Links for February 21st through February 26th

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Vinny

IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses (msdn.com) – IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses (msdn.com)
Webinar recording: Theming your app for iOS, Android, WP8 and BB10 on Vimeo – Theming Sencha Touch applications is one the major steps in getting an application built and deployed. Teams looking to build custom themes need to consider various theming best practices in addition to thinking about what platforms their application needs
Servant for IIS – transforms IIS Manager into to a beautiful, fast and web-based management tool. – Servant is a piece of software that transforms your regular Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to a beautiful, fast and web-based management tool.
Brian McCallion on Enterprise Considerations for Cloud, Hybrid Strategies, and Amazon RedShift – Enterprise cloud specialist Brian McCallion talks about what's really holding back enterprises from adopting the cloud, how they should address their legacy applications, ways to avoid introducing complexity in distributed environments, the value of Amazon
Hortonworks delivers beta of Hadoop big-data platform for Windows | ZDNet – HDP was built with "joint investment and contributions" from Microsoft, according to officials from both companies. The new Windows platform is 100 percent open source and provides the same Hadoop experience as is available from Hortonworks on Linux
The Nine Circles of Hell: Front-End Development for Sharepoint – This publication is intended as a useful quick-start guide for front-end developers delving into the realm of Sharepoint development.
How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing – Developing in the newsroom is fast-paced and comes with a different set of priorities than when you’re coding for a technology product team. There are three salient Boyerisms I’ve picked up in my month as an NP-Rapper that sum up these differences:
Bootstrapping a Software Product // Speaker Deck – A presentation about the lessons learned through both the good and bad decisions that we feel we've made while bootstrapping Sifter. Evolving this into a book that should be out mid-March 2013. http://startingandsustaining.com
Ruby 2.0 is released – Ruby 2.0.0 is the first stable release of the Ruby 2.0 series, with many new features and improvements in response to the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby.
SproutCore vs Cappucino vs Ember vs Extjs – Stack Overflow – Great comments from the core-team members of some of the best JavaScript frameworks out there. SproutCore vs Cappucino vs Ember vs Extjs
Common JavaScript "Gotchas" – JavaScript has a lot of weird behaviours that trip up noobs to the language – especially those acquainted with more traditional OOP languages. Hopefully this guide will provide a quickly scannable, easily understood list to save a lot of pain to those getting acquainted with the language.
Rails, You Have Turned into Java. Congratulations! | Discursive – I’ve railed against the JCP for years, but I do think that Rails is a picture of what happens to “frameworks” in the absence of standards. Call me old for saying it, but I did. So there
An Overview of Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java – Kevin Bourrillion introduces Guava, a set of open source core libraries used internally by Google.
Android SQLite Database – Android platform includes the SQLite embedded database and provides out of the box support to use it via Android APIs. In this tutorial we shall see how to get started with SQLite database in Android. SQLite is nothing but a relational database and our sql
Google I/O registration begins March 13th at 7am PST, requires Google+ and Google Wallet accounts – The Next Web – Google has announced the registration dates for this year’s I/O conference, which will be held on May 15-17, 2013 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Registration for the conference will open on March 13th at 7AM PST
Getting started with Spring Data and Distributed Database Grids – Mark Johnson and David Turanski introduce Spring Data for GemFire demoing using Spring Data for persistency across multiple distributed database grids.
Google ports Chrome OS app launcher to the Chrome browser Dev channel on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon – The Next Web – Google on Wednesday announced a significant bridging of the gap between Chrome and Chrome OS: the app launcher, a little window that features all your apps in one place. The company has ported the dedicated “home for your apps” from Chrome OS to its Chrome browser
The Saddest Map In America « I think it’s funny 🙂 – Yep, there it is: the result of a scholarly study by Dorothy Gambrell of the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. This is where you thought you saw your future spouse or date or hook-up, state by state.

