Links for September 2nd through September 12th

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Vinny

What Mark Zuckerberg really said about HTML5 – the complete quote – What Mark Zuckerberg really said about HTML5 – the complete quote
depression lies | WIL WHEATON dot NET: 2.0 – So, please, if you or someone you know suffer from Depression — with or without thoughts of suicide — please talk to someone, and get help from a doctor. As Jenny says, Depression lies, and you don’t need to let it control your life.
Unit Testing: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer? | Dr Dobb’s – Continued resistance to unit tests says more about the organization than it does about the practice.
15 Lessons from 15 Years as a Software Architect – Ingo Rammer shares 15 tips regarding people, complexity and technology that he learned doing software architecture for 15 years.
Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth – Chris Meadows introduces Redis, explaining what it is good for, what does it take to be run, and what’s under the hood through a social networking code example.
Even Inside Microsoft, Users Rarely "Bing It" | Fast Company – And now, it appears as if Microsoft has even given up trying to make "Bing" a verb that's as much a part of our web-surfing habits as it is our vernacular.
Technical Debt, Process and Culture – Michael Feathers advices on creating an organizational process and culture that can enhance software development in a way that reduces technical debt.
100% code coverage, Hibernate Validator and Design by Contract – The Kitchen in the Zoo – While I learned that 100% coverage should be the goal, in over 10 years I have never worked on a project which achieved that. So I have never surprised to find a bug in code which I thought was "fully" tested.
Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling – The C family of languages–C, C++, and Java–has dominated commercial programming for over 30 years. Today, all three languages are at a turning point:
Troy Hunt: 10 lessons for uncultured web developers – In the pursuit of a more globally harmonious online experience, let’s take a look at 10 lessons relating to aspects of web development with a cultural bent. Some of this may not be new to you, but all of it is relevant if you want to play nice with people from all cultural walks of life.
‘Why I’m A Democrat’ : NPR – At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., NPR digital journalists asked delegates, politicians and other attendees to react to the statement: "Why I'm a Democrat." Here are some of those responses.
Microsoft Vs. VMware: Who’ll Be Private Cloud King? – Cloud-computing – Infrastructure as a Service – Informationweek – Microsoft unveils Windows Server 2012 just days after VMware's vCloud Suite launch. The archrivals use some similar language but take very different approaches to private cloud.
Watch my SpringSource Roo Add-ons Video | Javalobby – In this presentation, SpringSource's Josh Long and Spring Roo in Action authors Ken Rimple and Srini Penchikala introduce Spring Roo, 1.2, and then go further, exposing Roo's powerful addon-based underbelly.
Big Data Apps and Big Data PaaS | Javalobby – Enterprises no longer have a lack of data. Data can be obtained from everywhere. The hard part is to convert data into valuable information that can trigger positive actions. The problem is that you need currently four experts to get this process up and running:
Nokia, Microsoft head for Last Chance Saloon | Reuters – If the new Lumia phones do not appeal to consumers when they are unveiled next Wednesday, it could mean the end for Nokia, and a serious blow to Microsoft's attempts to regain its footing in the mobile market, analysts and investors said.
What is good API design? « Inviting Epiphany – what exactly is it about building libraries that can take up to 10 years to learn?
Mike Dellanoce’s Blog: 10 tips for getting that native iOS feel with PhoneGap – At Outbox we have been hard at work building our iPad application with PhoneGap. I wanted to share some of the lessons my team has learned so far. All of the following tips have been tested on iOS 5 with PhoneGap 1.8. Also note that these tips apply just as well to web applications running on mobile Safari.

