Links for December 19th through December 21st

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Vinny

Logstash helps you take logs and other event data from your systems and store them in a central place. – elasticsearch works seamlessly with logstash to collect, parse, index, and search logs
SecTools.Org Top Network Security Tools – SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools
Become a Better Architect – The most successful IT professionals I know, regardless of title or role, are the ones that are business focused. From an enterprise architecture perspective, the technology is, at best, half of the overall architecture equation
iPad, Surface, Kindle owners reveal their top gripes – A new report from tech Q&A site FixYa cites the biggest complaints with the latest tablets from Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.
"Backbreaking" OpenStack migrations hinder enterprise upgrades – OpenStack’s promise of an open-source cloud infrastructure free of vendor lock-in is big. But difficulties upgrading from one release to the next are a major kink that needs to be worked out before widespread adoption can begin.
Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Hacker News discussion – Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Hacker News discussion
Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
oterm is a web browser unix terminal – oterm is a web browser unix terminal. It serves a console so you can access your server from anywhere in the world where you have an Internet connection. It effectively is an xterm in a browser.
JavaScript spin-off asm.js brings web even closer to native performance | ZDNet – Firefox creator Mozilla release benchmarks showing that asm.js, its performance-optimised subset of JavaScript, can deliver performance only 1.5x slower than code compiled to run natively.
Enterprise App Developer Atlas – An interactive map of the developer journey, helping developers make the right tool choices to reduce costs, increase revenue and capture new markets.

Links for November 22nd through November 30th

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Vinny

Announcing Scala.js v0.1 – a compiler from Scala to JavaScript – Scala.js is a compiler from Scala to JavaScript. It allows you to write your entire web application in Scala and simply compile to JavaScript!
Build a RESTful API with Martini – I’ve been looking for an excuse to try Martini ever since it was announced on the golang-nuts mailing list. Martini is a Go package for web server development that skyrocketed to close to 2000 stars on GitHub in just a few weeks
HTML5 javascript database library for web app – HTML5 javascript database library for web app that supports all desktop, mobile and web client browsers utilizing IndexedDB, WebSQL and localStorage. No dependency.
Docker unleashed: App portability gets a boost – Popular application-virtualization system for Linux no longer needs custom kernel, adds portability and connectivity features
Atlassian: A Leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management – Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management names Atlassian as a Leader. We believe this is based on our investment in agile software development practices and support of team collaboration.
Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch – With the release of Sencha Touch 2.3 and Sencha Cmd 4, creating your cross platform hybrid applications has never been easier. PhoneGap is now a key feature in the Sencha Touch mobile workflow integrating seamlessly into the newly released, NodeJS based, P
Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science – R remains popular with the PhDs of data science, but as data moves mainstream, Python is taking over.
cmder | Portable console emulator for Windows – Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over absence of nice console emulator on Windows. It is based on amazing software, spiced up with Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.
An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby – Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common convent
How Authy Built A Fault-Tolerant Two-Factor Authentication Service – On the heels of their newest product release, we sat down with Daniel Palacio, Founder of Authy, to talk about how they built their service.
On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we’re changing – We learned a lot from launching 1.2. Here are our own notes on the 1.2 launch process, and what we'll be improving, in case you're curious too.
It can’t just be Big Data, it has to be Fast Data: Reactor 1.0 goes GA – I'm happy to announce that Reactor, a powerful foundational library for building reactive, fast data applications on the JVM has reached GA!
Arm yourself: The API wars are coming – The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption.
Eric Schmidt’s guide for converting to Android from iPhone – Eric Schmidt's guide for converting to Android from iPhone
Salesforce Making Business Software More Social – NYTimes.com – According to a senior engineer overseeing the project, however, applications running on Salesforce can now be quickly remodeled for any screen, adding and taking away features that might prove more or less useful on a mobile device.
Hands On With Google Glass 2: What’s New? – The second Explorer Edition of Google Glass is out—and we get our paws all over it.
How Node.js Got Big – How the wunderkind framework grew up, from the perspective of one of its earliest contributors.
What it takes to run Stack Overflow – Here’s what runs the Stack Exchange network in that data center
FastR: an implementation of the R language – FastR: an implementation of the R language

