Monthly Archives: July 2012

Links for July 27th through July 31st

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Vinny

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• Microsoft hits Java where it hurts | Java programming – InfoWorld – Microsoft security researcher warns of deteriorating situation with Java — and not just on Windows. Continuing to use Java puts your company and clients at risk
• Stackato: The Application Platform for Creating a Private PaaS – Stackato is the application platform for creating a private, secure, flexible enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using any language on any stack on any cloud
• Real World Clojure – Doing Boring Stuff With An Exciting Language – Sean Corfield shows how to use Clojure as a general purpose scripting language for building web applications, tackling persistence, email, internationalization, configuration and environment issues.
• Answering with Mockito – Java Code Geeks – In this post we are going to see an 'advanced' technique used in Mockito to return same argument instance on a mocked method using Answer interface.
• Jesper’s Blog: My Take on Haskell vs Scala – I've used both Haskell and Scala for some time now. They are both excellent and beautifully designed functional programming languages and I thought it would be interesting to put together a little comparison of the two, and what parts I like and dislike in each one
• Building QuickBooks: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code @mvorpagel – Continuous integration and delivery based on automated software configuration management are the keys for developing a major retail product.
• Prism – A new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter – Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s a spin-off from Dabblet and is tested there daily by thousands.
• The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog, Edda: a log visualizer for MongoDB – We are pleased to announce the initial release of Edda. Edda is a tool for MongoDB that takes mongod log files and generate easy-to-parse pictures of the represented servers
• Netflix open sources cloud-testing Chaos Monkey – Netflix has open sourced Chaos Monkey, a service designed to terminate cloud computing instances in a controlled manner so companies can ensure their applications keep running when a virtual server dies unexpectedly. In the past year, Chaos Monkey has terminated more than 65,000 of Netflix’s instances.
• Cisco Touts Its Cloudy Open Future – Will VMware Do The Same? | TechCrunch – Cisco has made the move to OpenStack and through that has shown a commitment to open source efforts. It is working with other networking companies to develop a software defined network where the network goes to the application in an open environment.

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Links for July 23rd through July 27th

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Vinny

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• OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is ‘bad’ | Internet & Media – CNET News – The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad.
• Keynote: MythBusters 2.0 – Mission Critical Cloud Computing @ NASA – Khawaja Shams presents how NASA’s JPL uses cloud computing, and evaluates some of the existing cloud computing myths in the MythBusters style.
• easyCriteria | A JPA Criteria Helper – Easy criteria is a tool that will help any developer to create a JPA Criteria without the verbose JPA Criteria default code!
• ocpsoft/rewrite – Rewrite GWT Integration – This enables the HTML5 History.pushState(…) support in your application, which will now use pretty/URLs whenever possible instead of the '#' anchor tag with 'name=value' pairs. Note that you must modify your place tokenization to process the new information.
• 7 Quality Principles we can learn from the big Tech Companies | The Codovation Blog – Out of these findings we collected from several blogs, articles and interviews with (former) employees of these companies we extracted 7 principles all of these companies seem to follow.
• Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released at 2nd Annual PhoneGap Day – Popular Open Source Mobile Development Framework Gets Upgrades Including Improved Plugin Support, Embeddable Webviews, Command Line Tooling and more
• Java EE vs Spring Framework – This session compares the Spring and Java EE stacks in terms of Web frameworks. It re-examines the motivations behind the Spring framework and explores the emergence of the Java EE programming model to meet the challenges posed. The presentation provides insight into when Spring and/or Java EE is appropriate for a building Web applications and if they can coexist.
• NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream | Linux Magazine – The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance.
• Expanding The Cloud – High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2 – All Things Distributed – The hi1.4xlarge has 8 cores and 60.5GB of memory. Most importantly it has 2 SSDs of 1 TB each and a 10 Gb/s Ethernet NIC that using placement groups can be directly connected to other High I/O instances.
• Java Sequential IO Performance | Architects Zone – For most IO I've found the use of ByteBuffers and Channels to be the best optimised parts of the IO libraries. If buffered streams are your IO libraries of choice, then it is worth branching out and and getting familiar with the sub-classes of Channel and Buffer.
• Effective Mockito Part 3 « EclipseSource Blog – In this post I want to show you how to use Mockito’s spy mechanism to eliminate testing troubles with third party libraries.
• SubGit – Safe Svn to Git Migration – SubGit is a smooth Svn to Git migration. Install once on the server side and use both Subversion and Git as long as you like.
• 11 OPEN NoSQL Document-Oriented Databases | Architects Zone – A document-oriented database is a designed for storing, retrieving, and managing document-oriented, or semi structured data. Document-oriented databases are one of the main categories of NoSQL databases. The central concept of a document-oriented database is the notion of a Document.
• SQLDirector is a MS SQL as a Service (SaaS) solution for the private cloud. @jeff_stanlick – SQLDirector provides a full-featured MS SQL Database as a service experience in your on-premise or remote data center. SQLDirector is available as a virtual or physical appliance.
• CloudStack Now Offers MongoDB as a Service | Cloud Zone – ScaleGrid, Inc (http://www.scalegrid.net), a Seattle-based startup, is announcing this week the public availability of MongoDirector, an end-to-end lifecycle management solution for MongoDB. MongoDirector provides a "single pane of glass" to manage MongoDB deployments allowing for simplified and automated MongoDB lifecycle management on both VMware vCenter and CloudStack.
• How AppFog Built a PaaS around CloudFoundry – Jeremy Voorhis introduces PaaS and CloudFoundry, then explains how AppFog built their own PaaS on top of CloudFoundry.

