Links for September 9th through September 10th

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Vinny

Apple’s P/E compression illustrated | asymco – he following chart is a simple representation of P/E (line chart with left scale) with Net Income growth super-imposed (bar chart with right scale.) We chose a time period of 22 quarters. 11 quarters after the crisis (i.e. quarters after the one ending in Sept. 2008) and 11 quarters before the crisis (quarter ending 12/20/05 through the one ending 6/30/08).
Building Your Own Secure Storage Space That Mirrors Dropbox’s Functionality – Building Your Own Secure Storage Space That Mirrors Dropbox's Functionality
Thinking Functionally on Vimeo – In this presentation we'll look at what functional programming is, why we should care about it, and how to make use of it in our daily programming activities.
New in 11: Changes digest for easier pre-commit review | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – Great new features in IntelliJ IDEA v11 – Changes digest for easier pre-commit review
Here are all JavaZone’s 2011 videos on Vimeo – Here are all JavaZone's 2011 videos on Vimeo
InfoQ: Spring AMQP 1.0 GA – The Spring AMQP project applies core Spring concepts to the development of AMQP-based messaging solutions, and is available in both Java and .NET versions.
InfoQ: SOA Gateway: A Lightweight, Low-Cost Alternative to the ESB – Jaime Ryan, Partner Solutions Architect at Layer 7, in an article titled "Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway" has discussed the emergence of the SOA gateway as a viable alternative for the ESB
Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway – Computerworld – Modern SOA Gateways include all the hallmarks of a traditional ESB: standards-based endpoint abstraction, broad data and transport mediation capabilities and dynamic, intelligent message routing
Dropbox simplifies your life. Safebox secures it. Safebox and Dropbox work side-by-side. – Dropbox simplifies your life. Safebox secures it. Safebox and Dropbox work side-by-side.

Links for May 25th through May 26th

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Vinny

Enemies of Agility: The Dirty Dozen | Agile Zone – I present the "dirty dozen" impediments, or key enemies of successful agility that I've observed.
Head first into GWT game development. | skorulis.com – Here's a quick introduction into making a canvas based game using GWT and the problems that I ran into. If you’re even more hasty, here’s the source code so you can just get it building and running.
FunctionSource: SproutCore 2; Lean, Mean, and back to HTML – Today we got a sneak peak at the next version of SproutCore via a developer preview. One of the biggest differences that jumped out to me was the change from coding everything through JS APIs to being able to do much more via HTML, CSS, and templates
The 10 Commandments of Good Source Control Management – None of these things are hard. Honestly, they’re really very basic: commit early and often, know what you’re committing and that it should actually be in VCS, explain your commits and make sure you do it yourself, don’t forget the databases and don’t forget the dependencies. But please do forget VSS!
InfoQ: Making Apps That Don’t Suck – Mike Lee considers that a software engineer makes great applications not because he follows good rules but because he has a better way of looking at the world and he learns from experience.
Spiffy UI Framework – Beautiful fast flexible secure maintainable applications with GWT and REST – The Spiffy UI framework takes the power of GWT and adds patterns, widgets, and utilities to make beautiful, fast, secure, maintainable web applications.
JavaScript conquers the server | It’s BroadVision and Netscape LiveCycle all over again 🙂 – Node.js, Jaxer, EJScript, RingoJS, and AppengineJS combine the familiarity of JavaScript, low overhead, blazing speed, and unique twists
Codesta – Blog – Sencha Touch/PhoneGap Tips and Tricks – Sencha Touch/PhoneGap Tips and Tricks

Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Vinny

Using the HTML5 Canvas Element with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) | Giant Flying Saucer – With the release of the Google Web Toolkit 2.2 (GWT) they added experimental support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Looking over their sample application I was able to craft my own demo
IBatis (MyBatis): Handling Joins: Advanced Result Mapping, Association, Collections, N+1 Select Problem | Javalobby – This tutorial will walk you through how to setup iBatis (MyBatis) in a simple Java project and will present examples using advanced result mapings, how to hadle mappings with association, collections, n+1 problem
Introducing Spring Social’s Service Provider Framework | SpringSource Team Blog – The most significant new feature in Spring Social 1.0.0.M2 is the introduction of a Service Provider "Connect" framework. Today I want to introduce you to this framework and show you how to use it to manage "connections" to SaaS providers.
Spring 3.1 Cache support. @Cacheable in Spring. Spring Caching supports | ViralPatel.net – Spring Framework provides support for transparently adding caching into an existing Spring application. Similar to the transaction support, the caching abstraction allows consistent use of various caching solutions with minimal impact on the code.
Codesion – Has Git Killed Subversion & CVS? – Video killed the radio star, and the Internet killed both. Many believe Git is on it’s way to killing Subversion (which all but killed CVS), but let’s let the numbers speak for themselves
The new and improved Java.net – After years of serving as a critical resource for Java developers, Java.net has gotten a major facelift.
InfoQ: Forrester’s Top Technology Trends: Mobile Collaboration and Process-Centric Data & Intelligence – Mobile collaboration and process-centric data & business intelligence are among Forrester's top technology trends. Gene Leganza, Principal Analyst at Forrester, spoke last month about the top 15 technology trends that Enterprise Architecture (EA) professionals should watch for in next three year
Tutorial: a Vaadin Application on Google App Engine in 5 Minutes – In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create your very first Vaadin web application, how to run it on a local AppEngine development server and how to deploy it to the Google App Engine
10 Features You Need When Creating Interactive HTML Prototypes [In Pictures] | Javalobby – Drop your pencil and start creating real and interactive web and mobile HTML prototypes using Tiggr. Tiggr is Web-based, so there is nothing to install
Setting up a Cassandra Cluster in Under 2 Minutes :: myNoSQL – You’d imagine setting up a cluster would be a complex task, but having one up and running in less than 2 minutes that’s something
InfoQ: Adopting the JVM – Ola Bini offers advice to those interested in using the JVM with languages other than Java, talking about language interoperability, polyglot patterns, build tools, tweaking the JVM, and JVM tools.
Google extensions could aid Java security | Security Central – InfoWorld – Borrowing a technique from Eiffel, Google is adding Design-By-Contract functionality to Java to protect it against buffer overflow attacks
Motorola’s big plans to fix Android’s security woes | Mobile security – InfoWorld – Execs confirm plans to develop APIs for the missing capabilities, letting Android devices match the security level of BlackBerrys and iPhones
Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise | Dawn Wires: World News 2.0 – Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise – It's The Onion Material without the Onion 🙂
Berkshire Hathaway Inc – Warren Buffett gives his verdict on the economy and the investment outlook – The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and
effective.
Singapore Leads the Good Life Under a Benevolent Dictator – Singapore has achieved the American dream, but not in the American way. It is a prosperous, clean city, with imposing skyscrapers and glittering shopping centers. The multinational corporations of the world are welcome here; you can buy any brand name you've ever heard of. The highways are lined with tropical flowers and crowded with BMWs. And at the head of this thriving free-market state is a clever, socialist dictator.

Daily del.icio.us for June 26th through July 5th

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Vinny

directjngine – A Java based implementation of the Ext Direct API – DirectJNgine is a Java based implementation of the Ext Direct API for ExtJs. DirectJNgine is feature complete, providing support for all kinds of requests: batched json requests, form posts with file uploads, requests from polling providers, etc.
Strongly Typed, Loosely Coupled: Java vs. Scala vs. Groovy – Performance Update – It's been quite a while since my post on the micro benchmark comparison between Java, Scala and Groovy.
XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5 | Developer World – InfoWorld – Looking to focus on the budding — and game-changing — HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.
Green’s Opinion: Android versus iPhone Development: A Comparison – Android’s platform and developer tools are excellent. Leveraging Java and the Eclipse IDE are major winning factors for Android. Apple’s developer tools are shockingly bad by comparison
The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone – Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
Main Page – Smooks – Smooks is a Java Framework/Engine for processing XML and non XML data (CSV, EDI, Java et
InfoQ: Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation – As Agile becomes more accepted, concerns from architecture groups are increasing. Traditional ways that architects engage with development groups conflict with Agile methods. This talk describes ways that Agile methods can benefit architects, addresses concerns architects express about agile, and proposes ways that architects and agile development teams can become allies.
Don’t drive and listen to opera | The Car Tech blog – CNET Reviews – Retired F1 champion Michael Schumacher joins up with Bacardi on its campaign against drunk driving, although the drunk simulation in this video is very amusing. Watch as Schumacher pilots a Maserati around a course he has never driven, carting around three opera singers.
jQuery TOOLS – The missing UI library for the Web – jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today's websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.8 Kb
ProtoFish: advanced hover menu based on Prototype – TechBlog – ProtoFish is an advanced hover menu based on Prototype. You can easily add a delay to your menu (on mouseout) and choose your own hover class. All ProtoFish menu's will respond to users who use the TAB-key to navigate through your page

