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 October 27th through October 29th

October 29, 2011

The King of Cloud: Q&A with Marc Benioff – Technology Review – The CEO of Salesforce.com explains why traditional software is dead and how giants like Oracle are twisting the meaning of cloud computing. Dropbox Announces ‘Team’ Service and Mobile Deal – Technology Review – The new service, Dropbox for Teams, which has been in [...]

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Links for October 2nd through October 8th

October 8, 2011

whoosh – Fast pure-Python indexing and search library. – Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly. Homepage | [...]

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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 July 25th through July 29th

July 29, 2011

When Patents Attack! | This American Life – We take you inside this war, and tell the fascinating story of how an idea enshrined in the US constitution to promote progress and innovation, is now being used to do the opposite InfoQ: Kanban System Design – Karl Scotland on Kanban as a way of creating [...]

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Links for June 20th through June 23rd

June 26, 2011

Kind of Screwed – Waxy.org – At the heart of this settlement is a debate that's been going on for decades, playing out between artists and copyright holders in and out of the courts. rest-client – Java application to test RESTful webservices – RESTClient is a Java application to test RESTful webservices. It can be [...]

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Links for June 11th through June 16th

June 16, 2011

Sencha Touch – An Introduction to Carousels on Vimeo – Drew Neil (@nelstrom) demonstrates how to use Sencha Touch to create carousel-based apps, such as this artist's portfolio. YouTube – Rod Johnson Says Java Can Learn Loads from the Rails Community – Rod Johnson, tells interviewer Cameron McKenzie that Java developers have a lot to [...]

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Links for June 10th through June 11th

June 11, 2011

Writing a Sencha Touch Application, Part 1 – In this series we will create a Sencha Touch application that allows its users to take notes and store them on the device running the app The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs – O’Reilly Broadcast – We've seen a lot of the good, [...]

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