Links for October 11th through October 17th

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Vinny

Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago – I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and along the way I’ve learnt many things the hard way. Here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.
Why The Future Of Software And Apps Is Serverless – Going serverless lets developers shift their focus from the server level to the task level. Serverless solutions let developers focus on what their application or system needs to do by taking away the complexity of the backend infrastructure.
Enterprise Hunger For Custom Apps Equals Developer Jobs – Enterprise Hunger For Custom Apps Equals Developer Jobs
Cisco Edition of OpenStack released – Cisco released the Cisco Edition of OpenStack that contains all the core OpenStack services for Essex and Folsom, along with installation scripts and other open source components to make it easier to install and run in production
Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon – It’s interesting to note that all four of the companies listed have various different core business models (hardware, search, retail, software) but they have all in recent years come to create personal computing devices with their own operating system running on top of the device and additionally these entertainment ecosystems
OOCSS + SASS = The best way to CSS by Ian Storm Taylor – Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and SASS you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML
JDBI : Convenient SQL for Java – JDBI is a SQL convenience library for Java. It attempts to expose relational database access in idiommatic Java, using collections, beans, and so on, while maintaining the same level of detail as JDBC
One Jar To Rule Them All: NoSQLUnit 0.5.0 released – NoSQLUnit is a JUnit extension to make writing unit and high-level tests of systems that use NoSQL as backend easier
MongoDB – Born in the Cloud – Ross Lawley introduces MongoDB, explaining why it is a good solution for cloud deployment.
mcansky : Git is cheap – TL;DR : committing and branching is cheap with git so stop worrying about it : split your features into small bricks and commit early and often.
What LinkedIn Endorsements Mean To You – The BrainYard – InformationWeek – LinkedIn's new Endorsements feature lets people easily recommend each other, but it will be the quality–not the quantity–of kudos that count.
Hibernate Search and JPA tutorial – Hibernate search can be used to apply the powerful full text search engines (like Apache Lucene) to your applications. Hibernate search futher address some shortcomings of Apache Lucene since it takes care of index synchronization and manages correctly the transformation from free text queries to domain objects.
ASP.NET MVC based Hybrid cross platform mobile solution – Develop native mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone using ASP.NET MVC
Replacing Work/Life Balance with Work/Life Harmony. | Darius "Bubs" Monsef – What you can get done, work hard to make it great. What you can’t, let it go… Worrying about it won’t change anything.
Java-to-iOS just keeps getting easier | Java programming – InfoWorld – Third-party tools are getting even better at enabling developers to use their Java skills to build iOS apps despite Apple's ban
Google’s Mod_Pagespeed Is Now Out Of Beta And Ready To Make Your Sites Faster | TechCrunch – Google just released the first stable version of mod_pagespeed, the company’s open-source module for Apache that can automatically optimize your web pages to improve download and rendering speeds.
Google’s Eric Schmidt Interviewed by Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher – Peter Kafka – News – AllThingsD – You wanted new news from Eric Schmidt about the state of the Apple-Google war? So did all of us. But the Google chairman was mostly mum on that subject. He was happy, however, to tell Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher about how “life changing” it was to ride in a Google-built self-driving car.

Links for September 12th through September 15th

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Vinny

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 September 2nd through September 12th