Links for February 1st through February 5th

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Vinny

Service Oriented Architecture at Square | Architects Zone – SOA is hard. Learn how Square is approaching this problem today with JRuby and where we hope to be in the future. We'll go from git init to cap deploy, covering Square's approach to testing and service isolation, dependency management, API documentation, code quality metrics, data seeding, schema versioning, logging, exception handling, security and password management, deployment and more.
Announcing MoSQL – a MongoDB → PostgreSQL streaming replication – Today, we are releasing MoSQL, a tool Stripe developed for live-replicating data from a MongoDB database into a PostgreSQL database. With MoSQL, you can run applications against a MongoDB database, but also maintain a live-updated mirror of your data in Po
Free Sencha Touch and Ext JS 4 Training Tutorials – Teach Yourself Sencha Complete with Sencha Architect is a self-study course designed to introduce you to the basic concepts of building cross-browser compatible mobile and desktop apps using technologies from Sencha, Inc.
Why Amazon Is Special and Apple Is Not—in 1 Paragraph – Derek Thompson – The Atlantic – A week ago, Apple announced the most profitable quarter in the history of the company and the stock plunged 12 percent. A few days later, Amazon announced a 45 percent annual fall in profits, and its stock went up. What the what?
Java language designer Daniel Smith describes the forthcoming enhancements in Java 8 as "dramatic and necessary" – In this article we discuss the new language features coming in Java 8, as well as the most important enhancements to the standard libraries, specifically the new Stream interface.
One-third of Europe’s software industry is SAP | ZDNet – Germany accounts for over 48 percent of Europe's software revenue, according to the Truffle list, bringing in €18.1bn of the continent's €37.2bn software revenues last year. However, SAP remains Europe's 100lb gorilla, accounting for €14bn of software reve
A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge – Marco.org – The recently rumored, larger-screened “iPhone Math”, or more likely “iPhone Plus”, is plausible as an additional model (not a replacement) alongside the 4” iPhone. And there’s a good chance that it would have a 4.94”, 16:9 screen.
Egghead IO: 26 AngularJS Tutorial Videos – Egghead Videos aims to provide the best experience for teaching with video tutorials on the web. For starters, there are 26 videos on AngularJS.
Going Async – Practical Patterns for Push-enabled Applications – Jeremy Grelle demoes patterns for building desktop or mobile applications leveraging WebSockets and Push-to-Device services with SockJS, RabbitMQ and Spring.
Building Google Cloud Storage – Nathan Herring presents the available storage options at Google, the ideal characteristics of a storage service, and the actual implementation of Google Cloud Storage.
Flight by Twitter – A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter – Flight is a lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework that maps behavior to DOM nodes. Twitter uses it for their web applications. By way of example, we've including a simple email client demo (browse the source code) built over the Flight framewor

Links for May 25th through May 26th

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: Using DRY: Between Code Duplication and High-Coupling – DRY is an important principle, but abusing it can generate problems such as increased coupling and reduced readability. The lesson here is that no matter how great a principle is, it should not be used disregarding other good programming practices.
Three Laws of Good Software Architecture | Javalobby – The issue with architectural decisions is that they effect the whole system and/or you often need to make them early in the development process. It means a lot effort if you change that decision a couple of months later. From an economic standpoint architectural decisions are often irrevocable. Good architecture is one that allows an architect to make late decisions without superior effect on efforts and costs. Let's put that on record.
OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space – Analysis and resolution approach – Java Code Geeks – java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap problem is one of the most complex problems you can face when supporting or developing complex Java EE applications. This short article will provide you with a description of this JVM HotSpot OutOfMemoryError error message and how you should attack this problem until its resolution.
Bottle: Python Web Framework – A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. – Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python.
Thymeleaf: java XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine – Thymeleaf is an XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine for Java aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities
Simple Offline Data Synchronization for Mobile Web and PhoneGap Applications – In this article, I describe a simple data synchronization strategy that uses the device’s (or browser’s) SQLite database. The implementation currently leverages the Web SQL API (even though the W3C is no longer actively maintaining the spec) because both iOS and Android support it, but they don’t support IndexedDB, the official alternative
InfoQ: Andrew Watson On The State of OMG, UML, CORBA, DDS – Andrew Watson talks about the work of the OMG, where CORBA is alive and well (hint: in your car), UML and UML Profiles vs. custom Modeling languages, DDS and other middleware, and much more.
InfoQ: Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture – Derek Collison discusses the goals, the design premises and patterns employed in creating the architecture of Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS, unveiling internal architectural details.
Discover Music with Sencha Touch 2! | Blog | Sencha – Today, we are excited to announce the launch of another fine Sencha Touch 2.0 example application, Discover Music, which was designed and created by Modus Create, a Sencha partner.

