Links for December 13th through December 18th

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Vinny

The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap | AppNeta – After Ilya’s talk ended, I started to think more about why performance always seems to be an afterthought with developers. As I pondered this thought, I kept coming back to the following question:
How hard is it to get a perfect PageSpeed Insights score?
Does IT Still Matter? – Jack Bauer of ’24′ Provides The Answer – Firms that view new technology as frivolous or too costly will ultimately fall victim to nimbler startups and more progressive traditional competitors. While innovative technology investments are not a ticket to market leadership, over reliance on antiquated technology is a death march to the corporate graveyard. The next time a luddite in your firm says that your outdated technology is sufficient, show them the 24 parody video (assuming your firm has broadband internet access!).
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction – In this post, I'll walk you through everything you need to know about logs, including what is log and how to use logs for data integration, real time processing, and system building.
The API-ization of everything – If software is eating every industry and every type of economic activity, then the force that is replacing it is actually software talking to other software. That's the API.
CommonRegex – Common Regular Expressions Made Simple – Find all dates, times, emails, phone numbers, link, and emails in a string.
Apache Kafka – A high-throughput distributed messaging system. – Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Amazon Kinesis – a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale – With Amazon Kinesis applications, you can build real-time dashboards, capture exceptions and generate alerts, drive recommendations, and make other real-time business or operational decision
Moonshot – When describing the process of disruptive innovation, Clay Christensen set about to also describe the process by which a technology is developed by visionaries in a commercially unsuccessful way. He called it cramming.
Evernote for the enterprise: Huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned iOS app – Like Huddle’s other offerings, Huddle Note comes with audit trails, version control, approval management, and enterprise-grade security.
The Future of GWT Report 2013 – With over 30 pages of data, charts, stats and commentary from the most well-respected folks in the world of GWT, we'd like to think that this report is the most complete survey of the GWT community to date

Links for August 11th through August 16th

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Vinny

An inside (and detailed) look at re-architecting Twitter. Plus, a new Tweets-per-second peak: 143,199 Tweets. – An inside (and detailed) look at re-architecting Twitter. Plus, a new Tweets-per-second peak: 143,199 Tweets.
RethinkDB – An open-source distributed database with intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries – RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.
PentesterLab.com – Learn Web Penetration Testing: The Right Way – PentesterLab is an easy and great way to learn penetration testing.
PentesterLab provides vulnerable systems that can be used to test and understand vulnerabilities
How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut – Forbes – Palantir turns messy swamps of information into intuitively visualized maps, histograms and link charts. Give its so-called “forward-deployed engineers” a few days to crawl, tag and integrate every scrap of a customer’s data, and Palantir can elucidate problems as disparate as terrorism, disaster response and human trafficking.
Encryption is less secure than we thought – For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong.
Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software. Here’s how that helps it fight real enemies like VMware. – While most companies fight copycats, Red Hat embraces its top clone, CentOS. Here's how that helps it fight real enemies like VMware.
I’ve Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here’s Why It’s Actually Amazing – For years, I kept hearing how awesome Evernote was: how it could store everything you possibly needed, make it available everywhere, and how scores of people couldn't live without it. I tried it multiple times, and never saw the appeal until now. Here's what I was missing.
TinyPNG – Compress PNG images while preserving transparency – Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.
Why JavaScript Will Become The Dominant Programming Language Of The Enterprise – ReadWrite – A simple learning curve and flexible skill set have JavaScript on the verge of taking over the enterprise.

