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

Links for April 19th through April 26th

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Vinny

Heavy use of herbicide Roundup linked to health dangers-U.S. study | Reuters – Heavy use of the world's most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson's, infertility and cancers, according to a new study.
Quantitative Finance Reading List – QuantStart – I've tried to list as many great quantitative finance books as I can. The lists cover general quant finance, careers guides, interview prep, quant trading, mathematics, numerical methods and programming in C++, Python, Excel, MatLab and R.
GE to pour $105M into EMC and VMware’s Pivotal Initiative — Tech News and Analysis – The Pivotal Initiative, the big cloud and big data startup backed by parents EMC and VMware, now has another big, scary backer: General Electric is ponying up $105 million for a 10 percent stake in the company.
The economics behind Amazon’s possible set-top box gambit | Internet & Media – CNET News – A Wedbush Securities analyst believes the opportunity could be huge if the retail giant gives away its Amazon Instant Video service for a year to consumers who buy a set-top box.
Galaxy S4 Crams in More Software, Some of It Good – NYTimes.com – For everyone else, the S4 may be buggy in spots and laden with not-quite-there features. But the basics are excellent; this phone is still a fast, bright, handsome pocket rocket. It easily earns its place as a successor to the Galaxy S3 and a rival to the
Gigabit Wi-Fi: Difference Engine: Unplugging the cables | The Economist – The promise is that, once the wrinkles have been ironed out, 60 gigahertz Wi-Fi could be an even bigger driver of innovation in the years ahead than the original 2.4-gigahertz Wi-Fi was in its day
Atlassian – Git Flow Comes to Java – Git Flow is a branching and merging model introduced by Vincent Driessen that provides a little bit of structure to your development workflow.
Create ipa in Sencha Touch 2 – A guide to Sencha Touch native packaging iOS – Using sencha touch 2 you can create web applications that look like native. You can host application in your server and run in webkit enabled browser, either in smartPhone or PC. Native packaging lets you export web app as ipa for iOS or apk for android (lets you Create ipa in Sencha Touch). You can then use these packages to submit in app store or play store.
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review – In this article I’ll offer a brief overview of lean start-up techniques and how they’ve evolved. Most important, I’ll explain how, in combination with other business trends, they could ignite a new entrepreneurial economy.
IBM buys UrbanCode for its devops chops — Tech News and Analysis – If there was any doubt that devops — the practice of getting development and operations teams to work together to design and deploy software fast, here’s more evidence: IBM is buying UrbanCode.
Make Your UI More Responsive with HTML5 Web Workers – Web workers can be a very useful and empowering feature but they do have some limitations. All communication into and out of your web workers is done by passing in and out data in the form of messages. All data is passed by value meaning that any object r
Diving into AngularJS | Float Left – These are just my initial thoughts after playing with the framework for a day and maybe I’ll change my mind after I’ve used it more extensively but right now I’m loving Angular and can’t see myself choosing Backbone the next time I start a big front end JS
A multi-part series on how to test Sencha Touch apps using Jasmine and Siesta – A multi-part series of articles on how to test Sencha Touch applications. It uses Jasmine for unit testing and Siesta for integration testing.
Tabris 1.0: Cross-platform Mobile Development in Java – After three years in development, EclipseSource has released Tabris 1.0, a cross-platform Java mobile development framework for iOS and Android. Tabris is targeted at enterprises, and unlike other mobile solutions out there it uses a different approach:

Links for June 15th through June 18th

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Vinny

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 April 21st through April 26th

