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Links for March 21st through March 23rd

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Vinny

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• Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development – Just how important is mobile to Facebook? According to Facebook product manager Josh Williams, the former CEO of Gowalla, the social network's push toward mobility is crucial enough to its strategy to turn off Facebook's website internally.
• Learn the ropes of Mobile Services with Brent Simmons – Mobile Services makes it easy to store data for your iOS app in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications via APNS. Join Brent in a walkthrough of the basics.
• Microsoft backs away from Flash ban in IE10 | Internet & Media – CNET News – Arguing that support for Adobe's browser plug-in is an advantage, Microsoft now permits Flash by default on Windows 8 and Windows RT. Tablets that can't run Flash are merely "a companion to a PC."
• Stanford Offers Free Introductory Course on iOS Programming – Stanford University is offering a free introductionary course "Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad (Winter 2013)" on iTunes U. All lectures can be downloaded as video podcasts along with slides in PDF format. The material is suitable for O
• Designing A RESTful API That Doesn’t Suck | devo.ps – As we’re getting closer to shipping the first version of devo.ps and we are joined by a few new team members, the team took the time to review the few principles we followed when designing our RESTful JSON API.
• Coding Horror: Why Ruby? – However, I'd also be lying if I didn't mention that I truly believe the sort of project we are building in Discourse does represent most future software. If you squint your eyes a little, I think you can see a future not too far in the distance where .NET
• NoSQL showdown: MongoDB vs. Couchbase | Data Management – InfoWorld – MongoDB edges Couchbase Server with richer querying and indexing options, as well as superior ease of use
• Here’s How Marquette Erased A Six-Point Davidson Lead In The Final Minute And Avoided An Upset – Vander Blue took over in the final moments to lead Marquette past an upset-minded Davidson team today in Lexington, though a brutal blunder on the Wildcats' part sealed their fate as much as the Golden Eagles' suddenly hot shooting.
• Cappuccino Web Framework – Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript – Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.
• I’m done with the web – Don’t be afraid to invest a week learning something new. Cappuccino, GWT, and Sproutcore were born out of necessity; don’t stop breaking boundaries because it’s now easy to add rounded corners now.

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Links for January 4th through January 8th

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Vinny

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• howdoi – a code search tool – Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programming tasks?
• Clipped | Summarize Anything – Clipped’s patent pending algorithm turns articles and documents into bullet point summaries. – Clipped's patent pending algorithm turns articles and documents into bullet point summaries.
• accept4j – Business-friendly acceptance testing – accept4j bridges the gap between automated tests and business requirements in Java applications, by providing an automatically-generated, easy-to-read report identifying which requirements are tested, and which are not.
• Extending Spring MVC with Spring Mobile and JavaScript – Craig Walls and Roy Clarkson explain how to extend Spring MVC to mobile devices with Spring Mobile and popular JavaScript frameworks.
• Escape From Amazon: Tips/Techniques for Reducing AWS Dependencies – Soam Acharya presents a case study of a business which relied heavily on AWS and had to reduce its dependencies on it, including tips for avoiding cloud lock-in.
• Christophe Coenraets | Tutorial: Developing a PhoneGap Application – In this tutorial, you create a fully functional employee directory application with PhoneGap. You will learn
• PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build in 5 Minutes | Christophe Coenraets – During the last couple of months, I have been on the road presenting our new HTML tools as part of the Create the Web tour with many other members of the team.
• My favorite technology bits of 2012 — Tech Talk — Medium – As I’ve grown older I’ve realized the only thing that excites me about technology these days are things that save me lots of frustration and time, and improve my life in some measurable way.
• Books to become a better Rubyist, including OOP and FP titles. Compiled by a Rubyist of 7 years. – Books to become a better Rubyist, including OOP and FP titles. Compiled by a Rubyist of 7 years.
• 5 Reasons to be excited about Java in 2013 – With 2012 done and dusted, it’s time to look forward to the coming 12 months for the development world. Over the past few days, we’ve asked some respected developers for their predictions – now it’s time for our own
• Junior – A front-end framework for building HTML5 mobile apps with a native look and feel. – A front-end framework for building HTML5 mobile apps with a native look and feel.
• Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with PhoneGap – Christophe Coenraets compares hybrid mobile apps with native ones and demonstrates building HTML5 applications with PhoneGap.

