• 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, benchmarking in the cloud is fast, cheap and scalable, once you try it, you won't go back.
• Eclipse Xtend – A language made for Java developers. – Java is a great platform and also the language has some nice features. Xtend is not meant to replace Java all together but to be a convenient alternative in situations where Java doesn't shine. Therefore Xtend
• Migrating JEE Applications from WLS/WAS to SpringSource tc Server – Migrating JEE Applications from WLS/WAS to SpringSource tc Server
• CodeKit — THE Mac App For Web Developers – CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects.CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects.
• Economics – A free community driven Q&A for economists and graduate-level economics students – This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for economists and graduate-level economics students
• Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure | Engine Yard Blog – This article will begin with a look at some of the benefits of using Puppet to manage your infrastructure. In the coming weeks we’ll also take a look at Chef and how it can benefit your infrastructure in its own unique ways.
• The Number One Trait of a Great Developer | Engine Yard Blog – While these are great aspects in moderation, they all miss the number one quality of a fantastic developer: Judgement.
• How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? – Forbes – People love to hate Bill Gates and I don’t think most of it is fair, especially in light of more recent events.
• twitter/bootstrap – HTML, CSS, and JS toolkit from Twitter – Bootstrap is Twitter's toolkit for kickstarting CSS for websites, apps, and more. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more.
• Gates, Zuckerberg, Page and Brin make Forbes’ most powerful list – Forbes has put together its list of ‘The World’s Most Powerful People’, including 70 individuals that it believes really “matter”. The list, published yesterday, puts politicians, religious leaders and tech founders together, ranking them in terms of how much influence they have over people.

Links for November 4th through November 6th

• Springfuse Quickstart – Generate Spring MVC3, JQuery, JPA CRUD application – Springfuse reverses your database structure and generates top-quality source code that you can use immediately as the foundation of your web application.
• Spring 3.1.M1 @Cacheable Doesn’t Evict – A Workaround – davidsalter.co.uk – Spring 3.1 introduces a new feature to allow methods to be cached and evicted thus allowing resource heavy methods to be avoided where possible. Caching is enabled via the new @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations
• Security Expert: Sony Knew Its Software Was Obsolete Months Before PSN Breach – The Consumerist – Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf – Uncomfortable with Agile by Andy Hunt who wants you to be uncomfortable. – Time to wake up! Time to shake things up. Refactor your process. Refactor your code. Refactor your customers. Refactor your priorities. If you find yourself going through your project on automatic, without thinking about what you're doing, then you aren’t thinking. You might want to look to that first.
• Building mobile apps with Sencha Touch and Phonegap • Blog Archive • Lonely Code – This post will describe how to go about building a andriod app without having to learn Java, but instead build the entire thing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry Application | SpringSource Team Blog – Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry applications
• HBase Do’s and Don’ts | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera – The impetus for my talk and this follow up blog post is to clarify some of the good applications for HBase, warn against some poor applications and highlight important steps to a successful HBase deployment.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.3: Final Release Now Available! – Today we’re happy to announce that the final releases of GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) are now available
• Ext GWT 3.0 XTemplate Redesign | Blog | Sencha – In summary, the new XTemplate design is a much improved design over the previous XTemplate. We are leveraging GWT Deferred Binding to provide a GWT like solution.
• Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night – So this morning I'm grateful for the innovators pushing forward technologies that bring us together and enable us to share these human experiences. And, I can’t help but be hopeful for what the next 10 years will bring.

Links for May 3rd through May 5th

• Springfuse Quickstart – Generate Spring MVC3, JQuery, JPA CRUD application – Springfuse reverses your database structure and generates top-quality source code that you can use immediately as the foundation of your web application.
• Spring 3.1.M1 @Cacheable Doesn’t Evict – A Workaround – davidsalter.co.uk – Spring 3.1 introduces a new feature to allow methods to be cached and evicted thus allowing resource heavy methods to be avoided where possible. Caching is enabled via the new @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations
• Security Expert: Sony Knew Its Software Was Obsolete Months Before PSN Breach – The Consumerist – Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf – Uncomfortable with Agile by Andy Hunt who wants you to be uncomfortable. – Time to wake up! Time to shake things up. Refactor your process. Refactor your code. Refactor your customers. Refactor your priorities. If you find yourself going through your project on automatic, without thinking about what you're doing, then you aren’t thinking. You might want to look to that first.
• Building mobile apps with Sencha Touch and Phonegap • Blog Archive • Lonely Code – This post will describe how to go about building a andriod app without having to learn Java, but instead build the entire thing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry Application | SpringSource Team Blog – Using MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, and Spring MVC in a single Cloud Foundry applications
• HBase Do’s and Don’ts | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera – The impetus for my talk and this follow up blog post is to clarify some of the good applications for HBase, warn against some poor applications and highlight important steps to a successful HBase deployment.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.3: Final Release Now Available! – Today we’re happy to announce that the final releases of GWT and the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) are now available
• Ext GWT 3.0 XTemplate Redesign | Blog | Sencha – In summary, the new XTemplate design is a much improved design over the previous XTemplate. We are leveraging GWT Deferred Binding to provide a GWT like solution.
• Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night – So this morning I'm grateful for the innovators pushing forward technologies that bring us together and enable us to share these human experiences. And, I can’t help but be hopeful for what the next 10 years will bring.