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Vinny

What Mark Zuckerberg really said about HTML5 – the complete quote – What Mark Zuckerberg really said about HTML5 – the complete quote
depression lies | WIL WHEATON dot NET: 2.0 – So, please, if you or someone you know suffer from Depression — with or without thoughts of suicide — please talk to someone, and get help from a doctor. As Jenny says, Depression lies, and you don’t need to let it control your life.
Unit Testing: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer? | Dr Dobb’s – Continued resistance to unit tests says more about the organization than it does about the practice.
15 Lessons from 15 Years as a Software Architect – Ingo Rammer shares 15 tips regarding people, complexity and technology that he learned doing software architecture for 15 years.
Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth – Chris Meadows introduces Redis, explaining what it is good for, what does it take to be run, and what’s under the hood through a social networking code example.
Even Inside Microsoft, Users Rarely "Bing It" | Fast Company – And now, it appears as if Microsoft has even given up trying to make "Bing" a verb that's as much a part of our web-surfing habits as it is our vernacular.
Technical Debt, Process and Culture – Michael Feathers advices on creating an organizational process and culture that can enhance software development in a way that reduces technical debt.
100% code coverage, Hibernate Validator and Design by Contract – The Kitchen in the Zoo – While I learned that 100% coverage should be the goal, in over 10 years I have never worked on a project which achieved that. So I have never surprised to find a bug in code which I thought was "fully" tested.
Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling – The C family of languages–C, C++, and Java–has dominated commercial programming for over 30 years. Today, all three languages are at a turning point:
Troy Hunt: 10 lessons for uncultured web developers – In the pursuit of a more globally harmonious online experience, let’s take a look at 10 lessons relating to aspects of web development with a cultural bent. Some of this may not be new to you, but all of it is relevant if you want to play nice with people from all cultural walks of life.
‘Why I’m A Democrat’ : NPR – At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., NPR digital journalists asked delegates, politicians and other attendees to react to the statement: "Why I'm a Democrat." Here are some of those responses.
Microsoft Vs. VMware: Who’ll Be Private Cloud King? – Cloud-computing – Infrastructure as a Service – Informationweek – Microsoft unveils Windows Server 2012 just days after VMware's vCloud Suite launch. The archrivals use some similar language but take very different approaches to private cloud.
Watch my SpringSource Roo Add-ons Video | Javalobby – 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.
Big Data Apps and Big Data PaaS | Javalobby – Enterprises no longer have a lack of data. Data can be obtained from everywhere. The hard part is to convert data into valuable information that can trigger positive actions. The problem is that you need currently four experts to get this process up and running:
Nokia, Microsoft head for Last Chance Saloon | Reuters – If the new Lumia phones do not appeal to consumers when they are unveiled next Wednesday, it could mean the end for Nokia, and a serious blow to Microsoft's attempts to regain its footing in the mobile market, analysts and investors said.
What is good API design? « Inviting Epiphany – what exactly is it about building libraries that can take up to 10 years to learn?
Mike Dellanoce’s Blog: 10 tips for getting that native iOS feel with PhoneGap – At Outbox we have been hard at work building our iPad application with PhoneGap. I wanted to share some of the lessons my team has learned so far. All of the following tips have been tested on iOS 5 with PhoneGap 1.8. Also note that these tips apply just as well to web applications running on mobile Safari.

Links for August 19th through August 23rd

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Vinny

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 August 5th through August 9th

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Vinny

U.S. Should Adopt Higher Standards for Science Education: Scientific American – Teachers, scientists and policymakers have drafted ambitious new education standards. All 50 states should adopt them
Testing SQL Server Code with TST – Enter TST. TST is an Open source Unit Testing framework specifically meant for testing SQL Server Database Code.
Fr. Naus retires after 50 years at Marquette – Rev. John Naus, S.J., has retired after serving Marquette for nearly five decades. From his days as Tumbleweed the Clown, his famous Christmas cards and long tradition of celebrating 10 p.m. Mass at St. Joan of Arc Chapel, he has touched many lives.
Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk – Technology Review – The stock market today is a war zone, where algobots fight each other over pennies, millions of times a second. Sometimes, the casualties are merely companies like Knight, and few people have much sympathy for them. But inevitably, at some point in the future, significant losses will end up being borne by investors with no direct connection to the HFT [high-frequency trading] world, which is so complex that its potential systemic repercussions are literally unknowable.
Long live SOA in the cloud era – SOA’s dictum that ‘everything is a service’ is more relevant than ever – A few years back, SOA (service-oriented architecture) was all the rage. Vendors rushed to remarket everything as SOA, and SOA-washing was the new greenwashing. But in today'srush to the cloud, have we abandoned SOA? If so, we're in trouble.
A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google’s James Whittaker – To get an answer, I turned to James Whittaker, an engineering director at Google, which has been at the forefront of leveraging the cloud. James is a noted expert and author on software testing, whose team has been managing Google’s cloud computing testing.
MongoMapper – A Mongo ORM for Ruby – Built from the ground up to be simple and extendable, MongoMapper is a lovely way to model your applications and persist your data in MongoDB. It has all the bells and whistles you need to get the job done and have fun along the way.
Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system – Kafka provides a publish-subscribe solution that can handle all activity stream data and processing on a consumer-scale web site. This kind of activity (page views, searches, and other user actions) are a key ingredient in many of the social feature on the modern web
Brian ONeill’s Blog: A Big Data Trifecta: Storm, Kafka and Cassandra – We're big fans of Cassandra. We also use Storm as our distributed processing engine. We've had a lot of success using our Cassandra Bolt to create a successful marriage between the two. To date, we've been using Storm to integrate with our legacy technologies via our JMS Spout. Now we're looking to expand its role beyond legacy system integration.
9 Reasons Why Your Company Needs A Mobile Strategist – Forbes – As their name implies, these mobile strategists play a critical role in gathering business requirements, building a ‘mobile center of excellence,’ creating a mobile strategy that aligns to the key business drivers, and selecting the right technology and platform to support both short- and long-term needs. At this point, a business without a mobile strategy is a business without a strategy at all.
Principles of User Interface Design – Principles of User Interface Design

