November 2011

Links for November 27th through November 30th

November 30, 2011

Upgrading to Sencha Touch 2 PR2 | Learn | Sencha – This has been a brief introduction to some of the updates you should be aware of when using Sencha Touch 2 PR2, and hopefully you enjoy working with it and benefiting from the major enhancements these small changes on your part can bring. VMware’s [...]

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Links for November 21st through November 25th

November 26, 2011

Errai is a framework for building GWT applications – JBoss Community – Errai offers a set of components that simplify building rich web applications using The Google Web Toolkit. The framework provides a concise programming model for powerful client-server communication and extension points that bring Java Enterprise standards to GWT clients. Errai Developer Blog: Setting [...]

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Links for November 19th through November 20th

November 21, 2011

Data-Driven Documents – D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data – Data-Driven Documents – D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data Java Concurrent Animated – This presentation consists of a series of animations that visualize the functionality of the components in the java.util.concurrent [...]

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Links for November 15th through November 18th

November 18, 2011

Google Guava – Synchronization with Monitor – The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few First look: Oracle NoSQL Database | Data Explosion – InfoWorld – Oracle's take on the distributed [...]

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Links for November 14th through November 15th

November 15, 2011

Why Americans use social media | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Two-thirds of online adults (66%) use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. These internet users say that connections with family members and friends (both new and old) are a primary consideration in their adoption of social [...]

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Links for November 9th through November 13th

November 13, 2011

The End of Borders and the Future of Books – Businessweek – An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 – New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 Hibernate Core Migration Guide : 4.0 – Get ready for Hibernate 4.0 with this Hibernate core [...]

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Links for November 6th through November 9th

November 9, 2011

What the end of Flash means for Adobe – SplatF – Adobes specific phrase in its release was: "Focusing Flash resources on delivering the most advanced PC web experiences, including gaming and premium video, as well as mobile apps." But the reality is that the mobile browser is the future of the web. So anyone [...]

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Links for November 4th through November 6th

November 6, 2011

The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second – Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product. Cassandra scales linearly far beyond our current capacity requirements, and very rapid deployment automation makes it easy to manage. In particular, [...]

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Links for November 4th

November 4, 2011

Hibernate Should be to Programmers what Cake Mixes are to Bakers – Cake mixes consist of a mix of things you already have in your cupboard plus a load of unnecessary, potentially harmful preservatives. They cost more than making cake from scratch, the resulting cake tastes worse, they take away people’s confidence in their ability [...]

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Links for November 2nd

November 3, 2011

Cisco Gen-Y study: Mobile devices valued more than higher salaries | ZDNet – New research reveals that Generation Y employees prefer device freedom over higher pay, and they would rather lose their wallets than their smartphones. Yahoo! Announces Cocktails – Shaken, Not Stirred · YDN Blog – “Cocktails” is a mix of HTML5, Node.JS, CSS3, [...]

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