• 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 with Spring. This article will focus on the configuration and implementation of the persistence layer with Spring 3.1, JPA and Spring Data.
• Concordion is an open source tool for writing automated acceptance tests in Java* – Concordion is an open source tool for writing automated acceptance tests in Java
• Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding – (37signals) – We’ve grown enormously over the last three years but RAM keeps getting cheaper and FusionIO SSD’s keep getting faster. If anything, it seems like recent advances in SSD technology are accelerating and it’s ever more unlikely that we’ll need to shard Basecamp.
• Scaling GitHub – A month after launching, GitHub hosted one thousand repositories. Three years later, we host over three million. In the same time we've gone from one thousand users to over a million. I'll dig into our development workflow and how we address concepts like scaling, deployment, code review, and testing.
• The Little Redis Book – Redis is wonderfully simple, which makes it awesome to use, but I thought it would turn any book into little more than reference material. Well, I decided to give it a try and hopefully you'll agree with me that The Little Redis Book is a solid addition to the Little family
• gitextensions – Git Extensions is the only graphical user interface for Git that allows you control Git without using the commandline. It comes with a manual and video tutorials to get you started quickly. – Google Project Hosting – Git Extensions is the only graphical user interface for Git that allows you control Git without using the commandline. It comes with a manual and video tutorials to get you started quickly.
• Solving OutOfMemoryError (part 5) – JDK Tools | Plumbr – Today we will talk about the command line tools that are bundled with the Oracle JDK and can be used to find memory leaks. The benefit of knowing the bundled tooling is obvious: they are available everywhere where Oracle's Java is installed

Links for January 22nd through January 27th

• Five Step Illustrated Guide to Setup a Kanban System in an Enterprise Organization – If your about to kick-off a Kanban adoption in an enterprise IT organization or in the midst of one and struggling, you may find this useful. It's a simple 5 step approach that has always produced good outcomes for us while respecting the pace of change a typical IT organization can absorb.
• InfoQ: Forrester CEO: The Web is a Software Architecture and the App Internet is the Next Wave – Forrester CEO: The Web is a Software Architecture and the App Internet is the Next Wave
• Video: SpringOne 2GX – Introduction to Spring Data Neo4J – This video presentation is by Michael Hunger, Software Developer for Neo4J Technologies, and he provides an Introduction to Spring Data Neo4J. Michael covers
• Video: SpringOne 2GX – Messaging for Modern Applications – This video presentation is by Tom McCuch, Senior Sales Engineer for SpringSource, and he discusses Messaging for Modern Applications.
• Bill Gates to return as Microsoft’s white knight? | ZDNet – Summary: Could and should Bill Gates return to day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft? Fortune is reporting there’s a rumor to that effect.
• Treasure Data Blog • Real-Time Log Collection with Fluentd and MongoDB – This post shows how to use Fluentd-MongoDB plugin to aggregate semi-structured logs in real-time.
• Why I choose CouchDB over MongoDB | Chris Allnutt – Use MongoDB only if you don’t care about the state of the data, but want to sling it out distributed as fast as possible. If you’re willing to wait an extra millisecond to ensure that that save and replication actually happens, and when it fails you just use the last valid version use CouchDB
• The Durable Document Store You Didn’t Know You Had, But Did – As it turns out, PostgreSQL has a number of ways of storing loosely structured data — documents — in a column on a table.
• 11 programming trends to watch | Application Development – InfoWorld – From JavaScript everywhere to everything on the JVM, new tools, techniques, and troubles are changing how developers work
• Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies – We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future.
• The Bastards Book of Ruby – A Programming Primer for Counting and Other Unconventional Tasks – The Bastards Book of Ruby is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hard-to-find data.
• InfoQ: MongoGraph Brings Semantic Web Features to MongoDB Developers – Using this approach JSON objects are automatically translated into triples and both the MongoDB query language and SPARQL work against these objects. Another goal of MongoGraph is to make the freetext engine of their graph database easy to search as Solr/Lucene.
• Unit Testing for SQL Server with SQL Test – SQL Test is a unit test plug-in for SQL Server Management Studio.
• MongoDB: The New M in Your LAMP Stack – MongoDB: The New M in Your LAMP Stack – Mathias Stearn & Nosh Petigara