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Vinny

MongoDB and Spring Data » Mathew’s Thoughts! – This blog will give the reader a decent start with writing a Spring-based application that writes to MongoDB, retrieves data via queries and finally runs a simple MapReduce query. All this using Spring Data MongoDB support.
Former Sun CEO says Google’s Android didn’t need license for Java APIs | Mobile – CNET News – Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name, countering Oracle's claims that Google infringed on its intellectual property.
Twitter CLI – A command-line power tool for Twitter. – The CLI attempts to mimic the Twitter SMS commands wherever possible, however it offers many more commands than are available via SMS.
Why Tablets Will Become Our Primary Computing Device | Forrester Blogs – All these reasons add up to our prediction that tablets will become the preferred, primary device for millions of people around the world, which is in the just-published report "Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape."
VMware buys big data startup Cetas — Cloud Computing News – Cetas is the logical next step, a big data application that’s designed to run on virtual resources – specifically Amazon Web Services and VMware’s vSphere
Git vs Mercurial: Why Git? | Atlassian Blogs – Hopefully this article and the previous one exploring the advantages of Mercurial over Git will illuminate some of the strengths and weaknesses of both systems. Our next blog post in this series will provide a “cheat sheet” for users moving from the centralized version control system Subversion to Git or Mercurial.
Unforgiven: The consequences of profit failure in mobile phones | asymco – Until and unless these endangered companies solve the dilemma of having the wrong business model at the wrong time, the chances are that they will not be forgiven for market failure.
CRaSH a shell to extend the Java Platform – The Common Reusable SHell (CRaSH) deploys in a Java runtime and provides interactions with the JVM. Commands are written in Groovy and can be developped at runtime making the extension of the shell very easy with fast development cycle.
Raising Software Architecture. 9 Troubles and 3 Answers – One cannot embrace the unembraceable and deeply focus on all architectural dimensions at the same time. However, you can tailor your approach to your current situation and most pressing challenges.
Modern Web Development Part 1 – The Webkit Inspector – The blog post is the first in a series of posts that attempts to outline what a modern web development toolchain looks like and how to use the best-of-breed tools for efficient, effective development.
DON’T READ this Less CSS tutorial – must read from @verekia’s blog – We’ve seen a lot of amazing features in this tutorial, and I hope it made you want to start using Less. I personally think Less is a real game changer for web development, and I cannot even consider going back to pure CSS. Less is like CSS5 in 2011!
Kalendae – A framework agnostic javascript date picker – Kalendae is an attempt to do something that nobody has yet been able to do: make a date picker that doesn't suck. Kalendae provides the following features:

Links for November 4th

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Vinny

Hibernate Should be to Programmers what Cake Mixes are to Bakers – Cake mixes consist of a mix of things you already have in your cupboard plus a load of unnecessary, potentially harmful preservatives. They cost more than making cake from scratch, the resulting cake tastes worse, they take away people’s confidence in their ability to make their own cakes, and they don’t even save you any time. Hibernate has the same misperceived benefits and the same draw-backs. Gordon Ramsay wouldn’t be caught dead using any cake mix. As professional programmers, we should be more skeptical of generic frameworks like Hibernate.
InfoQ: Should Enterprise Architecture Teams Be More Focused on Innovation? – Enterprise Architects may be disproportionally concerned with portfolio consolidation, standardization and simplification instead of offering leadership in business technology innovation. This is the proposition offered by Forrester analyst Brian Hopkins in a recent blog post.
dzone.com – Using MongoDB with Morphia – Morphia is a Java library which acts sort of like an ORM for MongoDB – it allows us to seamlessly map Java objects to the MongoDB datastore. It uses annotations to indicate which collection a class is stored in, and even supports polymorphic collections
GitHub Enterprise – Install GitHub on Your Servers – GitHub on Your Servers – A secure, intuitive system for enterprise software development and collaboration.
10 Key Skills Architects Must Have to Deliver Value | Cutter Consortium – This Executive Report by Michael Rosen discusses the role of the architect and describes 10 activities that architects should perform to add value to projects.
25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools – AndiSmith.com – Over the last few years there has been one tool that has helped out every web developer more than any other – the browser developer tools. Working in harmony with the web browser, the developer tools allows us to manipulate DOM elements, CSS styles, JavaScript and other useful information from the same window often in real time.

