Links for August 19th through August 29th

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Vinny

Why Microsoft .Net failed – Microsoft tried, but it couldn't win the hearts and minds of developers who weren't already indoctrinated — and it alienated others along the way
CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is Faster on Mobile? | Mobify – Based on this research, I recommend limiting the use of data URIs to very small resources and to not use too many of them in your CSS or inline HTML. 15-20kB for max data URI size, and no more than 3 – 5 instances seems like a good rule of thumb for mobile!
Parallels Access – use your favorite Mac or Windows applications on your iPad as if they were native iPad apps – Parallels Access lets you use your favorite Mac or Windows applications on your iPad as if they were native iPad apps, easy to use and automatically sized to take up the full display of your iPad.
Plain Text Doesn’t Exist… Unicode and encodings demystified | 10K-LOC – Always, I mean always, indicate the encoding of your document either by using Content-Type or meta charset tag. By doing this, your are preventing web browsers from guessing the encoding and telling exactly which encoding they should use to render the page.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month – Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference. Watch it here at Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion–Pitfalls and Lessons.
Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of application development | McKinsey & Company – Software has become critical for most large enterprises. They should adopt a reliable output metric that is integrated with the process for gathering application requirements.
Extensionizr – Start a chrome extension in 15 seconds! – Extensionizr is a simple way to jump start your chrome extension development. Just select the type of extension you want, choose permissions and you're off.
How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions – This is going to be a quick crash course to give you a general idea of what all you can easily do with Chrome extensions.
Celluloid: Actor-based Concurrent Objects for Ruby – Celluloid is a concurrent object oriented programming framework for Ruby which lets you build multithreaded programs out of concurrent objects just as easily as you build sequential programs out of regular objects
Java 7 Sockets Direct Protocol – Write Once, Run Everywhere …. and Run (Some Places) Blazingly – This article will survey the new Java Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) technology, a very exciting breakthrough that was recently introduced in the Java 7 SDK. SDP empowers the Ultra High Performance Computing (UHPC) community to use Java’s ubiquitously common features and merits for a very uncommon use case: native access to the InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capability
How An Arcane Coding Method From 1970s Banking Software Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers Everywhere – Forty years ago, a Canadian bank pioneered a brand new computer system that allowed non-programmers to help write code. The paradigm was so disruptive that it was suppressed by computer scientists for decades. But as web apps get increasingly complex, and w
Gartner: AWS Now Five Times The Size Of Other Cloud Vendors Combined – Amazon spends less than its rivals on cloud infrastructure yet seriously dominates them in adoption. Why?
Steroids.js Bridges The Performance Gap Between PhoneGap And Native Apps – Steroids then lets developers easily add these to PhoneGap HTML5 apps to allow them to build “HTML5 hybrid apps with animation and other performance results that are indistinguishable from those of native apps.”
iOS App Store Approval Tips and Tricks – In this post I hope to provide some guidance on what to avoid when developing and publishing any iOS app (be it native or hybrid).
The Critical Path #93: The Innovator’s Curse – Markets are expected to do one thing and one thing only: determine price. What happens when they fail? The tragedy and comedy of corporate raiders.
A Bright Future Full of Promise: Asynchronous Pipelines in Scala and Java – A Bright Future Full of Promise: Asynchronous Pipelines in Scala and Java