Links for May 11th through May 16th

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Vinny

Goodbye MongoDB – Over the last two or three years we have been using MongoDB in some mid-size projects. Now it is time to say goodbye to MongoDB for a variety of technical reasons:
VMware’s Vision For Next-Generation Applications – The moves are aimed at Java developers, particularly those who already use VMware's Spring Framework for lightweight Java development. Enterprise Java applications frequently end up in the virtualized part of the data center. By making it easier to produce them, VMware is also making it more likely they'll be deployed on its virtual machines
Brunch – A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity – Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.
Choosing a Web Development Framework: Options and Criteria | Javalobby – In this post I’ll present you with our candidates and the criteria we are evaluating each framework with. Over the next weeks I’ll post the actual evaluation of each framework and finally what our choice is and why.
gwt-twilio – GWT Wrapper for the Twilio Client – Google Project Hosting – A GWT library that wraps the existing Twilio Client javascript library. Now GWT developers can add voice/phone features to their GWT application in Java.
The Big Three – Scala, Clojure and Groovy | The Code General – The most encouraging outcome of the last few years has been the flourishing ecosystem around new JVM languages. A decade ago the CLR was being proclaimed as *the* runtime to support multiples languages. Thanks to the community the JVM is looking more and more like the preferred target for new languages, innovation and research.
MongoDB Overview | Channel 9 – Jared Rosoff covers the basics of Mongo and then explains the purpose and architecture of MongoDB replica sets (for scalable read operations) as well as MongoDB's approach to sharding (for scalable write operations).
AppJS – Build Desktop Applications for Linux, Mac and Windows using HTML, CSS and Javascript – Build Desktop Applications for Linux, Mac and Windows using HTML, CSS and Javascript
JSONP – Enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API – JSONP – Enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API
The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps – A collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web.
This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like | TechCrunch – Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship!

Links for October 2nd through October 8th

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Vinny

whoosh – Fast pure-Python indexing and search library. – Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.
Homepage | Celery: Distributed Task Queue – Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache TomEE Certified as Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible : The Apache Software Foundation Blog – Making its certification debut at JavaOne, Apache TomEE (pronounced "Tommy") is the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat (Tomcat + Java EE = TomEE) that unites several quality Java enterprise projects including Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces and more.
Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers – Scala Language Tour presentation, and introduction to Scala primarily for Java Developers & other Object Oriented languages
10 programming languages worth checking out – H3RALD – This article deals with ten possible candidates, and it’s far from being an exhaustive list. The programming languages described henceforth are very different from each other, but they all have one thing in common: they all stimulate my curiosity in their own, very different ways.
Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no one will be locked in – Oracle boasts the Public Cloud will provide “all the productivity of Java, without the IT,” and “the Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.”
Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot – I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.
Oracle announces public cloud to host long-awaited Fusion applications – 10/6/2011 – Computer Weekly – "Use the Salesforce cloud if you want them to run your applications forever. It's kind of sticky, the ultimate vendor lock-in. You can check in but can't check out," he said. "It's the roach hotel of clouds."
Announcing Box For Microsoft Office | The Box Blog – Box for Office, a new add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, lets you easily open, edit, save, and share using Box from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Oracle’s boxes more about integration than innovation — Cloud Computing News – Exalytics is essentially a bundle of the TimesTen in-memory database acquired by Oracle, Hyperion’s EssBase, acquired by Oracle, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite or OBIEE.
SourceTree – Free Mercurial, SVN and Git GUI for Mac OS X – A powerful Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems. SourceTree strips away the complexity of DVCS and makes it usable for mere mortals.
Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe – Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Platform Accelerates Adobe's HTML5 and Web Standards Strategy
PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi – Adobe has entered an agreement to acquire Nitobi, the startup behind PhoneGap. Alongside news of the acquisition, Adobe and Nitobi have jointly announced plans to donate the PhoneGap project to the Apache Software Foundation.
Effective Mockito Part 2 – As promised in the first part of the "Effective Mockito" blog series, I will concentrate on Mockito specifics in the followup posts. So, the main topic for Part 2 is Mockito's @Mock Annotation.
Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets | webexpedition18 – Below is a list of CSS snippets that will help you minimize headaches, frustration and save your time while writing css, and I hope you will find it useful. Whether you are a experienced web developer, or just getting started with css, they are all worth checking out.

