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 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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Daily del.icio.us for March 9th through March 13th

March 13, 2010

Dynamic Charts with HTML5, Canvas, and Flotr for Prototype – HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool on http://finance.google.com/. The tool itself is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries. SpringSource tc Server 2.0 Adds VMware [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for June 26th through July 5th

July 5, 2009

directjngine – A Java based implementation of the Ext Direct API – DirectJNgine is a Java based implementation of the Ext Direct API for ExtJs. DirectJNgine is feature complete, providing support for all kinds of requests: batched json requests, form posts with file uploads, requests from polling providers, etc. Strongly Typed, Loosely Coupled: Java vs. [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for June 4th through June 8th

June 8, 2009

Missing At WWDC: Steve Jobs, AT&T (AAPL, T) – Apple (AAPL) unveiled new MacBooks, a new Mac OS, a new iPhone OS, and a new iPhone at its Worldwide Developers Conference today. But two things were missing: Jobs & AT&T AT&T: The iPhone’s anchor | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – Today, that exclusive deal [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 13th through April 15th

April 16, 2009

Lean service architectures with Java EE 6 – JavaWorld – Although Java EE 6 is far less complex than previous platform versions, it can still be misused to create exaggerated and bloated architectures. In this article, Adam Bien delineates the essential ingredients of a lean service-oriented architecture (SOA), then explains how to implement it without [...]

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

April 3, 2009

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 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 20th through March 24th

March 24, 2009

NPR’s broadcast audience surges. Can it do the same online? | The Industry Standard – "At a time when newspapers, magazines and TV news continue to lose readers and viewers," writes Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi, "the audience for NPR's daily news programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, reached a record last year [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 14th through March 19th

March 19, 2009

Writing good unit tests, Part 1: Follow your GUTs – JavaWorld – Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it's clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are as important as high-quality production code, [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 11th through March 14th

March 14, 2009

State of the Art – Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows – NYTimes.com – If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing’s for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones. Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email « I’m Not Actually a Geek – This use case is [...]

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