Links for August 14th through August 17th

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Vinny

Hibernate 4.1.4: Envers tests run & pass on multiple DBs – Envers is an entity auditing framework, making it possible to store and query for historical data.
Integration At Scale: Lessons Learned From The New Enterprise Web – David Laing, Neels Burger, Neil Pellinacci, Parand Tony Darugar, and Scott Morrison (moderator) discuss the impact of integration of various interconnected devices, web technologies, and cultures.
OAuth – Everything You Want to Know (Hopefully) – Pratap Chilukuri explains what OAuth is and how it works, exemplifying using the protocol with an example.
Choose the "Right" Database and NewSQL: NoSQL Under Attack – Talk #1: Stefan Edlich suggests choosing a NoSQL DB after answering about 70 questions in 6 categories, and building a prototype. Talk #2: Edlich presents NewSQL solutions counteracting NoSQL.
Eli Collins on Hadoop – Eli Collins discusses Cloudera's CDH4 release, which tasks are well suited for Hadoop, Hadoop and MapReduce vs SQL, the state of Hadoop, and much more.
Sears Competes On Big Data and Loyalty Programs – Forbes – Sears has a very intensive big data program to drive customer loyalty; the sophistication surprised me and should interest investors.
Where Does Big Data Meet Big Database? – Ben Stopford takes a look at the Big Data movement, its development and implications, reflecting on a future where NoSQL solutions and traditional ones coexist.
Panel: How Banks Are Managing Their Data – Frank Tarsillo , John Davies, Jon Vernon and Ari Zilka (moderator) discuss the technologies and architectures used these days to manage large amounts of sensitive data in top financial institutions.
Video: Spring Roo—Not Just another RAD Tool! | SpringSource.org – In this presentation, SpringSource's Josh Long and Spring Roo in Action authors Ken Rimple and Srini Penchikala introduce Spring Roo 1.2, and then go further, exposing Roo's powerful addon-based underbelly. They introduce Roo's OSGi bundle support, and introduce how add-ons can be used to generate code, install templates, respond to addition / removal of annotations, and expose both open-source and internal-company libraries for use by your developers
Spring Data – One API To Rule Them All? – Spring Data is a high level SpringSource project whose purpose is to unify and ease the access to different kinds of persistence stores, both relational database systems and NoSQL data stores.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby) – Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.
Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT Support for Mobile App Development – If you’re interested in using GWT to build mobile apps and mobile web apps from a single codebase, then you’ll want to take a good look at mgwt. The following is a guest blog post from Daniel Kurka, the creator of the mgwt library.
anic – Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh – anic is the reference implementation compiler for the experimental, high-performance, implicitly parallel, deadlock-free general-purpose dataflow programming language ANI
Sencha Architect 2.1 Now Available | Blog | Sencha – Sencha Architect is now even better! Release 2.1 is finally here and the team is excited to share what we've been working on for the past three months. The goal for the first minor release was to improve performance and stability while continuing to add functionality that helps developers do even more.

Links for February 24th through March 5th

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: Running Heroku on Heroku – Noah Zoschke discusses self-hosting, bootstrapping, cross-compiling, avoiding circular dependencies, distributed process management, all in the context of running Heroku support apps on Heroku.
HTTPie: cURL for humans – HTTPie is a CLI HTTP utility built out of frustration with existing tools. The goal is to make CLI interaction with HTTP-based services as human-friendly as possible. HTTPie does so by providing an http command that allows for issuing arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax and displaying colorized responses:
InfoQ: AMQP in Financial Service – Hanno Klein explains how AMQP is used by Deutsche Börse and where it fits within their strategy.
Chrome to be deployed on State Department computers worldwide | Geek.com – On January 26th, when Secretary Clinton was asked what could be done about the painfully slow update process for Internet Explorer, she announced that the State Department would be deploying Google Chrome to their offices worldwide
Field Guide to Web Applications from Google – This field guide is designed to help you create great user experiences in your web apps. Whether you’re building your first web app, or are just looking for ways to improve existing experiences, there’s something here for you!
Pinterest Is Not A Virtual Pinboard via @codertrader – In summary, Pinterest is not a Virtual Pinboard. It is the answer to consumers engaging with brands, something Facebook has been unable to do.
Continuous Improvement: The Importance of the Team Retrospective — Application Development Trends – Even good agile teams can get better. Mark J. Balbes walks you through how retrospectives have impacted his team and shows you options for yours.
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? | asymco – Given these assumptions, the day when the tablet market (by units) will exceed that of traditional PCs will come sometime in the fall of 2013.
How To Be Happy Anywhere | Fast Company – For my job I spent 300 days traveling the world last year. I met a lot of happy people. Who they are and where they live will surprise you.
Introducing Spring Hadoop | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware have announced the availability of Spring Hadoop, which integrates the Spring Framework and the Apache Hadoop platform. The project provides a convenient mechanism for the configuration, creation, and execution of the various services and utilities such as MapReduce, Hive, Pig, and Cascading jobs via the Spring container
Spring Thread Pool Services – Java Code Geeks – Thread Pools are very important to execute synchronous & asynchronous processes. This article shows how to develop and monitor Thread Pool Services by using Spring. Creating Thread Pool has been explained via two alternative methods.
Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – A side-by-side reference sheet – Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (Sheet One) – A side-by-side reference sheet
Working With Data in Sencha Designer | Learn | Sencha – This screencast provides an overview of the data layer in Sencha frameworks and demonstrates how you can use Designer to use the data capabilities. We explore the basics of creating stores, defining record structure using models, using proxies and readers to load data, sorting and grouping data, previewing loaded data, and attaching stores to views.
Sencha Touch 2 RC—Now with Native Packaging | Blog | Sencha – Today, we’re happy to announce the release candidate of Sencha Touch 2 as well as our native packaging for Windows and Mac.