Links for July 9th through July 13th

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Vinny

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• General Motors Will Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul – GM's new CIO Randy Mott plans to bring nearly all IT work in-house as one piece of a sweeping IT overhaul. It's a high-risk strategy that's similar to what Mott drove at Hewlett-Packard.
• Google I/O 2012 – The History and Future of Google Web Toolkit- YouTube – Follow along as we present a history of the GWT project, the exciting new features in the GWT 2.5 release, and where we plan to take GWT in the future.
• Fredrik Öhrström discusses some of the latest Java features: multi-core support, lambda expressions, expanded target typing, method… – Fredrik Öhrström discusses some of the latest Java features: multi-core support, lambda expressions, expanded target typing, method and constructor references, and default methods.
• GWT AutoBean framework – Structure, not boilerplate – The AutoBean framework provides automatically-generated implementations of bean-like interfaces and a low-level serialization mechanism for those interfaces. AutoBeans can be used in both client and server code to improve code re-use
• Hibernate Smoke Detector | Tomasz Dziurko – Hibernate Smoke Detector is simple but quite useful parser that checks your application and helps to cut identical queries fired many times in a very short period of time. It generates a report showing which queries are executed most often in a one-second time window and when they fired so developer could find them in his code easily.
• From Java to Ruby – what I love, what I miss » 8th color – Taking a look back as this list, I’m probably wishing for the best of the two worlds (and it is probably not possible). I found two great tools in Java and Ruby, and I intend to use them both when appropriate. I’m sure I’ll have occasions aplenty.
• collide – Collide is an open-source "collaborative IDE" demonstration – Collide is an open-source "collaborative IDE" demonstration

Links for July 5th through July 8th

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Vinny

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• gwt-exporter – Use gwt metadata annotations to export GWT Java classes as a JS API – The project is a GWT module which contains a generator capable of taking GWT classes and exporting them as ordinary Javascript APIs callable from hand-written Javascript without JSNI, and suitable for use in mashups.
• JAMP: an ultra portable PHP, web server and database stack in Java – This tutorial describes how to set up the PHP and database stack in the Jetty web server. First we set up a web application (webapp for short) in Java which can interpret .php files using Quercus. Then we setup the H2 database engine. Last, we setup the part where PHP can connect to H2 while actually thinking it is MySQL that it's connecting to (using H2's MySQL compatibility mode, because PHP does not have support for H2). Here we go!
• Lessons Learned in Deploying PaaS – Colin Humphreys discusses PaaS: why they chose a certain PaaS solution for their customers, PaaS in ALM, lessons learned from their experiences and what to expect from different PaaS vendors.
• Announcing Inbox: Asana’s Next Step Towards A Post-Email World at Asana Blog – Email is the system we rely on most to be productive, but it has become a counter-productivity tool.
• The Netflix Tech Blog: Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm – Netflix made the decision to move from the data center to the cloud several years ago [1]. While it’s easy and common to blame the cloud for outages because it’s outside of our control, we found that our overall availability over the past several years has steadily improved
• A software architect lives to serve the engineering team — not the other way around. – A software architect lives to serve the engineering team — not the other way around.
• Oracle adopts the popular R language for the enterprise and big data – Oracle has adopted R as a language and environment to support Statisticians, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists in performing statistical data analysis and advanced analytics, as well as generating sophisticated graphics
• If You Don’t Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will – Greg McKeown – Harvard Business Review – We may not develop Gandhian levels of courage immediately, but surely we can do better than having to look back on our lives and regret that we lived by someone else's priorities.
• Index Shows iOS Programming Language Now In Top 3 As Mobile Development Booms | TechCrunch – The future for enterprise vendors will look more like what CloudFoundry and OpenShift are doing. But the overall driver for growth will be the apps that developers build. In that respect, I expect Objective-C will continue to grow in popularity across the enterprise landscape as the mobile market continues to boom.
• REST, And Now for Something Completely Different – Mike Amundsen offers a deeper explanation of REST, going beyond URIs, HTTP or web pages to the architectural style REST provides and the 6 constraints imposed by REST
• Java 8 vs Scala: a Feature Comparison –
• Lance Walton on Scala in the Enterprise – Lance Walton discusses Scala in the enterprise, educating developers in functional programming and whether Scala's binary compatibility issues between releases are a problem, and much more.