Links for May 3rd through May 5th

• Google mobile search gets redesigned results for stocks – When you search for your favorite stock ticker symbol on your smartphone, you'll be presented with a result page that can be seen to the left in the image above. It displays an interactive graph on a 'card', and you can switch the amount of time that the graph covers by simply tapping on the buttons below it.
• Clever Title: "Intro to Scala for Java Programmers": slides, code, and links – Last week, I presented a talk titled "An Introduction to Scala for Java Programmers". I had a lot of fun making it, and I learned a ton. I thought it was interesting that the more I learned, the more I liked Scala.
• JDK 7: The New Objects Class – The java.util.Objects class is new to JDK 7 and its Javadoc states that the class is "since 1.7" and describes the class as: "This class consists of static utility methods for operating on objects. These utilities include null-safe or null-tolerant methods for computing the hash code of an object, returning a string for an object, and comparing two objects."
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL – In this article, we will take a deeper look at the sequence of events that take place when you visit a URL
• The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com – This is the part that amazes me the most. I don’t know if a large organized industry has ever faced this fierce a form of competition – someone who is not trying to “win” in the classic sense. They want market share, but they don’t need economics
• kundera – JPA 1.0 Annotation based ORM library for the Cassandra database – The idea behind Kundera is to make working with Cassandra drop-dead simple and fun. Kundera does not reinvent the wheel by making another client library; rather it leverages the existing libraries and builds – on top of them – a wrap-around API to help developers do away with unnecessary boiler plate codes, and program a neater-and-cleaner code that reduces code-complexity and improves quality. And above all, improves productivity.
• The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have. – The Little MongoDB Book; an ebook meant to help people get familiar with MongoDB and answer some of the more common questions they have.
• Cassandra gets ready for world domination and can MongoDB scale up like Cassandra? – After using Cassandra during development for the past 8 months my team and I made the decision to switch from Cassandra to MongoDB this morning. I thought I'd share some thoughts on why we did this and where Cassandra might benefit from improvement.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: Top Ten Reasons to use Google Plugin for Eclipse – So in no particular order, here are 10 reasons you should use Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE).
• Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year – It's pretty amazing what can happen when a group of talented people who trust each other get together and decide to make something awesome.

Daily del.icio.us for March 30th through April 2nd

• InfoQ: Security vs. Security Architecture – Marc Stiegler presents popular but faulty security architectures used – Independence Day Evil Alien Architecture, the Gilded Cage, and Gone Phishin' – along with effective architectures emerging today.
• InfoQ: Leaner Programmer Anarchy – Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results.
• Eclipse offers hosted access to Web dev tools effort | Application Development – InfoWorld – The Orion platform is intended to move development to the Web and features an editor and client-side architecture using HTML5
• Enterprise software getting more mobile | Application Development – InfoWorld – A new survey finds that 73 percent of developers plan to extend enterprise applications to mobile devices in the next year
• Twitter Engineering: Improving Browser Security with CSP – Over the past few weeks we've been testing a new security feature for our mobile site. It is called a Content Security Policy, or CSP. This policy is a standard developed by Mozilla that aims to thwart cross site scripting (XSS) attacks at their point of execution, the browser
• Dropbox Could Generate $100 Million In Revenue This Year – Dropbox, the startup that makes cloud backup and syncing incredibly easy, is cash-flow positive, on track to generate $100 million in revenue this year and could be worth $1-2 billion
• Twitter Engineering: The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011 – Under the hood, Twitter is a complex yet elegant distributed network of queues, daemons, caches, and databases. Today, the feed and care of Twitter requires more than 200 engineers to keep the site growing and running smoothly
• YouTube – O’Reilly Webcast: Introduction to Apache CouchDB – In this webcast, J. Chris Anderson gives a technical overview and describes some of CouchDB's existing users, with plenty of time for audience-driven questions and answers.
• Stomp on Web Sockets – Stomp is a simple text-orientated messaging protocol. It defines an interoperable wire format so that any of the available Stomp Clients can communicate with any Stomp Message Broker to provide easy and widespread messaging interoperability among languages, platforms and brokers.
• Getting Response through GWT using Http Protocol – In this article, we will see how to use GWT to send a HTTPRequest to the server and update the response on the client side using Ajax.

