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Tuesday October 30, 2007
links for 2007-10-31
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Erik Onnen comments on the famous Apache vs (Erlang) Yaws "benchmark". He points out the lack of transparency, the benchmark is not repeatable given the sparse info provided, and some possibly biased choices from the Yaws team.
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"This all serves as an object lesson of how unanticipatable the benefits of open source can be: [] no one at Sun anticipated that open sourcing DTrace would allow it to be used to Sun's advantage on a hot web development platform running on a hip developm
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Hey! Joel Spolsky's FogCreek has a couple of Sun workstations in their data center.
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Robert Martin gives some great advice on coding in the small. Excerpt: "A source file should read like a newspaper article. Newspaper articles begin with a headline, followed by a single synoptic paragraph, followed by paragraphs full of ever increasing d
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 30, 2007 10:35 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Saturday October 27, 2007
links for 2007-10-28
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"Welcome to the DOAP home page. DOAP is a project to create an XML/RDF vocabulary to describe open source projects."
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 27, 2007 10:35 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]
Thursday October 25, 2007
links for 2007-10-26
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Geertjan really nailed it. I think I would add "ALT+SHIFT+Enter" for full screen mode, and the usual code navigation shortcuts (CTRL+B for "Go to definition", ALT+[Left, Right] for navigation.
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"Ken Russell is a member of the Java SE Deployment team at Sun Microsystems. He and his team have been involved in rewriting the browser Java plug-in."
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Another template engine for Java. Jamon seems more akin to JSP than Velocity, since it generates Java code to output the content. It differentiates itself in that developers explicitly specify input parameters in the template that will be reflected in the
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 25, 2007 10:43 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Wednesday October 24, 2007
links for 2007-10-25
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video lectures by Steve Skienna of algorithm design manual
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Cool! Heap walking from within NetBeans debugger.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 24, 2007 10:54 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Tuesday October 23, 2007
links for 2007-10-24
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The API has improved since I last saw it. BTW, a new version was released since this announcement, but it is basically just bug fixes.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 23, 2007 10:42 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Monday October 22, 2007
links for 2007-10-23
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"In the old days we always talked about moving mainframe based systems to distributed environments, but maybe our mistake was in trying to replicate the features and functions of the mainframe. These new "scale out" architectures may finally accomplish it
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"everything we've been doing since we sat around camp fires telling stories and started making cave paintings [] seems to me to be part of this [desire and ability] to create prosthetic aspects of the self that are capable of surviving the death of the in
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InfoQ interviews Joshua Marinacci about the whole JavaFX initiative. It is a nice summary of Sun's recent inroads into client user experience technologies (JavaFX Script, Designer and Developer Tools, JavaFX Mobile, The Consumer JRE,...).
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According to InfoQ, Garner thinks EDA and workflow/orchestration "programming models" "will eclipse the more traditional component based programming models". SCA/SDO, Spring and REST are thrown into the mix. All very confusing, IMHO.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 22, 2007 10:36 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Wednesday October 17, 2007
links for 2007-10-18
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"Software development is neither. Nor is it art. It's just software development. People who look for the "software is like xxx" analogies are missing the point. Software development is like software development. Let's decide what works for us, and have fu
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 17, 2007 09:41 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Tuesday October 16, 2007
links for 2007-10-17
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On Linux' lax attitude towards binary interface stability.
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"Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it easy to share changes. Done right, you can get the best of both worlds: simple merging and centralized releases."
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Just an initial "declaration of principles" charter. Of note is that security and safety are growing concerns.
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Steve Yegge, Randall "XKCD" Munroe, Jon Stokes, Jeffrey Ullman, and others.
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A good roundup of new features in NetBeans 6.0 by Osvaldo Doederlein. Includes a section about Jackpot.
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The new UltraSparc-T2 (a.k.a. Niagara 2) systems scream running SPECjbb (java server benchmark). But this entry on David Dagastine's blog is also interesting because of the discussion of multi-VM performance.
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Instructions to config Hudson + NetBeans for continuous integration.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 16, 2007 09:39 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Monday October 15, 2007
links for 2007-10-16
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"There seems to be some confusion out there in the field about what Sun is doing in the Virtual 3D Environments space. Since my baby is Project Darkstar, I thought I'd do what I could to try to clear it up a bit:"
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 15, 2007 09:37 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Sunday October 14, 2007
links for 2007-10-15
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Robert Martin arguing that SOA is worthless (albeit likely very expensive) if the services aren't loosely coupled and that is just plain hard. (tho I do not agree that SOA and CBD are the same - SOA has a stronger network focus).
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Dare is excited by the final draft of the OAuth spec. I don't know much about the subject, but I'm hopeful that lightweight dentity federation protocols will gain traction.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 14, 2007 09:29 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Thursday October 11, 2007
links for 2007-10-12
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Steve McConnell: "Full-blown Agile [is] best suited for environments in which the budget is fixed on an annual basis, team sizes are fixed on an annual basis [], and the [] mission is to deliver the most valuable business functionality........
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He begins with a minimal xUnit framework (a single base class, actually) in stateful/OO style then discusses how to make it more _functional_ with state threading and currying. It is a short article, maybe interesting to help introduce FP to imperative mi
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"This submission contains video lectures and related course materials from a series of lectures that was taught to Google software engineering interns during the Summer of 2007."
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(needs registration). Steve McConnell's views on Agile. Pretty interesting.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 11, 2007 09:39 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Wednesday October 10, 2007
links for 2007-10-11
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Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 10, 2007 09:38 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Sunday October 07, 2007
links for 2007-10-08
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(Nothing to do with NLP) This talk presents a series of HCI studies conducted at CMU with programmers. Too many interesting ideas to summarize here... This video is specially recommended for people aboard the DSL bandwagon.
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 07, 2007 09:24 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Thursday October 04, 2007
links for 2007-10-05
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"It's high time we stopped looking at Apache HTTPD as just a web server and started viewing it as an HTTP Gateway."
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"I've been experimenting with Bazaar [a distributed version control system] ]for a little while and had a strange idea: why not use branches as a project template mechanism?"
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 04, 2007 09:47 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
Wednesday October 03, 2007
links for 2007-10-04
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Amazon has also felt the need to develop a semi-general-purpose highly scalable db system. I wonder if there ever will be demand of this kind of Megadata(tm) systems in the overall market or if they will remain restricted to services giants.
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Butler Lampson on software systems security.
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An extreme application of the Value Object pattern (from Domain Driven Design).
Posted by rafaeldff [Sun] ( October 03, 2007 09:37 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]
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