• Programming in Scala, First Edition available for free online – We are publishing the first edition of Programming in Scala here to support the Scala community. We hope to benefit the community by providing a high-quality introduction and reference online and for free.
• Twitter clone written in Java using Spring Data and Redis key-value database – GitHub – GitHub repo for source code of a NoSQL-powered Twitter clone written in Java using Spring Data and Redis key-value database.
• Spring Roo 1.1.3 Released | SpringSource.org – We're happy to announce integration the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.3. Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes
• cssmin – A (simple) css minifier with benefits – Google Project Hosting – CssMin is a css parser and minfier. It minifies css by removing unneeded whitespace character, comments, empty blocks and empty declarations. In addition declaration values can get rewritten to shorter notation if available.
• 2011 Product Roadmap Update for Sencha products including Sencha Touch & Ext GWT – Sencha Touch 2.0 will be an evolutionary step in our Touch product, and we’re looking to bring greater consistency in the core platform between Ext JS and Touch. In the spring, we’ll also release a touch compatible version of our charting package so developers can make beautiful, mobile-friendly, plugin-free charts.
• store.js exposes a simple API for cross browser local storage – GitHub – store.js exposes a simple API for cross browser local storage – localStorage wrapper for all browsers without using cookies or flash. Uses localStorage, globalStorage, and userData behavior under the hood
• New in 10.5: Spring 3.1 bean definition profiles | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – With the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 you can try one of the most requested Spring 3.1 feature — environment profiles for application contexts.
• Rdd.me Is a Readability-Powered URL Shortener – While all URL shorteners intend to simplify the process of sharing links, Rdd.me, a new URL shortener from the creators of distraction-free tool Readability, is special in that it simplifies the process of sharing content.
• Cloud Developers’ Bill of Rights – Our mission is to enable you to build and run great cloud applications that delight users. Many developers take certain principles for granted, like choice, openness and portability. We will honor these by providing a robust platform with excellent support, without the risk of lock-in.
• SpringSource’s Samples for Cloud Foundry hosted at Github (Java and Groovy) – SpringSource's Samples for Cloud Foundry hosted at Github (Java and Groovy)

Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 15th

• Red Sweater Blog – The Road Less Traveled – Don’t be afraid to fail! Failure is your only means of testing for fact. And without facts, you have nothing to base your business on.
• HTML5 in the browser: Local data storage | Developer World – InfoWorld – HTML5 Web Storage, Web Database, FileReader, FileWriter, and AppCaching APIs will transform Web pages into local applications, but not yet
• Meet Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon’s Platform Play: Cloud Computing News « – Amazon Web Services, which popularized cloud computing with its Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service, has moved up the stack from infrastructure to providing Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, its platform-as-a-service play
• IntelliJ IDEA wins TOY award from InfoWorld! | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – IntelliJ IDEA wins Technology of the Year award from InfoWorld!
• Bowler – RESTful Scala Web Framework – Bowler is a RESTful, multi-channel ready web framework in Scala with a functional flavour, built on top of Scalatra and Scalate, with Lift-JSON doing the heavy JSON lifting
• Use Objectify to store data in the Google App Engine Datastore – GitHub – An example of using Objectify to store and retreive data from the Google App Engine Datastore
• gwtmodernizr – A Modernizr clone for Google Web Toolkit – Modernizr is a great js library that detects if your browser offers native support for a number of CSS3 and HTML5 features. The idea of this project is to port Modernizr to GWT and make this feature detection possible from within your GWT code.
• GWT Pivot Table – GWT Pivot Table Component, Java GWT web Application – The GWT Pivot Table is a Web component that easily integrates into your Java GWT Web application and provides seamless rendering of your MDX queries.
• Make a Flexible Architecture Now, Perfect it Later | Javalobby – When you start a project , there are plenty of tough questions that depend on the application you are writing, but by layering your code and ensuring that functionality takes place only in well defined points which you can alter or relocate, you ensure that your code remains able to change based on architectural decisions and business demands.
• Comet Daily » Blog Archive » The Five Key Metrics of a High-Performance Comet Server – The five dimensions of performance above are essential for any high-performance Comet server. They can be measured independently of the specific architecture of a particular Comet server