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 June 15th through June 18th

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Vinny

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• Jekyll Github Blog Feeds Template – RSS 2.0 & Atom 1.0 Feed Templates For Jekyll-Based Blogs – Jekyll Github Blog Feeds Template – RSS 2.0 & Atom 1.0 Feed Templates For Jekyll-Based Blogs
• Pondasee – Front-end Starter Kit combined with the power of SCSS & Compass – Pondasee is NOT a css framework, it is only our front-end starter kit combined with the power of SCSS & Compass to build a theme. If you want to use this project as your starting point, you need to know
• Lessons from Amazon RDS on Bringing Existing Apps to the Cloud | GigaSpaces on Application Scalability | Open Source PaaS and More – I believe that the lessons from Amazon RDS could serve as a good reference on what that process could be. If you are considering moving more than one application into the cloud, you should consider the use of DevOps & PaaS as the means to deliver those steps
• InfoQ: Visual Studio LightSwitch Adds HTML5/JavaScript Support – At this week's TechEd conference, Microsoft announced that they are adding HTML5 support to Visual Studio LightSwitch, the tool intended to simplify the development of custom database-driven business applications.
• Mobello | HTML5 framework for building mobile web app – Mobello is high performance JavaScript framework for HTML5 mobile apps. You can build native-like HTML5 apps for smartphones and tablets with Mobello. Mobello is scalable and robust framework suited for fast and rich user interface.
• JMeter Cloud Testing – BlazeMeter is a 100% JMeter-compatible, self-service web load testing cloud. Instantly generate massive stress tests with comprehensive reporting and analysis tools.
• The Two Horsemen of the Enterprise Software Apocalypse – Businessweek – One of the first things Duffield and his Workday co-founder Aneel Bhusri will tell you is that their company is not a revenge plot against Larry Ellison, the founder and chief executive of Oracle
• The Great Replacement: Microsoft, Yammer, and a New World in Enterprise Computing | PandoDaily – Hot companies such as Dropbox, Asana, and Atlassian will ascend to the throne, while the corpses of the old rulers – Microsoft, Oracle, SAP – will lie rotting in the gutter. The Great Replacement is beginning
• OWASP Top 10 for JavaScript – A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management – In this post I'll describe how OWASP Top 10: A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management applies to javascript based applications. Problems around broken authentication and session management can happen for a number of reasons. The end result is the same
• Titan – A Highly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database – Titan is a distributed graph database optimized for storing and processing large-scale graphs within a multi-machine cluster.
• PhoneGap apps powered by Database.com | Adobe Developer Connection – In this article we will explore the creation of mobile applications built using PhoneGap, with all data served and persisted using Database.com. Before we dive deeper into the technical details, let's review the terminology.
• AngularJS — Superheroic JavaScript MVC Framework – AngularJS lets you write web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly and lets use standard HTML as your template language. And it automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Links for November 6th through November 9th

