Links for May 20th through May 21st

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Vinny

The MessagePack Project – Extremely efficient object serialization library for cross-language communication. It’s like JSON, but very fast and small. – MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.
Guest Blog: You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential – "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts." —Albert Einstein
Internet security: Keys to the cloud castle | The Economist – What Dropbox provides is more than adequate for most users. Those with a more stringent need for privacy—most often because they are breaking either a just or unjust law—need to take responsibility for their own privacy, not count on a remote, third party service to provide it
InfoQ: Putting the "re" into Architecture – Kevlin Henney promotes live architecture through refactoring, recovery, re-envisioning, retrospection, re-engineering, repair, rewriting, reduction, reuse, reaction, re-evaluation and remembering.
Spark – A Sinatra inspired micro web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with minimal effort – A Sinatra inspired micro web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with minimal effort
Salman Khan: The Messiah of Math – BusinessWeek – Can an ex-hedge fund guy and his nonprofit Khan Academy make American schoolkids competitive again?

Daily del.icio.us for December 14th through December 15th

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Vinny

InfoQ: Juergen Hoeller on the Past and Future of Spring – Juergen Hoeller explains the past and future of the Spring framework: how it will make use of Java 7 features like Fork/Join, work with JEE6 and PaaS platforms, and much more.
Mockito – Screencasts for Stubbing, Verifying, and Argument Matching | Javalobby – We're rolling out Mockito and trying to raise our testability at work and I'm set to give a presentation/training session tomorrow to a few new team
W3C Releases Best Practices for Mobile Web Apps – International Web standards body, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a new standard for developers of mobile Web applications. The document, published as a W3C Recommendation, is titled "The Mobile Web Application Best Practices"
InfoQ: Using REST for SOA – Stefan Tilkov makes a case for using REST in an enterprise SOA solution showing how to implement tricky features like encapsulation, transactions, stateful communication, reliable messaging, notifications, and security
SOA Makes Its Home in Financial Services Arena CIO.com – The death of SOA has been much exaggerated according to a new report. Forrester analyst Jost Hoppermann said that in financial services companies, SOA is very much alive and is being increasingly deployed within the industry
JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again – JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans.
How to install Memcached Server on Windows as Service | JournalDev – In my earlier posts, I explained how to install memcached server on *nix and Mac OS systems. Today I will explain how to install memcached server on Windows operating system.
TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index – The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors
Four Reasons We Choose Amazon’s Cloud as Our Computing Platform – Letting Amazon focus on data center infrastructure allows our engineers to focus on building and improving our business. Amazon calls their web services “undifferentiated heavy lifting,” and that’s what it is.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 24th

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Vinny

The CodeWrights Tale: Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, and Optimism – “Why this is so was primarily crystallized for me by Alistair Cockburn who explained that since people are the central element in software development, and people are inherently non-linear and unpredictable – such an effort is fundamentally doomed.”
Spring 3.0: REST services with Spring MVC « oudmaijer.com | – Spring 3.0 has support for REST style WebServices, the Spring MVC controllers facilitate the functionality. In this example I will show an example of how to implement a basic REST service that uses XML marshalling to sent information over HTTP
Use Apache Wink with the Jackson JSON processor – Apache Wink is fast becoming one of the de facto implementations of the JAX-RS 1.0 specification. The providers included with the standard Apache Wink distribution for JSON marshalling and unmarshalling, such as JSON.org and Jettison
InfoQ: From Agile Development to Agile Operations – Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, reflecting on how cloud computing affects the relationship between development and operations, suggesting goals that help bridging these two worlds together, and proposing an integrated approach to application design, development and operations.
IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, is now available with a significant number of improvements in addition to a great deal of fixes.
Implementation Spotlight: Zipwhip and Ext JS — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – Ext JS is a set of design patterns and object models that naturally fit into application development. We continually reach inside the Ext JS treasure box when developing new functionality and find that most of the hard engineering has already been done
Ehcache – Web Caching – Ehcache provides a set of general purpose web caching filters in the ehcache-web module. Using these can make an amazing difference to web application performance. A typical server can deliver 5000+ pages per second from the page cache. With built-in gzipping, storage and network transmission is highly efficient.
sardine – Project Hosting on Google Code – Sardine is useful for interacting with a webdav server and is much easier to programmatically manage remote files than with FTP. Sardine is focused on being a useful library for common use cases. I also need it to support the latest version of HttpClient. It abstracts away the connection details and provides easy to use methods to accomplish webdav'y actions.
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House – As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications
gxt-interfaces – A thin layer of interfaces on top of GXT, for the purpose of testing and mocking – This is a thin layer of interfaces and simple implementations that sits on top of the GXT framework. The main purpose is to provide a simple way of creating code that is completely testable and mockable via mocking frameworks