Links for February 17th through February 19th

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Vinny

Groklaw – Oracle Drops Final Claim in Patent ‘476 and Google Moves to Strike Portions of 3rd Oracle Damages Report ~pj – I feel very much the same about Oracle's patents, and I have from the start wondered if any of them are valid, let alone worth millions in damages. So, to me, the risk has been very much on Oracle's side, that it might lose all its patents in this case.
The Great Web Framework Shootout | Curia – Welcome to the great web framework shootout. On this page you will find benchmark results comparing the performance of a few of the most popular F/OSS web frameworks in use today.
Online Text to Speech | ReadSpeaker – Get a spoken version of your online content so that your users can listen to what you have to say.
The NoSQL movement – How to think about choosing a database. – For years, the relational default has kept developers from understanding their real back-end requirements. The NoSQL movement has given us the opportunity to explore what we really require from our databases, and to find out what we already knew: there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Agile Succeeds Three Times More Often | Mike Cohn’s Blog – The agile process is the universal remedy for software development project failure. Software applications developed through the agile process have three times the success rate of the traditional waterfall method and a much lower percentage of time and cost overruns
How to Analyze Java Thread Dumps | CUBRID Blog – Here I will explain what threads are in Java, their types, how they are created, how to manage them, how you can dump threads from a running application, and finally how you can analyze them and determine the bottleneck or blocking threads. This article is a result of long experience in Java application debugging.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Economics – Principles of Microeconomics – Principles of Microeconomics is an introductory undergraduate course that teaches the fundamentals of microeconomics. This course introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics
Jease – The Java CMS with Ease – Jease is an Open Source Content-Management-System which is driven by the power of Java. Jease means "Java with Ease", so Jease promises to keep simple things simple and the hard things (j)easy.
GroupBy in MongoDB – Operations in the New Aggregation Framework – In version 2.1, MongoDB is introducing a new aggregation framework that will make it much easier to obtain the kind of results SQL group-by is used for, without having to write custom JavaScript.
InfoQ: Mobile HTML5 Design and Development, with David Kaneda – David talks about the unique challenges facing developers building mobile HTML5 apps, especially on WebKit. He also outlines the recent developments on this field and how they empower a whole new genre of applications.
Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew – This is an incredible day for the Homebrew community. You can now setup a complete OS X develop environment with a single 171.7 MB package download. It's official. It's legal. It'll be maintained.