Daily del.icio.us for March 21st through March 24th

• iPad A New Technology Paradigm — A Reluctant Admission – Wall Street & Technology – As we continue to extend the ubiquitous computational fabric, technology will continue to be pushed further and further away from the corporate environment, formal desk and trading floor into the realm of complete human immersion
• Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia – It's this lineage that has taken decades to develop in the Valley that no government programs or well-meaning civic boosters can replicate.
• Loic Le Meur Blog: The new nightmare of developers and brands – It used to be simple. You just needed a website. Whatever you do on the web today, it's now a nightmare if you want to optimize your presence.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT 2.2 now available – Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.2 directly integrates GWT Designer, a powerful WYSIWYG Ajax user interface (UI) designer that makes it much easier to quickly build UIs. Second, developers can take advantage of the modern web with the first round of HTML5 support within the GWT SDK
• Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points – blog.serverfault.com – I thought as a break form the normal prose some of our readers might enjoy a short overview of the Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User) from a technical view
• Introducing The Microsoft Puppet – It sure looks like what Microsoft just did was install a puppet government within Nokia
• Google launches two-factor authentication – Google just launched two-factor authentication, and I believe everyone with a Google account should enable it.
• HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles | HTML Dog – Welcome to HTML Dog, the web designer's resource for everything HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making web pages.
• Perspectives – Google Megastore: The Data Engine Behind GAE – Megastore is the data engine supporting the Google Application Engine. It’s a scalable structured data store providing full ACID semantics within partitions but lower consistency guarantees across partitions.
• Ehcache – Caching Use Cases in the Enterprise – What You Can Learn from Hundreds of Ehcache Users Across the Globe. The results of a comprehensive survey of Ehcache users are available in the whitepaper below.

Daily del.icio.us for February 12th through February 15th

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Home | Spring Python – Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security, targeted for Python. Spring provides many useful features, and I wanted those same features available when working with Python
• Agile programming 10 years on: Did it deliver? – It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development [1]," which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements, collaboration with customers, and delivery of software in short iterations.
• Microsoft to Make Java, Eclipse ‘First Class` on Windows Azure – Application Development from eWeek – Microsoft says it will make Java a first-class development language on its Windows Azure cloud platform, providing tooling support for developers via the Eclipse IDE.
• London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux – ComputerworldUK.com – The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times.
• Warlock’s Thoughts: JSON – Jackson to the rescue – Sometimes you have to fetch some data from the server in JavaScript, JSON is pretty good choice for this task. Article presents Jackson usage on the server side for generating JSON response.
• Top 25 Best Linux Commands – As a Linux user you’ll come to learn and love certain commands. Here I have posted the 25 top command line snippets.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Blog of Dmitry Buzdin: ThoughtWorks Radar Demystified (GWT) – My opinion is that GWT is one of the unlocking technologies for "Browser as a Platform" vision mentioned in the radar as well. Why is it so, deserves a separate post. I wish ThoughtWorkers to review their view on the GWT potential and put that at least in Trial state.
• Bloomberg Game Changers: Sergey Brin & Larry Page – Video – Bloomberg – BLOOMBERG GAME CHANGERS follows Sergey Brin and Larry Page from their first meeting at Stanford to the new media mega-company on a collision course with old media businesses of newspapers, books, movies and television

Daily del.icio.us for October 29th through November 3rd

• Multiverse : Software Transactional Memory for Java – Multiverse is a Software Transansactional Memory implementation and meant as an alternative to traditional lock based concurrency
• John Nack on Adobe : Adobe demos Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool – Adobe lives or dies by its ability to help customers solve real problems. That means putting pragmatism ahead of ideology
• Sencha – Sencha Animator – Create CSS3 Animations with Ease – Introducing Sencha Animator, a powerful desktop application to create awesome CSS3 animations for WebKit browsers and touchscreen mobile devices.
• 15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About – Chrome has a lot of obscure features which could immensely enhance one’s browsing productivity if he were to know about them. This post intends to do reveal exactly those features.
• InfoQ: Functional Design Patterns – Aino Vonge Corry reviews a number of well known design patterns showing that their implementation is simpler in functional languages because such languages have pattern-based constructs.
• Hadoop + HBase + Cygwin + Windows 7 x64 « alan said – In this post I will describe how to get a Hadoop environment with HBase running in Cygwin on Windows 7 x64. Having spent the better part of a week reading through blog posts and documentation, I found that none of them covered the process in full detail, at least not for the software versions I intended to use.
• Tutorial: Creating a Stock Watcher with GWT Designer (UPDATED) « Giant Flying Saucer – Obviously with a powerful tool like the GWT Designer I cannot show off all the bells and whistles in one tutorial but hopefully this grabs your attention enough to see what is possible and to experiment further.
• Babylon 5 & the Great War of Java – Stephen Colebourne’s Weblog – We all have to look to ourselves – developers, community members, vendors, Oracle – and decide "Who we Are" and "What we Want". And then find a way to bring all the different answers to those questions together for a common purpose.
• Jetty Continuations: Push Your Java Server Beyond Its Scalability Limits — Developer.com – Jetty Continuations suspend an HTTP request and releases the thread to the thread pool. When an event or timeout occurs, it resumes the suspended request. This approach avoids the thread-per-connection limitation of Web servers, allowing the server to scale for heavy loads
• Apple joins Google in counterattack against Paul Allen lawsuit – Computerworld – Apple last week joined forces with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others in an effort to dismiss patent infringement charges brought by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