Links for November 22nd through November 30th

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Vinny

Turbo-Charging Agile Software Development with Lean Methods – Satish Thatte introduces Scrum, Agile and Lean, then explains how Lean can be used to enhance Agile practices.
tabIndent – Javascript object that allows you to enhance a plain old textbox with "tab" behaviour. – tabIndent.js does two things to enhance the traditional text-box:
– Disables the default browser behaviour (moving to the next input box)
– Enhances the existing textbox to capture the "tab" key and replicate behaviour similar to that found in editors. (Inserting a tab character, intentation
The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like – The most recent findings that support coffee as a panacea will make their premiere this December in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Coffee, researchers found, appears to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
New Kendo UI Framework for Java Developers — Application Development Trends – Developer tools and solutions provider Telerik has released a new version of its framework for building applications and Web sites with HTML5 and JavaScript that supports Java.
5 APIs that will transform the Web in 2013 | Alex MacCaw – The reason why the future is so bright is evergreen browsers, or browsers that automatically update in the background. It takes about 18 weeks for a new feature in Chrome’s Canary to be rolled out to its ~350 million users. That’s an incredibly fast adoption rate, and innovation is happening quicker than ever before
Chatting with Obama For America’s Director of Frontend Development: Daniel Ryan | Nettuts+ – Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Daniel Ryan – the Director of Frontend Development for “Obama for America” – about the strategies, technologies, and experiences that were a part of the race to November 6.
The Release Windows Archaism | Monday Note – Even taking in account the unavoidable piracy (which also acts as a powerful promotional channel), with two billion people connected to the internet outside the US, the math heavily favors the end of the counter-productive and honest-viewer-hostile Release Windows archaism.
Redline Smalltalk – because nothing is as productive as Smalltalk, and the App has to run on the Java Virtual Machine. – a couple of major barriers keep Smalltalk out of reach for many developers. I want to bring Smalltalk to everyone, so I created Redline, a thoroughly modern version of Smalltalk that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com – Linus Torvalds created Linux, which now runs vast swathes of the internet, including Google and Facebook. And he invented Git, software that’s now used by developers across the net to build new applications of all kinds. But that’s not all Torvalds has given the internet.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: September 2012 – tecosystems – while there may be a few surprises on this list – the continued traction of Java, as an example, is unexpected for some – by and large this list seems like nothing more or less than a reasonable representation of programming languages in use today
Keynote: The New Application Architectures – Adrian Colyer discusses the application architecture emerging these days defined by a departure from server-side apps to a model characterized by smart clients and services.
Keynote: Spring 2012 and Beyond – Adrian Colyer, Juergen Hoeller, Mark Pollack and Graeme Rocher present SpringSource’s Unifying Component Model, current developments regarding Big Data, and betting on Grails.
Changing times for web developers – 6 Tips You Should Read to survive – Think about crafting your web applications properly. Use commonsense to mix and match based on scenarios. Here we go with 6 Tips to be a responsible web developer, and to stay on top of what you do.
18 Useful Twitter Boostrap Goodies You Should Know | Queness – In this post, I have found many useful tools, plugins and themes created specifically for Twitter Bootstrap. If you love using Twitter Bootstrap, I'm sure you will love all these resources.
50 Tricks for Faster Web Applications – Jatinder Mann, an Internet Explorer PM at Microsoft, held the session 50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster at BUILD 2012, providing many tips for creating faster web applications. The advice provided by Mann was organized around six principles outlined below.
Apple and Twitter – Almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess – My friend and co-worker Tom has a thesis about Apple’s biggest problem: Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services.