Links for July 1st through July 5th

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Vinny

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• Sonatype Blog » Wait… you don’t have a repository manager? – If you develop Java-based or .NET-based software and you don’t use a repository manager you might as well just wear a shirt emblazoned with the words: "Doing it wrong and proud of it". Here are some very basic reasons why you shouldn’t just accept the fact that your group doesn’t want to use a repository manager:
• How to create a simple Restful Web Service using Jersey JAX RS API » the Open Tutorials – Java provides support for Restful web services through Java API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS. The complete specification is available as JSR 311. JAX-RS is an annotation-based API for implementing RESTful web services, based on HTTP, in Java.
• Is Kanban the New Scrum? – Kanban focuses on limited WIP and suggests a short cycle time. Having regular cadences is recommended. Scrum focuses on short, regular cadences and suggests limited WIP. If you're doing them well, both paths lead to the same place.
• CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar – Daniel Mohl introduces CoffeeScript: what it is, what’s good for, how is different from other similar languages, what makes it more readable than JavaScript, some minuses, and code samples.
• SpringMVC on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 on OpenShift on Vimeo – This video demonstrates how quickly and easily you an get started building Spring MVC applications using a provided Maven archetype in JBoss Developer Studio (jboss.org/developer) targeting JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in the cloud at OpenShift.
• Accessing your code for your OpenShift Application via Windows Explorer using TortoiseGit | OpenShift by Red Hat – This blog describes integration of the OpenShift Windows Client Tools with Windows Explorer. TortoiseGit provides an easy to use graphical context menus and graphical user interface (GUI) for code revision control as an alternative to the command line tools.
• Mobilize Your MongoDB: Building MongoDB Mobile Apps with OpenShift PaaS Part II – This is the second part of a blog series that details how to develop a mobile application that is backed by MongoDB and a PaaS. MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard and the nature of being able to store JSON documents with little data manipulation required.
• AppInfo – display always current version of your software even when automatically deploying from CI server – AppInfo is a small library providing the easy way to show always valid, automatic updated information about a version of running software in your web/desktop Java application. Especially useful with automatic builds from CI server deployed on QA.
• API Load Testing with Server Monitoring – A check engine light – loadUI Pro comes with one major feature that differentiates it from loadUI – Server Monitoring. Let’s find out what it is and how it can help keep your API out of the breakdown lane.
• Top Java frameworks rated by developers | Open source reviews by real users – Top Java frameworks rated by developers
• Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant | Blogs | Vanity Fair – Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
• MVC is dead, it’s time to MOVE on. – To re-iterate: MVC is awesome, but it's designed with decades old technologies. MOVE is just a update to make better use of the new tools we have.
• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: February 2012 – Our data, then, indicates that Java remains – in spite of the fragmented programming language landscape – a viable, growing language.
• Google’s Project Glass Lets Technology Slip Into the Background – Disruptions – NYTimes.com – When technology gets out of the way, we are liberated from it. Wearable computing will free us from peering at life through a 4-inch screen. We will no longer have to constantly look at our devices, but instead, these wearable devices will look back at us.