Tag Archives: dependencyinjection

Links for July 3rd through July 6th

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Vinny

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• The Post-PC era will be a multi-platform era | asymco – The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive. The post-PC era will be a multi-platform era. Developers already understand this. Platform vendors know this. It’s time to unlearn the lessons of the PC era.
• CDI 1.0 vs. Spring 3.1 feature comparsion: bean definition & dependency injection | Javalobby – This blog article provides a comparison matrix between Spring IoC 3.1 and CDI implementation JBoss Weld 1.1
• Imixs Workflow Project – Java BPM …the open source workflow technology for business applications – Imixs Workflow is an open source project based on a robust and scalable technology, to design business applications in a fast and easy way.
• InfoQ: Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers – While it almost certainly remains the largest Ruby on Rails based site in the world, Twitter has gradually been moving more and more of its stack to the JVM. The change is partially motivated by oft-cited advantages of the JVM, such as performance and scalability, but is also driven by a desire for better encapsulation of individual services, and other architectural concerns.
• Top Ten Articles for Q2 2011 from the McKinsey Quarterly – Top Ten Articles for Q2 2011 from the McKinsey Quarterly
• Building Java Object Graph with Tour de France results – using screen scraping, java.util.Parser and assorted facilities « AMIS Technology blog – Building Java Object Graph with Tour de France results – using screen scraping, java.util.Parser and assorted facilities
• InfoQ: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland on pretotyping: innovators beat ideas, pretotypes beat productypes, data beats opinions, doing beats talking, simple beats complex, now beats later, commitment beats committees.
• Convince your Boss to let you use Scala – Convince your Boss to let you use Scala
• Ruby Kickstart: free course with videos, quizzes, & challenges – Ruby Kickstart: free course with videos, quizzes, & challenges
• Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social | Epicenter | Wired.com – Google believes that with Circles it has solved the tough sharing problem that Facebook has inexplicably failed to crack. “With Facebook I have 500 friends — my mom’s my friend, my boss is my friend,” says Shimrit Ben-Yair, the product manager in charge of the social graph. “So when I share on Facebook, I overshare. On Twitter, I undershare, because it’s public. If Google hits that spot in the middle, we can revolutionize social interaction
• CoffeeScript. An Outsider Opinion – nuclearsandwich’s Blog – Thoughts on CoffeeScript from a server-side developer just getting started with frontend and JavaScript development.
• The Confluence of Technology & Finance – Andrew Lo of MIT on the confluence of technology & finance, and what is has wrought, for good and … much less good. And, yes, John Thain is in this too
• The Google Plus 50 – I wrote down 50 things to think about with regards to Google+, in no particular order. The purpose of this list is to get you thinking about a bunch of different possibilities.

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Links for June 20th through June 23rd

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Vinny

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• Kind of Screwed – Waxy.org – At the heart of this settlement is a debate that's been going on for decades, playing out between artists and copyright holders in and out of the courts.
• rest-client – Java application to test RESTful webservices – RESTClient is a Java application to test RESTful webservices. It can be used to test variety of HTTP communications. From version 2.3, it has two executable Jars:
• Extremely Decoupled Architecture for Web Applications (EDAWA); Part 1: Vertical Decoupling | Javalobby – Vertical decoupling brings the opportunity to exchange the whole technology stack including programming language, runtime environment, operating system or whatever.
• What’s Up, JavaDoc? (Jonathan Gibbons) – The Java documentation tool, javadoc, has been somewhat neglected in recent releases, but in JDK 7, it's been getting some amount of long-overdue TLC, albeit mostly under the covers.
• Announcing GitHub for Mac – GitHub – Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you've pushed your code to GitHub. Today we're happy to announce GitHub for Mac.
• InfoQ: Where Did My Architecture Go? – Eoin Woods advices on writing code that preserves the initial architectural design using conventions, dependency analysis, module systems, augmenting the code & checking rules, and language extensions.
• CWE – Common Weakness Enumeration: A Community-developed dictionary of software weakness types – International in scope and free for public use, CWE™ provides a unified, measurable set of software weaknesses that is enabling more effective discussion, description, selection, and use of software security tools and services that can find these weaknesses in source code and operational systems as well as better understanding and management of software weaknesses related to architecture and design.
• Lessons in Software Reliability – Java Code Geeks – Ensure that you build support across the organization, build a culture that puts reliability first. Like any change, it will require patience, commitment, and unrelenting followup.
• Amazon Web Services Blog: Now Available: Amazon EC2 Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux – I'm pleased to be able to tell you that you can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2 with support from Amazon and Red Hat
• Raible Designs | Java Web Application Security – Part V: Penetrating with Zed Attack Proxy – In this article, I've shown you how to pentest a web application using Firefox and OWASP's Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP). I found ZAP to be a nice tool for figuring out vulnerabilities, but it'd be nice if it had a "retest" feature to see if you fixed an issue for a particular URL.
• My “NoSQL for Java Devs” slides are now online « Glen Smith – In the talk we looked at four different types of NoSQL options for Java guys: Simple Key/Value in-memory stores (Memcached), sophisticated distributed key/value stores (Voldemort), Document Databases (CouchDB), and Graph Databases (Neo4j).
• An introduction to MongoDB – In this short demo, long-time developerWorks contributor Andrew Glover introduces MongoDB, provides a quick tour of its use, and helps you understand where it's most applicable
• An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB – an introduction to SimpleDB, a massively scalable, highly available key/value datastore. Part of the Amazon Web Services suite, SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to create and store multiple data sets, query the data, and return the results. Get started with SimpleDB in this short introduction.
• InfoQ: 5 Classic Patterns in Everyday Code – Michael Wood explains the importance of using patterns in software design, exemplifying with Adapter, Decorator, Command, and several Factory patterns.
• The Big Idea: Before You Make That Big Decision… – Harvard Business Review – In this article, we will describe a straightforward way to detect bias and minimize its effects in the most common kind of decision that executives make: reviewing a recommendation from someone else and determining whether to accept it, reject it, or pass it on to the next level.
• Not doing Code Reviews? What’s your excuse? – Java Code Geeks – Reviews don’t need to be a big deal, you don’t need formal review meetings. And there are tools to help make reviews cheaper, easier and more effective. So, what about the rest of you? Why aren’t you doing code reviews? What’s your excuse?
• InfoQ: New Books on Software Architecture – Software Architecture is one of the important topics for software engineers, because many failures of software development projects are caused by inadequate design. Thus, it is essential to learn more about architectural issues in theory and practice. Interesting new books that have been published recently or in the near future could be very helpful:
• Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison :: KKovacs – In this light, here is a comparison of Cassandra, Mongodb, CouchDB, Redis, Riak, Membase, Neo4j and HBase:
• » GWT Dependency Injection recipes using GIN (III) » Canoo RIA Blog – In my opinion, dependency injection allows a much cleaner structure, enables configuring the application in an elegant and easy way and, when used together with an event bus, produces low-coupled high-modular applications.
• Sencha touch – show loading mask anywhere | Schogini – If, you need to show a load mask anywhere (not necessarily linked to a store) then you can do something like this:

