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Links for November 12th through November 15th

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Vinny

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• U.S. consumers hesitant to make switch to Windows 8 – Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft's newest operating system.
• JUnit 4.11 final version is available both on GitHub and Maven Central – JUnit now uses the latest version of Hamcrest. Thus, you can use all the available matchers and benefit from an improved assertThat which will now print the mismatch description from the matcher when an assertion fails.
• Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 – Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013.
• Review: 6 slick open source routers – DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense, and Vyatta suit a wide range of devices and networking needs
• Surveillance and Security Lessons From the Petraeus Scandal – More broadly, this scandal centers around email, and it’s a reminder that the legal protections for email fall far short of what they should be. We need to modernize our privacy laws—for example by passing the proposal that is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee—and we need protections that cover metadata of the kind that was apparently so central in this scandal.
• Bloomberg: There’s An App For That – Wall Street & Technology – The Bloomberg App Portal allows third-party developers to distribute apps for use along with the Bloomberg Professional Service.
• Meet Big Switch, a Company That Wants to Help You Rebuild Your Network – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD – There’s now a new player to keep track of, and its name is Big Switch Networks. It come out of stealth mode today, and it is also launching a general-release product with an army of partners and $37 million in combined funding from investors including Redpoint Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
• Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers (Windows) – The Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers provides a look at the developer features included in Internet Explorer 10, as well as the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3) features available to developers of Windows Store apps using JavaScript for Windows 8.
• A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months *in U.S. – A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months *in U.S.
• Coding Horror: A SSD in Your Pocket – Now I feel like a total dork for continuing to carry around a 2010 era flash drive that I thought had decent performance at 20 MB/sec. Forget that noise. Now we can darn near carry pocket solid state hard drives on our keychains! Nobody told me, man!
• Web Views & RubyMotion – Marcgg#Blog – Here we go, another article on RubyMotion! For those of you that don’t know what’s that’s all about, it’s a toolchain created by Laurent Sansonetti (of MacRuby fame) allowing you to create native iOS application using Ruby.
• Spring Framework 3.2 RC1: Spring MVC Test Framework – Today I will continue this subject and describe another exciting spring-test addition. In 3.2 RC1 we've added first class support for testing Spring MVC applications both client-side and server-side.

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Links for November 8th through November 10th

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Vinny

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• Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move • The Register – Peak traffic of 874,560 Tweets per minute without Fail Whale coming up for air
• JavaWorld: EasyTest(ing) in Java : A Data Driven Testing Framework is finally here – EasyTest is a framework developed to complement current JUnit's support and not to replace it. Its a developer friendly framework to writing JUnit based Data Driven Test Cases easily,effectively and quickly.
• RethinkDB – an open-source distributed database built with love – An open-source distributed database built with love. Enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration.
• Garlic.js allows you to automatically persist your forms’ text field values locally, until the form is submitted – Garlic.js allows you to automatically persist your forms' text field values locally, until the form is submitted. This way, your users don't lose any precious data if they accidentally close their tab or browser.
• Gizmodo.com Updates: Google Voice Search Vs. Siri: Who’s the Best… – With Google’s release of its brand new search app for iOS, we decided to put Siri in the ring with Voice Search—now available on your iPhone—to see if she could defend her own turf.
• Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop — Data | GigaOM – Facebook has open sourced a new system called Corona for scheduling and managing Hadoop jobs. Corona attempts to do away with many of the problems that come along with massive-scale Hadoop operations, and soon looks to take Facebook’s Hadoop deployment beyond just MapReduce.
• 5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed – The HTML5 revolution has provided us some awesome JavaScript and HTML APIs. I'd like to share with you 5 more lessor known HTML5 APIs — hopefully you find some of them useful!
• Obama’s win a big vindication for Nate Silver, king of the quants | Politics, Policy, and Technology – CNET News – Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the presidential election.