Links for November 17th through November 22nd

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Vinny

Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio – Scott Hanselman – Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio!
Apple’s iOS7 Native JavaScript Bridge – The combination of JavaScript support in your native iOS client and the proliferation of JavaScript server technology Node.js makes for exciting opportunities in “asymmetric” JavaScript code re-use for your native iOS App, web client and of course backend
Ionic: The Most Advanced HTML5 Mobile App Framework – Ionic is a beautiful front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps in HTML5.
Tableau 8.1 is Available: You Asked, We Delivered – We're happy to announce that Tableau 8.1 is now available around the world. In this release we're delivering a host of features inspired by your ideas.
Tableau 8.1 covers a lot of ground: from enterprise features and enhanced mobile authoring, to sophisti
Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment called Spark – The Next Web – Google’s Chromium team never ceases to amaze. Its latest project is a Chrome app-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) codenamed Spark.
ReportServer – Professional Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting – ReportServer integrates many free and commercial reporting engines. This allows you to use existing reports directly and choose the engine that best fits the current need for new developments.
Using Sencha GXT To Build Interactive Web Apps That Manage Big Data – GWT is a great framework for developing small and large interactive web applications. Sencha GXT is a huge addition that gives developers all the tools they need to build great looking and easy-to-use user interfaces. If you are in the process of evaluating web application frameworks, the combination of GWT and Sencha GXT should be high on your list.
We Analyzed 30,000 GitHub Projects – Here Are The Top 100 Libraries in Java, JS and Ruby – We chose the 3 top languages on GitHub – Java, Ruby and JavaScript. For each one we analyzed 10,000 projects (i.e. GitHub repositories) leaning towards those that have been favorited the most by developers.
Why Office 365 is a better Office – Microsoft's flexible approach to Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and Office means each business can get the right mix of cloud and local for its needs
High performance libraries in Java – There is an increasing number of libraries which are described as high performance and have benchmarks to back that claim up.
Could Tizen be Android’s next nemesis? – Tizen is an up and coming open-source operating system based off of Linux. Like, Android, Tizen is extremely flexible in its uses. Tizen also allows a wide variety of app development as it supports apps running on HTML5 as well as other related web technologies to allow apps to run across multiple device categories. For example, an app on Tizen would be coded in HTML5 and it would be able to run on everything from smartphones to laptops and even to bigger devices such as TVs.
The rediscovery of India | McKinsey & Company – Is diversity an excuse for disunity? CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says Indians must embrace their common ambitions if the nation is to fulfill its tremendous potential.
How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management – Harvard Business Review – That, in a nutshell, is the principle at the heart of Google’s approach: deploying disciplined data collection and rigorous analysis—the tools of science—to uncover deeper insights into the art and craft of management.
Windows and Line of Business Applications: No Good Options – So while it pains me to say it, companies that are looking to develop a new line of business applications should seriously consider abandoning that idea and build an internal website instead.
DevTools Snippets – A collection of helpful snippets to use inside of browser devtools – The snippets can be used in any browser console. Chrome provides a 'snippets' feature that can be used to manage the scripts, while Firefox has a 'scratchpad' feature that lets you run, edit, and save chunks of JavaScript.
Debugging JavaScript – Chrome DevTools – As the complexity of JavaScript applications increase, developers need powerful debugging tools to help quickly discover the cause of an issue and fix it efficiently. The Chrome DevTools include a number of useful tools to help make debugging JavaScript less painful.
5 Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques You Should Know About – In this article we will discuss 5 advanced techniques which web developers can use to reduce the time they spend debugging and squash challenging bugs by using new tools available to us and taking advantage of the new features offered by debuggers.
Dart SDK 1.0 is here, and it’s on a quest to slay JavaScript – Google’s intention to build a front-end development language for building web apps was first made public two years ago. Today, it was announced at Belgium based Devoxx that Dart SDK 1.0 had finally been upgraded from test version to production-ready option
Elasticsearch & Kibana – visualize logs and time-stamped data – visualize logs and time-stamped data – Elasticsearch works seamlessly with kibana to let you see and interact with your data
Another day, another Java menace: Ceylon has landed – This week’s Devoxx conference in Antwerp saw the launch of two box fresh languages: Google’s Dart SDK 1.0, and Red Hat’s Ceylon 1.0. Creator Gavin King has been adamant from the earliest development stages that the intention has always been to create something that can run alongside Java – but designed as a language and SDK for business computing that learns and builds on Java’s successes and failures

