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Links for September 25th through October 1st

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Vinny

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• Arrange Your Code Automatically with IntelliJ IDEA 12 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – For a long time IntelliJ IDEA has not provided a native support for arranging the code automatically. There was a third-party Rearranger plugin for Java language. Now we plan to bundle it into the IDE with native support for Java and other programming languages.
• Typesafe brings SpringSource co-founder Rod Johnson aboard — Cloud Computing News – Johnson’s presence on Typesafe’s board brings even more credibility to Typesafe’s push to make Scala a top-tier language for scalable enterprise applications. The company will be at JavaOne promoting that vision.
• PhoneGap | PhoneGap Explained Visually – Before I go too far, let me attempt to clearly state what PhoneGap is… PhoneGap is an application container technology that allows you to create natively-installed applications for mobile devices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The core engine for PhoneGap is also 100% open source, under the Apache Cordova project.
• How the Internet ruined San Francisco – Salon.com – The dot-com invasion — call them twerps with 'tude — is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.
• Convert Plain-text Documents to PDF, Docx, and ePub with Docverter – Convert plain text documents written in HTML, Markdown, or LaTeX to PDF, Docx, RTF or ePub with a simple HTTP API.
• 11 upcoming changes for Cordova iOS 2.1.0 « Shazron’s Cordova (aka PhoneGap) Blog – 11 upcoming changes for Cordova iOS 2.1.0

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Links for December 29th through January 3rd

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Vinny

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• InfoQ: Graeme Rocher on Grails 2.0 and Polyglot Persistence – In this interview recorded at JavaOne 2011 Conference, Srini Penchikala talks to Grails project lead Graeme Rocher about Grails 2.0 features, polyglot persistence paradigm and how Grails supports it. Graeme also talks about the tool support and the upcoming features in Grails 3.0 release.
• Spring / GWT Software Architecture for scalable applications – Part 2 « Fancy UI – During this article you will learn how to build efficiently and quickly the backend (based upon the solution described on part one) that is going to be used later by any kind of clients (GWT, Android,…). My aim is to guide step by step on building an example application and gives you all the best practices on each step to achieve high quality code.
• InfoQ: Keynote: Predictability and Measurement with Kanban – David J. Anderson explains how to use predictability, measurement and change management to balance the factors of observed capability, staffing, and delivery targets to achieve predictable outcomes.
• InfoQ: SOA and Cloud: What is in store for 2012? – Traditionally on the brink of a new year, independent analysts and experts share their predictions and this time around we are sharing some relevant ones in the SOA and Cloud space for 2012. This year the common themes underpinning all SOA and Cloud predictions are the rapid changes occuring in Big Data and the consumerization of IT through mobile and open APIs.
• InfoQ: Things I Wish I’d Known – Rod Johnson shares some of the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur – Things I Wish I'd Known – Rod Johnson shares some of the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur
• davidsalter.com: VMware Introduces vFabric 5, an Integrated Application Platform for Virtual and Cloud Environments – vFabric reportedly allows developers to build cloud applications up to 50% faster with Spring that can be run on premise or in the cloud.
• InfoQ: Navigating the Maze of EA Certifications – There are over a dozen Enterprise Architecture certifications available and they are becoming increasingly critical when hiring and evaluating architects. Microsoft’s Mike Walker categorized these certifications into a Reference Guide that can help architects better understand which certification(s) to pursue.
• Mike’s Site: Unit Testing Named Queues: Spring 3+maven2+Google App Engine – Problem, you have a task that you know can take more than 30 seconds to complete, what do you do? What if this task needs to be triggered every day at a specific time? Google provides several mechanisms to to solve just this problem, queues and scheduled task, respectively.
• Just a little Python: MongoDB’s Write Lock – I was curious about the performance impact of the write lock and the improvement of lock-with-yield, so I decided to do a little benchmark, MongoDB 1.8 versus MongoDB 2.0
• Dropbox Automator Is Like IFTTT For Dropbox | TechCrunch – Like IFTTT, Dropbox Automator is capable of triggering a similar series of actions, based on what kind of files have been added to your Dropbox folders.
• Dropbox: the new file system of the web | Collaborable – The Dropbox REST API is going to forever change the way people interact with web apps for business. It allows your web app to put and pull data from any user’s desktop or mobile device.

Links for June 11th through June 16th

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Vinny

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• Sencha Touch – An Introduction to Carousels on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) demonstrates how to use Sencha Touch to create carousel-based apps, such as this artist's portfolio.
• YouTube – Rod Johnson Says Java Can Learn Loads from the Rails Community – Rod Johnson, tells interviewer Cameron McKenzie that Java developers have a lot to learn from the Rails community. The response came from a question about what it would take for the enterprise Java community to eagerly adopt cloud based technologies like vFabric and the up and coming Code2Cloud initiative.
• The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog – Getting started with VMware CloudFoundry, MongoDB and Node.js – Following up from our previous post we’re posting up a quick how-to for using Node.JS, CloudFoundry and MongoDB together. Our end goal here is to build a simple web app that records visits and provides a reporting screen for the last 10 visits.
• GWT Dependency Injection recipes using GIN (II) » Canoo RIA Blog – In this article, we have applied new dependency injection recipes to our GWT demo application. I hope that they can help you give a better structure to your GWT applications and also learn dependency injection features and its “best practices”.
• Sencha Touch – Intro to Listeners – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) describes the basics of how listeners work in Sencha Touch. This tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to understand how to create custom behavior and functionality inside their Sencha Touch mobile app.
• Teach your team some Git! Experiences of a team lead who cares. / unfoldthat.com – Git is not for cowards, so decide quickly and proceed – or not.
• Peter’s blog: It’s official: developers get better with age. And scarcer. – It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
• Initializr – Start your HTML5 project in 15 seconds! – Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start.
• Spiffy UI Framework – REST, Security, and Rapid Development for GWT – Spiffy UI Framework – REST, Security, and Rapid Development for GWT
• Live from Las Vegas – How iCloud works with a shared Apple ID – To sum it up, it is still possible to use iCloud for your personal stuff, but a shared Apple ID for you and your family. For me, the key was to skip the automated iCloud setup at the iOS welcome walk-through.

Daily del.icio.us for May 30, 2007 through May 31, 2007

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Vinny

• Google Gears API Developer’s Guide (Beta) – Architecture – During development of Gears, we experimented with many different architectures for offline-enabled web applications. In this document we briefly look at some of them and explore their advantages and disadvantages.
• InfoQ: A Wicket User Revisits JSF – Peter recently took a 2nd look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. The evaluation was prompted by his recent writing on migrating from Spring MVC / Webflow to Wicket.
• Google Gears – Enabling Offline Web Applications – Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
• Jakarta POI – Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files – After quite a wait, version 3.0 of Apache Jakarta POI has now been released. The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating files based on Microsoft’s OLE 2 Compound Document format using Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java
• Spring 2.1: TheServerSide Video Interview Part I – We ran into Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework, at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Rod talks to us about Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Batch in part I of this interview
• How Agile Development Can Lead to Better Results and Technology-Business Alignment – Agile?s ascendancy is in direct response to IT?s dolorous history of software project failure, cost overruns and the concomitant business dissatisfaction with traditional IT design and development?the waterfall methodology