Daily del.icio.us for March 9th through March 13th

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Vinny

Dynamic Charts with HTML5, Canvas, and Flotr for Prototype – HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool on http://finance.google.com/. The tool itself is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries.
SpringSource tc Server 2.0 Adds VMware Virtualization to Commercial Tomcat — Developer.com – The new Spring edition of tc Server 2.0 also provides expanded integration with virtualization technologies from VMware (NYSE: VMW), enabling developers to deploy apps to both real and virtual environments
Building a GAE+GWT application using the best practices, Part 1 « Reminiscential: of or pertaining to remembrance – In the next few blog posts, I’m going to present my experience building a simple (but non-trivial) web application using GWT and Google App Engine, while applying the best practices introduced by Ray Ryan in his excellent presentation at Google IO last year.
Beanlib – Java Bean Library – Beanlib is a utility library for use with JavaBean. Beanlib for Hibernate in particular makes it easy for developers to reuse the same pojo classes for both persistence and data transfer objects
gwt-html-editor – GWT WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor – This is a simple but sufficient for most cases WYSIWYG HTML (Rich Text) Editor Widget fully (99% + JSNI) implemented with GW
Ext.ux.Printer – A generic printing class that assists with the printing of any Ext.Component – Ext.ux.Printer is a small library that provides a generic way of printing Ext Components (Grids, Trees, etc).<br />
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Announcing Ext JS 3.2 beta – Multisort, Transitions and Composite Fields — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing applications.
Happiness is a Warm Cloud – Jay Pipes – Rackspace is also heavily invested in Cassandra, and sees integration of Drizzle and Cassandra as being a key way to add value to its platforms and therefore for its customers
Spring – Dependency checking with @Required Annotation | Spring – The @Required Annotation is more flexible than dependency checking in XML file, because it can apply to a particular property only
Ehcache 2.0 Gets More ‘Enterprisey’ Features | Javalobby – Ehcache 2.0 now supports fully-coherent distributed caching as a Hibernate Second-Level Cache, as well as directly through the Ehcache API, using one common JVM vendor-agnostic .jar file

Daily del.icio.us for July 15th through July 22nd

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Vinny

JPA implementation patterns – After discovering that there was a lack of documentation on how to use JPA in real-life scenario's, Vincent Partington has written a series of blogs about the JPA implementation patterns he discovered while writing JPA code. To wrap up the series, he has made an overview of all the patterns that have been discussed for easy reference.
The tipping point: iPhone users turn against AT&T | Wireless News – Betanews – The iPhone crowd has turned into an anti-AT&T mob. Spend 30 seconds on Twitter or perform even the most basic search for iPhone and AT&T information and you're sure to run into some serious rancor from disgusted iPhone users across the country
YouTube – If Man Walked on the Moon Today – On the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing, Slate V imagines how TV news would cover that historic event if it happened today.
Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel – Network World – In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.
Adobe Labs – Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 – Adobe LiveCycle Data Services server makes it possible to easily integrate Flex with Java/J2EE based applications.
Ten of the Burgers – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com – One Monday a month, the Burger of the Month Club convenes at a New York restaurant to eat and rate the restaurant's burger. Below, two of the club's members, Brett Weiss and Jason Beckerman, discuss 10 of the 47 burgers the group has tried
In Afghanistan, Part Two – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Today, nearly eight years after the initial invasion of Afghanistan, the country remains unstable at best- there has been so much powerful photography coming out of Afghanistan the past few months, I had a very hard time editing down to just these, recent photographs from Afghanistan
Love thyself :: ConcurrentHashMap – ConcurrentHashMap is both a very useful class for many concurrent applications and a fine example of a class that understands and exploits the subtle details of the JMM to achieve higher performance
Simple 2.1 – XML serialization – Simple is a high performance XML serialization and configuration framework for Java. Its goal is to provide an XML framework that enables rapid development of XML configuration and communication systems
AMIS Technology blog » Blog Archive » Report from presentation ‘JPA 2.0 – What’s new’ – The main new hot topic of JPA 2.0, the new criteria API, has been changed dramatically in the past year and a complete new object model has been chosen, so no DomainObject and QueryDefiniton objects any more