Links for November 15th through November 18th

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Vinny

Google Guava – Synchronization with Monitor – The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few
First look: Oracle NoSQL Database | Data Explosion – InfoWorld – Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious
BlueEyes is a lightweight web 3.0 framework for the Scala programming language. – A lightweight Web 3.0 framework for Scala, featuring a purely asynchronous architecture, extremely high-performance, massive scalability, high usability, and a functional, composable design.
Martin Fowler on Polyglot Persistence | Architects Zone – What all of this means is that if you're working in the enterprise application world, now is the time to start familiarizing yourself with alternative data storage options. This won't be a fast revolution, but I do believe the next decade will see the database thaw progress rapidly.
InfoQ: The Kotlin Programming Language – Andrey Breslav introduces the upcoming Kotlin language created by JetBrains, a general purpose JVM-based language, statically typed, object-oriented, and meant to be more concise than Java.
iPad and iPhone Application Development (HD) – Download free content from Stanford on iTunes – Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone platform using the iPhone SDK, Objective-C programming language. iPhone APIs and tools including Xcode
How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (Video) with Brent Ozar – The most popular tech Q&A site in the world serves 12-14 million web pages per day with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. They’re passionate about performance, and they’ll share the scalability lessons they learned along the way.
Raible Designs | Play 2.0, A web framework for a new era – This was a great talk on what's new in Play 2.0. I especially like the native support for LESS and CoffeeScript and the emphasis on trying to keep developers using two tools: their editor and the browser. The sample apps look great, but the documentation look sparse. I doubt I'll get a chance to migrate my Play 1.2.3 app to 2.0 this month, but I hope to try migrating sometime before the end of the year.
Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late: Tech – Businessweek – Google Inc. is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web.
Reading Needs a Platform: Introducing the New Readability – For free!! – Wherever you read — your browser, iPhone, iPad, your Amazon Kindle — Readability is going to be there. For free.
Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT and Dart – We view Dart as an ambitious evolution of GWT’s mission to make web apps better for end users … we anticipate working closely with the GWT developer community to explore Dart.

Links for August 9th through August 12th

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Vinny

YaHP Converter – Yet another Html to Pdf converter for Java – YaHP is a java library which permits to convert an html document into a pdf document.
Java JSON library tour – In this series of Java JSON tutorials, we focus on three popular third party Java libraries to process JSON data, which are Jackson, Google Gson and JSON.simple
InfoQ: Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk – Mat Wall makes a journey through Guardian’s online history, outlining technologies used – Perl/CGI, CMS, J2EE, Oracle-, and explaining why they chose a NoSQL solution – MongoDB – and its advantages.
InfoQ: Is REST the future for SOA? – REST can be used as both system design approach leveraging ROA (true REST approach) and SOA design implementation leveraging REST technologies (REST Web Services). Although both approaches have their merits, they do not change the hardest part– defining business services/resources aligned with the enterprise business model.
disruptor – Concurrent Programming Framework – Concurrent Programming Framework that provides high performance alternative to bounded queues for exchanging data between concurrent threads
There’s no such thing as big data – O’Reilly Radar – perspective. They’re fearless, because they have less to lose. But big, entrenched incumbents should still be able to compete, because they have massive amounts of data about their customers, their products, their employees, and their competitors. They fail because often they just don’t know how to ask the right questions.
Video: Getting Started with Spring Data Redis | SpringSource.org – In this video, Redis founder, Salvatore Sanfilippo, introduces the technology, its data structures and the fundamental concepts behind it. Then SpringSource engineer, Costin Leau, discusses the Redis support in Spring Data, and will showcase how easy it is to get started and scale out into a cloud environment such as Cloud Foundry.
NoSQL – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like SQL – tecosystems – What is apparent is the demand for query languages within the NoSQL world. The category might self-identify with its explicit rejection of the industry’s original query language, but the next step in NoSQL’s evolution will be driven in part by furious implementations of SQL’s children.
Try the unconventional alternative – Business of Software Blog – The next time you are faced with a decision that looks like a choice between A, B, or C…. pause for a moment and let your imagination wonder. Is there an option D, E, or F?
Why GNU grep is fast – The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. 😉