Links for August 15th through August 16th

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Vinny

How You Should Go About Learning NoSQL – NoSQL is a big world, and solutions vary in complexity and differentness. That's why I think MongoDB, which isn't very different, and Redis, which is different but very simple, are a great place to start.
Warrick – Recover Your Lost Website – Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo.
Addressing Misconceptions about Google Web Toolkit – It appears that many people, including decision makers, are not fully aware of important GWT abilities and limitations. Many features in recent releases of GWT and related projects can be real game changers for the developers and for the end users. Here I am going to address common misconceptions and provide solutions to common issues.
How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld – Linux has become a dominant player in finance due to the OS kernel's ability to pass messages very quickly
Suck on it, AppleSoft — Google pulls a rope-a-dope | Real Dan Lyons Web Site – Does anyone really believe this $12.5 billion acquisition just got thrown together in the last few weeks as a response to the AppleSoft patent grabs? Doesn’t it seem likely that Google and Motorola started talking long before the Nortel auction?
mike.mainguy: Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car – Overall, I'd say Heroku is like taking the bus: if enough people want to go the same place at the same time, it's more economical. Engineyard is like buying a car: it's going to be a bit more expensive and you're going to need to know how to drive, but it is a much more flexible solution.
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich – NYTimes.com – While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks
Steven Poole: Goodbye, cruel Word – I weep at all the innocent electrons I wastefully killed over the years, sending those massive, lumbering Word documents through the internet. I apologise for my particle profligacy. I have learned my lesson. Goodbye, cruel Word.
Create unique websites without writing code | Muse (code name) – Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites.

Links for June 26th through July 1st

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Vinny

Joshfire Framework – The first open source multi-device development framework – Using only standards like HTML5 and JavaScript, it allows developers and integrators to quickly create native and dedicated web apps for browsers, Node.JS, desktops, smart phones, smartTVs and connected objects.
jBCrypt – strong password hashing for Java – jBCrypt is a Java implementation of OpenBSD's Blowfish password hashing code
11 proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review – These 11 proven practices for efficient, lightweight peer code review are based on a study at Cisco Systems using SmartBear CodeCollaborator. They can help you ensure that your reviews both improve your code and make the most of your developers' time.
How much is an iOS user worth to Apple? About $150. Every year. | asymco – Repeating the exercise with 180 million current iOS users who purchased about 200 million iOS devices and assuming a life span of 3.5 years gives the average revenue/year/iOS user of about $150.
SenchaCon 2010: Structuring Your Sencha Touch Application on Vimeo – In this session you'll learn about the recommended application structure for Sencha Touch (or Ext JS) applications. The new application structure enables any Sencha developer to quickly understand any Sencha application using the new Sencha MVC package.
Using NoSQL database in your Java EE 6 Applications on GlassFish – MongoDB for now! (Arun Gupta, Miles to go …) – This blog has published multiple blogs on how to access a RDBMS using JPA in a Java EE 6 application. This Tip Of The Day (TOTD) will show you can use MongoDB (a document-oriented database) with a typical 3-tier Java EE 6 application.
HTML5 and the dawn of rich mobile web applications – HTML5 and the dawn of rich mobile web applications
Walking through the Java EE 6 implementation maze | Javalobby – Here is a non-exhaustive list of the several Java EE 6 implementations
How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack – You can use Redis right now to do things that will make your users happier, your systems less complex, your site more responsive. You don't need to replace your current setup in order to use it, just start using Redis to do new things that were otherwise not possible, or hard, or too costly.
Don’t be fooled: Office 365 is basically useless on mobile | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld – The essentially Windows-only cloud service has no place in a mobile world and little place on Mac OS X or Linux
Anton Chuvakin Blog – "Security Warrior": On Free Log Management Tools – This page lists a few popular free open-source log management and log analysis tools.
How to use the EventCombMT utility to search event logs for account lockouts – EventCombMT is a multithreaded tool that you can use to search the event logs of several different computers for specific events, all from one central location
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float – This tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.
JAX 2011: Java Must ‘Seize the Lead in the Cloud,’ Says SpringSource Founder — Application Development Trends – If Java doesn't really seize the lead in cloud computing in the next year," Johnson told attendees at the JAX 2011 Conference this week, "I think it has a much greater chance of being eclipsed by languages like Ruby.
Platform X: How cross-platform tools can end the OS wars | VisionMobile :: blog – Are cross-platform tools a better solution than HTML5 to the challenges of platform fragmentation? Guest author Jonas Lind reviews the landscape of cross-platform tools and argues that such tools may become as important as the native platforms themselves
InfoQ: Olap4j 1.0: a Java API for OLAP Servers – After nearly five years of work, Business Intelligence vendor Pentaho has announced the release of olap4j 1.0, a new, common Java API for any online analytical processing (OLAP) server.
Agile consulting: A Macro View of Agile – lean thinking and tools like A3 and Kanban tie all of the agile pieces together, and help organizations think and behave with agile principles in mind.

