Daily del.icio.us for October 25th through October 29th

October 29, 2010

Multiverse : Software Transactional Memory for Java – Multiverse is a Software Transansactional Memory implementation and meant as an alternative to traditional lock based concurrency John Nack on Adobe : Adobe demos Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool – Adobe lives or dies by its ability to help customers solve real problems. That means putting pragmatism ahead of [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 11th through October 17th

October 17, 2010

Mockito – Pros, Cons, and Best Practices | Javalobby – You don't hear about EasyMock much any more, and Mockito seems to have replaced it in mindshare. And for good reason: it is better. HOWTO: Setting Up a New Ubuntu GNU/Linux Box for Java/CFML Development – Matt Woodward’s posterous – HOWTO: Setting Up a New [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 20th through September 28th

September 28, 2010

InfoQ: The Joy of Testing – John Hughes shows how to explore the possible bugs of a code by creating a series of tests in Erlang and using multiple test frameworks, discovering the faults through successive tests and evaluating the frameworks while doing it. InfoWorld review: Top Java programming tools – IntelliJ is an excellent [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for August 25th through September 1st

September 1, 2010

Graham Hacking Scala: Things I Love About IntelliJ IDEA: The Impossible is Possible – IDEA has a whole host of features which, to me, are bordering on mind-blowing. There are quite a few features in IDEA that are so impressive that I don't just think, "That's a clever idea. I'm glad they put that in." [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 15th through July 19th

July 19, 2010

Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales – NYTimes.com – The growth rate of Kindle sales tripled after Amazon lowered the price of the device in late June to $189 from $259, Amazon said Buttonwood: A mirage, not a miracle | The Economist – Analysing the recent performance of the banking industry, he concludes that [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 9th through July 12th

July 12, 2010

Consumer Reports Electronics Blog: Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4 – It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception Project Lombok – Spice up your Java – @Data generates all the boilerplate that is normally associated [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 2nd through July 6th

July 7, 2010

Fareed Zakaria – Obama’s CEO problem — and ours – The Federal Reserve recently reported that America's 500 largest nonfinancial companies have accumulated an astonishing $1.8 trillion of cash on their balance sheets Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete | NCZOnline – CSS sprites were a solution to the problem of multiple HTTP requests to [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 11th through May 16th

May 16, 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Released for Amazon EC2 – This is also the first Ubuntu release on EC2 that includes officially supported EBS boot AMIs, taking yet another task off my plate and providing a trusted source for this useful image type. InfoQ: Citrix Offers a Bare-Metal Desktop/Laptop Hypervisor – Citrix XenClient is a bare-metal hypervisor [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 19th through April 24th

April 24, 2010

The CodeWrights Tale: Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, and Optimism – “Why this is so was primarily crystallized for me by Alistair Cockburn who explained that since people are the central element in software development, and people are inherently non-linear and unpredictable – such an effort is fundamentally doomed.” Spring 3.0: REST services with Spring MVC [...]

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