Daily del.icio.us for April 4th through April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Vinny

JSHint, A JavaScript Code Quality Tool – JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions. It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.
Announcing Codegeist V: May The Best Plugins Win – Along with Codegeist we're introducing two new developer previews, Speakeasy Extensions and ActiveObjects. Speakeasy is a new super easy way to extend Atlassian products. Extensions are built entirely client-side, in HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc., and they're enabled on a per-user basis. ActiveObjects is an ORM that ultimately makes plugin data access and storage significantly faster and more efficient
InfoQ: Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala – The team behind guardian.co.uk which, according to its editor, has the second highest readership of any on-line news site after the New York Times, is gradually switching from Java to Scala, starting with the Content API, which provides a mechanism for selecting and collecting Guardian content.
tinySrc – A fast, easy and free way to reformat graphics and images for mobile devices. – A fast, easy and free way to reformat graphics and images for mobile devices.
Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps – Novell has announced the general availability of Mono for Android today, the solution that lets developers use Windows technologies like C# and .NET to build Android applications
Introduction to Sencha Touch MVC – Modus Create – In this screencast, I introduce you to the world of the Sencha Touch MVC and discuss some of the decisions behind developing with this relatively new tool.
Sencha Expands Rapidly as Demand for HTML5 Web Apps Fuels Growth | Press | Company | Sencha – Application framework and tools vendor hires aggressively; HTML5 technologies drive demand for highly functional web apps that deliver native-like experiences on advanced mobile devices.
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School? – The results are pretty fascinating, as they show great adoption of technology among even very young students, but lingering resistance on the part of school administrators to sanction some of those tools into the classroom.
Celerity | Easy and fast functional test automation for web applications – Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications. Celerity aims at being API compatible with Watir.
PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API – PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

Daily del.icio.us for April 6th through April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Vinny

Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015 – Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015
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.
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally – Google never commented on how they might use Gizmo5’s technology. But we’ve confirmed that they have now built a Google Voice desktop application to make and receive calls. From a user perspective, this will let Google Voice users take calls right from their desktop
JIRA 4.1 – Easier and faster issue tracking – JIRA Product Blog – I'm excited to announce the general availability of JIRA 4.1. This release is packed with improvements making your everyday interactions with JIRA easier and faster.
Rich Internet Application Screen Design | UX Magazine – This article will outline the process we use to create rich applications, focusing primarily on screen design. All of the content is geared specifically toward productivity applications like Software as a Service (SaaS) products and Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs
Object Computing, Inc. – Exploring Google Guava – Google recently announced the public availability of Guava, a Java utility library previously available only internally at Google. Guava provides building blocks that build on the existing Java libraries and result in productivity aids for Java programmers
Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.7 RC1: Sizzle, layout/dimensions API, event delegation, and more – We've just tagged the first release candidate of Prototype 1.7: a major new version with some major new features.
GWT—An Important Java Technology: Features, Future and Wishes | Javalobby – The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has become one of the most important Java technologies, as it gives it a credible web platform strategy.
Java’s more relevant than you think. – With syntax being relevant for a mass-market language, and a runtime that’s tuned well enough that a lot of these languages use it as an operating environment – Java’s not only relevant, it’s important.
hamcrest – Library of matchers for building test expressions – Provides a library of matcher objects (also known as constraints or predicates) allowing 'match' rules to be defined declaratively, to be used in other frameworks. Typical scenarios include testing frameworks, mocking libraries and UI validation rules.
scalr – Scalr is software that scales your website infrastructure for you. Using EC2 and Cloud Computing. – Scalr is a tool that helps your website or web application grow to millions of users with little work. It provisions new servers on-the-fly to handle spikes in demand, and decommissions them when no longer needed to lower cost. It scales every component of your architecture, so you never have to.

