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Links for September 6th through September 14th

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Vinny

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• PostgreSQL Hits 9.3, New Levels Of Popularity With The Cool Kids – PostgreSQL has long been a great database, yet strangely ignored. Now it's rising in popularity. Why?
• Amazon Continues Its March Into Enterprise Clouds And Wallets – Amazon, long the belle of the SMB cloud dance, is getting serious about the enterprise and has the tools to win.
• Analysts: Amazon About To Get Serious Competition In The Cloud – Though AWS rules cloud compute workloads today, Google and Microsoft look set to give it serious competition, according to Forrester and Gartner.
• Coder for Raspberry Pi – A simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi. – Coder is a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web. New coders can craft small projects in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, right from the web browser.
• Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ – As a background – all of us in Plumbr have all been using Eclipse for as long as we can possibly remember. But when I just looked around in the office I saw our whole team being converted to IntelliJ IDEA users. So what made us to jump the old free-to-ride warhorse and go with something we need to pay up to $600 per seat? If you bear with me I give you several reasons why you could also consider the move. – See more at: http://plumbr.eu/blog/why-we-dropped-eclipse-in-favour-of-intellij#sthash.S4Wa110I.dpuf
• What’s Coming in Sencha Touch 2.3 – Sencha Touch 2.3 supports Apache Cordova APIs for Accelerometer, Camera, Capture, Compass, Connection, Contacts, Device, Events, File, Geolocation, Globalization, InAppBrowser, Media, Notification, Splashscreen, and Storage
• 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.
• Real Terminal, All Chrome — No Nonsense – Koding Blog – The app includes a Koding VM, SSH and all of the standard tools such as Vim, Emacs, and Midnight Commander. It also comes with runtimes/compilers for Python, Ruby, Go, Node, Gcc, and many more. The VMs even run an Apache server, accessible from a web address unique to the user’s session. All of this is completely free, no registration needed, and available whenever you need it.
• Sencha and Backend REST Services: How Modus Create Connects an App to DreamFactory | Blog | Sencha – In this post, I'm going to introduce you to how Modus Create connects their corporate address book app, built using Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4, to the DreamFactory open source backend services platform. We call each instance of the DreamFactory platform a
• FastClick – JavaScript library to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs – FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile browsers. The aim is to make your application feel less laggy and more responsive while avoiding any interference wi

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Links for January 26th through January 31st

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Vinny

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• 20 tips for building modern sites while supporting old versions of IE – 20 tips for building modern sites while supporting old versions of IE
• modern.IE: Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE | Microsoft – Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE
• How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server – Tutorials Blog – So I found yet another cool use for a Raspberry Pi. You can actually use it as a file server, or more accurately a controller for a file server. All you need is your Pi and a nice external drive and you can serve files to anyone on your network. It’s prett
• Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers – NYTimes.com – For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
• Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise – Java developers should learn functional paradigms now, even if they have no immediate plans to move to a functional language such as Scala or Clojure. Over time, all mainstream languages will become more functional; Neal Ford explores the reasons why in this installment.
• Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server – Airbnb Engineering – Here at Airbnb, we've been looking curiously at Node.js for a long time now.  We've used it for odds and ends, such as the build process for some of our libraries, but we hadn't built anything production-scale.  Until now. 
• Hortonworks Joins OpenStack Foundation | Hortonworks – Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, today announced it has joined the OpenStack Foundation, which promotes the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. By contributing to the OpenStack ecosystem
• 64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free – Marco.org – This is deceptive enough advertising that the FTC should consider taking action. As tablets become more computer-like and mobile OSes get larger, this is only going to get worse.
• Sequel Pro – MySQL Database Management for Mac OS X – Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.
• Cross-domain Ajax with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a W3C Working Draft that defines how the browser and server must communicate when accessing sources across origins. The basic idea behind CORS is to use custom HTTP headers to allow both the browser and the server to know enough about each other to determine if the request or response should succeed or fail.
• Considering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. – Inevitably, someone's going to come along and tell me how wrong I am and how MySQL is just fine as a database system. These people are everywhere, and they mean well too, and they are almost all wrong.
• Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge – We went to Google looking for the person responsible for the new design direction, but the strange answer we got is that such a person doesn't exist. Instead, thanks to a vision laid out by a small team of Google designers, each product team is finding its way to a consistent and forward-looking design language thanks to a surprising process.

Links for January 16th through January 18th

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Vinny

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• Scala 2013: A Pragmatic Guide To Scala Adoption in Your Java Organization – This report gives you what you need to know about experimenting with Scala programming in your Java team – a 15-page exclusive interview with Martin Odersky, another 15 pages of analysis, code, tips and tricks, including commentary from Josh Suereth, Scala expert and author.
• Scala will so totally win against Java. – The beauty of Scala is that it gives you a new paradigm to work with on the Java Virtual Machine, while retaining compatibility with other Java classes.
• Ubiquitous Testing – Testing Is Too Important to Leave to the End – Yehoram Shenhar and Alistair McKinnell present a way of doing testing having every team member involved in planning, estimating, and defining tests, testability being an architectural system attribute.
• What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming – From the standpoint of tech geeks like myself, the IT operation behind Obama for America was extremely impressive. Why? Because the operation managed to be all of the following at the same time: 100% cloud-based, deeply polyglot, poly-framework, poly-DB, and, perhaps most importantly, unbelievably agile and time- and resource-constrained. And when you consider that they were passing around terabytes of data across over 100 applications
• RethinkDB screencast – Watch a quick overview of the ReQL query language, sharding, replication, and more! – An open-source distributed database built with love. Enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration.
• ‘We thought we’d sell 1,000’: The inside story of the Raspberry Pi | ZDNet – The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to plans for its future.
• iOS – Creating your first app using the Windows Azure Mobile Services Quickstart – In this video Chris Risner demonstrates how you can create your first iOS application using Windows Azure Mobile Services. The demo includes creating your first Mobile Service, downloading the quick start iOS app, running the app then exploring how the application uses the Mobile Services Client SDK to insert, update and query its data to/from the newly created Mobile Service.
• Let Microsoft Teach You How To Code – for FREE! – Can Microsoft teach you how to code for free? It sounds like a sensational title but it is true, Microsoft can help you learn to code by providing you the tools and curriculum to do so.
• Integrating Bean Validation with JAX-RS in Java EE 6 » samaxes – JavaBeans Validation (Bean Validation) is a new validation model available as part of Java EE 6 platform. The Bean Validation model is supported by constraints in the form of annotations placed on a field, method, or class of a JavaBeans component, such as a managed bean.
• Duri.me – A beautifully simple image-to-DataURI converter. – A beautifully simple image-to-DataURI converter