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Google & the Future of JavaScript | Infrequently Noted – Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we’re pushing hard to make it happen.
InfoQ: Agile and Architecture Conflict – There is a constant tussle between following Agile techniques and still managing to do enterprise architecture. While Agile development focuses on adjusting the design and plan as more insight is gained into the domain, architecture establishes the technology stack. It addresses the quality attributes and communicates to the interested stakeholders. Combination of the two is successful when agile techniques are leveraged to drive towards the desired architecture.
The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – MongoDB 2.0 Released – The MongoDB development team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0. Version 2.0 is the latest stable release, following the March 2011 release of version 1.8. This release includes many new features, improvements to existing features, and performance enhancements.
dzone.com – Spring Social 1.0: What a Year Makes – It’s been an exciting year leading up to Spring Social 1.0, and there is a lot to be excited about with this big release. Now that we have a strong, stable foundation, I’m looking forward to seeing where Spring Social goes from here.
Refactoring in IntelliJ IDEA, Live by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – A live refactoring demo performed by the legendary software expert himself. He’s, of course, using IntelliJ IDEA!
Google Dart to “ultimately … replace JavaScript” – The goal of the Dash effort is ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development on the open web platform.
Pow: Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X – Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute
A Powerful Obama Speech By Mohamed El-Erian CEO and Co-CIO, Pimco – Judging from President Obama's impactful speech this evening, the Administration has at long last recognized the severity of America's unemployment crisis and the need for a comprehensive policy response.

Researchers find possible solution for insulin dependence in type 1 diabetes – In what some are calling a potential cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that suppressing a single hormone may make the condition completely asymptomatic and eliminate the need for insulin injections.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Rack and the Beanstalk – In this post we start to think out of the box, and show you how to run any Rack based Ruby application (including Rails and Sinatra) on the Elastic Beanstalk platform
Raghuram Rajan: Why Did Most Economists Not Foresee the Crisis? – At the height of the financial crisis, the Queen of England asked my friends at the London School of Economics a simple question, but one for which there is no easy answer: Why did academic economists fail to foresee the crisis?
Fishbone: A GWT and Google App Engine Blog: Tutorial: A GWT application for storing and serving images using the GAE Blobstore –
Exposing a POJO as a JMX MBean easily with Spring « The Holy Java – Exposing a POJO as a MBean with Spring is easy, just don’t forget to start an MBean server and a connector. For JMXMP, include the jmxmp impl. jar on the classpath and for RMI make sure to start a RMI registry before the connector.
Help.GitHub – Working with SSH key passphrases – This guide will step you through the process of securing your ssh keys while avoiding re-entry of your passphrase every time you use the key
What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills? – Stack Overflow – What is the most effective thing you have done that improved your programming skills? What would you recommend to others that want to improve?
HoneyApps Conduit – Vulnerability Management – HoneyApps Conduit consolidates all of your security vulnerability information, reporting and management into a single place. Conduit connects a number of automated vulnerability scanning solutions from web application, host, network and database vulnerability assessment tools and centralizes your company’s vulnerability data and reporting functions
Contracts for Java – Google Open Source Blog – Contracts for Java is our new open source tool. Preconditions, postconditions, and invariants are added as Java boolean expressions inside annotations. By default these do nothing, but enabled via a JVM argument, they’re checked at runtime.
minuteproject – MinuteProject is reverse-engineering tool – MinuteProject is reverse-engineering tool. It generate application stacks in technos: spring, hibernate, jpa, ibatis, FitNesse, VAADIN, OpenXava, Roo, Grails, Playframework

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