links for 2008-03-09

• cyclotram: Joe Weizenbaum dead at 85. ELIZA in denial.
  Won't someone think of the AIs?
  (tags: blog post funny AI JoeWeizenbaum homage eliza death humor)
• Your first AtomPub Server
  "How to write a simple Atom Publishing Protocol server using Abdera"
  (tags: tuotrial howto abdera APP atompub DanDiephouse atom REST server)
• InfoQ: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union
  InfoQ and OODBMS.org interview Mike Keith (Oracle TopLink), Ted Neward (Ted Neward :), Carl Rosenberger (db4o) and Craig Russell (Sun) about the current state of object persistence technology.
  (tags: article interview MikeKeith TedNeward CarlRosenberger CraigRussell InfoQ OODBM ORM object OO persistence OODB Java JPA RDBMS OODBMS mapping)
• Netbeans Plugin Development - jiitsunclub | Google Groups
  Resources about NetBeans plugin development.
  (tags: NetBeans plugin platform tutorial documentation catalog list Java Sun)
• NetBeans Wiki: NBDemoTicker
  This page describes a simple Beans Binding demo with NetBeans 6.
  (tags: tutorial howto NetBeans NB6 BeansBinding bean binding demo page wiki Sun swing client desktop Java)

links for 2008-03-08

• Abelson: LISP: a language for stratified design - Google Scholar
  From 1987: "We exhibit programs that illustrate the power of Lisp as a language for expressing the design and organization of computational systems. The examples are chosen to highlight the importance of abstraction in program design and ..."
  (tags: toread paper lisp DSL software architecture layering layer layers pattern HaroldAbelson GeraldJaySussman GeraldSussman GoogleScholar)

links for 2008-03-05

• Scala Blog: Where is Scala heading?
  In this short post, Jevgeni Kabanov captured very well what is also my main concern regarding the evolution of the Scala programming language. I'm looking forward to see how the community responds.
  (tags: blog post JevgeniKabanov Scala programming language evolution research market)

links for 2008-03-03

• Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM
  "A library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table or B+ tree."
  (tags: project opensource database hash hashtable BTree C library license:LGPL)

links for 2008-03-02

• JaTS - Java Transformation System
  Brazilian Pernanbuco University project for a code transformation language. It works by pattern matching on Java ASTs and applying template substitution. It is a purely syntatic process.
  (tags: project Java Brazil UFPB code refactoring transformation tool)

links for 2008-03-01

• Steve: Developing on the Edge - Are rich clients the enemy of busy servers
  A small lesson about the difficulties of scalability and how, as usual, http comes to the rescue.
  (tags: blog post SteveLoughran eclipse mylyn jira bugzilla BTS bug performance scalability CaseStudy http REST WebServices caching ETag)
• Programmers At Work
  Susan Lammers is making available, chapter by chapter, her 1989 book of interviews with star programmers. Many well-known faces from the early PC era, like Andy Hertzfeld, Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates, are represented.
  (tags: book online blog SusanLammers interview catalog list programmer PC history 1980s 80s)

links for 2008-02-28

• 2008 Lang.NET Symposium - Talks
  Videos of talks by Gilad Bracha (Cadence), Dan Ingalls (Sun), Miguel de Icaza (Novell), Erik Meijer (Microsoft) among many others.
  (tags: conference video symposium language design presentation catalog talk LangDotNet LangDotNet2008)

links for 2008-02-27

• Teaching, Playing, and Programming: In praise of mandatory indentation for novice programmers
  Chirs Okasaki reports striking improvements to novice performance when a (custom) language with significant whitespace was used for teaching.
  (tags: blog post ChrisOkasaki teaching programming language syntax whitespace indentation academia course education computerscience casestudy coding)
• Joe Buck - Re: [Q] Configure: Choosing as on Solaris, --with-gnu-as, and --with-as
  I imagine this won't be of interest to a great deal of people, but still, it helped me a lot. In this message Joe Buck explains how GCC finds necessary subprograms (linker, preprocessor, assembler).
  (tags: message JoeBuck GCC compiler CC C unix tool build building linker ld assembler as preprocessor gpp mail email mailing list Solaris Opensolaris GNU toolchain sysadmin)

