• 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 26th through July 1st

• InfoQ: Code is Liability, the Less the Better – Code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial cost of ownership. It might do us good to consider what we can do to minimize it.
• Scale Fail (part 1) [LWN.net] – Companies hire me to "fix the database" because they think it's the source of their performance and downtime problems. This is very rarely the case. Failure to scale is almost always the result of poor management decisions
• "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! – edw519 – I built this book the way any self-respecting programmer would: with lots of shortcuts and software.
• Active Admin | The missing administration framework for business critical Ruby on Rails applications – Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.
• Cloud Foundry for Ruby Developers: A Tutorial   … | Cloud Foundry – This screencast is technical and focused on Developers, showing them how to use Cloud Foundry, the first Open Platform as a Service by VMware.
• Code Coverage as a Refactoring Tool | Javalobby – Using code coverage to help with refactoring, when combined with TDD, is a powerful tool.

Links for May 18th through May 19th

• How We Made GitHub Fast – GitHub – Moving to bare metal and federated storage on Rackspace has brought our average Rails response time to consistently under 100ms
• Ksplice » Mapping your network with nmap – System administration and software blog – nmap is the port scanner. It's a powerful, sophisticated tool, not to mention a movie star. In this post I'll show you just a few of the cool things nmap can do.
• MixApp – Hang Out, Listen Together. – MixApp lets you and your friends listen to your music together in a private chat room
• Browser Speed Tests: IE 9 Beta, Firefox 4 Beta, Chrome’s Crankshaft, and Opera 11 Beta – Google's got a new "Crankshaft" in its bleeding-edge Chrome, Internet Explorer 9 is out to prove its modern mettle, Firefox 4 is nearly complete, and Opera's adding extensions. It's a good time to put these browsers head to head.
• Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Evolving the Data Center to Private Cloud – The many faces of Cloud Computing will play a significant role in those changes, along the explosion of mobile devices, the expanded use of video and the value derived from new ways to apply analytics to massive amounts of data
• Using Neo4j with Vaadin Part 1: Creating the Architecture – GitHub – In this article, we are going to look at the architecture for a simple Neo4j-enabled Vaadin application and also create a very simple application that uses a Neo4j database
• Using Google Contracts for Java with IntelliJ IDEA | Javalobby – The first step after obtaining the Google Contracts for Java Jar and adding it to your project, is to enable Annotation processing support in IDEA.
• iPhone notes app comparison – All this – I have four note taking apps for the iPhone: Simplenote, Elements, PlainText, and Nebulous Notes. I’ve written about each of them before,1 but I thought it might be useful to compare them all in a single post.
• AVG LiveKive to launch as Dropbox alternative – Called AVG LiveKive, the new service will launch in beta form next week — competing against apps like Dropbox, SugarSync, and SpiderOak. Users will get 5GB of storage for free
• GParted 0.8 can recover data from lost partitions – GParted is an extremely handy LiveCD to keep in your technician's toolbox, and its new version features one very major addition: GParted 0.8 can now help you recover data from lost partitions
• What if this is as good as it gets? – What if, after years of increasing evangelism and fever-pitch hype and demos and speeches and books and talks and blogs and tweets and logos, Microsoft shifts direction once again, destaffs the IE team, and “deprioritizes” any notion of an IE 10?

Daily del.icio.us for February 19th through February 22nd

• InfoQ: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald – Keith Donald goes in depth on Spring Web Flow, which solves the problem of orchestrating control navigations within a web application in Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF. Keith talks about how to design workflows in web apps and technical details
• Bill Roth’s Blog: ** Workshop 10.1 Available: Workshop and Studio Merged! ** – I am pleased to announce that the code lines BEA Workshop and Workshop Studio have been merged. The result is BEA Workshop 10.1, now available for download
• Grepping your web logs – I?m Mike – With the help of a few common unix filters, you can quickly gauge how things are going on your site. These commands work with Apache, or Apache compatible log files, and can probably be tweaked to work with other log file formats pretty easily.
• Enterprise Java Community: Binding XML to Java – Manipulating XML data easily and efficiently in Java remains an important problem. Numerous approaches to XML binding exist in the industry, including DOM, JAXB, XML Beans, Castor, SDO and so on
• 23 Programming Languages compared through their Amazon book sales – The Amazon sales rank allows us to compare the success of books representative of each language, and indirectly compare the popularity of the languages themselves.

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 14, 2007 through Jul 15, 2007