Daily del.icio.us for July 7th through July 14th

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Vinny

InfoQ: FlexMonkey 1.0 Released – FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool for Flex and AIR applications. FlexMonkey provides for the capture, replay, and verification of Flex user interface functionality. FlexMonkey generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that can be run from the FlexMonkey application or included within a continuous integration environment.
First Steps to Scala – In this article, you'll follow twelve steps that are designed to help you understand and gain some basic skills in the Scala programming language.
InfoQ: Dion Hinchcliffe on Web 2.0 and Web Oriented Architecture – Dion Hinchcliffe is an advocate of Web 2.0 and the Web Oriented Architecture. He explains how a mindset shift helped some companies be very successful using the Web 2.0 model while others have failed. He also considers that eventually most companies will migrate to WOA because we are living in an increasingly networked world.
Tips and Tricks: An easy way to persist Lists, Images, etc. with JPA / EJB3 | Platypus Innovation: technology, AI, new media, maths, interactive drama, ARGs and related miscellanea – JPA is EJB3's persistence annotations. These make saving state to a database relatively painless (and possibly give Java the edge here over most other languages).
Jackson JSON Processor – Home – There is a nice and fast XML / JSON parser with the name Jackson. It is especially useful for fast XML parsing and JSON processing with JAXB support.
Introducing Java DB 10.5.1.1 – The next major release of Java DB, version 10.5.1.1, is now available for download. Java DB is Sun's supported distribution of the Apache Derby open-source database. Java DB is 100 percent Java technology and easy to use. Don't be fooled by its small JAR file (2.5M): This free database is fast, reliable, and packed with features
iPhone’s camera is the most used on Flickr | iPhone Root – In just 20 days the iPhone has climbed to the top of Flickr and is now in first place among the most used cameras.
InfoQ: Spring Framework 3.0, The Next Generation – Juergen Hoeller co-founder of Spring Framework, sees 3.0 as the completion of what was started with 2.5. Some topics covered in his presentation are: more annotation-based configuration options, Unified EL++, REST, Portlet 2.0 and Java EE6 support.
Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee – Coffee – Lifehacker – Coffee doesn't always make work better, but you can definitely work to get better coffee. From four-cup hotel machines to French presses, from home-roasted beans to decorative foam—we've got a wealth of tips for enjoying a better cup
Java Entrepreneur: AMR: Oracle/Sun to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Enterprise Software Market – Of the top 50 software vendors ranked by AMR, two-thirds have applications that require Java, including many Oracle competitors… 'Not only will vendors be impacted by the fragile economy, but 33 out of the top 50 vendors will have to reevaluate their commitment to the Java programming language,' said AMR vice president Dennis Gaughan," Gage writes
Cloud servers for your Perl app – Amazon’s EC2 vs Mosso – Catalyzed.org: A Catalyst and Perl Blog – On the whole Amazon EC2 and Mosso are very close competitors. Amazon loses out on CPU power per dollar spent, but Mosso costs a bit more per gigabyte of RAM. Mosso loses out on 'extra storage' but wins on general IO speed.
RESTful Web Services Cookbook – RESTful Web Services Cookbook is a book for programmers designing and developing RESTful web services, to be published by O'Reilly and Yahoo! Press by the end of 2009. This book is currently a work in progress.
Coding Horror: Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition – Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome.
President Obama’s first 167 days – The Big Picture – Boston.com – U.S. President Barack Obama has now been in office for 167 days, and it's time for a look back. Why 167 days? Why not – it's just as arbitrary a number as the usual "100 days".

Daily del.icio.us for May 7th through May 9th

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Vinny

Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs – Ars Technica – Botnets aren't just dangerous because they can steal massive amounts of personal data and launch denial-of-service attacks—they can also self-destruct, leaving the owners of affected machines in the dust.
SpringSource Team Blog » Jump into Roo for extreme Java productivity – Roo's mission is to fundamentally and sustainably improve Java developer productivity without compromising engineering integrity or flexibility.
InfoQ: The Emergence of Virtual Service Oriented Grids – In much the same way the Internet changed business forever, virtual service oriented grid computing has the potential to force change once again
Outside the Box() » Slick Speed – So in the interest of getting to the bottom of the story, I did a little unscientific testing of my own using Slickspeed, which tests selector engine performance.
Apache Camel: tutorial-osgi-camel-part2 – Designing a Service Oriented Architecture seems very obvious for most of us but implies that different parameters are taken into account
Fuji – The Next Generation of OpenESB | Java™ Software Development Videos and Tutorials Directory – Project Fuji forms the core component of Open ESB v3 effort and represents Sun’s next generation open source integration runtime, focused on providing a lightweight, developer-friendly, and extensible platform for composite application development.
State of the Art – With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – NYTimes.com – When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.
A Review of 5 Java JSON Libraries – Rob@Rojotek – If you are looking for a simple lightweight Java library that reads and writes JSON, and supports Streams, JSON.simple is probably a good match. It does what it says on the box in 12 classes, and works on legacy (1.4) JREs.
google-gson – A Java library to convert JSON to Java objects and vice-versa – Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into its JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of.
Jailer – Database Subsetting and Sampling Tool – Jailer is a tool for database subsetting and sampling, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

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