Links for December 1st through December 8th

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Vinny

Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking – Leaders play a key role in the construction of an organization but only its members can determine its culture In the course of creating a culture, leaders simply play enabler and focus on eliminating obstacles, ensuring employees have enough information an
Tabris. The Cross-Platform Mobile Framework for Java – Tabris is a Java framework written by Java developers for Java developers to build mobile apps. It uses standard JavaEE technology to create an application on a server. Native clients act as a player for the applications's UI. They access the application b
New cybersecurity boom arrives in Silicon Valley – Venture capital firms are pumping funding into security start-ups, which are getting gobbled up by big companies that see cybersecurity as a source of new revenue.
BASH as a Modern Programming Language – BASH as a Modern Programming Language
» Windows PowerShell TutorialThreading.DispatcherTimer – In this tutorial the basics of Windows PowerShell is explained with examples. Only read this article if you need a fast going-through Windows PowerShell basics and if you don’t have time to read the great tutorial by Jesse Hamrick on PowerShell Pro which this article is mostly based on.
Postman – A powerful HTTP client to test web services – Postman is a powerful HTTP client to help test web services easily and efficiently. Postman let's you craft simple as well as complex HTTP requests quickly. It also saves requests for future use so that you never have to repeat your keystrokes ever again.
Hey, Enterprise Developers! Get Agile Or Get Steamrollered – "Waterfall" development barely worked in the old command-and-control world. Let iterative development bloom.
How To Use GitHub Pages To Make Web Sites While Learning Code – Like GitHub with training wheels, it's an easier way to code open source.
Android Or iOS Dominating Tablets? Developer Economics Has The Answer – Given the difficulty of tracking Android shipments or usage, the best proxy for its market share may come from developer payment data.
Robomongo: Shell-centric cross-platform MongoDB management tool – Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. Admin GUI). Robomongo embeds the same JavaScript engine that powers MongoDB's mongo shell. Everything you can write in mongo shell — you can write in Robomongo!

Links for February 11th through February 12th

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: Mobile HTML5 – Scott Davis explains how to prepare a website for mobile devices from small tweaks –smaller screen sizes, portrait/landscape- to using HTML5’s local storage, application cache, and remote data.
InfoQ: How to Stop Writing Next Year’s Unsustainable Piece of Code – Guilherme Silveira mentions some of the turning points in project development that may affect the quality of the code offering advice on avoiding writing crappy code.
InfoQ: All things Hadoop – In this interview Ted Dunning talk about Hadoop, its current usage and its future. He explains the reasons for Hadoop's success and make recommendations on how to start using it.
rap mobile – Secure Mobile Apps. Native Performance. Multi-Platforms. – RAP mobile provides a powerful widget toolkit that renders native iOS and Android widgets. It provides a proven technology stack with SWT, JFace and OSGi. You can write your application entirely in Java, re-use existing code and benefit from first-class IDE tools without the need for cross-compiling.
Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? – The key to true productivity and efficiency is to focus 100% on the one thing you are doing at the moment, and then to completely switch and do something else. There shouldn’t be any blurry transitions from one thing to the next.
High performance libraries in Java | Vanilla #Java – There is an increasing number of libraries which are described as high performance and have benchmarks to back that claim up. Here is a selection that I am aware of.
InfoQ: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java – Howard Lewis Ship discusses how to add extend class functionality at runtime via meta-programming for Java using Tapestry Plastic.
InfoQ: SQL Server Unit Testing with tSQLt – tSQLt is a free, open-source framework for unit testing in SQL Server. By writing tSQLt test cases, developers can create fake tables and views based on production data, then compare expected versus actual results in testing. Tests are written in T-SQL, so they can be created directly in SQL Server Management Studio.
InfoQ: Identity Management with Spring Security – David Syer discusses identity management, SSO, security standards –SAML, OpenID, OAuth, SCIM, JWT-, how Spring Security can fit in, and demoing IdM as a service.
Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review | InfoWorld – MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling
GUI Architectures essay from Martin Fowler – In this essay I want to explore a number of interesting architectures and describe my interpretation of their most interesting features. My hope is that this will provide a context for understanding the patterns that I describe.

