Links for December 22nd through December 27th

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Vinny

Getting excited helps with performance anxiety more than trying to calm down, study finds – People who tell themselves to get excited rather than trying to relax can improve their performance during anxiety-inducing activities such as public speaking and math tests, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association
Spring 4 Enhances Support for Java 8, Java EE 7, REST and HTML5 – Pivotal released Spring 4.0, the first major release since 2009. The new release supports Java 8 with expression of callbacks using lambdas, JSR 310 Date and Time API, & parameter name discovery. Java EE 7 support includes JMS 2.0, JTA 1.2, JPA 2.1..
What Makes a Great API? – John Musser explains how to transform a good API into a great one based on his experience with thousands of APIs at ProgrammableWeb and API Science.
Front end Developer Interview Questions – A list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.
Tour of the NoSQL database OrientDB – Every now and then you come across open source projects that just amazes you. OrientDB is one of these projects.
What do you get when a Document Database combines with a Graph Database? – Imagine a product with the Flexibility of a Document Database and
the ability to express Relationships like a Graph Database. This is OrientDB.
Managing a Startup Isn’t Different – Don’t Re-invent Everything – What troubles me sometimes is seeing startups that re-invent tried and true management principles, or misinterpret them, or even ignore them, for a lack of interest in researching or learning the prior knowledge that already would have served to solve the
The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks – If you treat the browser as a remote rendering engine and stop treating it as a place to query and store crap, everything gets faster. Sound like something familiar? Yeah, computer graphics programming.
Apache Sirona aims to provide a simple but extensible monitoring solution for Java applications – Apache Sirona aims to provide a simple but extensible monitoring solution for Java applications
Summernote – Super Simple WYSIWYG editor on Bootstrap #summernote – Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Bootstrap
Authbahn – Open-source real-time framework for Web, Mobile & Internet of Things – The Autobahn project provides open-source implementations of the WebSocket and WAMP protocols. WebSocket allows bidirectional real-time messaging on the Web and WAMP adds asynchronous Remote Procedure Calls and Publish & Subscribe on top of WebSocket.

Links for December 19th through December 21st

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Vinny

Logstash helps you take logs and other event data from your systems and store them in a central place. – elasticsearch works seamlessly with logstash to collect, parse, index, and search logs
SecTools.Org Top Network Security Tools – SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools
Become a Better Architect – The most successful IT professionals I know, regardless of title or role, are the ones that are business focused. From an enterprise architecture perspective, the technology is, at best, half of the overall architecture equation
iPad, Surface, Kindle owners reveal their top gripes – A new report from tech Q&A site FixYa cites the biggest complaints with the latest tablets from Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.
"Backbreaking" OpenStack migrations hinder enterprise upgrades – OpenStack’s promise of an open-source cloud infrastructure free of vendor lock-in is big. But difficulties upgrading from one release to the next are a major kink that needs to be worked out before widespread adoption can begin.
Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Hacker News discussion – Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Hacker News discussion
Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
oterm is a web browser unix terminal – oterm is a web browser unix terminal. It serves a console so you can access your server from anywhere in the world where you have an Internet connection. It effectively is an xterm in a browser.
JavaScript spin-off asm.js brings web even closer to native performance | ZDNet – Firefox creator Mozilla release benchmarks showing that asm.js, its performance-optimised subset of JavaScript, can deliver performance only 1.5x slower than code compiled to run natively.
Enterprise App Developer Atlas – An interactive map of the developer journey, helping developers make the right tool choices to reduce costs, increase revenue and capture new markets.

Links for December 13th through December 18th

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Vinny

The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap | AppNeta – After Ilya’s talk ended, I started to think more about why performance always seems to be an afterthought with developers. As I pondered this thought, I kept coming back to the following question:
How hard is it to get a perfect PageSpeed Insights score?
Does IT Still Matter? – Jack Bauer of ’24′ Provides The Answer – Firms that view new technology as frivolous or too costly will ultimately fall victim to nimbler startups and more progressive traditional competitors. While innovative technology investments are not a ticket to market leadership, over reliance on antiquated technology is a death march to the corporate graveyard. The next time a luddite in your firm says that your outdated technology is sufficient, show them the 24 parody video (assuming your firm has broadband internet access!).
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction – In this post, I'll walk you through everything you need to know about logs, including what is log and how to use logs for data integration, real time processing, and system building.
The API-ization of everything – If software is eating every industry and every type of economic activity, then the force that is replacing it is actually software talking to other software. That's the API.
CommonRegex – Common Regular Expressions Made Simple – Find all dates, times, emails, phone numbers, link, and emails in a string.
Apache Kafka – A high-throughput distributed messaging system. – Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Amazon Kinesis – a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale – With Amazon Kinesis applications, you can build real-time dashboards, capture exceptions and generate alerts, drive recommendations, and make other real-time business or operational decision
Moonshot – When describing the process of disruptive innovation, Clay Christensen set about to also describe the process by which a technology is developed by visionaries in a commercially unsuccessful way. He called it cramming.
Evernote for the enterprise: Huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned iOS app – Like Huddle’s other offerings, Huddle Note comes with audit trails, version control, approval management, and enterprise-grade security.
The Future of GWT Report 2013 – With over 30 pages of data, charts, stats and commentary from the most well-respected folks in the world of GWT, we'd like to think that this report is the most complete survey of the GWT community to date