links for 2008-02-26

• InfoQ: QCon Panel: What will the Future of Java Development Be?
  Great panel with Chet Haase, Charles Nutter, Rod Johnson, Joshua Bloch and Erik Meijer.
  (tags: InfoQ interview panel conference QCon Java future JVM language design discussion roundtable ChetHaase CharlesNutter RodJohnson JoshuaBloch ErikMeijer)

links for 2008-02-23

• Roberto Chinnici's Blog: Profiles in the Java EE 6 Platform
  Roberto gives an update on the status of the JavaEE 6 EG work. Apparently, JavaEE 6 will define only one profile (apart from the full platform), and the big decisions are wrt what specs will be part of this "Web Profile". Interestingly, there is talk of "
  (tags: blot post RobertoChinnici Java JavaEE 6 JavaEE6 Sun JSR JCP spec standard profile profiles WebProfile EJB JSF)
• Complexity Theory: A Modern Approach / Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak
  This is a draft of a textbook on computational complexity theory. It is intended as a text for an advanced undergraduate course or introductory graduate course, or as a reference for researchers and students in computer science and allied fields such as m
  (tags: book online free computerscience computing complexity theory computation ComplexityTheory Princeton course SanjeevArora BoazBarak CS textbook)
• "Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  By Cory Doctorow.
  (tags: article essay guardian CoryDoctorow IP IntellectualProperty law language WIPO copyright patent rights)
• S3 Failed Because of Authentication Overload | High Scalability
  I hate to sound like a salesman, but, y'know, Niagara's integrated crypto acceleration would really help in this sort of situation... Just saying...
  (tags: S3 casestudy Amazon web server service cryptography scalability authentication operations ops infra failure overload)

links for 2008-02-15

• Partial parsing in NetBeans editor leads to significant performance boost - Roumen's Weblog
  "We made changes in the 6.1 java editor to reparse and reattribute only modified method rather than the whole java file. This leads to significant performance improvements. When the user types into the method only the top level method is reparsed ....."
  (tags: blog post NetBeans IDE compiler parser incremental partial parsing performance 6.1 NB6.1)
• InfoQ: Review Board - Online Code Review Tool
  Looks very useful for patch-based-workflow projects.
  (tags: project opensource tool code review CodeReview development collaboration license:MIT)

links for 2008-02-06

• relax-ws - Google Code
  "Relax-ws provides a simple, compact syntax for generating WSDL's. It does this by extending RelaxNG Compact syntax with support for services, ports, operations, and messages. "
  (tags: project opensource webservices wsdl interface IDL schema RelaxNG language codegen Relax-NG via:StefanTilkov via:JamesStrachan license:APL)
• wtfm.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x453 pixels)
  The only valid measurement of code quality.
  (tags: funny comics code wtf programming metrics metric quality software humor)
• Latest usability for polymorphism? | Lambda the Ultimate
  Insightful thread about the validity and usefulness of usability studies regarding programming languages. Matt Hellige makes some great points and Jason Hong, from CMU's Natural Programming group responds them well.
  (tags: LtU programming language usability MattHellige jasonhong polymorphism scala)

links for 2008-02-04

• Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Technology Rejection Curve
  "It now appears that SOA has entered that final phase of the technology rejection curve, the search for the guilty. (...) now it appears that it's all because 'good' SOA people are hard to find"
  (tags: blog post JoeGregorio SOA WebServices WS-* technology market blame)

links for 2008-02-03

• Social Graph API - Google Code
  Google exposes API to crawled "social graph" kind of data (FOAF, XFN, ...). Oddly, the site doesn't mention whether Orkut is among the data sources.
  (tags: project opensource Google API social network graph socialgraph FOAF XFN web REST semanticweb)

links for 2008-02-02

• Da Vinci Machine Project
  "We are extending the JVM with first-class architectural support for languages other than Java, especially dynamic languages. This project will prototype a number of extensions to the JVM, so that it can run non-Java languages efficiently."
  (tags: project Java opensource JVM VM JohnRose MLVM language runtime dynamic Sun)
• Turbulent Intellect: Identity Crisis in Computer Science Education
  A good summary about the current polemic over Computer Science education. Information technology is so prevalent in the world, that people forget the field is very young and growing pains are to be expected.
  (tags: blog post ChrisAmmerman CS ComputerScience programming software education engineering academia academic polemic)