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 22nd through January 27th

January 27, 2012

InfoQ: Mobile Web Development with HTML5 – Keith Donald and Josh Long discuss the mobile browsers, the hardware constraints, the existing simulators, emulators and JavaScript frameworks, and the HTML5 support for doing mobile development. The Persistence Layer with Spring Data JPA | Javalobby – This is the forth of a series of articles about Persistence [...]

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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 October 20th through October 23rd

October 23, 2011

How to clone Wikipedia and index it with Solr « Nimble Books LLC – I have (finally) successfully cloned Wikipedia and indexed it with Solr. In the spirit of documenting my work and helping others, here are the key steps along the way. Redux: Inspecting HotSpot JVM Options – There is enormous scope for coarse [...]

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Links for October 12th through October 19th

October 19, 2011

VMware and Verizon team up for mobile virtualization — Tech News and Analysis – Employees who want to combine their work phone and their personal phone will soon be able to do so with the aid of the VMware Horizon software on their phones Good to Know – Google – Advice for staying more secure [...]

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Links for May 29th through June 2nd

June 2, 2011

schema.org – A shared markup vocabulary makes easier for webmasters to decide on a markup schema – Schema.org provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed [...]

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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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Daily del.icio.us for April 13th

April 14, 2011

InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it. The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 13th

April 14, 2011

InfoQ: Ceylon JVM Language and a interview with Gavin King – Ceylon isn't Java, it's a new language that's deeply influenced by Java, designed by people who are unapologetic fans of Java. Java's not dying anytime soon, so nothing's killing it. The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat’s Java killer successor: The Ceylon Project [...]

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