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Vinny

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• What the end of Flash means for Adobe – SplatF – Adobes specific phrase in its release was: "Focusing Flash resources on delivering the most advanced PC web experiences, including gaming and premium video, as well as mobile apps." But the reality is that the mobile browser is the future of the web. So anyone who is using Flash today for anything should start working on a plan to eventually stop using it.
• JPMorgan Chase makes a case for the big data platform (and career track) of the future. – Five of JP Morgan Chase's seven lines of business now use a Hadoop shared service. They use it for extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing; high-scale Basel III regulatory liquidity analyses and reporting; data mining; transaction analysis; fraud investigation; and social media sentiment analysis. It's also a low-cost storage option for all types of data, including structured financial records, semi-structured clickstreams and Web logs, and unstructured text and social comment feeds.
• iBackupBot – iTunes Backup Manager for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad – iBackupBot for iTunes is a tool that helps you browse, view, export and even EDIT files backed up to iTunes.
• Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)? – Several of my customer and partner contacts have told me they have heard from their own Microsoft sources over the past couple of weeks that Silverlight 5 is the last version of Silverlight that Microsoft will release
• Google Launches OAuth 2.0 Playground @ API Evangelist – Google announced the OAuth 2.0 Playground which allows developers to experiment with APIs using the OAuth 2.0 protocol, and understand how the protocol functions and will make your life easier.
• Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5 (Adobe Flash Platform Blog) – We will design new features in Flash for a smooth transition to HTML5 as the standards evolve so developers can confidently invest knowing their skills will continue to be leveraged.
• Why Flash didn’t work out on mobile devices – Apple leaving mobile Flash off their mobile devices for the last four years, has shown that the web has adapted, with more sites embracing HTML5 for websites, games and apps.
• 10 Challenges That Will Shape Wall Street in 2012 – Wall Street & Technology – Battered and bruised by a difficult 2011, Wall Street faces another challenging year. We examine 10 critical issues that will set the agenda at capital markets firms in 2012.
• Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes – Part 1 – More than once, I've said that learning Redis is the most efficient way a programmer can spend 30 minutes. This is a testament to both how useful Redis is and how easy it is to learn. But, is it true, can you really learn, and even master, Redis in 30 minutes?
• Google Web Toolkit and Web Services: The XML Way | Wazi – In this two-part series, we’ll build a project to show how to get and process XML and JSON data, and deal with sundry matters such as security restrictions and server-side proxies. What you’ll learn here should help you deal with all kinds of services and enhance your GWT applications.
• From the Mule’s Mouth » AMQP and the future of web messaging – The real potential for AMQP is queuing on the web, there hasn’t been a strong play for this yet but I believe queuing will become a fundamental part of orchestrating services on the web as applications start to leverage APIs more.
• Why The MongoDB Hate? – 10gen has built a novel datastore that offers high availability, sharding, and schema-free design at a very specific cost. Bugs will be pushed, mistakes will be made, and systems will go down. There is no silver bullet.10gen has built a novel datastore that offers high availability, sharding, and schema-free design at a very specific cost. Bugs will be pushed, mistakes will be made, and systems will go down. There is no silver bullet.
• Ektorp – Java API for CouchDB – Ektorp is a persistence API that uses CouchDB as storage engine. The goal of Ektorp is to combine JPA like functionality with the simplicity and flexibility that CouchDB provides.

Links for October 2nd through October 8th

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Vinny

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• whoosh – Fast pure-Python indexing and search library. – Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.
• Homepage | Celery: Distributed Task Queue – Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache TomEE Certified as Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible : The Apache Software Foundation Blog – Making its certification debut at JavaOne, Apache TomEE (pronounced "Tommy") is the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat (Tomcat + Java EE = TomEE) that unites several quality Java enterprise projects including Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces and more.
• Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers – Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers & other Object Oriented languages
• 10 programming languages worth checking out – H3RALD – This article deals with ten possible candidates, and it’s far from being an exhaustive list. The programming languages described henceforth are very different from each other, but they all have one thing in common: they all stimulate my curiosity in their own, very different ways.
• Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no one will be locked in – Oracle boasts the Public Cloud will provide “all the productivity of Java, without the IT,” and “the Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.”
• Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot – I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.
• Oracle announces public cloud to host long-awaited Fusion applications – 10/6/2011 – Computer Weekly – "Use the Salesforce cloud if you want them to run your applications forever. It's kind of sticky, the ultimate vendor lock-in. You can check in but can't check out," he said. "It's the roach hotel of clouds."
• Announcing Box For Microsoft Office | The Box Blog – Box for Office, a new add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, lets you easily open, edit, save, and share using Box from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Oracle’s boxes more about integration than innovation — Cloud Computing News – Exalytics is essentially a bundle of the TimesTen in-memory database acquired by Oracle, Hyperion’s EssBase, acquired by Oracle, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite or OBIEE.
• SourceTree – Free Mercurial, SVN and Git GUI for Mac OS X – A powerful Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems. SourceTree strips away the complexity of DVCS and makes it usable for mere mortals.
• Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe – Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Platform Accelerates Adobe's HTML5 and Web Standards Strategy
• PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi – Adobe has entered an agreement to acquire Nitobi, the startup behind PhoneGap. Alongside news of the acquisition, Adobe and Nitobi have jointly announced plans to donate the PhoneGap project to the Apache Software Foundation.
• Effective Mockito Part 2 – As promised in the first part of the "Effective Mockito" blog series, I will concentrate on Mockito specifics in the followup posts. So, the main topic for Part 2 is Mockito's @Mock Annotation.
• Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets | webexpedition18 – Below is a list of CSS snippets that will help you minimize headaches, frustration and save your time while writing css, and I hope you will find it useful. Whether you are a experienced web developer, or just getting started with css, they are all worth checking out.