Daily del.icio.us for October 25th through October 29th

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Vinny

Multiverse : Software Transactional Memory for Java – Multiverse is a Software Transansactional Memory implementation and meant as an alternative to traditional lock based concurrency
John Nack on Adobe : Adobe demos Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool – Adobe lives or dies by its ability to help customers solve real problems. That means putting pragmatism ahead of ideology
Sencha – Sencha Animator – Create CSS3 Animations with Ease – Introducing Sencha Animator, a powerful desktop application to create awesome CSS3 animations for WebKit browsers and touchscreen mobile devices.
15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About – Chrome has a lot of obscure features which could immensely enhance one’s browsing productivity if he were to know about them. This post intends to do reveal exactly those features.
InfoQ: Functional Design Patterns – Aino Vonge Corry reviews a number of well known design patterns showing that their implementation is simpler in functional languages because such languages have pattern-based constructs.
Hadoop + HBase + Cygwin + Windows 7 x64 « alan said – In this post I will describe how to get a Hadoop environment with HBase running in Cygwin on Windows 7 x64. Having spent the better part of a week reading through blog posts and documentation, I found that none of them covered the process in full detail, at least not for the software versions I intended to use.
Tutorial: Creating a Stock Watcher with GWT Designer (UPDATED) « Giant Flying Saucer – Obviously with a powerful tool like the GWT Designer I cannot show off all the bells and whistles in one tutorial but hopefully this grabs your attention enough to see what is possible and to experiment further.
Babylon 5 & the Great War of Java – Stephen Colebourne’s Weblog – We all have to look to ourselves – developers, community members, vendors, Oracle – and decide "Who we Are" and "What we Want". And then find a way to bring all the different answers to those questions together for a common purpose.
Jetty Continuations: Push Your Java Server Beyond Its Scalability Limits — Developer.com – Jetty Continuations suspend an HTTP request and releases the thread to the thread pool. When an event or timeout occurs, it resumes the suspended request. This approach avoids the thread-per-connection limitation of Web servers, allowing the server to scale for heavy loads
Apple joins Google in counterattack against Paul Allen lawsuit – Computerworld – Apple last week joined forces with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others in an effort to dismiss patent infringement charges brought by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

Daily del.icio.us for September 20th through September 28th

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Vinny

InfoQ: The Joy of Testing – John Hughes shows how to explore the possible bugs of a code by creating a series of tests in Erlang and using multiple test frameworks, discovering the faults through successive tests and evaluating the frameworks while doing it.
InfoWorld review: Top Java programming tools – IntelliJ is an excellent IDE that shows how superior craftsmanship can produce commercial products that compete successfully with free competitors
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Algorithms from the Book. – Theoretical Computer Science – Stack Exchange – Theoretical Computer Science is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love Theoretical Computer Science.
Programming for Dummies: Dissatisfied, Some Wall Street Technologists Flee for Start-Up Life | The New York Observer – There are certain coping mechanisms that make life on Wall Street more bearable for creatively inclined engineers. Some develop iPhone apps in their spare time; some attend hack-a-thons after hours
CheckThread.org =CheckThread is a static analysis tool for catching Java concurrency bugs at compile time – CheckThread is a static analysis tool for catching Java concurrency bugs at compile time
Collaboration, IT-style: How to do it right – If companies set up the right ingredients — bringing talented people together and challenging them in an environment in which "spontaneous innovation can happen" — then IT employees will excel
Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware • The Register – Oracle's cloud-in-a-box runs a version of Oracle's WebLogic Server – bought with BEA Systems and engineered to work with all the multiple servers, cores, storage and gallons of networking – in conjunction with the former BEA's JRockit virtual machine.
The new Oracle: Bigger and badder than ever – Dan Gillmor – Salon.com – If Ellison wants to be the Apple of the enterprise, he's set out an ambitious goal. This will remain interesting to watch
powermock – PowerMock is a Java framework that allows you to unit test code normally regarded as untestable. – PowerMock is a framework that extend other mock libraries such as EasyMock with more powerful capabilities. PowerMock uses a custom classloader and bytecode manipulation to enable mocking of static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, removal of static initializers and more.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 17th

