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Links for August 6th through August 8th

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Vinny

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• web development – The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication – Stack Overflow – The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication
• What’s the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Chrome. | TechCrunch – Compuware’s benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users.
• Moving an Elephant: Large Scale Hadoop Data Migration at Facebook (2) – In 2010, Facebook had the largest Hadoop cluster in the world, with over 20 PB of storage. By March 2011, the cluster had grown to 30 PB — that’s 3,000 times the size of the Library of Congress!
• Web Architecture versus Enterprise IT – This video show how the typical enterprise IT landscape can benefit from the Web’s architecture, what Java developers need to learn to be part of this, and why the whole idea of “applications” is going to disappear.
• Calculated Risk: Dow Down 600+, S&P 500 down 6.66% – Here is a table of the largest one day declines (in percentage terms) for the S&P 500 since January 1950. There were quite a few large down days in 2008 and early 2009 … and now two in the last week (both in red).
• The joy of algorithms and NoSQL: a MongoDB example – Datablend – In this article, I try to illustrate my point, by employing NoSQL, and more specifically MongoDB, to solve a specific Chemoinformatics problem in a truly elegant and efficient way. The complete source code can be found on the Datablend public GitHub repository.
• Sencha Touch Quick Start | Learn | Sencha – Want to build something amazing with Sencha Touch? Use these simple recipes for Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows to ensure you can get started with the framework's SDK as quickly as possible. Ideal for a rolling start at hackathons!
• An interview with Lenovo’s CIO: The IT factor – McKinsey Quarterly – Business Technology – Strategy – In a global operating model, IT must deliver the efficiencies of standardization but respect local business needs. Xiaoyan Wang describes her strategy.
• DryDrop updates App Engine site after pushing to GitHub – DryDrop is a tool that lets you host your static site on Google App Engine and update it by pushing to GitHub. Thanks to GitHub post-receive hooks your App Engine site can be updated automatically when you push new content
• Scott Adams on the Benefits of Boredom – WSJ.com – Still, it's worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of innovation. It's the sort of trend that could literally destroy the world without anyone realizing what the root problem is.
• Ehcache 2.5 goes beta – cool new features explained – The new release of Ehcache has gone beta less than 2 weeks ago, and there are many cool things packed in there, I wanted to talk a bit about it. If you’re using Ehcache as a memory cache or as a cache for Hibernate, you’ll find some useful information here.

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Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 5th

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Vinny

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• The White House – Press Office – President Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer – Today, President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House.
• Java concurrency with thread gates – JavaWorld – The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for controlling thread concurrency, but many developers are unfamiliar with it. Just as a traffic light can regulate the behavior of automobiles at an intersection, thread gates can block or allow thread progress based on given factors
• SitePoint » 10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems – We know IE is likely to be around for some time, but can we still support the browser and avoid hacks and conditional CSS? Here are 10 fixes to solve the majority of IE6 problems with valid HTML and CSS code…
• Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Understanding Sun in Three Easy Steps (1 of 4) – I thought I#039;d take the opportunity to deliver this overview and the upcoming focused discussions on what makes Sun tick in a video format.
• Amazon Extends Book Sales Beyond Its Kindle to iPhone – WSJ.com – Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a program Wednesday for reading electronic books on Apple Inc.#039;s iPhone, extending Amazon#039;s sales of digital books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader.
• Mark to market | Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media – There#039;s a debate in financial circles over whether banks are unfairly penalized by the requirement that they quot;mark to marketquot; their holdings. Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains what that term means.
• Apache FtpServer – Index – The Apache FtpServer is a 100% pure Java FTP server. It#039;s designed to be a complete and portable FTP server engine solution based on currently available open protocols. FtpServer can be run standalone as a Windows service or Unix/Linux daemon, or embedded into a Java application. We also provide support for integration within Spring applications and provide our releases as OSGi bundles.
• Books and Music That Make You Dumb – Digits – WSJ.com – With his two Web sites (which have crashed from too much traffic), Booksthatmakeyoudumb.com and Musicthatmakesyoudumb.com, Griffith used aggregated Facebook data about the favorite bands and books among students of various colleges and plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools, creating a tongue-in-cheek statistical look at taste and intelligence
• A Brew That Prevents Parkinson’s? – RealAge Tip of the Day – A large study in Singapore showed that black tea might have the power to slash Parkinson’s disease risk by almost a third.
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog – After some deliberation, we decided to implement a quot;schema-lessquot; storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a completely new storage system. This post attempts to describe the high-level details of the system
• Sun’s McNealy: Some federal officials see open source as ‘anti-capitalist’ – Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy wants President Barack Obama#039;s administration do what the U.K., Denmark and other countries have done: encourage, as a matter of policy, open-source software adoption
• Facebook’s "In-House Sociologist" Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior – While many people have hundreds friends on Facebook, they still only communicate with a small few. Or to quote the author of the article, quot;Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever.quot;