Links for February 1st through February 9th

February 9, 2012

What is Apache Hadoop? – A look at the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem – What is Apache Hadoop? – A look at the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem Ext GWT 3.0 State API | Blog | Sencha – The Ext GWT 3.0 State API provides the ability to persist state [...]

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Links for January 15th through January 21st

January 21, 2012

How to build a simple GWT event bus using Generators | North Concepts – In his Google I/O session Best Practices For Architecting Your GWT App, Ray Ryan discusses the benefits of using an event bus in GWT (Google Web Toolkit) applications. Inspired by this talk, I decided to try my hand at building a [...]

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Links for January 4th through January 10th

January 10, 2012

WordPress has left the building – WordPress is the best blogging platform I, or indeed we, have ever used… but as a CMS is falling far behind the alternatives. Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012 – John Paczkowski – Enterprise – AllThingsD – Apple is expected to sell $10 billion worth [...]

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Links for December 27th through December 28th

December 28, 2011

Transaction configuration with JPA and Spring 3.1 – This is the fifth of a series of articles about Persistence with Spring. This article will focus on the configuration of transactions with Spring 3.1 and JPA. Java 7: Understanding the Phaser, a flexible thread synchronization mechanism – Java 7 introduces a flexible thread synchronization mechanism called [...]

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Links for December 23rd through December 26th

December 27, 2011

For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing – NYTimes.com – The amount of data being generated globally increases by 40 percent a year, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, the consulting firm’s research arm. And while Splunk has a lead in selling software to analyze machine data, big data is big [...]

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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 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 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 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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Links for October 29th through November 1st

November 1, 2011

Yahoo spinoff shakes up Hadoop market with new distro — Cloud Computing News – Hortonworks, the Hadoop company that spun out from Yahoo in June , is getting into the software space after all with Tuesday’s release of the open-source Hortonworks Data Platform Wit.io: Ruby and Python: pivot points – Python and Ruby seem similar. [...]

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