Daily del.icio.us for July 2nd through July 6th

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Vinny

Fareed Zakaria – Obama’s CEO problem — and ours – The Federal Reserve recently reported that America's 500 largest nonfinancial companies have accumulated an astonishing $1.8 trillion of cash on their balance sheets
Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete | NCZOnline – CSS sprites were a solution to the problem of multiple HTTP requests to download multiple images. Data URIs allow you to embed images directly into your CSS files, solving the same problem in a much more elegant and maintainable way
iPad not eating Mac sales, says analyst – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech – In other words, the lack of a camera or keyboard on the iPad gives customers a reason to keep buying Macs.
Relax, Java is still #1 | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew – Java is still the number one most popular programming language, according to the most recent TIOBE survey.
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs – BusinessWeek – The former Intel chief says "job-centric" leadership and incentives are needed to expand U.S. domestic employment again
Java Code Geeks: GWT 2 Spring 3 JPA 2 Hibernate 3.5 Tutorial – Eclipse and Maven 2 showcase – This step by step guide will present how to develop a simple web application using Google's Web Toolkit (GWT) for the rich client and Spring as the back – end, server side framework
A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft – NYTimes.com – In particular, the Kin debacle is a reflection of Microsoft’s struggle to deliver what the younger generation of technology-obsessed consumers wants. From hand-held products to business software, Microsoft seems behind the times
"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto (Multimedia artwork) – "2053" – This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
CollabNet Subversion Edge 1.0 Beta – Subversion Edge includes Apache's web server and the ViewVC repository view, which lets you manage your directory through a browser
Using the Java VisualVM to optimize your Java Applications – Java VisualVM is a tool that provides a visual interface for viewing detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and for troubleshooting and profiling these applications.
Confluence 3.3 Sneak Peek – Confluence Product Blog – Confluence 3.3 is just around the corner. Since the the last release, we've been working really hard on making it even faster to build content rich wiki pages using the Rich Text Editor
GWT 2.1 Milestone 2 is now available – With the release of GWT 2.1 M2, we’re continuing to evolve the integration between Google and VMware that was announced at this year’s Google I/O
GWT 2.0.4 is now available – There were several reports, both internally and externally, of GWT-based applications unexpectedly crashing when running in Safari 5 (including Google Wave)
Monet’s Canvas Cathedrals: A Life Study Of Light : NPR – The impressionists broke all the formal academic rules — they used quick brush strokes, changed perspective, made their shadows out of color, not black. And it all started with a young painter, sitting by the water's edge in Le Havre.
Full Nelson: Behind Cisco’s Tablet Surprise — Cisco Tablet — InformationWeek – The Cisco Cius, an Android-based tablet will push everything Cisco believes in one step further. It will make presence and collaboration and video more mobile, more accessible, and more sexy.

Daily del.icio.us for April 17th through April 19th

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Vinny

Getting Started with Sonatype Nexus on Vimeo – This video walks you through the process of downloading, installing, starting, and configuring Nexus. In less than four minutes, you'll be up and running with the most capable repository manager on the market.
Speed Tracer – Google Web Toolkit – Google Code – Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs
The Top 15 Google Products for People Who Build Websites – Google’s strategy of empowering site developers and owners with free and valuable tools has proven to be effective in garnering a fair bit of geek love for the company. Check out some of the best Google products for developing, analyzing, maintaining and tinkering with websites.
op4j 1.0 Released and Ready for Spoon Bending | Javalobby – op4j enables 'chained expressions' to improve the semantics and cleanness of your code while reducing the complexity of executing low-level auxiliary tasks in Java
GitHub API for Java – – This library defines an object oriented representation of the GitHub API. The library doesn't yet cover the entirety of the GitHub API, but it's implemented with the right abstractions and libraries to make it very easy to improve the coverage.
InfoQ: Unit and Integration Testing for GWT Applications – GWT has turned out to be a UI technology, which, with a few tools, enables us to perform highly advanced tests thus further increasing the productivity of this technology.
Speeding up GWT | Javalobby – I’ve recently come across a few great resources on how to speed up client-side GWT
Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » How WebKit Loads a Web Page – Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web
Agility and Architecture: Can They Coexist? – Agile development has significantly impacted industrial software development practices. However, despite its wide popularity, there's an increasing perplexity about software architecture's role and importance in agile approaches
HTML5 presentation – The purpose of the presentation is to show the coming bleeding edge features for modern desktop and mobile browsers.