Links for July 1st through July 5th

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Vinny

Sonatype Blog » Wait… you don’t have a repository manager? – If you develop Java-based or .NET-based software and you don’t use a repository manager you might as well just wear a shirt emblazoned with the words: "Doing it wrong and proud of it". Here are some very basic reasons why you shouldn’t just accept the fact that your group doesn’t want to use a repository manager:
How to create a simple Restful Web Service using Jersey JAX RS API » the Open Tutorials – Java provides support for Restful web services through Java API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS. The complete specification is available as JSR 311. JAX-RS is an annotation-based API for implementing RESTful web services, based on HTTP, in Java.
Is Kanban the New Scrum? – Kanban focuses on limited WIP and suggests a short cycle time. Having regular cadences is recommended. Scrum focuses on short, regular cadences and suggests limited WIP. If you're doing them well, both paths lead to the same place.
CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar – Daniel Mohl introduces CoffeeScript: what it is, what’s good for, how is different from other similar languages, what makes it more readable than JavaScript, some minuses, and code samples.
SpringMVC on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 on OpenShift on Vimeo – This video demonstrates how quickly and easily you an get started building Spring MVC applications using a provided Maven archetype in JBoss Developer Studio (jboss.org/developer) targeting JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in the cloud at OpenShift.
Accessing your code for your OpenShift Application via Windows Explorer using TortoiseGit | OpenShift by Red Hat – This blog describes integration of the OpenShift Windows Client Tools with Windows Explorer. TortoiseGit provides an easy to use graphical context menus and graphical user interface (GUI) for code revision control as an alternative to the command line tools.
Mobilize Your MongoDB: Building MongoDB Mobile Apps with OpenShift PaaS Part II – This is the second part of a blog series that details how to develop a mobile application that is backed by MongoDB and a PaaS. MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard and the nature of being able to store JSON documents with little data manipulation required.
AppInfo – display always current version of your software even when automatically deploying from CI server – AppInfo is a small library providing the easy way to show always valid, automatic updated information about a version of running software in your web/desktop Java application. Especially useful with automatic builds from CI server deployed on QA.
API Load Testing with Server Monitoring – A check engine light – loadUI Pro comes with one major feature that differentiates it from loadUI – Server Monitoring. Let’s find out what it is and how it can help keep your API out of the breakdown lane.
Top Java frameworks rated by developers | Open source reviews by real users – Top Java frameworks rated by developers
Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant | Blogs | Vanity Fair – Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
MVC is dead, it’s time to MOVE on. – To re-iterate: MVC is awesome, but it's designed with decades old technologies. MOVE is just a update to make better use of the new tools we have.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: February 2012 – Our data, then, indicates that Java remains – in spite of the fragmented programming language landscape – a viable, growing language.
Google’s Project Glass Lets Technology Slip Into the Background – Disruptions – NYTimes.com – When technology gets out of the way, we are liberated from it. Wearable computing will free us from peering at life through a 4-inch screen. We will no longer have to constantly look at our devices, but instead, these wearable devices will look back at us.