Links for August 15th through August 16th

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Vinny

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• How You Should Go About Learning NoSQL – NoSQL is a big world, and solutions vary in complexity and differentness. That's why I think MongoDB, which isn't very different, and Redis, which is different but very simple, are a great place to start.
• Warrick – Recover Your Lost Website – Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo.
• Addressing Misconceptions about Google Web Toolkit – It appears that many people, including decision makers, are not fully aware of important GWT abilities and limitations. Many features in recent releases of GWT and related projects can be real game changers for the developers and for the end users. Here I am going to address common misconceptions and provide solutions to common issues.
• How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld – Linux has become a dominant player in finance due to the OS kernel's ability to pass messages very quickly
• Suck on it, AppleSoft — Google pulls a rope-a-dope | Real Dan Lyons Web Site – Does anyone really believe this $12.5 billion acquisition just got thrown together in the last few weeks as a response to the AppleSoft patent grabs? Doesn’t it seem likely that Google and Motorola started talking long before the Nortel auction?
• mike.mainguy: Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car – Overall, I'd say Heroku is like taking the bus: if enough people want to go the same place at the same time, it's more economical. Engineyard is like buying a car: it's going to be a bit more expensive and you're going to need to know how to drive, but it is a much more flexible solution.
• Stop Coddling the Super-Rich – NYTimes.com – While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks
• Steven Poole: Goodbye, cruel Word – I weep at all the innocent electrons I wastefully killed over the years, sending those massive, lumbering Word documents through the internet. I apologise for my particle profligacy. I have learned my lesson. Goodbye, cruel Word.
• Create unique websites without writing code | Muse (code name) – Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites.

Links for July 29th through August 1st

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Vinny

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• Learning Sencha Touch Charts | Learn | Sencha – We took the core drawing and charting system from Ext JS 4 and applied it to Sencha Touch, and added a whole new layer of mobile specific features.
• Ext GWT 3.0 Drawing and Charting | Blog | Sencha – In Ext GWT 3.0 we solve this problem by providing a draw framework that runs everywhere, from IE6 to Chrome 12 that is developed as a pure GWT library.
• gwt4air – Bringing Java to AIR, Flash and Sencha Touch – Gwt4Touch: GWT API for Sencha Touch
• Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge" – Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.
• Understanding the Git Workflow – If you don’t understand the motivation behind Git’s design, you’re in for a world of hurt. With enough flags you can force Git to act the way you think it should instead of the way it wants to. But that’s like using a screwdriver like a hammer; it gets the job done, but it’s done poorly, takes longer, and damages the screwdriver.
• PhoneGap 1.0 Released Today at PhoneGap Day in Portland – Popular Open Source Mobile Development Framework Gets Upgrades Including More Access to Native Device APIs and Debugging Tools
• args4j – Java command line arguments parser – args4j is a small Java class library that makes it easy to parse command line options/arguments in your CUI application.

