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 27th through January 31st

January 31, 2012

InfoQ: The Rise of OAuth – Craig Walls talks about securing the modern web and how OAuth can help with that, showing how to secure and consume resources with OAuth. This guide introduces you to Spring Data Neo4j – This guide introduces you to Spring Data Neo4j, using the fast, powerful and scalable graph database [...]

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Links for December 10th through December 15th

December 16, 2011

Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot – Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition. The 10 Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011 | Linux.com – It turns out that 2011 was a banner [...]

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Links for November 21st through November 25th

November 26, 2011

Errai is a framework for building GWT applications – JBoss Community – Errai offers a set of components that simplify building rich web applications using The Google Web Toolkit. The framework provides a concise programming model for powerful client-server communication and extension points that bring Java Enterprise standards to GWT clients. Errai Developer Blog: Setting [...]

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Links for November 19th through November 20th

November 21, 2011

Data-Driven Documents – D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data – Data-Driven Documents – D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data Java Concurrent Animated – This presentation consists of a series of animations that visualize the functionality of the components in the java.util.concurrent [...]

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Links for November 15th through November 18th

November 18, 2011

Google Guava – Synchronization with Monitor – The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few First look: Oracle NoSQL Database | Data Explosion – InfoWorld – Oracle's take on the distributed [...]

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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 November 4th

November 4, 2011

Hibernate Should be to Programmers what Cake Mixes are to Bakers – Cake mixes consist of a mix of things you already have in your cupboard plus a load of unnecessary, potentially harmful preservatives. They cost more than making cake from scratch, the resulting cake tastes worse, they take away people’s confidence in their ability [...]

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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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