Daily del.icio.us for March 31st through April 5th

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Vinny

Creating a unified programming model on top of .NET (CLR and DLR) – I watched Anders Hejlsberg’s, chief designer of the C# programming language, developer keynote at TechDays 2010 ‘Trends and future directions in programming languages’.<br />
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Here are some the things that caught my attention. The video is worth checking out.
Google Web Toolkit Blog: Look ma, no plugin! – The new crop of HTML5 web browsers are capable of some pretty amazing things, and several of our engineers decided to take some 20% time to see how far we could push them. The result? An HTML5 port of Id's Quake II game engine!
Web and mobile apps come under review on new Stanford site – WhatApp?, officially being launched this month at http://www.whatapp.org, reviews web and mobile apps for privacy, security and openness.
iPad Keeps Up with Columnist’s Speedy Typing – CBS News – I wrote almost this entire column using an iPad, which partially answered my biggest question about the device: Can it replace a laptop PC? So far, the answer is a qualified yes.
Official Gmail Blog: Gmail on the iPad – With today's release of the iPad, we're launching an experimental two-pane user interface to take advantage of its large touchscreen and tablet form factor. Building upon the Gmail for mobile web app, this new interface displays your conversations on the left and your messages on the right hand side.
Tech hiring poised for recovery — and open source leads the way | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld – More hiring and better benefits are actually appearing in Silicon Valley as tech firms come out of the recession
InfoQ: High Performance Ajax with GWT – Ajax applications have a big usability jump from traditional web applications and GWT provides tools that give you better Ajax performance for free. You should compare the startup speed of the GWT mail sample to other sample Ajax applications
In Relation To… Hibernate 3.5.0-Final release – Hibernate 3.5 is out with JPA 2.0 support
GWT 2.0: Using TabLayoutPanel with UiBinder « Giant Flying Saucer – The point to this article is to take a particular Widget, in this case the TabLayoutPanel and to create and show instance of it the old way (which is still supported) and then to show how to do the same but using UiBinder.
gwt-comet – A Comet Implementation for the Google Web Toolkit – This gwt-comet library provides an efficient Comet implementation for GWT. The library implements Comet by streaming messages over long lived HTTP requests to minimise latency and bandwidth requirements and maximise the throughput.

Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Vinny

GAEJ Experiments eBook « Google App Engine Java Experiments – I am pleased to announce to everyone that version 1.0 of the GAEJ Experiments eBook is now ready and published
Microsoft: Don’t press F1 key in Windows XP – Ignore sites that nag to press the Help key, says zero-day bug advisory
Technology Review: Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet – BigSheets is built on top of another piece of software called Hadoop. This is an open-source platform for processing very large amounts of Web data by splitting up tasks and handing them off to a cluster of different computers
Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project – The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV.
The CTO Corner – The CTO Corner is dedicated to the topics and issues important to today's busy technology executive, the Chief Technology Officer. This site focuses on leadership & management, technology trends, and contemporary development & programming practices
QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession – Web developers should take a look at their sites on a Nokia and a BlackBerry and fix whatever’s wrong. It isn’t that hard to get your hands on a testing device
Tug’s Blog: Create and Deploy a JAX-RS REST service on Google App Engine – In this article you have learned how to create and deploy a new REST Service on Google App Engine. This service has been created with the JAX-RS Reference Implementation the Jersey project
Nailgun: Insanely Fast Java – Nailgun is a client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from the command line without incurring the JVM startup overhead. Programs run in the server (which is implemented in Java), and are triggered by the client (written in C), which handles all I/O.
Javaee trainer: Struts2 course chapter 1: Evolution of web applications – I must say that Struts 2 is not only a new version of the popular Struts framework but it is a brand-new, state-of-the-art web application framework. In includes the following advantages
Implementation Spotlight: cara3 from Generis — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – Ext GWT is an excellent supplement for Google Web Toolkit. It’s not just an ordinary set of components, it’s a very advanced framework for building rich web applications. With such a set of tools, developing is actually a pleasure. And the Web Desktop architecture is going to be a new standard in Enterprise applications. There is one question that arises in this situation: When is Google going to buy Ext?

Daily del.icio.us for November 23rd through November 24th

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Vinny

Servlet 3.0: A Sneak Preview – Apart from the addition of functionalities such as filters and web application events, the Servlet specification—one of the key Java APIs for web application development—has not undergone any major changes since its introduction. However, the specification has remained robust, and the release of the new Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will affect a major change in the way developers build Java web applications.
Service Oriented Architecture Reference Architecture – This document specifies the OASIS Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture. It follows from the concepts and relationships defined in the OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture. While it remains abstract in nature, the current document describes one possible template upon which a SOA concrete architecture can be built.
Will it play in App Engine – Google App Engine for Java | Google Groups – A list of technologies, frameworks, etc that are currently supported under Google AppEngine. JAX-WS is missing and is considered a MUST-HAVE for me.
wro4j – Web Resource Optimizer for Java – The purpose of wro4j project is to reduce the number of requests needed to load a page and the amount of data to transfer to clients, achieving drastic improvement of loading times. The resources can be benefit also from minification and compression.
Code, Coffee : weblog, Beta – "’Spring Enterprise Recipes,’ from Apress" – In the large, this book is a gentle, but comprehensive introduction to the best-of-breed solutions for tomorrow's architecture using Spring and other lightweight, powerful tool
Sandboxie – Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing – Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic – According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S
Schauderhaft » The Software Development is like the Evolution of Life – Software development has been compared to many things. I’d like to propose another comparison: Evolution.
A Java geek » Thoughts on Java logging and SLF4J – In this post, I will ramble on logging in Java, how it was done in the old days and what can a library like SLF4J can bring
Building Java Applications with Windows Azure :: Sessions :: Microsoft PDC09 – Come learn how to build large-scale applications in the cloud using Java, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will cover using Apache Tomcat and Java in Windows Azure.