Links for December 9th through December 11th

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Vinny

Docker for the Fedora Project: an interview with Alexander Larsson | opensource.com – Recently, Red Hat and Docker announced they'd be working together on several projects. One of them is packaging Docker for the Fedora Project: a Red Hat sponsored, volunteer-driven, rock-solid Linux operating system
Docker will change everything #iagreecompletely – Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere
IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers – At JetBrains we’re always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we’ve made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hopefully make development of Android apps an even bigger p
Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch – With the release of Sencha Touch 2.3 and Sencha Cmd 4, creating your cross platform hybrid applications has never been easier. PhoneGap is now a key feature in the Sencha Touch mobile workflow integrating seamlessly into the newly released, NodeJS based, P
Mobile dev chops? Cloud infrastructure skills? You’re hired! – Hiring more contractors than full-time staff, placing data center and cloud expertise over more conventional IT skills, emphasizing mobile rather than desktop development, and more fine-grained ways to find the right people for the right jobs — these are
Cause for hope: Windows 8 gets the heave-ho in the next wave of updates – Windows might actually become relevant again if rumors about the next version(s) of Windows are to be believed
The same app 4 times: PHP vs Python vs Ruby vs Clojure – Here's a toy program I wrote implemented in PHP, Python, Ruby, and Clojure. I hope it's helpful for someone who knows at least one of those and wants to learn another.
Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees – Evernote’s CTO gave an exclusive talk at the recent First Round CTO Summit about security and the right way for growing startups to stay safe without needlessly expending valuable resources.
HotSpot JVM garbage collection options cheat sheet (v3) – HotSpot JVM options cheatsheet
websocketd – Turn any application that uses STDIO/STDOUT into a WebSocket server – websocketd is a small command line tool that will wrap an existing command line interface program, and allow it to be accessed via a WebSocket. It provides a quick mechanism for allowing web-applications to interact with existing command line tools.
Fast-growing IT automation startup Opscode raises $32M, changes name to Chef – In fact, a large percentage of companies utilizing Amazon Web Services also are turning to Chef as an "onramp" to the cloud. Essentially, it allows those organizations to ramp up more quickly with cloud services. “Chef is actually extremely simpatico with
Announcing Suro: Backbone of Netflix’s Data Pipeline – Suro, which we are proud to announce as our latest offering as part of the NetflixOSS family, serves as the backbone of our data pipeline. It consists of a producer client, a collector server, and plugin framework that allows events to be dynamically filte
Google Ups The Ante Against Amazon’s Cloud, And That’s A Good Thing For Business – Google wants to leapfrog Amazon’s dominance in cloud computing by making it available to everyone.
Meet The JavaScript Framework That Might Save HTML5 From Itself – Famo.us wants to make HTML5 apps sing using JavaScript. The goal: Flash-like performance, but with no plugins.
Java 8 first steps with Lambdas and Streams – Java 8 will bring the largest changes on the platform since the introduction of Generics in version 1.5. It’s on the time to look at some of the most important innovations.
Banks need to take on Amazon and Google or die – FT.com – Technology has already transformed many industries. Next in line is banking. In two or three years, only 5 per cent of consumer interaction will be through branches. The rules have changed and a new league of competitors is emerging.
VoltDB to Provide Database to Eagle for Big Data – WatersTechnology – Eagle Investment Systems has agreed to distribute the in-memory relational database from Billerica, Massachusetts-based VoltDB for delivering real-time analytics and decisioning capabilities to clients.