Links for March 6th through March 20th

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Vinny

Dropwizard – Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. – Developed by Yammer to power their JVM-based backend services, Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done.
Khan Academy: The future of education? – CBS News – With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn. Sanjay Gupta reports
Brendan’s blog » Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X – Since version 10.5 “Leopard”, Mac OS X has had DTrace, a tool used for performance analysis and troubleshooting.
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter’s Bootstrap – Due to popular demand, I have prepared a new version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial using Twitter's Bootstrap framework. The result, which represents the final draft of the 2nd edition, can be found here:
Leaving the Evil Empire – Tales from the Evil Empire – I have a conviction that this is only the beginning of a profound change in our societies, that innovation is considerably more likely to occur in cooperative networks of small structures than in large competing corporations.
New problem for Amazon: Sony defects to OpenStack – Sony’s gaming arm is moving at least some of its workload from Amazon Web Services to the rival Rackspace OpenStack
Why I will use Java EE instead of Spring in new Enterprise Java Projects in 2012 – Java Code Geeks – The question comes up often. It came up in my new project in November 2011, too. I will use Java EE (JEE) instead of the Spring framework in this new Enterprise Java project.
InfoQ: A Quick Tour of Dart – Gilad Bracha discusses Dart, its type system, interfaces, generics, ADTs without types, built-in factory support.
Sencha Touch 2.0 is released – Today we're proud to announce the release of Sencha Touch 2.0. We’re certain it will change the way you think about mobile apps.
InfoQ: Spring Social: For the New Web of APIs – Craig Walls discusses the need for adding social features to applications, how to secure such applications and how Spring Social can help.

Links for February 24th through March 5th

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Vinny

InfoQ: Running Heroku on Heroku – Noah Zoschke discusses self-hosting, bootstrapping, cross-compiling, avoiding circular dependencies, distributed process management, all in the context of running Heroku support apps on Heroku.
HTTPie: cURL for humans – HTTPie is a CLI HTTP utility built out of frustration with existing tools. The goal is to make CLI interaction with HTTP-based services as human-friendly as possible. HTTPie does so by providing an http command that allows for issuing arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax and displaying colorized responses:
InfoQ: AMQP in Financial Service – Hanno Klein explains how AMQP is used by Deutsche Börse and where it fits within their strategy.
Chrome to be deployed on State Department computers worldwide | Geek.com – On January 26th, when Secretary Clinton was asked what could be done about the painfully slow update process for Internet Explorer, she announced that the State Department would be deploying Google Chrome to their offices worldwide
Field Guide to Web Applications from Google – This field guide is designed to help you create great user experiences in your web apps. Whether you’re building your first web app, or are just looking for ways to improve existing experiences, there’s something here for you!
Pinterest Is Not A Virtual Pinboard via @codertrader – In summary, Pinterest is not a Virtual Pinboard. It is the answer to consumers engaging with brands, something Facebook has been unable to do.
Continuous Improvement: The Importance of the Team Retrospective — Application Development Trends – Even good agile teams can get better. Mark J. Balbes walks you through how retrospectives have impacted his team and shows you options for yours.
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? | asymco – Given these assumptions, the day when the tablet market (by units) will exceed that of traditional PCs will come sometime in the fall of 2013.
How To Be Happy Anywhere | Fast Company – For my job I spent 300 days traveling the world last year. I met a lot of happy people. Who they are and where they live will surprise you.
Introducing Spring Hadoop | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware have announced the availability of Spring Hadoop, which integrates the Spring Framework and the Apache Hadoop platform. The project provides a convenient mechanism for the configuration, creation, and execution of the various services and utilities such as MapReduce, Hive, Pig, and Cascading jobs via the Spring container
Spring Thread Pool Services – Java Code Geeks – Thread Pools are very important to execute synchronous & asynchronous processes. This article shows how to develop and monitor Thread Pool Services by using Spring. Creating Thread Pool has been explained via two alternative methods.
Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – A side-by-side reference sheet – Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (Sheet One) – A side-by-side reference sheet
Working With Data in Sencha Designer | Learn | Sencha – This screencast provides an overview of the data layer in Sencha frameworks and demonstrates how you can use Designer to use the data capabilities. We explore the basics of creating stores, defining record structure using models, using proxies and readers to load data, sorting and grouping data, previewing loaded data, and attaching stores to views.
Sencha Touch 2 RC—Now with Native Packaging | Blog | Sencha – Today, we’re happy to announce the release candidate of Sencha Touch 2 as well as our native packaging for Windows and Mac.