Daily del.icio.us for October 30th through November 5th

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Vinny

Exclusive First Listen: Norah Jones : NPR – A warm, organic-sounding record, The Fall showcases Jones' musical depth in exciting and unexpected ways, suitable for old fans and newcomers alike. Please leave your opinions of the album in the comments section below.
Closure Compiler – Google Code – The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls.
Atmosphere Framework 0.4 Released – Atmosphere allow the creation of RESTful and Ajax Push/Comet applications, and version 0.4 is ready for prime time. This release contains many new features and can be seen in action in many well-known frameworks.
Five Important Trends on the Enterprise Architect’s Radar | Javalobby – It is no secret that the internet architectures are influencing enterprise architectures. This post attempts to summarise some of the recent trends in the internet space, which seem to be carrying some momentum sufficient enough to influence the enterprise.
The iPhone dons a suit and tie – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech – "There is growing evidence that the iPhone is making inroads into the Enterprise," writes Deutsche Bank research analyst Chris Whitmore in a report to clients Monday.
Developers: the best smart phone platform is? – ……he’d bias to iPhone and Android, if he had to make a choice of only two platforms to develop on. This is also what I’m hearing from many other developers.
InfoQ: Real-life SOA –
KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net] – If Google's plans to become more community-oriented come to fruition, the result should be a better kernel for all.
Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid – If hype were to be believed, the Motorola DROID is the pièce de résistance of the mobile world; the conclusive creation sent down by the Great Smartphone in the sky to rid us of our woes
InfoQ: SpringOne/2GX 2009 Keynote – TeamCity 5.0 is approaching inevitably and here we are with fresh EAP build.
All major new features have been introduced already in previous EAPs, but still you’ll find lots of improvements and fixes to check

Daily del.icio.us for September 9th through September 16th

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Vinny

JavaScript Framework Matrix – Overview with functions and examples – The JavaScript Framework Matrix will give you an overview of popular JavaScript frameworks and their functions. There are various examples for the frameworks and every snippet contains links to the official documentation
SpriteMe: Spriting made easy – SpriteMe is an open source project that helps web developers create sprites in a matter of minutes rather than hours.
InfoQ: Book Review: Understanding SCA – Overall the book provides a complete introduction to SCA. If you are not familiar with the technology and you are building an SOA, it is certainly worth investing some of your time either to adopt the technology or implement some of its patterns.
Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies
Introduction to Google Collections | Benjamin Winterberg – The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework you already know and love.
InfoQ: 3 Patterns from SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl – All of these patterns are considered fundamental to inventory governance in that they support and are influenced by the Service Discoverability principle, which actually shapes service meta information in such a manner that it can be effectively discovered and interpreted.
SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready – After 20,000 lines of new code, over 5,000 new unit tests, and countless hours of effort by over 30 contributors, SproutCore 1.0 is almost ready. Try out the new code today and help us make the push to our final release. Join the HTML5 revolution.
iPhone gets .Net app development | Developer World – InfoWorld – Leveraging Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows applications on non-Windows systems, Novell's MonoTouch 1.0 is a commercial software development kit that lets developers utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#
thewojogroup’s simplecart-js at master – GitHub – A simple paypal shopping cart in 20kb that you can setup in minutes
Hades – Trac – Hades is a utility library to work with Data Access Objects implemented with Spring and JPA. The main goal is to ease the development and operation of a data access layer in applications.

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