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death
• InfoQ: Deep Dive into HTML5 and CSS3 – Wesley Reisz explains HTML5, demoing some of its most important features and highlighting some of the obstacles he met while working with it.
• couchbaselabs/iOS-Couchbase – Apache CouchDB optimized for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch – Apache CouchDB on iOS provides a simple way to sync your application data across devices and provide cloud backup of user data. Unlike other cloud solutions, the data is hosted on the device by Couchbase Mobile, so even when the network is down or slow (airplane, subway, backyard) the application is responsive to users.
• Highlights of web technology surveys, May 2011: Every second website is using Google Analytics now – Google Analytics has been the most popular web analytics tool for a long time. Last month, it has added another 0.2% of all websites to its user base, and it has now reached an incredible milestone: Every second website is using Google Analytics.
• Microsoft’s plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo | ZDNet – The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools Business reorg announced on May 2 inside Microsoft.
• Data Structure Visualization – The best way to understand complex data structures is to see them in action. We've developed interactive animations for a variety of data structures and algorithms. Our visualization tool is written in javascript using the HTML5 canvas element