Links for December 4th through December 9th

• Website wireframes: Mockingbird – Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
• Why Everyone Is Talking About Node – Node is an interesting, accessible and efficient technology for real-time applications
• mobile-bookmark-bubble – Promote your mobile web application by helping users bookmark it – The Mobile Bookmark Bubble is a JavaScript library that adds a promo bubble to the bottom of your mobile web application, inviting users to bookmark the app to their device's home screen.
• InfoQ: Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter – Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages
• InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB – Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.
• HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms – The newest specs for HTML forms give programmers more control over data input and validation, while offloading much of the work to the browsers
• Amazon Web Services Blog: JumpBox for the AWS Free Usage Tier – We've teamed up with JumpBox to make it even easier and less expensive for you to host a WordPress blog, publish a web site with Drupal, run a Wiki with MediaWiki, or publish content with Joomla.
• Mobile GWT – Welcome to the Mobile Widgets for GWT demo site! Here are some examples of the exciting things you can achieve building with the Mobile-GWT framework:
• LinkedIn, GitHub team up on collaboration tool for programmers | VentureBeat – Professional social networking startup LinkedIn has joined forces with well-known open source coding repository GitHub, which will allow others in a user’s network to see what projects they and their connections are working on at any given time
• Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker | SpringSource Team Blog – VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem, it will now become an integral part of the Spring family and VMware’s cloud strategy
• TextFixer.com – Webmaster Online HTML tools for fixing, changing and manipulating text and html. – This website features text and html making, changing, converting, generating tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication or other uses.

Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 10th

• QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
• Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
• CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
• Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
• The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
• IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
• InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
• Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
• High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
• Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

• QR Codes – Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) – Google Code – This document describes how to create QR codes using the Google Chart API.
• Loads.in – Loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
• CIO talk: A look at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia integration – The two executives behind the Wells Fargo-Wachovia IT integration talk cloud computing, talent management, application development and telepresence.
• Amazon EC2 Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) and Ubuntu AMIs – Amazon Web Services has launched a new EC2 region in Tokyo named ap-northeast-1. Canonical has released new AMIs in this region for the standard Ubuntu releases
• The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans – BusinessWeek – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology
• IntelliJ IDEA to play at Developer Sandbox during Google I/O | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – The IntelliJ IDEA team just received an invitation from Google GWT team to participate in the Developer Sandbox at this year’s Google I/O conference.
• InfoQ: QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google – Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
• Why Sun Microsystems Failed — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – Former CEO Scott McNealy's allegiance to Sun's hardware culture shortchanged its software initiatives, and ultimately doomed the company.
• High Scalability – High Scalability – Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month – Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month
• Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair – David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.

Daily del.icio.us for March 3rd through March 5th

• RabbitMQ – Messaging that just works – RabbitMQ provides robust messaging for applications. It is easy to use, fit for purpose at cloud scale and supported on all major operating systems and developer platforms. RabbitMQ is open sourced under the Mozilla Public License.
• InfoQ: Spring AMQP – Matthias Radestock introduces messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ. Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and demo Spring AMQP, an abstraction layer for using AMQP independently from the broker implementation.
• InfoQ: High Performance Websites in the Cloud – Matt Wood presents the most important AWS services, explaining how to scale up and out, how to extend the stack by adding extra layers such as caching or map-reduce systems, how to use, scale, and create redundant storage, and how to manage and scale out MySQL databases running on EC2.
• The Talk Show on 5by5 – The Talk Show features discussion about technology, Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPad, movies, directors, and the Web.
• Leo Laporte Builds Empire With ‘This Week in Tech’ – NYTimes.com – Balancing on a giant rubber ball in a broadcast studio and control room carved out of a cottage in Petaluma, Calif., Leo Laporte is an unlikely media mogul.
• The Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2010 – I’ve compiled what I believe to be the best apps that have come out this year.
• HTML5Labs – Home – The HTML5 Labs site is the place where Microsoft prototypes early and unstable web standard specifications from standards bodies such as the W3C
• University gives Java parallelism a boost | Developer World – InfoWorld – computer science researchers at the school have released an interactive tool, called DPJizer, to simplify writing safe parallel programs in DPJ (Deterministic Parallell Java), a Java-based modern type and effect system
• imgscalr – Java Image Scaling Library | The Buzz Media – imgscalr is an very simple and efficient “best-practices” image-scaling library implemented in pure Java.
• Martin Fowler – What if enterprise software was cheaper, faster, better AND COOL? – Yes, if you honour the Agile Development Manifesto. This means valuing people and interaction over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, collaboration over contract negotiation, responding to change over rigid plans