Links for July 23rd through July 27th

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Vinny

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• OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is ‘bad’ | Internet & Media – CNET News – The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad.
• Keynote: MythBusters 2.0 – Mission Critical Cloud Computing @ NASA – Khawaja Shams presents how NASA’s JPL uses cloud computing, and evaluates some of the existing cloud computing myths in the MythBusters style.
• easyCriteria | A JPA Criteria Helper – Easy criteria is a tool that will help any developer to create a JPA Criteria without the verbose JPA Criteria default code!
• ocpsoft/rewrite – Rewrite GWT Integration – This enables the HTML5 History.pushState(…) support in your application, which will now use pretty/URLs whenever possible instead of the '#' anchor tag with 'name=value' pairs. Note that you must modify your place tokenization to process the new information.
• 7 Quality Principles we can learn from the big Tech Companies | The Codovation Blog – Out of these findings we collected from several blogs, articles and interviews with (former) employees of these companies we extracted 7 principles all of these companies seem to follow.
• Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released at 2nd Annual PhoneGap Day – Popular Open Source Mobile Development Framework Gets Upgrades Including Improved Plugin Support, Embeddable Webviews, Command Line Tooling and more
• Java EE vs Spring Framework – This session compares the Spring and Java EE stacks in terms of Web frameworks. It re-examines the motivations behind the Spring framework and explores the emergence of the Java EE programming model to meet the challenges posed. The presentation provides insight into when Spring and/or Java EE is appropriate for a building Web applications and if they can coexist.
• NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream | Linux Magazine – The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance.
• Expanding The Cloud – High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2 – All Things Distributed – The hi1.4xlarge has 8 cores and 60.5GB of memory. Most importantly it has 2 SSDs of 1 TB each and a 10 Gb/s Ethernet NIC that using placement groups can be directly connected to other High I/O instances.
• Java Sequential IO Performance | Architects Zone – For most IO I've found the use of ByteBuffers and Channels to be the best optimised parts of the IO libraries. If buffered streams are your IO libraries of choice, then it is worth branching out and and getting familiar with the sub-classes of Channel and Buffer.
• Effective Mockito Part 3 « EclipseSource Blog – In this post I want to show you how to use Mockito’s spy mechanism to eliminate testing troubles with third party libraries.
• SubGit – Safe Svn to Git Migration – SubGit is a smooth Svn to Git migration. Install once on the server side and use both Subversion and Git as long as you like.
• 11 OPEN NoSQL Document-Oriented Databases | Architects Zone – A document-oriented database is a designed for storing, retrieving, and managing document-oriented, or semi structured data. Document-oriented databases are one of the main categories of NoSQL databases. The central concept of a document-oriented database is the notion of a Document.
• SQLDirector is a MS SQL as a Service (SaaS) solution for the private cloud. @jeff_stanlick – SQLDirector provides a full-featured MS SQL Database as a service experience in your on-premise or remote data center. SQLDirector is available as a virtual or physical appliance.
• CloudStack Now Offers MongoDB as a Service | Cloud Zone – ScaleGrid, Inc (http://www.scalegrid.net), a Seattle-based startup, is announcing this week the public availability of MongoDirector, an end-to-end lifecycle management solution for MongoDB. MongoDirector provides a "single pane of glass" to manage MongoDB deployments allowing for simplified and automated MongoDB lifecycle management on both VMware vCenter and CloudStack.
• How AppFog Built a PaaS around CloudFoundry – Jeremy Voorhis introduces PaaS and CloudFoundry, then explains how AppFog built their own PaaS on top of CloudFoundry.

Links for May 1st through May 2nd

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Vinny

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• Spring GemFire 1.0.1 Released for Java and .NET | SpringSource.org – I am pleased to announce that 1.0.1 GA release of the Spring GemFire project is now available for both Java and .NET! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.
• The OpenGamma Platform – Unified Financial Analytics – OpenGamma provides technology for financial institutions to improve analytics calculation and delivery to front-office and risk users.
• The "book" is dead [dive into mark] – The "book" is dead. Long live "content". And God help us all if world-class writers like David can’t make a living from it.
• Coding Horror: The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale – Solid state hard drives are so freaking amazing performance wise, and the experience you will have with them is so transformative, that I don't even care if they fail every 12 months on average
• Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second – Twitter has just revised its preliminary measurements of 4,000 tweets per second from last night’s announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death
• InfoQ: Deep Dive into HTML5 and CSS3 – Wesley Reisz explains HTML5, demoing some of its most important features and highlighting some of the obstacles he met while working with it.
• couchbaselabs/iOS-Couchbase – Apache CouchDB optimized for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch – Apache CouchDB on iOS provides a simple way to sync your application data across devices and provide cloud backup of user data. Unlike other cloud solutions, the data is hosted on the device by Couchbase Mobile, so even when the network is down or slow (airplane, subway, backyard) the application is responsive to users.
• Highlights of web technology surveys, May 2011: Every second website is using Google Analytics now – Google Analytics has been the most popular web analytics tool for a long time. Last month, it has added another 0.2% of all websites to its user base, and it has now reached an incredible milestone: Every second website is using Google Analytics.
• Microsoft’s plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo | ZDNet – The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools Business reorg announced on May 2 inside Microsoft.
• Data Structure Visualization – The best way to understand complex data structures is to see them in action. We've developed interactive animations for a variety of data structures and algorithms. Our visualization tool is written in javascript using the HTML5 canvas element