Daily del.icio.us for December 27th through December 30th

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Vinny

La terraza de Aravaca: Lessons learned using GWT, Axis and JPA simultaneously – Here you have some lessons learned that should be taken into account when working with the Google Web Toolkit, Axis and any of the JPA implementations out there
PDF embed code generator – This code generator can generate two kinds of PDF embedding code: pure standards-compliant HTML markup, or JavaScript-based PDFObject code. The generator also makes it easy to customize your embed code using Adobe's optional PDF Open parameters.
JSP – Create Custom Tags for Beginners | Techie Zone – JSP Tags acts as a plugin to your JSP pages. These are basically Java Classes that get executed when jsp page get rendered by server and browser. JSP comes with in build Tags like jsp:include, jsp:forward, but they are not sufficient to cater to the Web World. To overcome this problem you can design tags based on your business requirement. This article will guide you how we can create an custom tags for JSP.
Design Pattern Interview Questions Part (3) – C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net – To give you a practical understanding i have put all these design patterns in a video format and uploaded on http://www.questpond.com/FreeDesign1.htm . You can visit http://www.questpond.com/ and download the complete architecture interview questions PDF which covers SOA , UML , Design patterns , Togaf , OOPs etc.
Memoization in Java Using Dynamic Proxy Classes | O’Reilly Media – Memoizing a function adds a transparent caching wrapper to the function, so that function values that have already been calculated are returned from a cache rather than being recomputed each time. Memoization can provide significant performance gains for computing-intensive calls. It is also a reusable solution to adding caching to arbitrary routines.
YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: "Ajax Performance" » Yahoo! User Interface Blog – Douglas Crockford returns to YUI Theater with another chapter in his evolving lecture series. This session, “Ajax Performance,” debunks common misconceptions about the relationship between JavaScript and performance and gives engineers a core focus for improving the performance of web apps
giver – Google Code – Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Other people running Giver on your network are automatically discovered and you can send files to them by simply dragging the files to their photo or icon shown in Giver. There is no knowledge or set up needed beyond what the person looks like or their name to use Giver.
Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise – O’Reilly Radar – What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business
Fast and ‘free’ beats steady and paid on MySQL • The Register – It appears that since being acquired by Sun Microsystems, MySQL's process has been slowed by a 30,000-person bureaucracy, and the open source community has the patience of a six year old.
InfoQ: Architecting for Green Computing – In an article entitled “Green Maturity Model for Virtualization”, Kevin Francis and Peter Richardson explain how to use virtualization to reduce energy consumption. They see 4 types of computing: Local, Logical, Data Center and Cloud Computing, the last offering the most advanced form of virtualization and therefore representing the greenest computing

Daily del.icio.us for November 14th through November 18th

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Vinny

Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones | Business Tech – CNET News – Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. The company has worked for years on a lightweight incarnation of its Flash technology for mobile phones, but it now is working to bring the full-fledged Flash Player 10 to higher-end smartphones
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront – All Things Distributed – Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations.
Enterprise JBoss JBPM: Creating A Scalable, Standards-Compliant and Cost-Effective SOA Environment – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – This excerpt from the upcoming book, Open Source SOA, addresses the Service Component Architecture (SCA), and its sister technology, Service Data Objects (SDO), emerging standards used in service-oriented architecture for creating multi-protocol, multi-language services based on reusable components.
Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday – Google could have launched for the Android first and pushed sales of phones on their platform. They didn’t, and Apple should have embraced them for that.
A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail – Use the grail wisely, and it can be a particularly handy (and clutter-free) addition to your bag of CSS tricks
Choosing the best Doctype for your website – The Web Squeeze – In 2004, after a W3C workshop, Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors. So, in response, these organisations set out to with a mission to address these concerns and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group was born
YouTube – Google Mobile App for iPhone with Voice Search – Mike LeBeau, an engineer on the Google mobile team, gives an overview of the new Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search and My Location. You can speak your queries to Google Mobile Ap..
The YouTube Presidency | 44 | washingtonpost.com – Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video — a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov, once the radio address is made public on Saturday morning.
InfoQ: OSGi in the Enterprise – With the recent announcement of GlassFish v3 “Prelude”, Sun's OSGi-based Java EE 6 server, the use of OSGi across the enterprise has grown to encompass almost all of the back-end servers. A recent press release by the OSGi alliance listed the vendors and the technology that uses OSGi:
InfoQ: Behind LINQ – And Beyond – In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Mads Torgersen discusses LINQ, declarative programming and metaprogramming in C#, examples of LINQ syntax and usage, lazy evaluation of LINQ queries, extension methods, lambda expressions, LINQ-to-SQL, LINQ expressions and metaprogramming, expression trees, how the .Net Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) works, PLINQ, and the future of the DLR
InfoQ: The Architecture of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications – Jack Greenfield and Wade Wegner introduced the concept of Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBAs) at the PDC last week. MEBAs are business applications that leverage the Cloud to enable multiple partners to work together as part as common business processes.

