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Links for August 11th through August 16th

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Vinny

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• 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.

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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

Links for November 8th through November 10th

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Vinny

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• Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move • The Register – Peak traffic of 874,560 Tweets per minute without Fail Whale coming up for air
• JavaWorld: EasyTest(ing) in Java : A Data Driven Testing Framework is finally here – EasyTest is a framework developed to complement current JUnit's support and not to replace it. Its a developer friendly framework to writing JUnit based Data Driven Test Cases easily,effectively and quickly.
• RethinkDB – an open-source distributed database built with love – An open-source distributed database built with love. Enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration.
• Garlic.js allows you to automatically persist your forms’ text field values locally, until the form is submitted – Garlic.js allows you to automatically persist your forms' text field values locally, until the form is submitted. This way, your users don't lose any precious data if they accidentally close their tab or browser.
• Gizmodo.com Updates: Google Voice Search Vs. Siri: Who’s the Best… – With Google’s release of its brand new search app for iOS, we decided to put Siri in the ring with Voice Search—now available on your iPhone—to see if she could defend her own turf.
• Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop — Data | GigaOM – Facebook has open sourced a new system called Corona for scheduling and managing Hadoop jobs. Corona attempts to do away with many of the problems that come along with massive-scale Hadoop operations, and soon looks to take Facebook’s Hadoop deployment beyond just MapReduce.
• 5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed – The HTML5 revolution has provided us some awesome JavaScript and HTML APIs. I'd like to share with you 5 more lessor known HTML5 APIs — hopefully you find some of them useful!
• Obama’s win a big vindication for Nate Silver, king of the quants | Politics, Policy, and Technology – CNET News – Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the presidential election.