Links for October 2nd through October 8th

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Vinny

whoosh – Fast pure-Python indexing and search library. – Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.
Homepage | Celery: Distributed Task Queue – Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache TomEE Certified as Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible : The Apache Software Foundation Blog – Making its certification debut at JavaOne, Apache TomEE (pronounced "Tommy") is the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat (Tomcat + Java EE = TomEE) that unites several quality Java enterprise projects including Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces and more.
Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers – Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers & other Object Oriented languages
10 programming languages worth checking out – H3RALD – This article deals with ten possible candidates, and it’s far from being an exhaustive list. The programming languages described henceforth are very different from each other, but they all have one thing in common: they all stimulate my curiosity in their own, very different ways.
Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no one will be locked in – Oracle boasts the Public Cloud will provide “all the productivity of Java, without the IT,” and “the Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.”
Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot – I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.
Oracle announces public cloud to host long-awaited Fusion applications – 10/6/2011 – Computer Weekly – "Use the Salesforce cloud if you want them to run your applications forever. It's kind of sticky, the ultimate vendor lock-in. You can check in but can't check out," he said. "It's the roach hotel of clouds."
Announcing Box For Microsoft Office | The Box Blog – Box for Office, a new add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, lets you easily open, edit, save, and share using Box from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Oracle’s boxes more about integration than innovation — Cloud Computing News – Exalytics is essentially a bundle of the TimesTen in-memory database acquired by Oracle, Hyperion’s EssBase, acquired by Oracle, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite or OBIEE.
SourceTree – Free Mercurial, SVN and Git GUI for Mac OS X – A powerful Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems. SourceTree strips away the complexity of DVCS and makes it usable for mere mortals.
Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe – Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Platform Accelerates Adobe's HTML5 and Web Standards Strategy
PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi – Adobe has entered an agreement to acquire Nitobi, the startup behind PhoneGap. Alongside news of the acquisition, Adobe and Nitobi have jointly announced plans to donate the PhoneGap project to the Apache Software Foundation.
Effective Mockito Part 2 – As promised in the first part of the "Effective Mockito" blog series, I will concentrate on Mockito specifics in the followup posts. So, the main topic for Part 2 is Mockito's @Mock Annotation.
Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets | webexpedition18 – Below is a list of CSS snippets that will help you minimize headaches, frustration and save your time while writing css, and I hope you will find it useful. Whether you are a experienced web developer, or just getting started with css, they are all worth checking out.

Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 21st

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Vinny

Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Tries to Reassure His Troops in Email – Digits – WSJ – Though profit-minded Oracle is widely expected to cut Sun’s headcount sharply after the transaction, Schwartz insists in the message that Oracle realizes that Sun’s people are its greatest asset and will not harm it.
Picking Letters, 10 a Day, That Reach Obama – NYTimes.com – He chooses 10 letters, which are slipped into a purple folder and put in the daily briefing book that is delivered to President Obama at the White House residence. Designed to offer a sampling of what Americans are thinking, the letters are read by the president, and he sometimes answers them by hand, in black ink on azure paper.
Adobe in Push to Spread Flash Video Format to TVs – NYTimes.com – Now Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, will announce that Adobe is extending Flash to the television screen. He expects TVs and set-top boxes that support the Flash format to start selling later this year.
Williams and Stone: The Twitter Revolution – WSJ.com – But Twitter is much more than a novel way to share updates of one's daily life with friends. It's now evolved into a powerful new marketing and communications tool. Regional emergency preparedness organizations are looking at Twitter as a way to reach millions of people during a disaster. NASA is using it to regularly update interested parties about the status of space shuttle flights. And one journalist solicited help from fellow Twitterers to get himself out of an Egyptian jail.
Apache Pivot – Home – The Pivot development team is happy to announce the release of Apache Pivot version 1.1! Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform.
Atlassian Stimulus Package Announced – For the next 5 days, get Confluence or JIRA for $5 for 5 users. All goes to Room To Read – The Goal: To raise $25k to build 5 libraries for children in the developing world in 5 days… all whilst helping stimulate startups and small teams with kick-ass tools.
JSpring presentation: REST, the internet as a database? :: Andrej Koelewijn – I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“.
Oracle Buys Sun – Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash
The Algebra of Data, and the Calculus of Mutation » Lab49 Blog – With the spreading popularity of languages like F# and Haskell, many people are encountering the concept of an algebraic data type for the first time. When that term is produced without explanation, it almost invariably becomes a source of confusion. In what sense are data types algebraic
SOASTA, Inc. – The Cloud Testing Authority – SOASTA has harnessed the immense power of Cloud Computing to become the leading provider of cloud testing, which businesses use to test the real-world performance of their web applications

