Links for January 15th through January 21st

January 21, 2012

How to build a simple GWT event bus using Generators | North Concepts – In his Google I/O session Best Practices For Architecting Your GWT App, Ray Ryan discusses the benefits of using an event bus in GWT (Google Web Toolkit) applications. Inspired by this talk, I decided to try my hand at building a [...]

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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 August 20th through August 23rd

August 23, 2011

Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework – Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. Deck JS » Modern HTML Presentations [...]

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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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Daily del.icio.us for January 26th through January 30th

January 30, 2011

Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy – Blog – Stack Overflow – That's why I’m pleased to announce that as of today, we have switched all of our search functionality network wide from SQL Server to Lucene, or more specifically, the Lucene.NET flavor. My Experiments on Technology: 10 things to become an outstanding [...]

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

January 16, 2011

Website Response Times (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – The 3 response-time limits are the same today as when I wrote about them in 1993 (based on 40-year-old research by human factors pioneers) Report Cites Problems with FBI’s Approach to Agile Development — Application Development Trends – Add the FBI to the list of federal government agencies [...]

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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 May 2nd through May 5th

May 5, 2010

Solving the Persistence Problem with Google AppEngine with SimpleDS – TheServerSide.com – SimpleDS provides a simple persistence framework for Google AppEngine that gets as little in the way as possible. It is barely a wrapper around Datastore APIs, providing mapping between Entity and Java classes Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company [...]

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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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Daily del.icio.us for February 21st through February 23rd

February 23, 2010

OrindaBuild Oracle Web Service Generator Features – OrindaBuild enables you to create Web Services for your existing Oracle database with minimal effort. OrindaBuild is integrated with Eclipse and works for both PL/SQL and SQL. Unlike other products OrindaBuild is designed specifically for Oracle and works with real world PL/SQL that involves records and arrays. Google [...]

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