Links for February 5th through February 10th

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Vinny

Why Discourse uses Ember.js – Evil Trout’s Blog – One question people keep asking me is “Why did you choose Ember.js?”. It’s a good one, and one that I think can be considered in two ways: “Why use a a client side MVC Framework?” and “Why Ember out of all the frameworks?” Here’s my answer to both of those questions.
iOS 6.1 banned from corporate servers due to Exchange snafu | ZDNet – iPads and iPhones running the newest version of iOS are being blocked in some enterprises because bugs are overloading corporate Exchange servers.
Technical Debt Will Kill You Dead (If You Let It) – Most of all, though, listen to your developers. If you’ve hired the right people, then they want clean, extensible, scalable code as much as you do.
A Look at Oracle’s NoSQL Database – Oracle NoSQL Database offers deep integration with Oracle Database. Via Oracle’s External Tables feature, SQL queries can be written against the NoSQL Database and even joined with relational tables.Support for Hadoop, the Apache’s map-reduce technology, i
Google’s Introduction to Datastore | Architects Zone – This Google Developers tutorial explores App Engine's Datastore service, driven by Google Bigtable:
Which apps will drain your battery and data plan? Verizon’s got a list — Tech News and Analysis – Verizon is now reviewing iPhone and Android apps, but not based on how fun or useful they are. It’s concerned about the resources they consume, which means Facebook and many popular games get docked.
Revolution of Java – Project Lambda – Slide & Sample Codes | Javalobby – The slide contains general Project Lambda innovations and sample project includes java.util.function interfaces, Lambda expressions, Method references, Type inferences, Defender methods, Body types and new Collection features.
Sencha release Sencha Touch 2.1.1 to include BlackBerry 10 support – Sencha release Sencha Touch 2.1.1 to include BlackBerry 10 support along with a lot of bug fixes, performance enhancements,
LeanSentry: IIS Application Monitoring + Diagnostics – Built by ex-Microsoft engineers to help you understand, troubleshoot, and improve your IIS and ASP.NET applications.
Introducing the Dropbox Sync API for mobile developers – Get ready to add some Dropbox magic to your apps with the Sync API for iOS and Android, a powerful new library that makes it easier than ever to sync with Dropbox. The API takes care of all the complexity around caching, syncing, and working offline so tha
Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. – Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind.
Chime aggregates your notifications from across the web in the browser – Chime aggregates your notifications from across the web from Gmail, G+, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and many more.
Scivantage Rolls Out Mobile Trading Apps Built with HTML5 – American Banker Article – Scivantage announced Wednesday the launch of its new HTML5-based mobile brokerage platform, Investor Mobile, and the immediate availability of investment apps for iOS and Android devices.
Review of Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Hefty Tablet Is a Laptop Lightweight – WSJ.com – However, I am less enamored with the Surface Pro. It's too hefty and costly and power-hungry to best the leading tablet, Apple's full-size iPad. It is also too difficult to use in your lap. It's something of a tweener—a compromised tablet and a compromised

Links for January 16th through January 18th

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Vinny

Scala 2013: A Pragmatic Guide To Scala Adoption in Your Java Organization – This report gives you what you need to know about experimenting with Scala programming in your Java team – a 15-page exclusive interview with Martin Odersky, another 15 pages of analysis, code, tips and tricks, including commentary from Josh Suereth, Scala expert and author.
Scala will so totally win against Java. – The beauty of Scala is that it gives you a new paradigm to work with on the Java Virtual Machine, while retaining compatibility with other Java classes.
Ubiquitous Testing – Testing Is Too Important to Leave to the End – Yehoram Shenhar and Alistair McKinnell present a way of doing testing having every team member involved in planning, estimating, and defining tests, testability being an architectural system attribute.
What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming – From the standpoint of tech geeks like myself, the IT operation behind Obama for America was extremely impressive. Why? Because the operation managed to be all of the following at the same time: 100% cloud-based, deeply polyglot, poly-framework, poly-DB, and, perhaps most importantly, unbelievably agile and time- and resource-constrained. And when you consider that they were passing around terabytes of data across over 100 applications
RethinkDB screencast – Watch a quick overview of the ReQL query language, sharding, replication, and more! – An open-source distributed database built with love. Enjoy an intuitive query language, automatically parallelized queries, and simple administration.
‘We thought we’d sell 1,000’: The inside story of the Raspberry Pi | ZDNet – The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to plans for its future.
iOS – Creating your first app using the Windows Azure Mobile Services Quickstart – In this video Chris Risner demonstrates how you can create your first iOS application using Windows Azure Mobile Services. The demo includes creating your first Mobile Service, downloading the quick start iOS app, running the app then exploring how the application uses the Mobile Services Client SDK to insert, update and query its data to/from the newly created Mobile Service.
Let Microsoft Teach You How To Code – for FREE! – Can Microsoft teach you how to code for free? It sounds like a sensational title but it is true, Microsoft can help you learn to code by providing you the tools and curriculum to do so.
Integrating Bean Validation with JAX-RS in Java EE 6 » samaxes – JavaBeans Validation (Bean Validation) is a new validation model available as part of Java EE 6 platform. The Bean Validation model is supported by constraints in the form of annotations placed on a field, method, or class of a JavaBeans component, such as a managed bean.
Duri.me – A beautifully simple image-to-DataURI converter. – A beautifully simple image-to-DataURI converter