Daily del.icio.us for October 25th through October 29th

• Consumer Reports Electronics Blog: Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4 – It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception
• Project Lombok – Spice up your Java – @Data generates all the boilerplate that is normally associated with simple POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) and beans: getters for all fields, setters for all non-final fields, and appropriate toString, equals and hashCode implementations that involve the fields of the class
• App Inventor for Android – To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.
• Google’s Do-It-Yourself App Tool – NYTimes.com – Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones.
• MyEclipse for Spring 8.6: GWT Scaffolding – This tutorial is going to walk you through producing this ready-to-run GWT application with a Spring backend that implements the CRUD application pattern for a domain model.<br />
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  This tutorial is going to walk you through producing this ready-to-run GWT application with a Spring backend that implements the CRUD application pattern for a domain model.
• louisgray.com: Why I Turned In My iPhone and Went Android – I am betting on an ecosystem and an application environment that encourages best of breed developers to move their product to a growing population of smartphones, and I expect to reap the benefits
• Configuring multiple Tomcat application servers with Apache HTTP server/ Load Balancing with Apache Web Server « Girish Gaurav’s Blog – In this article, I am going to explain how we can configure multiple Tomcat instances with single Apache Web Server.
• Should you have separate product and maintenance teams? » Silver Stripe Blog » Blog Archive – In my experience the really good developers want to become better, and there is no better way than to do maintenance. It teaches a whole lot of things – where your design is failing, what kind of changes are being requested, how customers are using your software and which assumptions were invalid
• This Android Chart Should Scare The Bejesus Out Of Apple – The chart below should scare the bejesus out of Apple. Because it suggests that it may, in fact, be deja vu all over again. (As you look at it, remember that, two years ago, Android was nowhere).
• Gradle: why? – JBoss Community – A lot of people have asked me to document the reasons I want to migrate Hibernate from Maven to Gradle as its build tool so I enumerate those reasons here.

Daily del.icio.us for July 9th through July 12th

• 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks with $100 Credit Giveaway | Web.AppStorm – There are a multitude of ways to use Dropbox and a plethora of tricks to make your daily computing easier.
• DropboxAddons/Dropboxen – Dropbox Wiki – Dropboxen enables you to run multiple Dropbox clients concurrently by automatically launching multiple instances of Dropbox.exe as different Windows users so Dropbox will store the shared files in each unique Windows user directory.
• SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry | VentureBeat – SeaMicro is dispelling the Silicon Valley myth that you can’t innovate in hardware anymore. The startup is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance but uses 75 percent less power and space than current servers.
• The Four Meta Secrets of Scaling at Facebook – You can get the code right, you can get the products right, but you need to get the culture right first. If you don't get the culture right then your company won't scale.
• Writing iPad/iPhone/iPod applications with Java and SWT? « EclipseSource Blog – Over the last couple of days, Jordi and I played a little with the Eclipse RAP protocol. We decided to develop a Cocoa Touch client for RAP using the iAd JavaScript library
• Red Hat’s CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld – Red Hat announced Cloud Access, which will let enterprises use their subscriptions to support either traditional on-premise servers or servers hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
• InfoQ: The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study – Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and the technical team, offering advice for each component of the enterprise. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then gradually moving to Kanban, explaining why Kanban makes more sense to them, what it offers over Agile and what are the benefits.
• dzone.com – Why Application Architecture Should Matter to Spring Developers – The Java language and the Spring framework combination have excellent support for application layering, where each layer is represented by a Spring or Java stereotype: @Controller, @Service, @Entity and @Repository.
• iPhone now as fragmented as Android | VentureBeat – A lot of people thought that the Nexus One was Google’s entry into the handset market. This was actually far from the truth. The Nexus One is the equivalent of the Java Reference Implementation or UNIX POSIX and X/Open: a baseline of what handset manufacturers would have to support in order to create a real Android handset
• Geotagging games: Location, location, location | The Economist – Gowalla and Foursquare are all about the location; because they do just that one thing, they do it well
• Dilbert’s Scott Adams on Betting on the Bad Guys in Investing – WSJ.com – I have a theory that you should invest in the companies that you hate the most. The usual reason for hating a company is that the company is so powerful it can make you balance your wallet on your nose while you beg for their product.

