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Links for May 13th through May 15th

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Vinny

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• Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity – Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
• Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says – NYTimes.com – Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
• Make: Online | Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)? – I’m going to talk about Google choosing the open source hardware platform (Arduino) for the “Android Open Accessory” kit, and why this matters. I’m also going to talk a little about how Google could make it better
• The Ballmer Days Are Over — The Brooks Review – Microsoft isn’t dead yet, nor will it be soon. It is however in the early stages of death and Ballmer isn’t going to the hospital — he’s running to go party some more. Microsoft needs a swift kick in the ass.
• Makes boring code look pretty… – Simply click the Syntaclet Bookmarklet and it will automatically apply language specific syntax coloring with line numbers to all the code on the page.
• Google I/O 2011 session videos available in HD – Google I/O 2011 session videos available in HD
• Java Concurrency: Java Puzzlers at Google I/O – Josh Bloch and I gave one of his Java Puzzlers talk at Google I/O this year. If you hate Java, you can waste a perfectly good hour listening to us make unfunny jokes at its expense.
• InfoQ: Juergen Hoeller on Spring 3.1 and Spring 3.2 – Juergen Hoeller talks to Charles Humble about the upcoming features in Spring 3.1 and Spring 3.2. The interview also explores SpringSource's attitude to standardisation, and the impact of the Java 7 and 8 language changes, and the Jave EE 6, on the framework.
• Basic Java CRUD Operations with MongoDB | Javalobby – In this post I’d like to show how to perform basic CRUD operations against a MongoDB database using the Java drive
• Git tutorial – How to version projects with Git – Git tutorial – How to version projects with Git

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Links for May 11th through May 13th

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Vinny

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• 5 Lightweight Alternatives to Apache and IIS Web Servers – There are many excellent web servers available that provide a high-performance alternative to Apache and IIS
• JetBrains .NET Tools Blog » dotPeek – Free .NET Decompiler is Available for Early Access – The long-awaited free standalone .NET decompiler from JetBrains goes public today: please welcome JetBrains dotPeek!
• How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture – The dynaTrace Blog – We see that while the three JVMs are essentially trying to achieve the same goal, they do so via different strategies. This leads to different behaviour that needs tuning.
• Courses – Google Code University – Google Code – Here is a list of courses and innovative resources to help CS students, faculty, and instructors. These are examples of the training Google engineers use to learn new skills.
• The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – MongoDB Powering MTV’s Web Properties – An interview with Jeff Yemin, Director of Content Management Systems at MTV Networks and a presenter at the upcoming MongoNYC conference.
• FunctionSource: Google Chrome Store and Angry Birds; GWT, WebGL, Canvas, and 95% – I am curious to see what Rovio leveraged when building the app with GWT. Is much of their Android codebase in there (given that although Java, the lower level platform is quite different
• Typesafe – A 100% open source, integrated distribution offering Scala, Akka, sbt, and the Scala plugin for Eclipse – The Typesafe Stack is a modern software platform that makes it easy for developers to build scalable software applications. It combines the Scala programming language, Akka middleware, and robust developer tools in a simple package that integrates seamlessly with existing Java infrastructure.
• Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg – BusinessWeek – Mark Zuckerberg's second-in-command provides "adult supervision" at the company, trying to keep growth at an optimum level
• gwt-voices – Sound Library for Google-Web-Toolkit (GWT) – Google Project Hosting – Library providing easy to use cross-platform browser sound capabilities to Google Web Toolkit (GWT) projects.