Daily del.icio.us for October 18th through October 20th

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Vinny

The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer – BusinessWeek – Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound
Wikimedia Ubuntu migration FAQ – Meta – There's been some recent news coverage about Wikimedia's ongoing migration of servers to Ubuntu Linux. While much of the coverage is fairly straightforward and fact-based, there are some common questions and misconceptions I've seen in comments.
Linux Ecosystem worth $25 billion – InternetNews:The Blog – Sean Michael Kerner – The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion
Open Web Podcast – Episode 5: Ryan Stewart of Adobe – Ryan Stewart of Adobe joined us for episode 5 of the Open Web Podcast. We really want to be pragmatic Open Web citizens, so thought it would be good to hear from Ryan and get his point of view on what Adobe, and he, are thinking with respect to the Web as a-whole
Ajaxian » Dojo 1.2 Final Release – Pete Higgins released Dojo 1.2 the first version under his command. There are a ton of subtle improvements such as
Ajaxian » The bane and choice of Rich Text Editors – Stuart Atkinson has kindly done a roundup of the state of rich text editors, and it covers
High Performance Web Sites :: Runtime Page Optimizer – The Runtime Page Optimizer (RPO) is an exciting product from Aptimize. RPO runs on a web server applying performance optimizations to pages at runtime, just before the page is sent to the browser
FancyUpload for Flash 10 » digitarald:Harald K – I developed and tested all day to release a FancyUpload version that works in Flash 9 and 10 (Kodus to Anders Rasmussen and his conversion to AS3). The code is now commited to github,
Newer Technology Universal Drive Adapter -… (U2NV2SPATA) at OWC – The "Swiss Army Knife" of Disk Connectivity…Turns Any Bare Drive Into An External Storage Solution!!
The Return of Terry Tate – Office Linebacker and his election specials – http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen/dp/0262032937
Ruminations of a Programmer: Memcached and Terracotta : Alternatives or Complementary ? – Can we conclude that for read-only (mostly) usecases, use memcached, while, for read-write usecases, use Terracotta to obtain transparent durability to the persistent store. Rather than alternatives, the two technologies are complementary.
Colin Powell endorses Obama – CNN.com – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat's "ability to inspire" and the "inclusive nature of his campaign."
The Great GWT Roundup | Javalobby – Over the past two months or so we here at the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently published the last in the series and I thought that it would be a good idea to create a sort of index of all of these articles.
Washington Wire – WSJ.com : Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri – Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event. The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues.

Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 16th

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Vinny

Java Entrepreneur: MySQL Co Founder plans to quit since current stay becomes unpleasant – I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organizations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to 'retire' from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.
InfoQ: SOA Governance: An Enterprise View – This article observes SOA governance specifics from the enterprise perspective and illustrates them with several examples of SOA Governance policies.
InfoQ: Martin Fowler: Can SOA Be Done With an Agile Approach? – In a recent article, Martin Fowler is trying to explore the applicability of evolutionary design – a practice commonly used in Extreme Programming (XP) – to SOA implementations.
InfoQ: Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails – Project Kenai (pronounced Keen-Eye, according to Tim Bray) is a new project hosting platform from Sun. It integrates several source code management systems, forums, mailinglists, issue-tracking systems and wikis.
InfoQ: Java In-Memory Persistence with Space4J – Space4J is a simple database system that will let you work with Java Collections in memory. Since memory is several orders of magnitude faster than disk for random access to data, Space4J provides better scalability for "real-time" web applications and systems that require performance.
InfoQ: Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns – In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 15, 2008) – Alaskans Get It – Two women in Anchorage talk sense about Palin
InfoQ: Granite Data Service 1.1.0 Released with new Features and Tools – Granite Data Services (GDS) 1.1.0 GA is released this week. Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe LiveCycle (Flex 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers
Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API – Open – Code – New York Times Blog – The initial version of the Campaign Finance API offers overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. In addition, the API supports a contributor name search using any of the following parameters: first name, last name and ZIP code.
First New York Times API is Live – Here’s Why it Matters – ReadWriteWeb – The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open – All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API. Also available is a database management program initially developed for internal use at the NY Times.
Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama – The Daily Beast – The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat. Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.
The Soyuz Spacecraft – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com – The basic design of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has not changed in some 40 years, though it has had numerous upgrades. The current version, known as Soyuz TMA, is expected to be the only means of taking astronauts to the International Space Station from 2010 to 2015
FCC Clears Free Wireless Web – WSJ.com – A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers.