Daily del.icio.us for June 8th through June 14th

• RESTful Webservices with Java and Jersey (JAX-RS) – Tutorial – This article explains how to develop RESTful web services in Java with the JAX-RS reference implementation Jersey.
• Dynamically Add/Remove rows in HTML table using JavaScript | ViralPatel.net – In this article we will create a user interface where user can add/delete multiple rows in a form using JavaScript.
• Twitter / OpenSource – Twitter is built on open-source software—here are the projects we have released or contribute to. Also see our engineering blog for more details.
• How Google Went Into "Code Red" And Saved Google Buzz – Here's the story of how panicking just enough may have saved Google's answer to Facebook and Twitter.
• WPBuzzer – Hameedullah – WPBuzzer is a WordPress Plugin which allows you to add a button to your blog to allow sharing your posts on Google Buzz.
• Debugging Ext JS in IntelliJ 9.0.2 (Maia IU.92.273) « Greg Luck’s Blog – I am working on Ehcache Monitor right now, which uses Ext JS. IntelliJ gives you the ability to debug both Java and JavaScript, which is really nice.
• Coffee City | Starbucks will launch pour-over brewing method in March to make quick cups when a pot isn’t brewed | Seattle Times Newspaper – Beginning next month, Starbucks will adopt a brewing method called the pour-over at stores in the U.S. and Canada
• The Ultimate DD-WRT Setup: Wireless Bridging, No-IP, and OpenDNS. « Naterrific – The following guide will cover enabling No-IP, OpenDNS, and creating a bridged wireless network across your environment.
• Daring Fireball Linked List: Adobe Puts Secret Hold on HTML5 Spec – In public, Adobe claims to “support” HTML5. On the private W3C mailing list, though, they’ve placed an objection to prevent the current spec from being published
• AIR For Android, And Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices – . Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps.

Daily del.icio.us for February 15th through February 18th

• Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer | Ubuntu – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer
• iSpectrum: Java for iPhone – FlexyCore is pleased to introduce iSpectrum to the Java community. Develop and debug your iPhone native application in Java under Eclipse IDE or port your existing applications or libraries to iPhone market. Enjoy!
• 5 Ways of effectively using Firebug to edit HTML, CSS – In this article, I’m sharing few of my tips and tricks to use Firebug effectively to speed up your web development.
• InfoQ: SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture – Booch attempts to bring more clarity to some basic concepts: enterprise, patterns, frameworks, architecture, SOA, development, architecture lifecycle, best practices, what they are and what the aren’t, emphasizing the role and importance of patterns.
• Op-Ed Contributor – Microsofts Creative Destruction – NYTimes.com – Internal competition is common at great companies. It can be wisely encouraged to force ideas to compete. The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence
• Twitter / Jonathan Schwartz: Today’s my last day at Sun … – Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku
• Make Your Web Site ‘Groovy’ – Forbes.com – For a company with a heavy investment in Java, Groovy should be a no-brainer. If you are starting out on an advanced Web site project, you should make a decision between PHP and Groovy
• Monitoring Tomcat with Java VisualVM – Matt Woodward’s posterous – One of the best kept secrets that's bundled with your Java 6 JDK is VisualVM. VisualVM is an absolutely fantastic, free monitoring tool for Java that you may not realize is right under your nose.
• Mockups To Go – A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups. – “Mockups To Go” (www.mockupstogo.net) is a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.
• Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast – HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

Daily del.icio.us for February 2nd through February 5th

• Google Goggles ‘visual search’ arrives for Android | News | TechRadar UK – Google has announced a visual search application for Android phones called Google Goggles, allowing users to point their phone at anything, from buildings and landmarks to business cards and papers and search for it.
• SpringSource, Oracle To Back Modular Eclipse Project for Java — Application Development Trends – The module-based design principles defined by the OSGi have emerged as the de facto means of componentizing enterprise Java, said Michael Coté, industry analyst at RedMonk
• Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS – Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we're launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out.
• SpringFuse – Getting Started Tutorial – In this tutorial you are going to learn how to generate your first Java/Spring/Hibernate based project using Springfuse. All in all, you should not type more than 3 commands from your console to have your first project running.
• InfoQ: Service Orientation Requires Data Orientation – In his follow-up post, Ash discuses practical approaches to data-orienting a service-oriented infrastructure. He outlines several prescriptive recommendations providing a holistic solution to a data integration problem for an enterprise:
• InfoQ: Beginning an SOA Initiative – Ian Robinson on what organizational and social issues should be addressed when starting a new SOA project by identifying business capabilities using user stories, describing services and their contracts, and how to set up teams for delivery.
• InfoQ: "SOA Governance" Revitalized – Miko Matsumura discusses why people are pursuing SOA, whether SOA is dead, what SOA Governance is, the relationship to SOA itself, how it differs from management, and how SOA differs from integration.
• George Dawoud’s Blog: Java + Spring + MediaWiki = JAMWiki – JAMWiki is a Wiki engine implemented using Java/JSP that attempts to provide much of the functionality of MediaWiki. It can be run with or without a database and is designed to be fast and easy to set up.
• Java Code generation for Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow, JPA &Hibernate – Springfuse generates in a few seconds, Java Web applications that leverage Open Source technologies and standards. Springfuse uses the structure of your database as an entry point. The generation process is done in 3 easy steps.
• The Disco Blog » Blog Archive » To EasyMock or to Mockito? – While I’m only scratching the surface of features available in both libraries, Mockito’s API is more in tuned with my way of thinking

