Links for October 12th through October 19th

October 19, 2011

VMware and Verizon team up for mobile virtualization — Tech News and Analysis – Employees who want to combine their work phone and their personal phone will soon be able to do so with the aid of the VMware Horizon software on their phones Good to Know – Google – Advice for staying more secure [...]

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Links for October 2nd through October 8th

October 8, 2011

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 | [...]

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Links for September 21st through September 30th

September 30, 2011

Debugger: working with sub-ranges for arrays and lists – I love you IntelliJ IDEA – During debugging IntelliJ IDEA shows only the first 100 elements of arrays and collections. It’s enough in most cases. However, it’s sometimes convenient to use a custom range. Exactly for this the ‘Adjust Range’ action has been available for arrays [...]

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Links for September 15th through September 17th

September 17, 2011

Configuring SQL Server in Amazon EC2: Training Video – To learn more, check out Jeremiah’s post on Configuring SQL Server in EC2. It covers who’s deploying EC2 VMs with SQL, what problems they’re running into, and how to improve performance SQL Server in EC2 – So, there you have it – it’s possible to get [...]

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Links for August 24th through August 27th

August 27, 2011

Running MongoDB on the Cloud – In this video Jared Rosoff covers topics like scaling and performance characteristics of running MongoDB in the cloud and he also shares some best practices when using Amazon EC2. Why it is important to choose a #1 language for an enterprise project : Adam Bien’s Weblog – Why it [...]

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Links for August 20th through August 23rd

August 23, 2011

Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework – Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. Deck JS » Modern HTML Presentations [...]

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Links for June 20th through June 23rd

June 26, 2011

Kind of Screwed – Waxy.org – At the heart of this settlement is a debate that's been going on for decades, playing out between artists and copyright holders in and out of the courts. rest-client – Java application to test RESTful webservices – RESTClient is a Java application to test RESTful webservices. It can be [...]

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Links for June 7th through June 9th

June 9, 2011

Book Review: How Great Leaders Create Innovation – Wall Street & Technology – A new book defines types of innovation and argues that by matching the right type with a company's culture, the risks of innovation can be reduced. iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows – Cringely on technology – What this requires from Apple is [...]

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Links for May 6th

May 7, 2011

Attachments.Me – Tips from a Production MongoDB Deployment – This post goes over some of my lessons learned, while undertaking a production MongoDB deployment: Fuzz Box: Code Fitness – Visualize your java classes and identify complexity – jSizer comes to the rescue. It is a small swing-based app which reads a jar file and produces [...]

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Links for April 27th through April 29th

April 29, 2011

What’s New in Ext JS 4 | Ext JS 4 | Products | Sencha – Ext JS 4 brings a whole new way to build client applications, but introducing the popular model-view-controller pattern to Ext JS How CEOs Can Manage Information Technology – WSJ.com – Too many CEOs and other top executives often don't even [...]

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