Links for December 1st through December 8th

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Vinny

Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking – Leaders play a key role in the construction of an organization but only its members can determine its culture In the course of creating a culture, leaders simply play enabler and focus on eliminating obstacles, ensuring employees have enough information an
Tabris. The Cross-Platform Mobile Framework for Java – Tabris is a Java framework written by Java developers for Java developers to build mobile apps. It uses standard JavaEE technology to create an application on a server. Native clients act as a player for the applications's UI. They access the application b
New cybersecurity boom arrives in Silicon Valley – Venture capital firms are pumping funding into security start-ups, which are getting gobbled up by big companies that see cybersecurity as a source of new revenue.
BASH as a Modern Programming Language – BASH as a Modern Programming Language
» Windows PowerShell TutorialThreading.DispatcherTimer – In this tutorial the basics of Windows PowerShell is explained with examples. Only read this article if you need a fast going-through Windows PowerShell basics and if you don’t have time to read the great tutorial by Jesse Hamrick on PowerShell Pro which this article is mostly based on.
Postman – A powerful HTTP client to test web services – Postman is a powerful HTTP client to help test web services easily and efficiently. Postman let's you craft simple as well as complex HTTP requests quickly. It also saves requests for future use so that you never have to repeat your keystrokes ever again.
Hey, Enterprise Developers! Get Agile Or Get Steamrollered – "Waterfall" development barely worked in the old command-and-control world. Let iterative development bloom.
How To Use GitHub Pages To Make Web Sites While Learning Code – Like GitHub with training wheels, it's an easier way to code open source.
Android Or iOS Dominating Tablets? Developer Economics Has The Answer – Given the difficulty of tracking Android shipments or usage, the best proxy for its market share may come from developer payment data.
Robomongo: Shell-centric cross-platform MongoDB management tool – Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. Admin GUI). Robomongo embeds the same JavaScript engine that powers MongoDB's mongo shell. Everything you can write in mongo shell — you can write in Robomongo!

Links for November 22nd through November 30th

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Vinny

Announcing Scala.js v0.1 – a compiler from Scala to JavaScript – Scala.js is a compiler from Scala to JavaScript. It allows you to write your entire web application in Scala and simply compile to JavaScript!
Build a RESTful API with Martini – I’ve been looking for an excuse to try Martini ever since it was announced on the golang-nuts mailing list. Martini is a Go package for web server development that skyrocketed to close to 2000 stars on GitHub in just a few weeks
HTML5 javascript database library for web app – HTML5 javascript database library for web app that supports all desktop, mobile and web client browsers utilizing IndexedDB, WebSQL and localStorage. No dependency.
Docker unleashed: App portability gets a boost – Popular application-virtualization system for Linux no longer needs custom kernel, adds portability and connectivity features
Atlassian: A Leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management – Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management names Atlassian as a Leader. We believe this is based on our investment in agile software development practices and support of team collaboration.
Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch – With the release of Sencha Touch 2.3 and Sencha Cmd 4, creating your cross platform hybrid applications has never been easier. PhoneGap is now a key feature in the Sencha Touch mobile workflow integrating seamlessly into the newly released, NodeJS based, P
Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science – R remains popular with the PhDs of data science, but as data moves mainstream, Python is taking over.
cmder | Portable console emulator for Windows – Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over absence of nice console emulator on Windows. It is based on amazing software, spiced up with Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.
An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby – Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common convent
How Authy Built A Fault-Tolerant Two-Factor Authentication Service – On the heels of their newest product release, we sat down with Daniel Palacio, Founder of Authy, to talk about how they built their service.
On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we’re changing – We learned a lot from launching 1.2. Here are our own notes on the 1.2 launch process, and what we'll be improving, in case you're curious too.
It can’t just be Big Data, it has to be Fast Data: Reactor 1.0 goes GA – I'm happy to announce that Reactor, a powerful foundational library for building reactive, fast data applications on the JVM has reached GA!
Arm yourself: The API wars are coming – The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption.
Eric Schmidt’s guide for converting to Android from iPhone – Eric Schmidt's guide for converting to Android from iPhone
Salesforce Making Business Software More Social – NYTimes.com – According to a senior engineer overseeing the project, however, applications running on Salesforce can now be quickly remodeled for any screen, adding and taking away features that might prove more or less useful on a mobile device.
Hands On With Google Glass 2: What’s New? – The second Explorer Edition of Google Glass is out—and we get our paws all over it.
How Node.js Got Big – How the wunderkind framework grew up, from the perspective of one of its earliest contributors.
What it takes to run Stack Overflow – Here’s what runs the Stack Exchange network in that data center
FastR: an implementation of the R language – FastR: an implementation of the R language

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