Links for December 30th through January 4th

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Vinny

Why Your Next Cloud App Will Probably Suck Without….Unit Testing – Put simply, developers use unit tests as an internal control on the functionality and compatibility of their applications when changes to features, code or the environment happen.
Hacking Knowledge: How to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better in the 21st Century | OEDb – We've collected some amazing tips and tricks (an update of our earlier article, almost seven years old now) you can use to help you get the most out of the time you spend learning. From study suggestions to brain hacks, these tips are sure to help you learn faster, deeper, and better, no matter the subject.
America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead – Cleaning up the rest of the lead that remains in our environment could turn out to be the cheapest, most effective crime prevention tool we have. And we could start doing it tomorrow.
Advanced NFL Stats: Play-by-Play Data – I've recently completed a project to compile publicly-available NFL play-by-play data. It took a while, but now it's ready.
Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j | Architects Zone – Here's a 1-hour practical guide to getting started with Spring Data on Neo4j. This will cover Spring Data Neo4j's features/benefits, use cases, and a step by step demo.
The future according to Google’s Larry Page – Fortune Tech – Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page's dreams have a way of coming true.
Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Objective-C – We're all guilty of some Objective-C sins, I'm sure, but the important thing is to improve. We're at the dawn of a new year. Why not take this opportunity to reflect on why you've been so sinful and find ways to code more virtuously in the new year?
Introducing Spring Scala – The goal of the Spring Scala project is simply to make it easier to use the Spring framework in Scala. We believe that there are many Spring users out there who want to try Scala out, but do not want to leave their experience with Spring behind. This project is meant for those people.
Sublime Package Control – a Sublime Text 2 Package Manager by wbond – A full-featured package manager that helps discovering, installing, updating and removing packages for Sublime Text 2. It features an automatic upgrader and supports GitHub, BitBucket and a full channel/repository system.
Eve is a multipurpose, web based agent platform that uses existing protocols for communication (HTTP, XMPP, JSON-RPC) – Eve is a multipurpose, web based agent platform. The project aims to develop an open protocol for communication between software agents. Eve is designed as a decentral, scalable system for autonomously acting agents. Eve uses the existing world wide web as platform, and uses existing protocols for communication (HTTP, XMPP, JSON-RPC).
twig-persist – Object Datastore for Google App Engine – Twig is an object persistence interface built on Google App Engine's low-level datastore which overcomes many of JDO-GAEs limitations including improved support for inheritance, polymorphism and generic types. You can easily configure, modify or extend Twigs behaviour by implementing your own strategies or overriding extension points in pure Java code.
OWNER – Java properties files made super simple! – The goal of OWNER API is to minimize the code required to handle application configuration through Java properties files. The inspiring idea for this API comes from GWT i18n
Java.next() -> Scala or Groovy? – Generally the understanding is that scala has the ability to disrupt the status quo rather than incrementally improving it like Groovy. Scala has done and doing good job of reducing the cost of abstraction transliterate Java into Scala and end up with bytecode that is almost exactly the same. Scala has some original good ideas and well thought out type system.
Windows 8 proving less popular than Vista | KitGuru – Data from Net Applications shows that Windows 8 is less popular than Windows Vista, the operating system that proved unpopular with the enthusiast audience.
Antivirus Makers Work on Software to Catch Malware More Effectively – NYTimes.com – Consumers and businesses spend billions of dollars every year on antivirus software. But these programs rarely, if ever, block freshly minted computer viruses, experts say, because the virus creators move too quickly. That is prompting start-ups and other companies to get creative about new approaches to computer security.
HtmlUnit vs JSoup: html parsing in Java – In this blog I will compare JSoup with other similar framework, HtmlUnit. Apparently both of them are good Html parsing frameworks and both can be used for web application unit testing and web scraping. In this blog, I will explain how HtmlUnit is better suited for web application unit testing automation and JSoup is better suited for Web Scraping.
Progress of Happiness – The first is that sucking at something is the first step of getting better at it. And that trying really hard isn’t supposed to be easy. In fact, getting better at anything isn’t supposed to be easy. You are bound to get fail, get hurt, fail again before you succeed.
Microsoft WebMatrix – Open Source Web Applications Made Easier – Open source web apps make it easy to get started developing websites, but they can sometimes be time-consuming to get configured on your computer. WebMatrix makes it simple and straightforward.
Safeguard Your Phone from Malware – WSJ.com – According to a report by research group Juniper Networks, JNPR -2.07% hackers are increasingly targeting smartphones and other mobile devices with malicious software (also known as malware) to gain access to personal information. The threat is still small in comparison to computers, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take precautions to protect your smartphone.

