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Links for October 24th through October 30th

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Vinny

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• A Long Look at JVM Languages – The following section takes a quick look at the popular dynamic JVM languages, and the languages’ implementation details.
• Top 20 Refactoring Features in IntelliJ IDEA – I hope this article helps you to discover the powerful refactoring functionality hidden in IntelliJ IDEA. The more you know about your IDE, the more time it can save you every day, and the more productive you become. Go ahead and get the most out of your IntelliJ IDEA!
• Apache Crunch – Simple and Efficient MapReduce Pipelines – Apache Crunch (incubating) is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines, based on Google's FlumeJava. Its goal is to make pipelines that are composed of many user-defined functions simple to write, easy to test, and efficient to run.
• Git and GitHub Secrets – Zach Holman – This talk covers both Git and GitHub: different tricks I've picked up after two years at GitHub, helpful advice on common gripes I've seen in support tickets and tweets, and just general nifty things that make you a faster, more capable technologist.
• Citus DB: The Scalable Analytics Database – CitusDB is a distributed database that lets you run SQL queries over very large data sets. Designed for analytical queries, CitusDB enables real-time responsiveness.
• Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies | TechCrunch – Let’s look at five new technologies that are shaking things up in Big Data. Here is the newest class of tools that you can’t afford to overlook, coming soon to an enterprise near you.
• Windows Phone 8 review – Microsoft’s mobile platform gets hardware muscle and another lease on life – Windows Phone 8 review – Microsoft's mobile platform gets hardware muscle and another lease on life
• Integration Testing of Spring MVC Applications: Controllers | Petri Kainulainen – This is the second part of my spring-test-mvc tutorial and it describes how we can write integration tests for “normal” controller methods (methods that are not using Ajax or processing form submissions).
• An alternate universe – Microsoft Surface – People who dislike Apple’s approach or whose requirements are incompatible with it will always exist in great numbers, and the Surface is for them. It’ll probably sell well, especially if Microsoft can expand their retail presence quickly.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT 2.5 Final is here! – Thanks to all developers who helped us test GWT 2.5 release candidates and reported issues to us. We have fixed several of these and are happy to announce availability of GWT 2.5 Final.
• BootMetro – Windows 8 Metro style web framework – Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for web apps that wants to use the "Windows 8 MetroUI" style, without the need to run on Windows 8.
• WebDB / WebSQL Databases | twoHard – Hopefully this simple example is helpful. My goal was that websql.dbtransaction method outlined above would make it easy to access local WebSQL DBs. It has for me, so hopefully it makes someone else's life a bit easier.
• What’s New in Sencha Touch 2.1? | Blog | Sencha – Sencha Touch 2.1 is our next release of the Sencha mobile framework. The 2.1 release includes the following key upgrades: significant performance improvements, charting support, an advanced list component, and enhanced native support through the Sencha Mobile Packager.

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Links for September 12th through September 15th

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Vinny

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• Spring 3.1 Caching and @Cacheable | Javalobby – The Guys at Spring have now devised a simple to use caching system based around a couple of annotations: @Cacheable and @CacheEvict. The idea of the @Cacheable annotation is that you use it to mark the method return values that will be stored in the cache.
• Java Tutorials: ‘At First Sight’ With Closures in Java – In this tutorial we have got familiar with the concept of Functional Interfaces and Java Closure; Understood the Java Lambda Expression syntax, the Method Reference and the Constructor Reference. Also, we wrote our First Lambda Expressions Program with other 'Hello World' examples.
• Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist – Businessweek – Musk says he’s on target to get a spacecraft to the red planet in 10 to 15 years, perhaps with him on board. “I would like to die on Mars,” he says. “Just not on impact.”
• Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript – Dropbox now writes all new browser-side code in CoffeeScript, and we’ve been loving it. We’ve already written several thousand new lines of coffee since launching in July.
• Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap. | Bootsnipp.com – Bootsnipp is an element gallery for web designers and web developers, anybody who is using Twitter Bootstrap will find this website essential in their craft.
• pdf.js is an HTML5 technology experiment that builds a PDF renderer without native code – pdf.js is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient Portable Document Format (PDF) renderer without native code assistance.
• Java: Spring Framework Round Table Discussion | Javalobby – This presentation and discussion is about Reducing XML problems when combining XML with Java; specifically with the Spring Framework.
• j2objc – A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime. – J2ObjC is an open-source command-line tool from Google that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS (iPhone/iPad) platform. This tool enables Java code to be part of an iOS application's build, as no editing of the generated files is necessary. The goal is to write an app's non-UI code (such as data access, or application logic) in Java, which is then shared by web apps (using GWT), Android apps, and iOS apps.
• Nootropics – The Facts About "Smart Drugs" – While the idea of enhancing ones intelligence through the equivalent of taking your daily vitamins seems shocking to some, it is a definite possibility for those inclined to try to reach their full potential.
• Will Go be the new go-to programming language? — Cloud Computing News – The Go language is gaining momentum among PaaS and IaaS vendors, says Apcera founder and CEO Derek Collison. Research shows the language gaining ground, although it hasn’t cracked the top 20. JavaScript and Java remain top dogs among overall programing languages.
• Taking a look at the new Sencha SOAP Data Proxy | Blog | Sencha – The addition of the SOAP proxy makes it easy to connect your data stores to a whole new set of data. All of the options are there, so you can connect to existing SOAP services or new ones being built.
• The Rise of the Mobile Web (and Web Audio on iOS 6) – We need to ask two questions: how fast/rich do most apps need to be and how much does the web need to improve to support them. Moore’s law now applies to the web: between javascript performance breakthroughs, mobile hardware improvements, and new APIs, the types of apps the mobile web can support is increasing rapidly.