Links for May 25th through May 26th

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: Using DRY: Between Code Duplication and High-Coupling – DRY is an important principle, but abusing it can generate problems such as increased coupling and reduced readability. The lesson here is that no matter how great a principle is, it should not be used disregarding other good programming practices.
Three Laws of Good Software Architecture | Javalobby – The issue with architectural decisions is that they effect the whole system and/or you often need to make them early in the development process. It means a lot effort if you change that decision a couple of months later. From an economic standpoint architectural decisions are often irrevocable. Good architecture is one that allows an architect to make late decisions without superior effect on efforts and costs. Let's put that on record.
OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space – Analysis and resolution approach – Java Code Geeks – java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap problem is one of the most complex problems you can face when supporting or developing complex Java EE applications. This short article will provide you with a description of this JVM HotSpot OutOfMemoryError error message and how you should attack this problem until its resolution.
Bottle: Python Web Framework – A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. – Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python.
Thymeleaf: java XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine – Thymeleaf is an XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine for Java aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities
Simple Offline Data Synchronization for Mobile Web and PhoneGap Applications – In this article, I describe a simple data synchronization strategy that uses the device’s (or browser’s) SQLite database. The implementation currently leverages the Web SQL API (even though the W3C is no longer actively maintaining the spec) because both iOS and Android support it, but they don’t support IndexedDB, the official alternative
InfoQ: Andrew Watson On The State of OMG, UML, CORBA, DDS – Andrew Watson talks about the work of the OMG, where CORBA is alive and well (hint: in your car), UML and UML Profiles vs. custom Modeling languages, DDS and other middleware, and much more.
InfoQ: Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture – Derek Collison discusses the goals, the design premises and patterns employed in creating the architecture of Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS, unveiling internal architectural details.
Discover Music with Sencha Touch 2! | Blog | Sencha – Today, we are excited to announce the launch of another fine Sencha Touch 2.0 example application, Discover Music, which was designed and created by Modus Create, a Sencha partner.

Links for May 11th through May 16th

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Vinny

Goodbye MongoDB – Over the last two or three years we have been using MongoDB in some mid-size projects. Now it is time to say goodbye to MongoDB for a variety of technical reasons:
VMware’s Vision For Next-Generation Applications – The moves are aimed at Java developers, particularly those who already use VMware's Spring Framework for lightweight Java development. Enterprise Java applications frequently end up in the virtualized part of the data center. By making it easier to produce them, VMware is also making it more likely they'll be deployed on its virtual machines
Brunch – A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity – Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.
Choosing a Web Development Framework: Options and Criteria | Javalobby – In this post I’ll present you with our candidates and the criteria we are evaluating each framework with. Over the next weeks I’ll post the actual evaluation of each framework and finally what our choice is and why.
gwt-twilio – GWT Wrapper for the Twilio Client – Google Project Hosting – A GWT library that wraps the existing Twilio Client javascript library. Now GWT developers can add voice/phone features to their GWT application in Java.
The Big Three – Scala, Clojure and Groovy | The Code General – The most encouraging outcome of the last few years has been the flourishing ecosystem around new JVM languages. A decade ago the CLR was being proclaimed as *the* runtime to support multiples languages. Thanks to the community the JVM is looking more and more like the preferred target for new languages, innovation and research.
MongoDB Overview | Channel 9 – Jared Rosoff covers the basics of Mongo and then explains the purpose and architecture of MongoDB replica sets (for scalable read operations) as well as MongoDB's approach to sharding (for scalable write operations).
AppJS – Build Desktop Applications for Linux, Mac and Windows using HTML, CSS and Javascript – Build Desktop Applications for Linux, Mac and Windows using HTML, CSS and Javascript
JSONP – Enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API – JSONP – Enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API
The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps – A collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web.
This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like | TechCrunch – Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship!