Daily del.icio.us for April 21st through April 22nd

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Vinny

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• Terracotta Bolsters Java In-Memory Caching Platform — Application Development Trends – Terracotta 3.0 improves throughput of Java-based applications three-fold while reducing database loads by 60 percent compared to the previous version. Terracotta 3.0 also offers new APIs for cloud and grid-based applications, and management and developer interfaces.
• PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – public TV stations are taking more risks, and on Wednesday they introduced a fancy new video portal at PBS.org/video. It replaces a hodgepodge of sites, with different features, run by the producers of each of the network’s programs and by its member stations.
• Bluetooth 3.0 + HS gets official, adds speed with 802.11 – The new standard obviously catapults Bluetooth into a new dimension; rather than being good for nothing more than sending images from one phone to another or syncing a fitness module to a DAP, v3.0 is nimble enough to handle camcorder-to-HDTV, PC-to-PMP and UMPC-to-printer transfers. In fact, the inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers "at the approximate rate of 24Mbps
• Oracle expected to slash thousands of Sun Microsystems jobs – San Jose Mercury News – Coleman believes Oracle could shrink, sell or shut down Sun's high-end server products and storage business. "The servers are being dramatically squeezed by the next generation of servers and blades," a type of server, Coleman said. "Sun's storage business is not a leader and it's being squeezed by commodity storage" competitors.
• The True Cost of Amazon’s New Kindle – BusinessWeek – A teardown analysis of the Kindle 2 by market research firm iSuppli estimates the cost to build the device at $185.49, or about 52% of its retail price of $359.
• AppleInsider | End users, developers seen flocking to iPhone apps on wide scale – A mobile analytics firm has published new findings which show the iPhone taking the majority of the app market — especially when it comes to the sheer number of users. Examining 8 million users and 100 apps, researchers at Flurry hint that Apple's handset has a conspicuous market share lead among developers, the number of apps and the actual range of customers for those apps.
• Ubuntu 9.04 boots in 17.5 seconds! – So how fast did Ubuntu 9.04 boot with a solid-state drive? Really freaking fast. Like, “I can’t believe it’s already done” fast. Well, here, watch for yourself:
• The Community for Skyway Users, Developers, and Contributors – Featured Download – Similar to Grails, Skyway Builder allows developers to quickly scaffold a CRUD application, but unlike Grails, the generated code isn't Groovy – it's pure Java and Spring.
• Evolutionary Goo » Blog Archive » Larry Ellison’s Cloud Computing Comments Revisited – The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements
• byteonic.com » Comprehensive analysis on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems – Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on the several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis is listed below under each of the market segments.

Daily del.icio.us for July 20th through July 25th

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Vinny

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• Microsoft pledges love and money to open source | The Register – Microsoft is becoming a platinum member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), paying $100,000 annual membership. The move follows work between the two to support the Office Open XML file formats in Apache's POI project.
• Why India Will Beat China – An entrenched and vibrant democracy will ultimately drive India to outperform China socially and economically
• Rush Plays Rock Band Backstage at Colbert | Comedy Central Insider – The Comedy Blog for Comedy Fans – So, when Rush was backstage at The Colbert Report last week, they played "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band and now there's video of it
• gxp -Google XML Pages – GXP is a templating system used to generate XML/SGML markup (most often HTML). Support for multiple languages – currently Java
• Ext JS – Ext GWT Grid, Grid Plugins, and EditableGrid – Ext GWT 1.1 development is moving along nicely and includes a new Grid component. Grid is based on the Ext JS Grid and will support the same features including grid plugins, grouping, totaling, and inline editing
• If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor | Register Hardware – It's Windows Vista's fault that solid-state storage isn't performing as well as its proponents predicted. So said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, but at least he didn't go as far as saying it's Microsoft's problem to fix.
• VMware to offer low-footprint ESX hypervisor free | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-22 | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service – VMware said Tuesday it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's lead in the virtualization market.
• InfoQ: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS – In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applicatio
• Copy your files faster with TeraCopy – TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine – A Java Champion since September 2005, Kirk Pepperdine is a primary contributor to javaperformancetuning.com, which is widely regarded as the premier site for Java performance tuning information, and is the coauthor of Ant Developer's Handbook.