Daily del.icio.us for September 22nd through September 24th

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Vinny

Sun jilted in Oracle big-systems love • The Register – That was a triple whammy directed at Sun. Not only was Oracle endorsing low-cost Intel boxes over Sun's mighty Sparc to power the server farms that run cloud data centers – an area where Sun has been heavily pushing Sparc – but she was also hitting Sun's Sparc Niagara processor family in an area where Sun has been making a lot of noise: power consumption.
Red Hat sets new performance record at a 20 percent cost savings – Today Red Hat announced that it has broken server performance records with its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 running Intel X7460 Xeon processors. Apparently you can have your cake and eat it, too
Without further ado: Reverie « Vincent Laforet’s Blog – I’m proud to finally share this short film with everyone – no time for words – let’s let the moving images do the talking… Here is the raw footage (downsized to 1/4 resolution) from the prototype EOS 5D MKII that Canon allowed me to borrow over a 72 hour period.
Rands In Repose: Impossible – What’s important when the CEO asks for the impossible is that he’s pushing the definition of possibility for what the team can accomplish. Maybe your CEO only has an idea, and can only feel the possibility in what he’s asking, but it’s not his job to make it all happen. That’s where you come in. You’re the person responsible for transforming the feel, the intuition, the glimpse of a plan, and the confidence into knowing and doing.
Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com – What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance
Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2 | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – The move will give Amazon’s cloud services some serious enterprise heft. In a blog post, Amazon said it will offer EC2 services preloaded with Oracle’s software–Enterprise Linux, Database 11g, Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Manager and developer tools–as well as support options.
T-Mobile’s Google phone may offer free e-mail – Techland – The new Android-powered phone will have Google’s (GOOG) Gmail service built in, and T-Mobile executives are considering offering access to Gmail free, without the need for a data plan
Direct Reports : Everybody (Why Leave IIS?) – If you have gotten a chance to try an early build of SQL Server Reporting 2008 Reporting Services, you know that one of the changes in the product is the removal of the Internet Information Services (IIS) dependency.
Google Visualization API – Google Code – The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large.
Official Google Blog: The democratization of data – Google will be a part of this global economy, helping both large and small companies to grow their markets and manage their information. Exciting times are ahead!

Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Vinny

People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX – Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? – JavaOne 2008 – The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is meaningless in the grand scheme of things
JavaFX’s day in the Sun | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com – JavaFX has a LONG way to go especially when you look at Adobe’s RIA strengths and Microsoft’s very enthusiastic entry into the space. But I think JavaFX will be a breath of fresh air for people and will help in expanding the RIA footprint further
Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-07 | By Paul Krill – Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
Dell Expands Virtualization Offerings – Dell is adding to its virtualization portfolio by embedding Citrix XenServer into its hardware and expanding its services for customers investing in the technology.
Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web – The continuing battle between Microsoft and Google will mean fierce competition – adding features, building data centers, cutting deals and spending money on speed and customer convenience
Archiva – The Build Artifact Repository Manager – Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.
JavaOne 2008: Day One (So Far) – JavaOne 2008 Day One has started, of course, and it's an interesting show, with a lot of undercurrents about JavaFX (as expected) and multimedia – and mobile applications. There's a lot more, of course, and this thread is meant for people to add comments
The day the music died [dive into mark] – This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on s
Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 – GigaOM – Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2.
Julien Lecomte’s Blog » JavaScript: The Good Parts – In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas extensively describes that good subset of the JavaScript language, occasionally warning to avoid the bad. I consider Douglas’ book a must-buy for anybody who’s serious about developing professional apps for the w

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