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Links for October 20th through October 23rd

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Vinny

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• How to clone Wikipedia and index it with Solr « Nimble Books LLC – I have (finally) successfully cloned Wikipedia and indexed it with Solr. In the spirit of documenting my work and helping others, here are the key steps along the way.
• Redux: Inspecting HotSpot JVM Options – There is enormous scope for coarse and fine grained control of JVM behaviour. The option -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal allows comprehensive reporting of the options and their values. The available options vary by build and JVM type (server or client). Recording and auditing this output is an important step in any Java benchmarking or continuous monitoring exercise
• DB Sanity – database consistency and reporting application – DB Sanity performs checks on a database for verifying data consistency and correctness of application deployments or production data. It is invoked by the command line and creates an HTML report with a summary and listings of faulty database entries.
• javasimon – Java Simon – Simple Monitoring API – Java Simon is a simple monitoring API that allows you to follow and better understand your application. Monitors (familiarly called Simons) are placed directly into your code and you can choose whether you want to count something or measure time/duration.
• InfoQ: ‘Denali’ No More: SQL Server 2012 Announced, Focuses on BI and Big Data – At the recent PASS Summit, Microsoft announced that the next version of SQL Server, formerly known by the codename "Denali," will be called SQL Server 2012. Other products were granted official names as well, including Power View (formerly "Crescent") and SQL Server Data Tools (formerly "Juneau").
• » Introducing: Rocketcharts, Open-source HTML5 Financial/Statistical Charts Chase B. Gale – Introducing: Rocketcharts, Open-source HTML5 Financial/Statistical Charts
• Obituary: printf("goodbye, Dennis"); | The Economist – All of his technological miracles, along with a billion others sold by Apple's competitors, would be merely pretty receptacles were it not for Dennis Ritchie. It is to him that they owe their digital souls, the operating systems and programs which make them tick.
• Android and IDEA for the Eclipse Refugee » Canoo RIA Blog – Now that IntelliJ IDEA 11 EAP (Early Access) has a visual layout window, there is almost no reason for me to write my Android apps in anything else. I wrote this post to help other users along their way when converting between the IDEs.
• InfoQ: How REST replaced SOAP on the Web: What it means to you – Meanwhile, the web has essentially become a service oriented platform, where information and functionality is a available through an API; the Web succeeded where the enterprise largely failed.
• How to develop and monitor Thread Pool Services by using Spring | Online Technology Vision – 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
• InfoQ: Simple Made Easy – Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.

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Daily del.icio.us for August 30th through September 9th

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Vinny

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• Implementing composite keys with JPA and Hibernate – Occasionally, you come across a situation where a composite key is required, and you need a strategy for this. This tip shows you how to implement composite keys with JPA and Hibernate.
• A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleSQS – With such a beautiful service such as the Amazon Simple Queue Service, it shouldn't be wrapped up with a lot of complicated layers of classes for utilizing. That is why I developed the simple POJO, single class method for utilising Amazon SQS from within Java
• Welcome to Solr – Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features
• Scrummerfall « Tales from a Trading Desk – Scrummerfall. n. The practice of combining Scrum and Waterfall so as to ensure failure at a much faster rate than you had with Waterfall alone
• Generate PDFs with XStream and XSL-FO – In this article, you saw how easily you can create a PDF document from Java business objects using XStream and XSL-FO. The separation of concerns allows you to isolate the view from the business objects, thus you can change the view (PDF document) without having to modify the Java code
• log4jdbc – JDBC proxy driver for logging SQL and other interesting information – log4jdbc is a Java JDBC driver that can log SQL and/or JDBC calls (and optionally SQL timing information) for other JDBC drivers using the Simple Logging Facade For Java (SLF4J) logging system.
• beet – Beet records user behavior and performance data for your Spring-based Java application. It can thus help you to analyze usage patterns and research production performance issues.
• Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.1 released – We’re pleased to announce the release of Prototype 1.6.1 today. This version features improved performance, an element metadata storage system, new mouse events, and compatibility with the latest browsers. It’s also the first release of Prototype built with Sprockets, our JavaScript packaging tool, and PDoc, our inline documentation tool.
• InfoQ: Hypertable – An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database – This presentation discusses Hypertable, an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. Doug discusses the differences between Hypertable and traditional database technology, support for massive sparse tables, scaling to petabytes size, and how Hypertable is designed to run on top of an existing distributed file system, such as the Hadoop DFS.
• Clojure vs Scala, Part 2 | Code Monkeyism – There are two languages stirring up the Java World: Clojure and Scala. Clojure a Lisp dialect on the JVM, powerful and pure and the Scala language a tight integration of object and functional programming. Which should you learn?