Links for June 2nd through June 6th

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Vinny

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• BetterExplained Aha – aha.betterexplained.com is to share aha! moments. In 3 words, "Twitter meets Wikipedia" – aha.betterexplained.com is to share aha! moments. In 3 words, "Twitter meets Wikipedia"
• How to Design Multi-Client Databases | Brent Ozar PLF | Brent Ozar PLF – When you’re building an application for lots of clients, there’s two common ways to design the database(s):

  Option A: Put all clients in the same database
  Option 2: Build one database per client

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware | Brent Ozar PLF | Brent Ozar PLF – The most successful deployments of virtual SQL Servers have a few things in common. When a company is doing all of these things, odds are they’re going to be very happy with their virtual SQL Servers
• Log.io – Real-time log monitoring in your browser – Your infrastructure has hundreds of log files spread across dozens of machines. For monitoring deployments and troubleshooting, you need to instantly see composite streams of log messages in a single user interface.
• SourceForge.net: GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters – Open source is all about choice, transparency, and collaboration, not hating on others. Use what tools work best for you, and respect that others may choose a different path.
• Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity – Github is now the most popular open source forge, having surpassed Sourceforge, Google Code and Microsoft's CodePlex in total number of commits for the period of January to May 2011
• Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas and direct the experience for your audience easily on the iPad – Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas and direct the experience for your audience easily on the iPad
• D9 Video: Adobe CEO — Flash War is Over | Video | AllThingsD – Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen says the argument with Apple over supporting its Flash software on the iPad and iPhone devices is over
• Why Java Folks Should Look Forward to Scala | Javalobby – As a java programmer, I don’t think you should look down at C# .. just look forward to Scala
• InfoQ: The Future of Java EE – Jerome Dochez unveils the features planned for Java EE 7: Cloud Computing support, Modularity enhancements, richer Web Tier – Web Socket, HTML5, JSON-, JMS 2.0, and JPA 2.1, plus the roadmap.
• Crux Loaded Case Turns iPad 2 Into a Laptop – What if you could turn your iPad 2 into a laptop by simply placing it in a case? That’s the promise of Crux Loaded by CruxCase, a $249 clamshell enclosure that gives users a keyboard like that Logitech Keyboard Case we reviewed, but goes a step further by also offering a trackpad.
• A Maryland Elementary School Runs To Fitness – A popular running club at Orchard Grove Elementary School in Frederick, Maryland has resulted in rocketing fitness scores, dwindling discipline problems, rising test scores, improved self-esteem, and a 99 percent student participation rate.

Links for April 24th through April 27th

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Vinny

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• Google Chrome Can Now Clean Up Flash’s Cookie Mess – The newest builds of Chrome now bring this Flash cookie clearing right within the browser settings.
• How to beat Apple – Apple also has some weak spots which a canny competitor should be able to exploit to make compelling products that Apple won't be able to duplicate or directly compete with.
• The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet – stu.mp – The cloud isn’t a silver bullet. You still have to build proper redundancy into your systems and applications. And, most importantly, you, not Amazon, is ultimately responsible for your system’s uptime.
• Stashboard: The open source status dashboard – Stashboard is a status dashboard for APIs and software services. It's similar to the Amazon AWS Status Page or the Google Apps Status Page.
• How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse « SmugMug’s Don MacAskill – There’s a lot of noise on the net about how cloud computing is dead, stupid, flawed, makes no sense, is coming crashing down, etc. Anyone selling that stuff is simply trying to get page views and doesn’t know what on earth they’re talking about
• Geek Time with Josh Bloch – Google Open Source Blog – In addition to being known as "The Mother of Java", Josh Bloch is also the Chief Java Architect at Google. Josh sat down with fellow Open Source Programs Office colleague Jeremy Allison to chat about APIs, the importance of openness, and the successes and failures of Java.