Daily del.icio.us for February 21st through February 23rd

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Vinny

OrindaBuild Oracle Web Service Generator Features – OrindaBuild enables you to create Web Services for your existing Oracle database with minimal effort. OrindaBuild is integrated with Eclipse and works for both PL/SQL and SQL. Unlike other products OrindaBuild is designed specifically for Oracle and works with real world PL/SQL that involves records and arrays.
Google App Engine for Java (GAE/J) – Tutorial – The article demonstrates also the usage of Google Eclipse Plugin for developing, running and debugging the Google App Engine application. The tutorial is based on Java 1.6 and GAE version 1.3.
Flex 4 and Java Basics Video – Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java
InfoQ: Facebook’s Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop – Ashish Thusoo and Namit Jain explain how Facebook manages to deal with 12 TB of compressed new data everyday with Hive’s help. Hive is an open source data warehousing framework built on Hadoop, allowing developers to perform analysis against large datasets using SQL.
Design Patterns Uncovered: The Abstract Factory Pattern | Javalobby – The Abstract Factory is known as a creational pattern – it's used to construct objects such that they can be decoupled from the implementing system
Intellij 9 and Gradle – The Rich Web Experience – One of the hidden gems of the Intellij 9 release is it's support for Gradle. Some of the information on the web is out of date and some features are not intuitive. This post will detail some of the nuances and follow it up with a wish list for the next update
InfoQ: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring 3.0 – Rod Johnson, the founder of Spring and the general manager of the SpringSource division of VMware, talks to InfoQ about Spring 3.0, the influence of Google Guice on Spring, Spring.NET, and Spring's tc Server.
The Zinger » 5 Signs You Need HTML5 Web Sockets (Part 1) – This series of 5 blog posts identifies five types of web applications that will benefit from HTML5 Web Sockets
PragmaSQL Online – JiraTouch Features – JiraTouch is the most complete Jira client for IPhone, you can perform most Jira functionality with optimized screens for IPhone.
Pragmatic Developer’s Blog – We have been busy developing our new baby JiraTouch for the last 3 months………..The only knowns were Jira and the C# language. I would like to share some of my observations in this blog post.
The Rundown News Blog | Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate | Online NewsHour | PBS – A 33-year-old math and science whiz kid — working out of his house in California's Silicon Valley — may be revolutionizing how people all over the world will learn math
Creating an application with maven2, jpa, springframework and intellij – Gridshore software engineering weblog – Creating an application with maven2, jpa, springframework and intellij
SQL Server Programming Fundamentals :: BlackWasp Software Development – This is the first in a series of articles describing the use of Microsoft's SQL Server database management system (DBMS). The tutorial is aimed at software developers using SQL Server for data storage
Twitter Blog: Measuring Tweets – Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that's an average of 600 tweets per second.
The Bloom Box – 60 Minutes – CBS News – Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday? Lesley Stahl reports
Google Web Toolkit (GWT 2.0) with Eclipse – Tutorial – This article describes how to develop a Web application with GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse .
Google App Engine for Java: Part 3: Persistence and relationships – Data persistence is a cornerstone of scalable application delivery in enterprise environments. In this final article of his series introducing Google App Engine for Java™, Rick Hightower takes on the challenges of App Engine's current Java-based persistence framework
Google App Engine for Java: Part 2: Building the killer app – In this second part of his three-part introduction to Google App Engine for Java, Rick Hightower takes you beyond the ready-made examples of Part 1 with a step-by-step guide to writing and deploying a simple contact-management application using App Engine for Java.
Google App Engine for Java: Part 1: Rev it up! – In this article, you'll get an overview of why Google App Engine for Java could be the deployment platform for your next highly scalable killer app, then start using the Google Plugin for Eclipse to build two example apps: one based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and one based on the Java Servlet API.