Daily del.icio.us for December 24th through December 27th

• Hello iPad, goodbye netbook – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech – The iPad is on track to become the fastest ramping mobile Internet device out of the gate and one of the most popular in history
• The HTML5 Family: Web Workers — Ext JS Blog — JavaScript Framework and RIA Platform – Workers are typically simple scripts that run in a separate thread. One great benefit of this is that their execution does not block the UI. No matter how much number crunching a worker is doing, the UI remains responsive.
• Why I Sold Zappos – Tony Hsieh built his online shoe retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse. But with credit tightening and investors eyeing the exits, Hsieh was forced to ask: Was selling Zappos really the only way to save it?
• A HTML5 Primer for the Overwhelmed — Ext JS Blog – Although there are many excellent resources out there describing details of HTML5, including the core specification itself, they are generally technical and many of them are out of synch with the current state of the specs. So, we thought a short primer on HTML5 might be in order.
• The reason Robbie Bach was fired | Asymco – If HP felt they needed to go somewhere else for their mobile OS, it’s a slap in the face, but if they buy the asset and IP and internalize a competing platform, then that is a dagger to the heart for Ballmer.
• InfoQ: Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale – Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day
• The Easiest Way To Get Started with Spring 3: Videos & Tutorials – TheServerSide.com – At TheServerSide.com, we've put together a few great tutorials that will help get you started with Spring 3.0
• Seth’s Blog: Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything – Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything
• Google’s Economic Impact | 2009 – Google's not just a search engine. We've also helped hundreds of businesses in every U.S. state to grow. Across the U.S., Google's search and advertising tools generated $54 billion of economic activity in 2009.
• Java Code Geeks: Getting Started with YouTube Java API – In this tutorial I am taking a look at Google's YouTube API which allows you to empower your application with YouTube's features. YouTube is one of the “killer” Internet applications and its traffic comprises of a huge portion of the total internet traffic.

Daily del.icio.us for May 23rd through June 8th

• Evolutionary Goo » Blog Archive » The Next Big Language: For the Enterprise or the Masses? – Although the JVM and Java has revolutionized software with its ability to run on many operating systems, its dominance is only in large enterprise business software.
• SOA@WORK: IT job trends – Which technologies you should learn next – According to indeed.com you are currently the most valuable IT ressource if you are a Java Developer with Spring and Hibernate knowledge
• ScrumBan? « Tales from a Trading Desk – Lean Software Engineering offer a good overview of how ScrumBan differs from Scrum – essentially improving the speed of time-to-market. Agile Management offers a posting on how to start down the road of Kanban.
• Video: ConfluenceFx – Confluence to Your Desktop – Atlassian News – ConfluenceFx is the first enterprise solution that brings Confluence to your desktop. It enables your teams to collaborate more effectively and keeps all your community up-to-date thanks to its real-time notifications and collaborative user interactions.
• extdirectj-s2-plugin ExtDirect struts 2 plugin – A struts 2 plugin for Ext.Direct that allow you to write Ext.Direct Action using annotation:
• InfoQ: Neo4j: Java-based NoSQL Graph Database – After several years of development, the developers from NeoTechnology have released version 1.0 of Neo4j, a Java-based graph database which follows the property graph datamodel. InfoQ spoke with NeoTechnology COO Peter Neubauer to learn more about the current Neo4j release and what it offers to developers
• enhancejs – Project Hosting on Google Code – EnhanceJS is a new Javascript framework designed to improve the application of Progressive Enhancement by first testing browser capabilities for key Javascript and CSS support before applying advanced styles and scripts to the page.
• Clustering Tomcat | Javalobby – In this article, I will show you how to use Apache/Tomcat in order to set up a load balancer. I know this has been done a zillion time before, but I will use this setup in my next article (teaser, teaser) so at least I will have it documented somewhere.
• Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act in Washington, DC « More Startups. More Jobs. – The Startup Visa Act proposes legislation to modify the existing EB-5 Visa in order to drive job creation in the US and increase American global competitiveness.
• The Apache Cassandra Project – The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
• Open Source NoSQL Databases | Javalobby – For almost a year now, the idea of "NoSQL" has been spreading due to the demand for relational database alternatives.  Maybe the biggest motivation behind NoSQL is scalability……… Here are some of the better known open source data stores/models labeled as "NoSQL"