Links for December 5th through December 12th

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Vinny

Testing Java Code With Confidence – Doug Hiebert discusses the principles and objectives behind automated testing, TDD, Unit and Integration Testing, using asserting and mocking to write tests, and static analysis.
Open source Java projects: Storm – Parallel realtime computation for unbounded data streams – Storm is a big data framework that is similar to Hadoop but fine-tuned to handle unbounded data streams. In this installment of Open source Java projects, learn how Storm builds on the lessons and success of Hadoop to deliver massive amounts of data in realtime, then dive into Storm's API with a small demonstration app.
Google Apps revenue: $1 billion over the last year | BGR – Google (GOOG) isn’t just be a consumer tech company anymore. Unnamed sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Google ”generated around $1 billion from the sale of Google Apps and separate mapping software to businesses and governments” over the past year, signifying that Google has made significant progress in its push into the business technology market.
Android’s Google Now services headed for Chrome, too | Internet & Media – CNET News – The all-purpose alert system isn't just for Android. Google is building Google Now into Chrome as well, taking advantage of its notifications system.
Gmail for iOS Hybrid implementation – Most of the talk around the web about the new app mentions the new “native” implementation, but as you can clearly see It’s not a fully native app, but a hybrid app with carefully crafted web elements.
Integration Testing of Spring MVC Applications: REST API, Part Two – This is the fifth part of my spring-test-mvc tutorial and it describes the integration testing of a REST API that is implemented by using Spring MVC. During this tutorial we will continue writing integration tests for a simple REST API that provides CRUD functions for todo entries
Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8 – Microsoft has had since October 2008 to study Android. It has had since June 2007 to study iPhone. It seems as though they did not figure out what is good about the standard tablet operating systems.
NBCNews.com video: Apple CEO on challenge of keeping company cutting edge – Steve Jobs’ hand-picked successor, current Apple CEO Tim Cook, talks exclusively to Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams about Apple’s battle with Samsung, glitches with their maps app, the prospect of Apple TV and the challenge of keeping Apple cutting edge.
New Release of Micro Cloud Foundry | CloudFoundry.com Blog – Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of the Cloud Foundry open PaaS, but it runs in a single virtual machine on a developer’s computer. Micro Cloud Foundry exemplifies how a multi-cloud approach to PaaS can help developers easily develop and test their applications locally and deploy to any Cloud Foundry-based clouds with no code or configuration changes.
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited includes access to 1000’s of books, games, apps, movies and TV shows, just for kids – Kindle FreeTime Unlimited is the first-ever all-in-one subscription that brings together all the types of content that kids and parents love – books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows. With unlimited access to thousands of hand-picked titles for kids ages 3-8, parents don't have to spend time (and money) guessing what their kids will enjoy, and kids can explore a world of age-appropriate content on their own – no ads, no in-app purchases.
IntelliJ IDEA 12 is Available for Download | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – IntelliJ IDEA 12 embraces the cutting edge version of the language and provides code assistance for the new syntax, such as lambda expressions, method references and default methods. Now you can try the new features of JDK 8 in your projects.