Links for February 1st through February 9th

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Vinny

What is Apache Hadoop? – A look at the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem – What is Apache Hadoop? – A look at the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem
Ext GWT 3.0 State API | Blog | Sencha – The Ext GWT 3.0 State API provides the ability to persist state information. The API supports saving state data to different persistence providers. These include providers based on cookies and HTML5 local storage.
PhoneGap Releases Version 1.3 With Full Windows Phone Support – PhoneGap is turning 1.3 today. There are a plethora of new features, tools and controls across five platforms in the new PhoneGap release. Biggest among these is Windows Phone's support of all PhoneGap features, a first for any mobile platform that is not iOS or Android.
Dive into DataView with Sencha Touch 2 Beta 2 | Blog | Sencha – The enhanced DataView in Sencha Touch 2 Beta 2 makes it easy to build complex data bound lists.
HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World | Foursquare Engineering Blog – HeapAudit is not a monitoring tool, but rather an engineering tool that collects actionable data – information sufficient for directly making code change improvements. It is created for the real world, applicable to live running production servers.
App Economy has created almost half a million jobs — Tech News and Analysis – A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007.
Spring Mobile 1.0.0.RC1 Released | SpringSource.org – Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. The 1.0.0.RC1 release ships a general facility for user site preference management that can be used independently or in conjunction with the mobile site switcher
Ruby Trick Shots: A Video of 24 Ruby Tips and Tricks – Over the years, I've saved the Ruby techniques that have surprised other Rubyists I know. Now past 100, I'm making an e-book of them! It'll be free in all forms
InfoQ: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption – Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston discuss the Seven Deadly Sins that organizations repeatedly make so you can steer clear of them and benefit from a successful Enterprise Agile Adoption.
The Object Network: Linking up our APIs – Instead of writing a whole new, dedicated HTTP API to your site, publish your data using common JSON object formats, and link your data up, both within your own sites and to other sites. Become part of a global Object Network!
InfoQ: Questions for an Enterprise Architect – Erik Dörnenburg answers: What is Enterprise and Evolutionary Architecture?, discussing 4 issues: Turning strategy into execution, Ensuring conformance, Where do the architects sit? Buying or building?
InfoQ: Writing Applications for Cloud Foundry Using Spring and MongoDB – Thomas Risberg and Jared Rosoff show how to create Spring applications using Spring Data and MongoDB, applications deployed on Cloud Foundry.
Bootstrap, from Twitter – HTML, CSS, and JS toolkit from Twitter – Bootstrap is Twitter's toolkit for kickstarting CSS for websites, apps, and more. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more.

Links for September 15th through September 17th

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Vinny

Configuring SQL Server in Amazon EC2: Training Video – To learn more, check out Jeremiah’s post on Configuring SQL Server in EC2. It covers who’s deploying EC2 VMs with SQL, what problems they’re running into, and how to improve performance
SQL Server in EC2 – So, there you have it – it’s possible to get great performance for certain types of SQL Server operations in EC2. If you’re looking for a cheap way to set up a data warehouse, you should look elsewhere
Java Is #1 In OpenSource …And Still Climbing – It seems like Java is not only the most popular language, but also the most used language for OpenSource development [according to: http://www.ohloh.net%5D.
Previewing Sencha Touch 2: Native Packaging and Performance | Blog | Sencha – Native packaging is now a feature in Sencha Touch 2. With just one command, you can package your application for iOS and for Android. You’ll no longer need to write your own wrappers or wrangle with other solutions, it’s all built in to Sencha Touch. Best of all, you’ll be able to package for both iOS and Android from both Mac and Windows.
Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad’s Manifesto | A Work in Progress – I love my job, I love my career, I love solving hard problems, and I love crafting great software. Just not as much as a I love my daughter
Facebook and Heroku sitting in a tree – We're delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud.
For Android Users, a Cure for iTunes Withdrawal – NYTimes.com – DoubleTwist, which is free, gives people a way to easily sync their iTunes music library with their Android phones. As such, it’s one of the most important, yet often overlooked, pieces of software on the Android market.

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