Links for May 9th through May 11th

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Vinny

Social networking behind the corporate firewall increases 500%, creates big vulnerabilities | IT Systems News – Betanews – In total, social networking within the corporate firewall has increased 500% in one year's time. The reason this is important is because Palo Alto highlights this as a huge vulnerability, since most SSL-encoded traffic is invisible to corporate IT, and it is a potential vector for serious security breaches.
forplay – A cross-platform game abstraction library – Google Project Hosting – ForPlay is a cross-platform game abstraction library for writing games that compile to HTML5 (WebGL and Canvas), Java, Android and Flash
Google Think Insights – research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions – At Google we believe data beats opinion. So we work hard to study the worlds of consumer behavior, digital and media, and we’re pleased to share what we’ve learned with you.
InfoQ: Evolution of Code Design at Facebook – Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents – introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.
InfoQ: Agile Architecture Interactions – By simplifying agile methods to a perspective such as the one presented here and being influential at the critical interaction points, a skilled architect can adapt to agile development while staying focused on the core architectural work
Google announces Android @ Home | BGR – Google announced on Tuesday a new feature of the Android operating system called Android @ Home. The framework and associated functions transform an Android device into a home automation controller that connects and directs all of the devices and appliances in the user’s home
Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby – GitHub – Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.
Github as a CMS to end CMSes – Github can be used as a site serving tool. It is actually a pretty usable CMS even for non-technical folks. With some more tweaks it could be a killer platform for content with all the wonderful potential from forking and pull requests
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad | Cult of Mac – My advice to parents: Unplug that TV and run, don’t walk, to Toys R Us and buy each of your kids an iPad 2 — before TV turns them into "average Americans."

Links for April 30th

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Vinny

Responsive Data Tables | CSS-Tricks – Responsive design is all about adjusting designs to accomodate screens of different sizes. So what happens when a screen is narrower than the minimum width of a data table?
Sencha Ext JS / Touch and Ruby on Rails component framework – Overview – Netzke is an elegant and powerful architectural solution to several known problems that accompany development of complex AJAX-driven RIA (Rich Internet Applications). No matter how complex your application is, Netzke will help you keep your code maintainable and clean.
ExtJS/Rails CRUD Application in 7 Minutes – WriteLessCode – This post will lead you through simple steps of creating a task manager web application with Ext JS, Ruby on Rails, and Netzke.
InfoQ: Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study – Nanjangud C Narendra presents a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman's laws of software evolution, along with observations on Agile practices used and their outcome.
Gwt EventBus (HandlerManager) the easy way – With the event bus you are able to decouple the components and remove all the logic to deliver events. In fact you have a common bus where you can put events and forget about them
This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language – This is the first installment in a series of articles introducing the Ceylon language
Bozho’s tech blog » Those evil frameworks and their complexity – Frameworks are there to ease development, not to make it more complex. They introduce initial complexity, but the good ones fix the complexity to a relatively-low level afterwards.

Daily del.icio.us for April 17th through April 19th

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Vinny

Amazon Web Services Blog: Live Streaming With Amazon CloudFront and Adobe Flash Media Server – You can now stream live audio or video through AWS using the Adobe Flash Media Server using a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model that makes uses of Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, all configured and launched via a single CloudFormation template.
FunctionSource: Coping with Over Four Hundred Devices: How Netflix Uses HTML5 to Deliver Amazing User Interfaces – The Netflix story provides a clear example of a company achieving success with cross-platform HTML5.
A writable API competition – O’Reilly Radar – In conjunction with the Fluidinfo writable API for O'Reilly books and authors that was announced today, we're holding a developer competition.
How the mobile web will win | VentureBeat – So I’m here today to say that the debate is over: The web will win, but it won’t be the web of 2005. The iPhone and other mobile devices have forever changed the way users perceive software
A Java package dependency analyzer that generates design quality metrics. – GitHub – JDepend traverses Java class and source file directories and generates design quality metrics for each Java package. JDepend allows you to automatically measure the quality of a design in terms of its extensibility, reusability, and maintainability to effectively manage and control package dependencies.
Defying Data Gravity « McCrory’s Blog – Data Gravity is a theory around which data has mass. As data (mass) accumulates, it begins to have gravity. This Data Gravity pulls services and applications closer to the data
CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. – CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.
JavaScript Garden – collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language – JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.
Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets – Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
State Street modernizing with cloud, Linux technologies – Virtualization, State Street, software, server, operating systems, open source, non-Windows, Linux, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing – ARN – State Street Corporation says technology must evolve to meet the increasingly demanding needs of financial services, and within its own data centers is adopting new cloud-like technologies and placing a greater emphasis on Linux and open source.

Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 10th

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Vinny

Website wireframes: Mockingbird – Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
Why Everyone Is Talking About Node – Node is an interesting, accessible and efficient technology for real-time applications
mobile-bookmark-bubble – Promote your mobile web application by helping users bookmark it – The Mobile Bookmark Bubble is a JavaScript library that adds a promo bubble to the bottom of your mobile web application, inviting users to bookmark the app to their device's home screen.
InfoQ: Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter – Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages
InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB – Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.
HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms – The newest specs for HTML forms give programmers more control over data input and validation, while offloading much of the work to the browsers
Amazon Web Services Blog: JumpBox for the AWS Free Usage Tier – We've teamed up with JumpBox to make it even easier and less expensive for you to host a WordPress blog, publish a web site with Drupal, run a Wiki with MediaWiki, or publish content with Joomla.
Mobile GWT – Welcome to the Mobile Widgets for GWT demo site! Here are some examples of the exciting things you can achieve building with the Mobile-GWT framework:
LinkedIn, GitHub team up on collaboration tool for programmers | VentureBeat – Professional social networking startup LinkedIn has joined forces with well-known open source coding repository GitHub, which will allow others in a user’s network to see what projects they and their connections are working on at any given time
Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem, it will now become an integral part of the Spring family and VMware’s cloud strategy
TextFixer.com – Webmaster Online HTML tools for fixing, changing and manipulating text and html. – This website features text and html making, changing, converting, generating tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication or other uses.

Daily del.icio.us for February 23rd through February 25th

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Vinny

Java development 2.0: Climb the Elastic Beanstalk – Andrew Glover's guided tour of Beanstalk starts with a location-based mobile application (built using the Play framework and MongoDB), which he then ports to the Beanstalk environment
Spring Roo 1.1.2 Released | SpringSource.org – We're pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.1.2 (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes
Alex talks about Java Technology: Du Erkennst Mich Nicht Wieder Unerkannt Bin Ich Die halbe Nacht Noch Um Die Häuser Gerannt – JUnit 4 has many features, which can be considered "hidden". I am sure that developers that always read JUnit changelogs will know some of these features, but for those who don't read changelogs, I am going to discover them
Using the Active Directory from Java (AD Window Server 2008) « Blog AgileWorks – Integrate SpringLDAP with Active Directory
You Win, RIM! (An Open Letter To RIM’s Developer Relations) – So, my dear RIM, primary supporter of my local economy, I bid you adieu. You have succeeded in your quest of driving away a perfectly willing developer from your platform
GWT Event Bus Basics | JetBrains TV – This screencast explains why MVC applications benefit from an event bus, and it demonstrates how to create, wire, and respond to events in Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Donald Farmer Leaves MS for Qliktech / QlikView « PowerPivotPro – Donald Farmer, who has literally been the public face and personality of Microsoft Business Intelligence for many years now, is leaving Microsoft and going to what some people think is PowerPivot’s biggest competition: Qliktech, aka Qlikview.
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS CloudFormation – Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe – Our newest creation is called AWS CloudFormation. Using CloudFormation, you can create an entire stack with one function call. The stack can be comprised of multiple Amazon EC2 instances, each one fully decked out with security groups, EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes, and an Elastic IP address
Google Font Directory – The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers
An iPad lovers review of Motorola Xoom — Scobleizer – For the past few days I’ve had a Motorola Xoom. I accepted a loaner because I wanted to prove that it would suck next to an iPad. One problem: I’m falling in love with it.
Sencha Labs releases open source framework for WebGL development – Sencha Labs has announced the availability of a new open source framework for WebGL development. The framework, which is called PhiloGL, makes it easier for developers to adopt WebGL and integrate its functionality in Web applications

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