Links for April 30th through May 4th

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Vinny

Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms – Mobile application development is a very important and strategic IT topic. In 2012, Gartner is making major updates to this research to reflect market convergence. We analyze platforms that allow enterprises to build, support and manage mobile applications for both customers and employees.
Momentum for Sencha Builds as Company Expands Globally, Adding New Staff and Locations to Serve its Growing Application Developer Ecosystem – Sencha was recently identified as a Visionary in the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms"
Full Samsung Galaxy S III launch event now online | The Verge – If you weren't around for our live coverage of yesterday's Galaxy S III event, it's fair to say that you missed quite a lot. Luckily, Samsung has uploaded the entire event, along with some close-ups, additional hands-on videos, and interviews that you wouldn't have seen yesterday
RubyMotion – Ruby for iOS – RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS that lets you quickly develop and test native iOS applications for iPhone or iPad, all using the awesome Ruby language you know and love.
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi – Diego Basch’s Blog – In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M. What happened? Among other things, Google. Grab some popcorn and enjoy this story
LinkedIn For iPad: using local storage for snappy mobile apps | LinkedIn Engineering – We've found HTML 5 local storage to be an effective way to improve an application's performance, both in terms of time and space requirements
You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive) | VentureBeat – Yes, only one screen in the entire LinkedIn iPad app is actually native. The rest is good ol’ HTML5-based mobile web technology, running in the browser and leaning heavily on Node.js.
InfoQ: Architecting in the Gaps – Eoin Woods suggests creating the architecture of a system by discovering the interactions between the components and focusing on the boundaries, helping with defining the interfaces and interactions.
Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala | Cape Coder – Since I fall squarely within the target audience for Scala I’ve decided to share my experiences and impressions using Scala from a Java programmer’s perspective. Overall I’m very impressed by Scala and plan to use it more, but do have plenty of constructive criticism which I provide at the end of this blog pos
GitHub Enterprise 11.10.260 Release · GitHub – We're excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. The response to the product since its launch last November has blown us away and we'd like to tell you about a few of the great things we've been working on to make it even better.
The Vision for "QlikView.next" – Donald Farmer presented the themes for “QlikView.next,” the code name for the next generation of the QlikView Business Discovery platform.
Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years – Forbes – With the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think Google & Facebook might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years. Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone. And there’s some academic theory to back up that view, along with casual observations from recent history
Java creator James Gosling: ‘Google totally slimed Sun’ – Gosling said that Sun was "wronged" by Google and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android.
Why Postgres – Very often recently I find myself explaining why Postgres is so great. In an effort to save myself a bit of time in repeating this, I though it best to consolidate why Postgres is so great and dispel some of the historical arguments against it.

Links for April 8th through April 10th

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Vinny

Ziptastic is a simple API that allows people to ask which Country,State and City are associated with a Zip Code. – Ziptastic is a simple API that allows people to ask which Country,State and City are associated with a Zip Code.
People Use IE at Work, But Chrome at Home – The company attributes the use of IE during the workday to constraints of corporate policy. In other words, those people using IE would gladly turn to Chrome if their IT departments would let them, but they’re stuck, so that’s what they use.
Cloud Foundry Further Improves Support for Ruby Applications | Blog – In the past few months, we have been quietly adding features and improving support for running Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Rack, and even JRuby applications on CloudFoundry.com.
An Articulate Introduction to MongoDB | Architects Zone – One thing I am very impressed by MongoDb is that it is extremely easy to use and the underlying architecture is also very easy to understand.
InfoQ: Seven Secrets Every Architect Should Know – Frank Buschmann’s secrets: User Tasks-based Design, Be Minimalist, Ensure Visibility of Domain Concepts, Use Uncertainty as a Driver, Design Between Things, Check Assumptions, Eat Your Own Dog Food.
GWT-Eureka is a library for the Google Web Toolkit – GWT-Eureka is a library for the Google Web Toolkit. The main objective of this library is to include all those widgets and other helpful tricks that are not big enough to have their own project.
6 Advantages of Developing Cross-Platform HTML5-based financial apps: Part 1 – There are multiple advantages, that HTML5-based financial apps offer. In this blog post, I explore the top 6 advantages that HTML5 offers.
Gazel – A high performance key/value store for the browser modeled after Redis. – Gazel – A high performance key/value store for the browser modeled after Redis.
Beginners guide to one modern web development stack « Coffee Spoons of Code – This post is for a person who knows how to program, and wants to learn a modern web development stack. At my new job we use Padrino, an alternative to Ruby on Rails, so I’ll be describing that.

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