Daily del.icio.us for December 2nd through December 7th

• jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – A while back, we wrote an article describing a technique we came up with to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology.
• InfoQ: Merapi Project Utilizes Java to Expand the Desktop Capabilities of Adobe Air – Merapi is a technology that can be used as a messaging bridge between applications that run in the Adobe Flash player or Adobe AIR and applications written in Java
• InfoQ: Introduction to Data Services – Data services are software services that encapsulate operations on key data entities of relevance to the enterprise
• InfoQ: Born To Cycle – Agile development is not about doing a set of practices, it's about a way of "being," it's about learning. How is this learning accomplished? By taking brief pauses after small experiments, even large problems can be solved. In a recent Harvard Business Review interview of Toyota's president, he observed, "…when 70 years of very small improvements accumulate, they become a revolution."
• InfoQ: Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Success – David Starr has looked at how and why an organization might want to measure things like: agility, craftsmanship, and organizational success. He found craftsmanship relatively easy to measure, while agility was the most difficult to measure in a useful way.
• InfoQ: Introduction to Virtual Service Oriented Grids – Virtual service-oriented grids have the capacity to fundamentally change the way business is conducted in much the same way that the Internet did by reinserting a middleman in the form of software, rather than human. The key to this paradigm shift lies in services, the abstraction of interoperability and reuse.
• SOA and TOGAF: A Good Fit? – Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a style of architecture and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an architecture framework. The combination sounds promising, but do they play well together
• Cay Horstmann’s Blog: Upgrading to Eclipse Galileo – I just installed Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)—it seemed a more attractive thing to do than actually getting my work done. Fortunately, I only need three Eclipse plugins right now. Here is how they fared with Galileo
• Clojure: Challenge your Java assumptions – JavaWorld – Clojure is a dynamic functional language for the JVM, recently released in version 1.0. Clojure offers a new set of programming techniques for robust code and rapid development. In particular, it has new solutions for multicore computing. Whether you make the shift to Clojure or stick to Java, learning about this new language will challenge your assumptions about the best way to design software.
• Why Microsoft is Losing Browser Share | Zoho Blogs – Why is Microsoft losing share? I would submit that it ultimately had to do with their fateful decision to tightly weld together the browser and the operating system. That must be the most bone-headed business decision in Microsoft's history

Daily del.icio.us for July 6th

• Using Google JSON with Prototype and Java « timothypowell.net – In this example we will learn how to create a JSON object on the client using JavaScript (and Prototype), and how to process that same JSON object on the server using Java.
• InfoQ: Keynote: From Margin to Mainstream – Innovation, Disruption and the Future of the Web – In this keynote, Mitch Kapor, looks back at disruptive technologies, like the PC, and derives insights which he then uses to project a possible future for the Web, including the "social web," 'data scarcity and data abundance," and "startups on the cheap
• Maia Reaches Its First Milestone | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – We’re happy to announce the first Milestone release of upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 9, nicknamed Maia.
  This release delivers a fresh preview of features and improvements we’ve implemented so far for IntelliJ IDEA 9
• Open Group Releases Eclipse Tool To Ease TOGAF Development — Application Development Trends – The Open Group, a technology agnostic consortium focused on open standards and interoperability, this week released a tool intended to simplify use of TOGAF 9, a standard framework for enterprise architecture.
• Coding Horror: The iPhone Software Revolution – I wrote this because I truly feel that the iPhone is a key inflection point in software development. We will look back on this as the time when "software" stopped being something that geeks buy (or worse, bootleg), and started being something that everyone buys, every day
• Generation 5 » Closures, Javascript And The Arrow Of Time – Closures are a powerful and concise way to express your intentions to a computer: however, closures break some of the intuitive assumptions that people use to understand software — specifically, the idea that time moves downward through the execution of a procedure
• Red Hat: Bad economy is good for open source | The Open Road – CNET News – Both Oracle and Red Hat are doing well, and Oracle is obviously dealing with much bigger wads of money, but it seems clear that Red Hat's open-source model is the big winner in the recession.
• Create More Value Than You Capture – Tim O'Reilly at O'Reilly's Twitter Boot Camp, June 15, 2009, New World Stages in New York City.
• Apple’s iPhone 3GS: What It Costs to Make – BusinessWeek – The 16-gigabyte iPhone 3GS actually costs slightly more to build than last year's iPhone 3G—$178.96, a difference of $4.63. However, that is much lower than estimates for the first-generation iPhone, which pegged the cost at $220.
• Cisco launches Linux powered Wireless-N router – News – The H Open Source: News and Features – Cisco has announced the launch of a new Linux powered Wireless-N broadband router with Storage Link and media sharing functionality, the Linksys WRT160NL. The new 802.11n draft 2.0 router includes dual antenna with R-SMA connectors, a 400Mhz processor, 8 MB of Flash memory, 32 MB of DDRAM and a USB 2.0 port