Daily del.icio.us for October 2nd through October 13th

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Vinny

Debate Over H1N1 Vaccine? There Shouldn’t Be One – The pandemic flu vaccine is safe, effective, cheap (or free), and necessary. Unless you're allergic to eggs, when it becomes available in your area, make sure you get it, and make especially sure your kids do.
Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA updated. Better JIRA filtering and more! – Atlassian Dev Tools Blog – This week we're excited to announce the latest release of the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA, which allows you to access JIRA, Bamboo, FishEye and Crucible without leaving your IDE!
Ext JS Designer Preview Release – We are very excited to share our latest version of the Ext JS Designer. This new version adds many new features to improve your efficiency creating application designs. Once you get accustomed to these features its difficult to live without them.
A ‘LegUp’ for new Java projects | Richard Wilkinson’s Blog – LegUp is a collection of free, open source (Apache 2 licensed) Maven 2 archetypes, and a web based configuration tool provided by jWeekend. It allows you to choose from different combinations of popular Java technologies (Apache Wicket, Spring, Google Guice, JPA, Hibernate, Warp Persist) to allow you to get up and running quickly and easily
JIRA 4 – The centre of your development team – JIRA Product Blog – After over 13 months of development, 4 months of beta and nearly 1000 resolved JIRA issues, the biggest release in Atlassian history is finally here: JIRA 4 is now available!
Wells Fargo Will Raise Credit-Card Rates Ahead of Law (Update2) – Bloomberg.com – STAY CLASSY WELLS FARGO — Wells Fargo & Co. plans to raise interest rates on a majority of credit-card customers by 3 percentage points before federal rules limiting such increases take effect
InfoQ: Management Strategies For SOA – Mike Kavis wrote an article for the SOA institute, in which he characterizes the success of any SOA implementation into four factors people, process, technology, and business
Apple Leaving Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change Stance – washingtonpost.com – Apple Inc. is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber's strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, the computer giant said Monday.
Building Applications for the iPhone with Flash at Mike Chambers – The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store
The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge – Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine? – Harvard Business Review – In addition to undermining the ability of the U.S. to manufacture high tech products, the erosion of the industrial commons has seriously damaged the country's ability to invent new ones.
Op-Ed Columnist – The Wizard of Beck – NYTimes.com – The rise of Beck, Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the rest has correlated almost perfectly with the decline of the G.O.P. But it’s not because the talk jocks have real power. It’s because they have illusory power, because Republicans hear the media mythology and fall for it every time.

Daily del.icio.us for September 17th through September 23rd

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Vinny

JIRA 4 RC1 – Beta no more – JIRA Product Blog – The JIRA 4 Beta program is now complete. This week we released JIRA 4 Release Candidate 1 which means we're closer than ever to the finish line.
jrecordbind: JRecordBind – Home – JRecordBind is (AFAIK) the only tool aimed at fixed-length files that's able to marshall and unmarshall. By the way you may be a producer of fixed length files, not just a consumer.
JRecordBind supports hierarchical fixed length files: records of some type that are "sons" of other record types.

JRecordBind uses XML Schema for the definition file: that could make your learning curve steeper.
SOA patterns – Reservations | SOA Zone – Reservations is a protocol level pattern which that involves Reservation involves exchange of messages between service consumers and services. The next pattern is one of the enablers of such message exchange , it is also a one of the confusing pattern since a lot of commercial offerings which include it include gazillion other capabilities – yes I am talking about the ServiceBus
Agile Architecture, Lean Principles | Javalobby – If we are able to take a seemingly architecturally significant challenge and make it reversible, then we have effectively minimized the impact and cost of change to a point where change is no longer architecturally significant.
Java Web services: JAXB and JAX-WS in Axis2 – Apache Axis2 supports a range of data-binding technologies, including the official Java™ standard, JAXB 2.x. Axis2 also supports the Java standard for Web service configuration, JAX-WS 2.x, as an alternative to its own custom configuration technique
JPA Implementation Patterns: Testing | Javalobby – This week I will discuss various approaches to testing JPA code.The first question to ask is: what code do we want to test? Two kinds of objects are involved when we talk about JPA: domain objects and data access objects (DAO's)
InfoQ: RESTful Approaches To Financial Systems Integration – RESTful architectures are the subject of this presentation, specifically the way they are particularly attractive in solving many financial services integration problem
AT&T’s Femtocell Coming Soon – Yahoo! Finance – AT&T’s 3G Microcell is designed to improve wireless signal for both voice calls and data applications in home and small business settings and supports up to 10 3G capable cellular handsets
iPhone Cycling Applications « – Phone, music, email, cycling computer and GPS tracking all in one device. Pretty slick. However before you trash your pricey cycling computer be aware the iPhone has an Achilles heel as a cycling computer.
Dive Into Python 3 – Dive Into Python 3 covers Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to Dive Into Python, it’s about 20% revised and 80% new material. The book is now complete, but feedback is always welcome.
memcached and Grails, Part 1: Installing and using memcached – Caching is an essential part of any high-volume Web application and memcached is a great caching option. I have personally had a ton of success using it. If you choose to leverage memcached as your caching solution, I am sure you will see just how effective it is.

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