Links for January 27th through January 31st

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: The Rise of OAuth – Craig Walls talks about securing the modern web and how OAuth can help with that, showing how to secure and consume resources with OAuth.
This guide introduces you to Spring Data Neo4j – This guide introduces you to Spring Data Neo4j, using the fast, powerful and scalable graph database Neo4j to enjoy the benefits of having good relationships in your data.
Google Guava EventBus – an easy and elegant way for your publisher – subscriber use cases | Tomasz Dziurko – Google Guava in version number 10 introduced new package eventbus with a few very interesting classes to deal with listener (or publisher – subscriber) use case. Below I present my short introduction to EventBus class and its family.
The Elegant Ruby Web Framework – Padrino Ruby Web Framework – Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the Sinatra web library. Sinatra is a DSL for creating simple web applications in Ruby. Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!
InfoQ: The Open Group Releases Standards for SOA Architects, Cloud Service Providers – The Open Group recently published three standards that aid organizations that are building infrastructure-as-a-service offerings and service oriented architectures. In addition to releasing the Service Oriented Architecture Reference Architecture (SOA RA) and Service Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework (SOCCI), the Open Group also updated their Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM). In concert, these standards provide expert advice in the form of best practices, questionnaires, and templates for SOA and cloud-scale infrastructure architecture.
MongoDB for Analytics // MongoTips by John Nunemaker – Just over a month ago, I presented on storing stats in MongoDB at MongoChi 2011. 10Gen posted the video recently, so I thought I would share it here.
paperplanes. A Tour of Amazon’s DynamoDB – Sorted range keys, conditional updates, atomic counters, structured data and multi-valued data types, fetching and updating single attributes, strong consistency, and no explicit way to handle and resolve conflicts other than conditions. A lot of features DynamoDB has to offer remind me of everything that's great about wide column stores like Cassandra, but even more so of HBase
Announcing Sencha Designer 2 Beta | Blog | Sencha – We’re thrilled to announce that Sencha Designer 2 Beta is available for download! Designer 2 makes it easier than ever to build desktop and mobile applications using Ext JS and Sencha Touch.
The Five Stages of Hosting (Pinboard Blog) – I thought it might be fun to write up five common options for hosting a web business, ranked in decreasing order of 'cloudiness'. People who aren't interested in this kind of minutia would be wise to pull the rip cord right here.
Q&A: An Introduction to the Scala Programming Language — Enterprise Systems – We explore what the Scala programming language can do for your organization with the language’s inventor.

Links for January 15th through January 21st

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Vinny

How to build a simple GWT event bus using Generators | North Concepts – In his Google I/O session Best Practices For Architecting Your GWT App, Ray Ryan discusses the benefits of using an event bus in GWT (Google Web Toolkit) applications. Inspired by this talk, I decided to try my hand at building a simple GWT event bus modeled after our pure java event bus.
InfoQ: How to get the most out of Spring and Google App Engine – Chris Ramsdale will get you up and running building Spring apps on Google App Engine. He'll go step-by-step building a real Spring app and identify not only the basics of App Engine, but more advanced topics such as integrating with Google's SQL Service and using App Engine's "Always on" feature to ensure high performance.
The Persistence Layer with Spring Data JPA | Javalobby – This is the forth of a series of articles about Persistence with Spring. This article will focus on the configuration and implementation of the persistence layer with Spring 3.1, JPA and Spring Data
Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions – O’Reilly Radar – Apache Hadoop is unquestionably the center of the latest iteration of big data solutions. At its heart, Hadoop is a system for distributing computation among commodity servers. It is often used with the Hadoop Hive project, which layers data warehouse technology on top of Hadoop, enabling ad-hoc analytical queries.
Sensei DB – Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database – Sensei is both a search engine and a database. Sensei is designed to query and navigate through documents with parts that contain text and are unstructured, as well as parts containing meta information that have well-formed structures.
Cloud Computing Has Become a Dominant Force in Financial Services – Wall Street & Technology – Cloud computing is emerging as a dominant technology category in the financial services industry, and investment banks, brokers, market makers and asset managers all will look to push more sophisticated applications into the private cloud.
Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed – Amazon DynamoDB is designed to maintain predictably high performance and to be highly cost efficient for workloads of any scale, from the smallest to the largest internet-scale applications.
Managing User Presence, Software Caches, Counters, Sessions among other things using Redis – As a software architect, the hardest thing to do is pick the right tool for the job while balancing complexity, cost, performance and learning. And if there is one tool I never forget and keep on getting back to is redis which is an intentionally kept simple but superb artifact of the KISS principle.
A technology decision making process: Java EE 6 vs. Spring Framework | Javalobby – There is a long list of parameters when you decide what technology stack to use. Those I have described in this article were very imprtant ones in our decision making process. Our conclusion is that the best way forward for now is to use a mixed technology stack
InfoQ: RESTful SOA in the Real World – Sastry Malladi presents different ways used by the industry to implement a RESTful SOA, detailing how eBay did it in order to achieve performance, and what lessons can be taken from that.
InfoQ: Large Scale Integration in Financial Services – John Davies addresses some of the difficulties dealing with FIX, FpML, SWIFT and integration in financial services software industry, challenging some of the canonical models existing today.
InfoQ: Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity – An SOA maturity model must incorporate both perspective and execution maturity. Progress must be made across a 3D space, with movement from an IT-driven perspective toward an enterprise-transformation outlook – embracing governance, metrics, drivers, and even terminology – likely trumping execution refinements within a particular perspective.