Daily del.icio.us for January 4th through January 9th

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Vinny

The storage solution Sun should have built | unixville – The HP MediaSmart Server EX485 is a diminutive low-power device that provides backup and storage service for all your home computers. It runs Windows Home Server, uses commodity hardware and supports Mac & iTunes, all while providing space for 4 internal drives
ThinkUI SQL Client – SQL Query and Code Generation Tool for Java Developers – ThinkUI SQL Client is designed for Java™ developers who needs to work with multiple databases and would like to a tool with features that will improve their productivity and help reduce the tedious nature of software development.
Granite Data Services (Free, Open Source, Flex & J2EE) – Confluence – Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd) alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. The primary goal of this project is to provide a framework for Flex 2+/EJB 3/Seam/Spring/Guice/POJO application development with full AMF3/RemoteObject benefits.
jawr: Jawr – More than a Javascript/CSS compressor – Jawr is a tunable packaging solution for Javascript and CSS which allows for rapid development of resources in separate module files. Developers can work with a large set of split javascript files in development mode, then Jawr bundles all together into one or several files in a configurable way.
Raible Designs | Choosing an Ajax Framework – For #1, we chose Ext JS, Dojo, YUI and GWT because we feel these Ajax libraries offer the most UI widgets. We also considered Prototype/Scriptaculous, jQuery and MooTools, but decided against them because of their lack of UI widgets
Morningstar – Business Wire: Artisan Funds Portfolio Managers David Samra and Daniel O’Keefe Named Morningstar’s 2008 International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year – Artisan Partners, investment adviser to the Artisan Funds, announced that Morningstar has named David Samra and Daniel O’Keefe, Portfolio Co-Managers of the Artisan International Value Fund (ARTKX) and Artisan Global Value Fund (ARTGX), its International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year for 2008
patterns & practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (The Book) – Home – Welcome to the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project site! provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts
Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – The message passing (MP) paradigm is often seen as a superior alternative to the typical mix of idioms in concurrent (shared-memory, locks) and distributed programming (CORBA/RMI). This talk describes a Java framework called “Kilim” to fix this state of affairs.
Unison File Synchronizer – Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other
Public Object: Always use jarjar to package implementation dependencies – jarjar is a sweet Java packaging tool that allows you to embed one .jar file in another. But rather than just smashing the jars together in one big archive, jarjar renames the embedded .jar's classes so that they live in the main jar's namespace

Daily del.icio.us for June 15th through June 17th

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Vinny

InfoQ: Domain Driven Design and Development In Practice – Domain Driven Design (DDD) is about mapping business domain concepts into software artifacts. Most of the writings and articles on this topic have been based on Eric Evans' book "Domain Driven Design", covering the domain modeling and design aspects mainl
InfoQ: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java – Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Sprin
Prototype UI – Prototype UI is a javascript library based on Prototype (1.6) and Script.aculo.us (1.8). It's a library of User Interface components, based on a common fundation classes, which could be easily used by various web applications.
Who’s Going To Be The Web’s Tim Russert? – Silicon Alley Insider – Tim Russert's death consumed a significant amount of my attention this weekend. I was saddened because I really liked him personally, even though only knew him via his work at NBC. More important, a big part of the reason I liked him, is that he educated
Sekhar Vajjhala’s Blog: Migrating WebLogic’s JSP SimpleTag example to GlassFish – As I outlined in Migrate to GlassFish acitivities , I am migrating samples from different application servers to GlassFish to illustrate migration to GlassFish. Here, I selected the WebLogic's "JSP SimpleTag" sample to migrate to GlassFish.
Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes – Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
Quick Introduction To Agile Software Development – Enterprise Java Software Developer Station – Prerana Patil gives us a rapid overview of the core ideas of Agile Software Development. The article talks of the features of agile, when to adopt it and when not to. It then goes on to describe the agile process and the steps involved in adopting agile i
Head On » Blog Archive » A Few Tips For Giving a Presentation on Lean – So, you are about to give a lecture on lean software development? Here are a few tips:
InfoQ: Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ – InfoQ.com is a web app/portal implementation combining portal technology (JSR 170) and web development (WebWork, Spring, AspectJ). In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.
Seth’s Blog: Email checklist – Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:
Datawocky: Why the World Needs a New Database System – The LAMP stack, with MySQL as the base, has transformed and democratized web application development. In a similar vein, I expect that we will see the emergence of a stack that democratizes large-scale data analytics applications. Aster Data could well be
Datawocky: India’s SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime – Then I read this TechCrunch post on the Twitter usage numbers and sympathy turned to bafflement – because I'm intimately familiar with SMS Gupshup, a startup in India that boasts usage numbers much, much higher than Twitter's, but has scaled without a gli