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Vinny

Seth’s Blog: "Notice me" – Attention is fine, as long as you have a goal that is reached in exchange for all this effort. Far better than being noticed………..
thread-weaver – Project Hosting on Google Code – Thread Weaver is a framework for writing multi-threaded unit tests in Java. It provides mechanisms for creating breakpoints within your code, and for halting execution of a thread when a breakpoint is reached. Other threads can then run while the first thread is blocked. This allows you to write repeatable tests for that can check for race conditions and thread safety
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – It's true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises.
Cloud computing: Clash of the clouds | The Economist – The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others
Home – IntelliJ Open-Source Project – Confluence – This is the home for the open-source project
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition − the leading Java and Groovy IDE
built on the IntelliJ Platform.
UNetbootin – Homepage and Downloads – UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.
Hibernate Validator 4 unleashed – Hibernate Validator let's you declare constraints on your domain model using annotations like @NotNull or @Size and returns the list of constraint failures found in an object graph. Instead of duplicating constraint declarations in various application layers, constraints are centralized on your domain model and shared by all layers and frameworks: declared once, validate anywhere if you will.
Second Level Caching for Hibernate with Terracotta « My Adventures in Coding – Overall we have found Terracotta to be a useful tool. It requires very little effort to update an existing project using Spring/Hibernate to use it. Terracotta offers more than just Second Level Caching, but also handles queuing of writes and ensuring data is written to the SOR (System or Record) in the event the database is not available for a brief period.
Who Has the Most Web Servers? « Data Center Knowledge – Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European hosts 1&1 Internet and OVH have more than Rackspace.
soa-manifesto.org – A formal declaration of the principles, intentions and ambitions of service-orientation and the service-oriented architectural mode

Daily del.icio.us for September 24th through October 1st

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Vinny

ADO.NET Data Services extension – This document illustrates what can be done with the Restlet extension for the ADO.NET Data Services. We hope that you found it simple and useful to follow to read. It is a good demonstration of how adopting of REST and related standards such as HTTP and Atom facilitates the interoperability across programming languages and executions environments.
noop – Project Hosting on Google Code – Noop (pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction) is a new language experiment that attempts to blend the best lessons of languages old and new, while syntactically encouraging what we believe to be good coding practices and discouraging the worst offenses. Noop is initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.
Interoperability @ Microsoft : New bridge broadens Java and .NET interoperability – Noelios Technologies is shipping a new version of the Restlet open source project, a lightweight REST framework for Java that includes the Restlet Extension for ADO.NET Data Services. The extension makes it easier for Java developers to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services.
The Making of the NPR News iPhone App – Inside NPR.org Blog : NPR – What I love most about our new NPR News iPhone app is the way the design combines the plentiful content choices of the Internet with the effortless functionality of an old transistor radio
Really? – The Claim – Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold. – Question – NYTimes.com – Those who slept an average of fewer than seven hours a night, it turned out, were three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged at least eight hours
Siena: the scalable persistence tier for Java – Siena is a persistence API for Java inspired on the Google App Engine Python Datastore API. Siena is a single API with many implementations. You can use siena with relational databases (using JDBC as underlying persistence mechanism), but you can also use it with the Google App Engine's datastore or with Amazon's SimpleDB.
Some Java Concurrency Tips | Java.net – If you still rely on Java 'the language' to implement concurrency in an application, then Carol McDonald's post walks you through various Java concurrency tips specific to Java 'the language'. A helpful reminder that its not necessary to migrate to a JVM-compatible languages like Scala to achieve concurrency results
Dynamic, typesafe queries in JPA 2.0 – Version 2.0 of the Java Persistence API (JPA) introduces the Criteria API, which brings the power of typesafe queries to Java applications for the first time and provides a mechanism for constructing queries dynamically at run time. This article describes how to write dynamic, typesafe queries using the Criteria API and the closely associated Metamodel API.
Dive Into HTML5 – Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards
Google Chrome Frame – Google Code – Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer

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