Links for November 4th through November 6th

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Vinny

The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second – Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product. Cassandra scales linearly far beyond our current capacity requirements, and very rapid deployment automation makes it easy to manage. In particular, benchmarking in the cloud is fast, cheap and scalable, once you try it, you won't go back.
Eclipse Xtend – A language made for Java developers. – Java is a great platform and also the language has some nice features. Xtend is not meant to replace Java all together but to be a convenient alternative in situations where Java doesn't shine. Therefore Xtend
Migrating JEE Applications from WLS/WAS to SpringSource tc Server – Migrating JEE Applications from WLS/WAS to SpringSource tc Server
CodeKit — THE Mac App For Web Developers – CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects.CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects.
Economics – A free community driven Q&A for economists and graduate-level economics students – This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for economists and graduate-level economics students
Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure | Engine Yard Blog – This article will begin with a look at some of the benefits of using Puppet to manage your infrastructure. In the coming weeks we’ll also take a look at Chef and how it can benefit your infrastructure in its own unique ways.
The Number One Trait of a Great Developer | Engine Yard Blog – While these are great aspects in moderation, they all miss the number one quality of a fantastic developer: Judgement.
How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? – Forbes – People love to hate Bill Gates and I don’t think most of it is fair, especially in light of more recent events.
twitter/bootstrap – HTML, CSS, and JS toolkit from Twitter – Bootstrap is Twitter's toolkit for kickstarting CSS for websites, apps, and more. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more.
Gates, Zuckerberg, Page and Brin make Forbes’ most powerful list – Forbes has put together its list of ‘The World’s Most Powerful People’, including 70 individuals that it believes really “matter”. The list, published yesterday, puts politicians, religious leaders and tech founders together, ranking them in terms of how much influence they have over people.

Links for May 6th

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Vinny

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

Links for April 24th through April 27th

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Vinny

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.

Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 22nd

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Vinny

Cloud Foundry–A Beautiful Thing for Users, Questions for Vendors | Cloud Zone – CloudFoundry, like OpenStack before it are simply beautiful. Open is good. Moving up the stack with open is even better. I love what it means for the industry and dearly hope that vendors can see ways to avoid fighting a commodity battle but instead determine paths to providing customers with real value built on top of these commodity platforms.
Today’s EC2 / EBS Outage: Lessons learned – – One, albeit major, outage in one region of one cloud vendor doesn’t mean the cloud was a big con, a waste of time.
Metamarkets Blog » Node.js and the Javascript Age – The Javascript age brings us closer to a web that is not a global digital library, but a global digital nervous system, whose implications we are only beginning to apprehend.
Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project | Deep Tech – CNET News – Node.js is built with the V8 JavaScript engine from Google's Chrome browser, but Mozilla is transplanting Firefox's JavaScript technology in a project called SpiderNode.
InfoQ: Annotation-Driven Dependency Injection with Google Guice 3.0 – The most notable change to Guice 3.0 is the inclusion of a fully compliant JSR 330 injector. (JSR 330 was finalized in 2009.) In fact, “Guice 3.0 is the reference implementation for JSR 330,” according to Dhanji Prasanna of the Guice development team.
Sencha Touch application with Ruby on Rails – Part 2 « Recalibrate – This tutorial describes a Ruby on Rails application with a mobile application UI written using the Sencha Touch Framework
Short Introduction to iOS for Java Developers: Objective-C | blog.codecentric.de – For Java developers starting iOS development, the hardest shift will probably be the Objective-C, the Apple’s language of choice
bodgeit – The BodgeIt Store is a vulnerable web application suitable for pen testing – Google Project Hosting – The BodgeIt Store is a vulnerable web application which is currently aimed at people who are new to pen testing.
New in 10.5: Spring Roo console | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – Latest IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAPs introduce a dedicated console view for a popular Spring Roo tool. It allows you to run Roo commands using the standard IntelliJ IDEA code completion and documentation features