Daily del.icio.us for February 23rd through February 27th

• Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 – 64 Bit – This AMI comes with Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 Update 2 and Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 software pre-installed and configured for the 64 Bit platform.
• Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband – Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, explains in a blog posting that it would take up to 13 days to sling a terabyte of data across a 10 Mbps network, which is pretty darn slow. So Amazon is offering customers the chance to store their data on an external device, ship it via post, and Amazon will load it into S3.
• Skype Gets the Oprah Treatment – Digits – WSJ – Will Skype get an Oprah boost? The software already has more than 400 million registered users around the world, although it is more popular in parts of Asia and Europe than Winfrey’s home territory in the U.S.
• Daring Fireball: The Next iPhone – A next-generation iPhone to be released in July, with roughly double the CPU horsepower and an improved video-capable camera, with 16 and 32 GB storage capacities.
• Fresh Update: IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.2 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog – We have just released a fresh IntellIJ IDEA update — 8.1.2
• Amazon Web Services Blog: New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon CloudWatch tracks and stores a number of per-instance performance metrics including CPU load, Disk I/O rates, and Network I/O rates. The metrics are rolled-up at one minute intervals and are retained for two weeks
• Corner Office – Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft – Question – NYTimes.com – This interview of Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
• Wanted: One Mobile Device, for a 24/7 Life – In order to make this happen, targeted re-engineering of mobile devices and device management technologies is essential.
• Left Right Left Right Left by Coldplay | Uncrate – As a gift to their fans, Coldplay is giving away its new live album Left Right Left Right Left. With a track listing that includes "Clocks," "Viva La Vida," and "Fix You," it's a strong effort on its own, but as a free download, it's a no-brainer.
• Ext JS – Ext JS 3.0 – Remoting for Everyone – Ext.Direct aims to solve this issue for developers creating Ext JS applications by providing a single communication point with the server-side.

Daily del.icio.us for May 14th through May 21st

• Coding Horror: Why Can’t Error Messages Be Fun? – Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functionality as a true application platform, it's hard to even list them all.
• Write your own Twitter application – JavaWorld – In this article you'll learn how to build your own Twitter service: an application that accesses tweets via the Twitter API and archives them in the form of a PDF file
• Ooma rebounds after cutting price for service – After it stumbled out of the gate in July 2007, it's hard to imagine that Palo Alto's Ooma would look forward to an economic downturn. But the startup, which offers free home phone service with the purchase of an Ooma box, has found a new lease on life after cutting its price and expanding its distribution
• JumpBox | Instant Infrastructure | JumpBox Inc. – We simplify server software deployment with pre-built, pre-configured software applications packaged for deployment on virtual computing platforms.
• Top 50 New Software Development Books | Agile Zone – In this post I proudly present the Top 50 New Software Development Books, where new means "less than two years old". This list was created using a weighed mix of the following criteria:
• X2O Blog // We Are Mammoth, Inc. – X2O is a web-based data modeling platform for Adobe® Flex® and Flash® apps.
• MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms – good coders code, great reuse – This is the thirteenth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lectures twenty and twenty-one on parallel algorithms. These lectures cover the basics of multithreaded programming and multithreaded algorithms.
• Why HTML – The short and sweet reason is simply this: XHTML offers no compelling advantage — to me — over HTML, but even if it did it would also offer increased complexity and uncertainty that make it unappealing to me.
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The coming of the megacomputer – In a talk yesterday, reports the Financial Times' Richard Waters, the head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, said that about 20 percent of all the server computers being sold in the world "are now being bought by a small handful of internet companies," including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon
• Coding Horror: HTML Validation: Does It Matter? – That said, validation does have its charms. There were a few things that the validation process exposed in our HTML markup that were clearly wrong — an orphaned tag here, and a few inconsistencies in the way we applied tags there. Mark Pilgrim makes the case for validation:

Daily del.icio.us for March 7th through March 11th

• The White House – Press Office – President Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer – Today, President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House.
• Java concurrency with thread gates – JavaWorld – The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for controlling thread concurrency, but many developers are unfamiliar with it. Just as a traffic light can regulate the behavior of automobiles at an intersection, thread gates can block or allow thread progress based on given factors
• SitePoint » 10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems – We know IE is likely to be around for some time, but can we still support the browser and avoid hacks and conditional CSS? Here are 10 fixes to solve the majority of IE6 problems with valid HTML and CSS code…
• Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Understanding Sun in Three Easy Steps (1 of 4) – I thought I#039;d take the opportunity to deliver this overview and the upcoming focused discussions on what makes Sun tick in a video format.
• Amazon Extends Book Sales Beyond Its Kindle to iPhone – WSJ.com – Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a program Wednesday for reading electronic books on Apple Inc.#039;s iPhone, extending Amazon#039;s sales of digital books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader.
• Mark to market | Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media – There#039;s a debate in financial circles over whether banks are unfairly penalized by the requirement that they quot;mark to marketquot; their holdings. Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains what that term means.
• Apache FtpServer – Index – The Apache FtpServer is a 100% pure Java FTP server. It#039;s designed to be a complete and portable FTP server engine solution based on currently available open protocols. FtpServer can be run standalone as a Windows service or Unix/Linux daemon, or embedded into a Java application. We also provide support for integration within Spring applications and provide our releases as OSGi bundles.
• Books and Music That Make You Dumb – Digits – WSJ.com – With his two Web sites (which have crashed from too much traffic), Booksthatmakeyoudumb.com and Musicthatmakesyoudumb.com, Griffith used aggregated Facebook data about the favorite bands and books among students of various colleges and plotted them against the average SAT scores at those schools, creating a tongue-in-cheek statistical look at taste and intelligence
• A Brew That Prevents Parkinson’s? – RealAge Tip of the Day – A large study in Singapore showed that black tea might have the power to slash Parkinson’s disease risk by almost a third.
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog – After some deliberation, we decided to implement a quot;schema-lessquot; storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a completely new storage system. This post attempts to describe the high-level details of the system
• Sun’s McNealy: Some federal officials see open source as ‘anti-capitalist’ – Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy wants President Barack Obama#039;s administration do what the U.K., Denmark and other countries have done: encourage, as a matter of policy, open-source software adoption
• Facebook’s "In-House Sociologist" Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior – While many people have hundreds friends on Facebook, they still only communicate with a small few. Or to quote the author of the article, quot;Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever.quot;

Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 5th

• Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com – One day soon, these “virtual machines” may migrate to wherever computing power is cheapest, or energy is greenest. Then computing will have become a true utility—and it will no longer be apt to talk of computing clouds, so much as of a computing atm
• InfoQ: Integrate Flex with Spring Framework – A key to project success is creating an architecture that new developers can rapidly integrate themselves into and begin to be productive on day 1. Flex with Spring, iBATIS, & Cairngorm help me to quickly produce a patterned- based, repeatable architectur
• New Adventures in Software » Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement – “Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire.” – (Attributed to an unidentified Microsoft employee).
• SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions – I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but
• IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Neal Ford Advises on Boosting Developer’s Productivity – Neal tells you how you can become more accustomed with the shortcuts, get used to using them in the daily routine, and demonstrates the magic of different key combinations while coding with IntelliJ IDEA.
• Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture – Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system
• Enterprise Java Community: Extending Spring LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper – This article explains how to extend Spring-LDAP with an iBATIS-style XML Data Mapper to access LDAP data through intuitive JavaBean operations.
• About – XML Hammer – The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
• Novell, Red Hat upgrade Linux offerings – LinuxWorld – Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both vendors added improvements on the desktop and the server. There were many areas of overlap, especially with virtualization.
• JasperReports: 3.0.0 released – JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.

Daily del.icio.us for May 20th through May 24th