Daily del.icio.us for January 17th through January 20th

• InfoQ: Gartner Vendor Report: Application Infrastructure For Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects – Gartner recently released a report where they examine and evaluate the ability of leading application infrastructure providers/vendors to provide organizations with complete end-to-end support for for Systematic SOA-Style applications and projects.
• Set Up and Get to Know Your New Mac – You've taken your requisite Apple product unboxing video and boasted about your brand new Mac on Facebook, but now it's time to get down to business. Whether you're new to the Mac or not, here's how to set up and get started
• How IntelliJ IDEA Won Me Over | Galder’s Passionate Blog – It’s almost a year since I stopped using Eclipse as my main Java IDE and started using IntelliJ IDEA instead. Ever since I’ve been meaning to write this pos
• Bozho’s tech blog » Why startups should not choose NoSQL – The NoSQL hype is omnipresent. And many startups are tempted to go for Cassandra/MongoDB/HBase/Redis/… . Here I’ll argue why they should rather stick to a SQL solution – MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Agile Glossary – AccuRev has released a glossary of terms for agile software development, intending to accelerate the adoption of agile practices in enterprises.
• InfoQ: Using a Service Bus to Connect the Supply Chain – Peter Paul van de Beek presents a case study of using a service bus in a supply channel connecting a wholesale supplier with hundreds of retailers, the overall context and challenges faced – including the integration of POS software coming from different software providers-, the solution chosen and its implementation, how it worked out and the lessons learned along the way. 
• Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America’s Lunch – By Vivek Wadhwa | Foreign Policy – Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren't just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore. They're fostering innovations that will shake the world
• Forking will become normal in 2011, so get ready for GitHub | Open Source – InfoWorld – The growing use of distributed version-control systems can't be ignored in your enterprise; plan ahead to keep your developers happy in 2011
• Redis – Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.
• InfoQ: Doug Crockford on HTML and Fixing the Web – In this interview, Doug Crockford discusses his views on HTML5, which basically amount to a warning that the technology is not quite ready and poses potential risks is widely adopted too quickly. Crockford also talks about the evolution of JavaScript, which has become his favorite language, and of the ECMAScript 5 standard.
• Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising – The NAI Opt-out Tool was developed in conjunction with our members for the express purpose of allowing consumers to "opt out" of the behavioral advertising delivered by our member companies.

Daily del.icio.us for December 28th through December 29th

• fluint – Flex Unit and Integration Testing Framework – Based loosely on the concepts of FlexUnit and its ancestor JUnit, fluint provides enhanced asynchronous support, a graphical test runner, integration with continuous build systems and an optional Adobe AIR client for directory watching.
• RubyMine — new IDE from JetBrains for Ruby and Rails | JetBrains Zone – What JetBrains has always been good at is creating "The most intelligent" tools for developers. Today, joining Java and .NET developers, Ruby and Rails community also gets their "most intelligent IDE". RubyMine — is a new Ruby IDE that has all the power to make development with Ruby even more dynamic and productive:
• CodeExplorer 1.0 for IntelliJ Idea | JetBrains Zone – CodeExplorer is IntelliJ Idea plugin that helps to explore method call chains.
  Its tool window shows methods and calls between them on a handy diagram.
  Now you can see usages and structure of several methods on a single diagram
• Google Code Blog: Announcing the Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers – The Google Search Appliance virtual edition is for non-commercial, development purposes only, and gives developers the opportunity to test against the features of the physical Google Search Appliance.
• Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering – This month's column is simply a collection of what I consider to be facts—truths, if you will—about software engineering. I'm presenting this software engineering laundry list because far too many people who call themselves software engineers, or computer scientists, or programmers, or whatever nom du jour you prefer, either aren't familiar with these facts or have forgotten them
• Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic | Salon – The election of Barack Obama to the presidency may signal more than the end of an era of Republican presidential dominance and conservative ideology. It may mark the beginning of a Fourth Republic of the United States.
• css-vfx – CSS Visual Effects for iPhone Safari – css-vfx is a collection of gems that showcase iPhone Safari's 3D CSS Visual Effects extensions. css-vfx is based on Charles Ying's work with Apple's CSS Visual Effects extensions
• Ehcache Server Technical Session Video – Greg Luck gave a talk today at the Glassfish V3 Prelude Launch Event. Ehcache Server uses Glassfish for its self contained cache server.
• Amazon Building Large Data Center in Oregon « Data Center Knowledge – Amazon.com appears to be the tenant in a large data center rising on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, joining Google in harnessing the region’s cheap energy resources to power huge cloud computing data centers.
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Meet JetBrains’ Release of the Year: IntelliJ IDEA 8 – We’re proud to announce our release of the year: IntelliJ IDEA 8!

  Our new and improved IDE is now faster, more stable, and more feature-rich. The major release highlights include SQL support & SQL Query Runner, UML-like class diagrams, JBoss Seam support, JavaScript & Flex Debugger, FreeMarker & Velocity support

Daily del.icio.us for November 6th through November 9th