Daily del.icio.us for March 17th through March 19th

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Vinny

PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped – PyCon US Videos – 2009, 2010, 2011 – blip.tv – This talk will give an overview of the first two years of Dropbox, the team formation, our early guiding principles and philosophies, what worked for us and what we learned while building the company and engineering infrastructure. It will also cover why Python was essential to the success of the project and the rough edges we had to overcome to make it our long term programming environment and runtime
High Scalability – High Scalability – 6 Lessons from Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes – Dropbox saves one million files every 15 minutes, more tweets than even Twitterers tweet
Microsoft SQL Azure vs. Amazon RDS – DevelopMentor – There are two major differences between the Microsoft SQL Azure and Amazon RDS platforms: pricing and capabilities. If price is no object and the user wants full features and high performance, then RDS is the obvious choice
InfoQ: Adopting Apache Cassandra – Eben Hewitt introduces the Apache Cassandra project to those interested in getting a quick clear picture of what Cassandra is, what are its main features, what is the the data model used and the API.
codeartisan: RSA Public Key Cryptography in Java – Public key cryptography is a well-known concept, but for some reason the JCE (Java Cryptography Extensions) documentation doesn't at all make it clear how to interoperate with common public key formats such as those produced by openssl
Google Web Toolkit Blog: Update on GWT support for IE9 – In keeping with the GWT philosophy of making it possible to write no-compromise AJAX in any modern browser, GWT 2.3 (in progress) will support IE9
kryo.se: iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS tunnel) – iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed.
Shearing FireSheep with the Cloud | Stratum Security Blog – Quite simply, the solution I came up with was to create an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server and setup OpenVPN and SideStep. This allows me to route all of my traffic over an SSL or SSH VPN to my EC2 instance and then out to the Internet.
Learn Scala the Fun Way: With Processing – Processing is a simple programming language for creating visualizations. It's meant to be easy for non-programmers to learn. Artists can use Processing to create generative at programs known as sketches
iPhone vs. Android – 45,000 Tests Prove Whose Browser is Faster | Blaze.io – Android’s browser is faster. MUCH faster. On average, Android 2.3 was a 52% faster than iPhone 4.3, with a median load time of 2.144 seconds vs. iPhone’s median load time of 3.254 seconds

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Vinny

QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Vinny

QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for February 23rd through February 25th

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Vinny

Java development 2.0: Climb the Elastic Beanstalk – Andrew Glover's guided tour of Beanstalk starts with a location-based mobile application (built using the Play framework and MongoDB), which he then ports to the Beanstalk environment
Spring Roo 1.1.2 Released | SpringSource.org – We're pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.1.2 (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes
Alex talks about Java Technology: Du Erkennst Mich Nicht Wieder Unerkannt Bin Ich Die halbe Nacht Noch Um Die Häuser Gerannt – JUnit 4 has many features, which can be considered "hidden". I am sure that developers that always read JUnit changelogs will know some of these features, but for those who don't read changelogs, I am going to discover them
Using the Active Directory from Java (AD Window Server 2008) « Blog AgileWorks – Integrate SpringLDAP with Active Directory
You Win, RIM! (An Open Letter To RIM’s Developer Relations) – So, my dear RIM, primary supporter of my local economy, I bid you adieu. You have succeeded in your quest of driving away a perfectly willing developer from your platform
GWT Event Bus Basics | JetBrains TV – This screencast explains why MVC applications benefit from an event bus, and it demonstrates how to create, wire, and respond to events in Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Donald Farmer Leaves MS for Qliktech / QlikView « PowerPivotPro – Donald Farmer, who has literally been the public face and personality of Microsoft Business Intelligence for many years now, is leaving Microsoft and going to what some people think is PowerPivot’s biggest competition: Qliktech, aka Qlikview.
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS CloudFormation – Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe – Our newest creation is called AWS CloudFormation. Using CloudFormation, you can create an entire stack with one function call. The stack can be comprised of multiple Amazon EC2 instances, each one fully decked out with security groups, EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes, and an Elastic IP address
Google Font Directory – The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers
An iPad lovers review of Motorola Xoom — Scobleizer – For the past few days I’ve had a Motorola Xoom. I accepted a loaner because I wanted to prove that it would suck next to an iPad. One problem: I’m falling in love with it.
Sencha Labs releases open source framework for WebGL development – Sencha Labs has announced the availability of a new open source framework for WebGL development. The framework, which is called PhiloGL, makes it easier for developers to adopt WebGL and integrate its functionality in Web applications

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