Daily del.icio.us for June 24th through June 25th

• How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links – Publishing 2.0 – There is so much misunderstanding flying around about the economics of content on the web and the role of Google in the web’s content economy that it’s making my head hurt. So let’s see if we can straighten things out.
• Performance Anti-Patterns | Haytham El-Fadeel – Remember, the performance work done at the beginning of the project in terms of benchmark, algorithm, and data-structure selection will pay tremendous dividends later on—enough, perhaps, to allow you to avoid that traditional performance fire drill at the end.
• The Atlassian Blog – Wiki Theater – Five Killer Use Cases for Wikis – Since the conference theme was Doing More with Less, attendees were rather receptive to the idea of getting more out of their wiki. Below is one of the presentations we delivered called Five Killer Use Cases for Wikis. We hope it gives you some ideas on how to get more out of your Confluence wiki.
• YouTube – Google App Engine – Early Look at Java Language Support – This video introduces the latest features of App Engine, including an early look at Java language support. Andrew Bowers will walk through the development of a sample Java application, from creation to deployment.
• Google AppEngine uses Jetty! : gregw – Hot on the heels of Google Widget Toolkit(GWT) switching to Jetty, the little server that can has received some more Google luv'n! Google's new App Engine Java service is powered by Jetty! With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard Java technologies and run them on Google's scalable infrastructure.
• Sorting Algorithm Animations – These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions. These visualizations are intended to show how each algorithm operates, Show that there is no best sorting algorithm, Show the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm.
• App Engine Java Overview – Google App Engine – Google Code – Welcome to Google App Engine for Java! With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard Java technologies and run them on Google's scalable infrastructure. The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache
• New BlazeDS Support Demo | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – We’ve created a new IntelliJ IDEA demo: BlazeDS Support. It shows you how to create, run and debug BlazeDS applications with IntelliJ IDEA, and covers a wide variety of features — project configuration, run and deployment configurations, debugger and the others.
• Google improves Gmail for iPhone, Android | iPhone Atlas – CNET Reviews – Google has released a new Web-based version of Gmail that gives iPhone and Android phone users a more sophisticated version of the online e-mail service, including access to messages that's faster and that works even when offline.
• Fly the friendly skies in Flight Control (review) | iPhone Atlas – CNET Reviews – At first blush, an air-traffic control simulator sounds about as much as fun as a podiatry theme park. But Flight Control is an absolute gem of a game, a perfect five-minute diversion that's perfectly priced at 99 cents

Daily del.icio.us for April 7th through April 12th

• Switched – Google Chrome from IE8 – JavaScript is 56 times faster on Chrome The genius behind Google’s web browser (re-tweeted by Douglas Purdy from John Lam), V8 JavaScript Engine.
• Good-bye Solaris? The fate of Sun’s top 5 technologies – Computerworld Blogs – By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price. I'd long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn't surprise me. What happens next though? Specifically, what's going to happen to Sun's product lines? As a long-time watcher of both Sun and IBM, here are my best guesses.
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce – Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
• Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech – CNET News – Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.
• Building Rich Enterprise Applications with Adobe AIR – Adobe AIR Team Blog – Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets recorded a very impressive demonstration (see below) of a sample application he built using Adobe AIR and Flex. The sample application, called Salesbuilder, demonstrates many powerful features including
• Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient by John R. Rymer, Dave West, Mike Gilpin – Forrester Research – Lean software is emerging as the antidote to bloatware, enabling architects and developers to rapidly assemble business solutions that deliver "just in time" the software capabilities the business requires both today and tomorrow. The trend toward lean software has been building for years, but the worldwide recession is accelerating it. All application development professionals should know why and how to incorporate lean software into their software strategies for the future.
• SpringSource Team Blog » Job Trends: Tomcat, Spring, Weblogic, JBoss, EJB – Forrester recently described a trend that they refer to as "lean software" in their paper entitled Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient. They state that "lean software is emerging as the antidote to bloatware" and that "the trend toward lean software has been building for years, but the worldwide recession is accelerating it".
• Spring Finance > Part 3: DDD, JPA & Transaction Support | StSMedia – Before we start digging into DDD, JPA and transaction management – the main topics of this article, I should note that I am planning to release a new version of the Spring Finance Manager sample application with each article. However, this article is the exception to the rule . The code for this article was already realeased with the previous article on the Google code project website. This was needed to get get the sample application running to show the new Spring 3 REST features.
• InfoQ: Interview and Book Excerpt: Jaroslav Tulach’s Practical API Design – Jaroslav Tulach's latest book Practical API Design covers the topic of API design of software projects. Jaroslav discusses the importance of API design in the modern software applications, what are the different factors that make a good API, and how to go about implementing API frameworks
• Attack From the Left: Paul Krugman’s Poison Pen | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com – Paul Krugman has emerged as Obama's toughest liberal critic. He's deeply skeptical of the bank bailout and pessimistic about the economy. Why the establishment worries he may be right.