Links for August 30th through September 1st

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Vinny

Three kinds of big data – O’Reilly Radar – Looking ahead at big data's role in enterprise business intelligence, civil engineering, and customer relationship optimization.
Parallels 8 Brings Tighter Integration Between OS X and Windows – Parallels 8 throws the gauntlet in a major way, offering closer integration between OS X and Windows than I’ve ever seen in a virtual machine environment. The team pulled out all of the stops to make using Windows apps and even entire desktops a seamless and pleasant experience on any Mac, including the new Retina MacBook Pro.
Why I’m choosing CouchDB – Couch has several features that appealed to me. First, it’s a pure json document store. This means that all documents are json, and they can have any number of fields, and you can add new fields to an existing document at any time. There’s no schema and thus no migrations to manage.
What 10gen nailed with MongoDB by Calvin French-Owen – When my co-founders and I first started on our startup a little over a year ago, we asked other startups about what to database they were using. Nine out of ten people all had the same response: “Just go with Mongo.”
Airbrake collects errors generated by other applications, and aggregates the results for review. – Airbrake collects errors generated by other applications, and aggregates the results for review.
Scalable Internet Architectures – Theo Schlossnagle presents several architectural design principles useful for building scalable systems starting from the networking up to the application layer.
Video: Creating HTML5 web apps in Scala with Vaadin CEO Joonas Lehtinen | zeroturnaround.com – Joonas’ talk, called Using Vaadin to Create HTML5 Enabled Web Apps in Pure Scala. Because the Scala toolset currently lacks an RIA platform allowing developers to create the user interface in pure Scala, Joonas goes over how to do make a Vaadin Scala project using Eclipse plugins. For you purists out there, everything is done in Scala only – no XML, HTML or JavaScript are needed.
Broken Markets – How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence – Broken Markets – How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence
6 home truths about rock star developers | Application Development – InfoWorld – You want the best and the brightest money can buy. Or do you? In fact, you're better served by a group of developers with mixed skill levels who focus on getting the job done
John Davies on the Financial Industry, Standards Based Messaging, Integration – John Davies talks about standards based messaging and integration in the finance business, the future of payment systems and mobile payment, and much more.
Jetty 9 – it’s coming! – Development on Jetty-9 has been chugging along for quite some time now and it looks like we’ll start releasing milestones in around the end of September
PonyDebugger: Remote Debugging Tools for Native iOS Apps – PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset that operates as a client library and gateway server combination using Chrome Developer Tools on a web browser to debug an application’s network traffic and data store.

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 June 17th through June 20th

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Vinny

Java Native Access – JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without JNI – JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java code—no JNI or native code is required. JNA allows you to call directly into native functions using natural Java method invocation. The Java call looks just like it does in native code.
The Little Book on CoffeeScript – This book is designed to help you learn CoffeeScript, understand best practices and start building awesome client side applications. The book is little, only five chapters, but that's rather apt as CoffeeScript is a little language too.
Writing a Sencha Touch Application, Part 2 – In the first part of this Sencha Touch tutorial we started building an app that allows its user to take notes and store them on the device. Having created the foundation of the application we are in the process of building the Notes List view, which at this point looks like this:
The 3 most undervalued tech stocks: Google, Apple, IBM – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech – The 3 most undervalued tech stocks: Google, Apple, IBM. By the same "PEG" measure, the 3 most overvalued are Amazon, Cisco and Netflix
Hibernate OGM: birth announcement – Hibernate OGM stands for Object Grid Mapping and its goal is to offer a full-fledged JPA engine storing data into NoSQL stores
Why the future of IT rests on one person – A lot of those practices will be single-actor practices — practices organized so that one employee, supported by technology, can do whatever needs to get done
A Django setup using Nginx and Gunicorn « Senko’s Blog – This is a howto on setting up Django on a Linux (Ubuntu) system using Nginx as a reverse proxy and Gunicorn as a Django service.
Chart.io – Google Analytics for Your Database – Chart.io is Google Analytics for your database. We help you make sense of all the data you collect everyday. Chart.io quickly hooks up to your database and lets you create real time charts of the metrics you care about
AppleInsider | iOS 5 supports speedy Nitro JavaScript for full-screen Web apps – With the release of iOS 5 for the iPhone and iPad this fall, Apple will bring the Nitro JavaScript engine to full-screen Web applications saved to a user's home screen.
Git and Subversion – Living together – There are many people who want to use Git, but are forced to stick with Subversion for various reasons. Git-svn gives us the opportunity to migrate away from Subversion, but setting up a two-way sync is less than trivial.
Sencha Touch enabled us to maximize our development efforts and deliver a superior mobile experience – Sencha Touch has been a joy to work with. It’s enabled us to maximize our development efforts and deliver a superior mobile experience. It’s a complete framework and a massive head start for anyone wanting to build a rich mobile web application. We believe Sencha Touch is the first mobile web framework that is a serious alternative to native apps. We highly recommend it.

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