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 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 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 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 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 September 10th through September 12th

September 12, 2011

Google & the Future of JavaScript | Infrequently Noted – Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we’re pushing hard to make it happen. InfoQ: Agile and Architecture Conflict – There is a constant tussle between following Agile techniques and still managing to do enterprise architecture. While Agile development focuses on [...]

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Links for August 28th through September 8th

September 9, 2011

GOP Presidential candidates talk about science is like listening to children talk about sex – Listening to GOP Presidential candidates talk about science is like listening to children talk about sex: They know it exists, they have strong opinions about what it might mean, but they don't have a clue what it's actually about. Nick [...]

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Links for August 6th through August 8th

August 9, 2011

web development – The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication – Stack Overflow – The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication What’s the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Chrome. | TechCrunch – Compuware’s benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine [...]

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Links for May 26th through May 29th

May 29, 2011

danwebb.net – It’s About The Hashbangs – Hashbangs(#!) URL syntax is destructive to the web. The implementation is inappropriate, even as a temporary measure or as a downgrade experience. Videos Posted by Facebook Engineering: Push: Tech Talk- May 26, 2011 [HQ] – In this tech talk, Chuck Rossi will dig into the tools and processes [...]

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Links for May 11th through May 13th

May 13, 2011

5 Lightweight Alternatives to Apache and IIS Web Servers – There are many excellent web servers available that provide a high-performance alternative to Apache and IIS JetBrains .NET Tools Blog » dotPeek – Free .NET Decompiler is Available for Early Access – The long-awaited free standalone .NET decompiler from JetBrains goes public today: please welcome [...]

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