Links for August 19th through August 23rd

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Vinny

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• Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps – Using RubyMotion to Build JavaScript Based iOS Apps
• Manage Creativity in Your Company by Dedicating Time | Inc.com – How can we afford to put our business on hold for a month to "mess around" with new ideas? How can we afford not to? We would never have had such a burst of creative energy had we stuck to business as usual.
• Typesafe Raises $14M From Shasta, Greylock, And Juniper To Commercialize Scala | TechCrunch – Typesafe allows developers to effectively develop robust applications that address the dual challenges of large-scale distributed “cloud computing” applications and massively multicore hardware platforms while still integrating seamlessly with the Java infrastructure,
• DeftJS – Essential extensions for enterprise web and mobile application development with Ext JS and Sencha Touch – DeftJS enhances Ext JS and Sencha Touch’s APIs with additional building blocks that enable large development teams to rapidly build enterprise scale applications, leveraging best practices and proven patterns discovered by top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry.
• Future of Data Architecture: NoSQL, Big Data, Linked Data and the Cloud – In this panel, Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri (moderator) answer questions on NoSQL from the audience.
• Introducing WireMock – an HTTP service stubbing library – WireMock is a tool that allows HTTP exchanges to be stubbed and verified. It does this by creating an actual HTTP endpoint, rather than by stubbing or mocking the HTTP client class. It can be used directly from within JUnit (or your weapon of choice), run as a standalone process or deployed into a container with the aim of covering off a wide range of testing scenarios.
• How big data can transform healthcare | opensource.com – Modern improvements in health and healthcare systems allow individuals to further amass and analyze data, and unlock even more secrets about human health and healthcare.
• AppFog And Rackspace Want To Break Your App Out Of Amazon’s Walled Garden | TechCrunch – AppFog has only been available on AWS’ infrastructure, but CEO Lucas Carlson has been promising a one click migrate between clouds for a while now. What AppFog announced today is that its service would be available through the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace.
• Solving the Two Week Problem by Developing in the Cloud | OpenShift by Red Hat – We didn’t create a cloud-based IDE because it was novel. We did it because the consistency of the development experience is orders of magnitude better than current options. It’s only getting better from here. With our enterprise-class foundation in OpenShift, the Cloud9 platform is setting the stage for the future of development. Start your next application today at c9.io.
• Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain – Exposure to nonstop negativity actually impairs brain function. Here's how to defend yourself.
• 6 things I do to be consistently happy – One of the most important things I’ve learned during this time is that I perform the best when I’m happy. It really does change everything. If I’m happy then I’m more productive when hacking code, I’m better at answering support, and I find it easier to stay focused.
• Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap – Font Awesome 2.0 – the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

Links for March 6th through March 20th

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Vinny

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• Dropwizard – Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. – Developed by Yammer to power their JVM-based backend services, Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done.
• Khan Academy: The future of education? – CBS News – With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn. Sanjay Gupta reports
• Brendan’s blog » Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X – Since version 10.5 “Leopard”, Mac OS X has had DTrace, a tool used for performance analysis and troubleshooting.
• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter’s Bootstrap – Due to popular demand, I have prepared a new version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial using Twitter's Bootstrap framework. The result, which represents the final draft of the 2nd edition, can be found here:
• Leaving the Evil Empire – Tales from the Evil Empire – I have a conviction that this is only the beginning of a profound change in our societies, that innovation is considerably more likely to occur in cooperative networks of small structures than in large competing corporations.
• New problem for Amazon: Sony defects to OpenStack – Sony’s gaming arm is moving at least some of its workload from Amazon Web Services to the rival Rackspace OpenStack
• Why I will use Java EE instead of Spring in new Enterprise Java Projects in 2012 – Java Code Geeks – The question comes up often. It came up in my new project in November 2011, too. I will use Java EE (JEE) instead of the Spring framework in this new Enterprise Java project.
• InfoQ: A Quick Tour of Dart – Gilad Bracha discusses Dart, its type system, interfaces, generics, ADTs without types, built-in factory support.
• Sencha Touch 2.0 is released – Today we're proud to announce the release of Sencha Touch 2.0. We’re certain it will change the way you think about mobile apps.
• InfoQ: Spring Social: For the New Web of APIs – Craig Walls discusses the need for adding social features to applications, how to secure such applications and how Spring Social can help.