Daily del.icio.us for March 29th through April 3rd

• vmcNetFlix – Official Site – vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga
• The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac – The post is titled LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java, so to complete the picture I responded to the community with a message about how LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac.
• Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 | EcoGeek – In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.
• Jericho HTML Parser – Jericho HTML Parser is a powerful java library allowing analysis and manipulation of parts of an HTML document, including server-side tags, while reproducing verbatim any unrecognised or invalid HTML. It also provides high-level HTML form manipulation fun
• Software Sensation Inc. – jWebApp Web Application Framework, Install&Update, MemSL – Memory Structures Library – jPersist is an extremely powerful object-relational persistence API that is based on the Active-Record and Data-Mapper patterns. jPersist wraps JDBC functionality and can work with any relational database, and any type of connection resource
• Java Entrepreneur: We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer – Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite fra
• InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team – Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:
• How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days – Bill Gates – working for Microsoft – Bill Gates was amazingly technical, and he knew more about the details of his company's software than most of the people who worked on those details day in and day out.
• Unit testing with JUnit and EasyMock - Michael Minella – I hope this gives you a more in depth view into JUnit and EasyMock. Unit testing is something that once you get used to it, makes you code better, provides you with a safety net for future refactoring and protects you from being burned by API changes
• Unit Testing With TestNG and JMockit | Javalobby – TestNG is a testing framework for unit test development. JMockit is a framework for mock objects that provides mock object functionality using the java.lang.instrument package of jdk 1.5. Together, these frameworks can provide the tools to create very rob

Daily del.icio.us for June 24th through June 27th

• uface – Google Code – UFace implements the JFace Data Binding for GWT, gwt-ext, MyGWT and Swing. UFace also provides a Universal API to create rich user interface applications on a variety of platforms such as the web via GWT or Java via Swing or Eclipse.
• cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 – This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!
• Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information – Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won't need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.
• GWT-Ext is a new and significantly improved major release that is based on Ext 2.0 – GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box
• Agile Ajax: Yet Another 17 GWT Tutorials – Half a year has passed since I published 36 GWT Tutorials. As expected, several new tutorials have come along that demonstrate deeper, more sophisticated aspects of the framework, as well as addressing specific IDE's and libraries.
• Google Web Toolkit Blog: YesMail talks about GWT – The decision to turn to GWT for our front-end solution was a leading factor in our success over the past year which was recognized in The Forrester Waveª: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q4 2007. We're up to 17 GWT modules and 33,000 lines of GWT code
• Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid – Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid – John Gruber does it again
• Grails 1.0 Web framework ready | InfoWorld | News | 2008-02-05 | By Paul Krill – Grails is different from other dynamic language frameworks because it embraces Java and leverages Spring at its core, Rocher said. Spring's role in Grails is akin to being an enterprise application toolkit that features ease of use, he said. Hibernate is
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA – We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA. Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the
• mike desjardins’ blog: A Delicious and Simple JPA Mapping tutorial: The Pizza Shop – So, another JPA tutorial. What makes this one different? Well, for one thing, this one comes with a working, downloadable project that works with Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA 7. It's packaged with Hibernate, Toplink, and OpenJPA. And it's been tes

Daily del.icio.us for February 6th through February 7th

• antennae – Google Code – Antennae is an open-source project designed to automate the building and testing of Flex applications. It uses Ant and Java to provide cross platform utilities to compile Flex libraries, Flex applications, generate FlexUnit TestSuites, and run FlexUnit te
• Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun?s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
• ONLamp.com: Administering MySQL Using Flex – PHPMyAdmin rocks. Of that there can be no question. It’s easily one of the best PHP-based applications, because it trades the clunky command-line interface for MySQL administration for the web browser. But while it’s very powerful, it’s not very friendly
• InfoQ: Java Persistence and EJB3 – This talk covers the key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3 app, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, and how the combination of E
• InfoQ: Why Scala? – Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.
• Ian’s Blog » Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java – Nonetheless, for anyone yearning for the advantages of both Ruby and Java in one language, you should definitely take a look at Scala

Daily del.icio.us for January 16th