Links for June 11th through June 16th

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Vinny

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• Sencha Touch – An Introduction to Carousels on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) demonstrates how to use Sencha Touch to create carousel-based apps, such as this artist's portfolio.
• YouTube – Rod Johnson Says Java Can Learn Loads from the Rails Community – Rod Johnson, tells interviewer Cameron McKenzie that Java developers have a lot to learn from the Rails community. The response came from a question about what it would take for the enterprise Java community to eagerly adopt cloud based technologies like vFabric and the up and coming Code2Cloud initiative.
• The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – Getting started with VMware CloudFoundry, MongoDB and Node.js – Following up from our previous post we’re posting up a quick how-to for using Node.JS, CloudFoundry and MongoDB together. Our end goal here is to build a simple web app that records visits and provides a reporting screen for the last 10 visits.
• GWT Dependency Injection recipes using GIN (II) » Canoo RIA Blog – In this article, we have applied new dependency injection recipes to our GWT demo application. I hope that they can help you give a better structure to your GWT applications and also learn dependency injection features and its “best practices”.
• Sencha Touch – Intro to Listeners – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) describes the basics of how listeners work in Sencha Touch. This tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to understand how to create custom behavior and functionality inside their Sencha Touch mobile app.
• Teach your team some Git! Experiences of a team lead who cares. / unfoldthat.com – Git is not for cowards, so decide quickly and proceed – or not.
• Peter’s blog: It’s official: developers get better with age. And scarcer. – It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
• Initializr – Start your HTML5 project in 15 seconds! – Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start.
• Spiffy UI Framework – REST, Security, and Rapid Development for GWT – Spiffy UI Framework – REST, Security, and Rapid Development for GWT
• Live from Las Vegas – How iCloud works with a shared Apple ID – To sum it up, it is still possible to use iCloud for your personal stuff, but a shared Apple ID for you and your family. For me, the key was to skip the automated iCloud setup at the iOS welcome walk-through.

Daily del.icio.us for March 22nd through March 26th

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Vinny

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• Usability, RIA, and GWT – 6 Questions to Ask your Users | Summa Blog – In conclusion, while definitely not an exhaustive list, I hope these questions at least sparked some thought as to what types of things you’ll want to ask your users and business owners prior to jumping into your GWT code
• Load Testing Relational Databases With JMeter – Apache JMeter is a performance testing tool which is entirely written in Java. Any application that works on request/response model can be load tested with JMeter. A relational database is not an exception: receives sql queries, executes them and returns the results of the execution.
• InfoQ: First Steps for Apache Pivot, Java-based RIA Framework – Pivot is defined as a modern RIA toolkit, based on Java2D and employs the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern. Pivot applications can be written using a combination of Java, JavaScript and XML (WTKX).
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks – Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you’ll go beyond the syntax—and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you’ll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book.
• Microsoft, Google eye Twitter-like services for work | Beyond Binary – CNET News – Microsoft, for example, is testing OfficeTalk, a microblogging service that's a sort of Twitter for businesses, while Google has been using an inside-the-company version of its Google Buzz feature to allow co-workers to share information with one another.
• For the Love of Vaadin: RIAs Done Right « Design By Gravity – Vaadin uses GWT as a presentation layer for the UI components in the web browser, but all your programming is in Java on the server side. You build up UI’s with layout managers, just like in Swing.
• Spotlight on Java Persistence 2.0, with Linda DeMichiel | Java.net – Linda begins with an historical presentation of the evolution of Java persistence, starting with its origins within EJB 3.0, the emergence of JPA 1.0, and now Java Persistence 2.0 (JSR 317).
• Java IDEs: the Blue Heeler, the Dachshund and the Labradoodle ~ C for Coding – Java, in my opinion, has the best IDEs of any language or platform bar none. Say what you want about the language but the IDEs are, on the whole, first rate. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps along the road however.
• Guice (pronounced ‘juice’) is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java – Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other contexts
• Flex 4 is Here! Go forth and build better software! – Flex 4 and its counterpart, Flash Builder 4, are now publicly available! We’ve also launched a new flex.org and added a ton of new Flex 4 samples in Tour de Flex!