Daily del.icio.us for June 12th through June 14th

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Vinny

The LinkedIn Blog: Grails at LinkedIn – Below is a presentation that my colleagues Alex Vauthey, Borislav Roussev, Jamie Still and I put together for a JavaOne Groovy/Grails Meetup. This presentation tells about our experience using Grails to build our application.
Raible Designs | LinkedIn’s Engineering Blog – Have you been curious about LinkedIn's architecture or how they're using Grails and Rails? If so, you might be interested in LinkedIn's Engineering Blog. Over the past couple of weeks, a few Engineers have starting writing about our architecture, OpenSoci
10 Free Chart Scripts | WebTecker the latest Web Tech, Resources and News. – This week I’ve been working on a project that required data to be shown visually. I needed a Chart Script that was attractive yet gets the data across. The Charts scripts below are built using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, and Java.
InfoQ: Agile Architecture Is Not Fragile Architecture – Architecture is perceived as a heavy-weight activity which does not fit into an Agile process, so many teams start without it, just to find themselves re-doing the software later because the code structure was not good enough to support maintainability an
Groovy on Grails : Grails at LinkedIn (Brian Guan) – It’s been more than 6 months since the Grails community learned that LinkedIn , an online network of professional contacts, has been using Grails along with custom made frameworks to power their applications.
www.hazelcast.com – Hazelcast is a clustering and data distribution platform for Java. – Hazelcast is a clustering and data distribution platform for Java. It currently comes with distributed implementation of java.util.Queue, java.util.Set, java.util.List, java.util.Map and java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock.
IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Type Migration Refactoring – In addition to IntelliJ IDEA rich set of refactorings, one of the latest EAPs offers a new one, called Type Migration
Greg Brown’s Blog: Introducing Pivot – Pivot is an open-source framework for building high-quality, cross-platform applications that are easily deployable both via the web and to the desktop. It began as an R&D effort at VMware and is now being made available to the community as an option for
Open Source Firm Hires BEA Systems Veteran — SpringSource — InformationWeek – The former head of the BEA Systems WebLogic engineering team, Peter Cooper-Ellis, has joined SpringSource to lead the development and product management of SpringSource Application Platform, the middleware additions to Spring's programmer-assistance, Java
Using Snort: Part 1: Installation and configuration – Web sites are the most vulnerable, and therefore the most hacked, bits of technology on the Internet. Enter Snort, a free and open source Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) tool for managing and preven
Creating DSLs in Java, Part 1: What is a domain-specific language? – Java World – If you've ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you've already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for specific tasks

Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Vinny

uface – Google Code – UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse.
cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 – This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information – Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.
GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 – GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box
Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials – Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries.
Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT – The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code
Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid – Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid – John Gruber does it again 🙂
Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill – Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is
IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA – We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the
mike desjardins’ blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop – So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes

Daily del.icio.us for May 20, 2007

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Vinny

Why hasn’t Tapestry been more widely adopted? – I still think that Tapestry is one of the best platforms to be developing your Web application on. Having said that I think that there are some issues that need to be addressed to help improve Tapestry?s adoption into the Java community
Flex Builder without Flex Builder – If your Flex workflow doesn?t include Flex Builder (ie. you work from the command line) you should check out FLEXible. It is a sweet Flex application by John Grden that lets you visually create your MXML for use in your Flex projects
Easy Test-Driven GUI Development – code & slides – After a few hours of wrestling with Google Groups, I could finally upload the source code, slides and movies (containing coding examples) for our JavaOne presentation
Greg Luck’s WebLog: Comparing Memcached and Ehcache Performance – In-process caching and asynchronous replication are a clear performance winner. Ehcache and other in-process caches are very widely used in the Java world. One thing I see happening is new languages reusing Java infrastructure
Enterprise Java Community: Spring is the New Java EE – Last but not least, next generation application servers from BEA, and maybe IBM, will be built on top of Spring. Am I the only one that finds this mind-blowing?

Daily del.icio.us for May 18, 2007 through May 20, 2007