Daily del.icio.us for January 26th

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Vinny

• Shadowbox.js Media Viewer – Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display pictures and movies in all major browsers without navigating away from t
• Raible Designs | The future is now — Java development in 2008 – I agree that learning about JRuby and Groovy is a good way to be prepared for the future. [….] I do believe you can leverage these tools in your existing jobs and hopefully make your development life more efficient.
• InfoQ: Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project – The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: Dependency Analysis with DSM – DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix – a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project
• » Terracotta Server as a Message Bus – But I?m a guy that really likes simple. TC lets us make an entirely POJO system that runs beautifully in IntelliJ. A single ?container? type main program can run all our components in a single JVM simply by loading all our various Spring configs.
• What is Visual VM? – Visual VM is a new project whose goal is to provide monitoring and profiling tools for the JVM with a GUI. Visual VM is a standalone application (based on NetBeans platform :).
• GPDE Team Blog : JavaScript Memory Leak Detector – JavaScript Memory Leak Detector (download) is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code. It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory leaks in JavaScript code that runs in Internet Explorer.
• Ajaxian » Prototype 1.6.0.2 security and performance improvements – Prototype 1.6.0.2 is a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all 1.6.0 users. We?ve fixed 28 bugs and made over a dozen improvements to the code base, including performance improvements
• Ubuntu 7.10 VMware Image Download (English) – jars.de – Java und Technologie – An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) VMware Image is available here for download. This virtual Linux system with all its applications is usable out-of-the-box with the free VMware Player. Thus, it is perfect to test drive Ubuntu within Windows
• Dr. Dobb’s | NetBeans 6.0: A First Look | January 24, 2008 – Sun Microsystems recently released NetBeans 6.0 which came with significant improvements, almost all in direct response to user requests. Even the developers who like NetBeans have posted complaints about its editor, especially when compared with Eclipse.
• AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Move Over, Seth Godin, Einstein?s Here – If I had to source Einstein quotes as chapter titles for a modern-day marketing book, here are the ones I?d likely pick. The beauty of these chapter titles is that they can live on their own, without the padding of excess words and long-winded narrative
• America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies – Forbes.com – We are back with a new group of 25 rapidly growing technology companies, 12 of which are repeats from our prior list.
• » Can Sun execute on its open source strategy? | Open Source | ZDNet.com – The question is, will open source be judged by the execution of Sun?s strategy?

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 06, 2007

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Vinny

• Dev2Dev Editor’s Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble – The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download
• XHAB: Xavier Hanin’s Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket – If you haven’t already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should
• Full text search with Apache Lucene – I?m Mike – Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language.
• framework – Google Code – To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes.
• Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript – For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers.

Daily del.icio.us for Jun 27, 2007 through Jul 06, 2007

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Vinny

• Dev2Dev Editor’s Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble – The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download
• XHAB: Xavier Hanin’s Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket – If you haven’t already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should
• Full text search with Apache Lucene – I?m Mike – Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language.
• framework – Google Code – To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes.
• Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript – For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers.
• GWT in Action: TheServerSide Tech Brief – Robert Hanson, co-author of the book GWT in Action, tells us about the Google Web Toolkit or GWT aims to simplify writing AJAX applications using a programming model that’s already familiar to Java programmers.
• Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Introduction to AWS for Java Developers – This brief tutorial introduces you to Amazon Web Services from the eyes of a Java developer, walks through a simple example, and links to other helpful resources to get you started.
• Peter Laird’s Blog: BEA WebLogic Portal + Swivel.com + Excel Spreadsheet = Enterprise Data Mashups – I have been showing how to build enterprise mashups using web technologies. This entry will diverge and show how a non-web technology, namely the spreadsheet, can power an enterprise data mashup.
• InfoQ: OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project – Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10