White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS (39)
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I am very happy to announce my white paper on Cloud Architectures is now ready. This is one incarnation of the Emerging Cloud Service Architectures that Jeff wrote about a few weeks ago. If you are new to the cloud, the first section of the paper will help you understand the benefits of building applications in-the-cloud. If you are using the cloud already, the second section of the paper will help you to use the ...
YouTube File Downloader : Download as MP4/FLV for PC / iPod / PSP. It's free! (1)
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This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.
Paraffin 1.04 – A New Switch and Easier Updates (1)
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If you're using WiX 2.0, my Paraffin tool can help you automate some of your setup chores. To read more about Paraffin, see the three part article, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Thanks to Matthew Goos who sent me the patch, there's a new –dirref when creating the initial .WXS file. That allows you specify the DirectoryRef element Id value. The default is INSTALLDIR. When updating an existing file, I now allow you ...
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Anuradha G Blog: Cube°n Task-Focused Interface for Netbeans (1)
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This week Screenshot #1Netbeans
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cb160 said:
Competition for Mylyn from the Netbeans camp.
In Defense of Vista and the Challenges Facing Windows 7 (2)
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Perception is everything. That applies to everything in life and certainly applies to Vista. It doesn't take much web searching to find plenty of commentary indicating that Vista has not been well received and is often downright hated. In a lot of ways, I think Vista's been given a bad rap, and my opinion is that it is quite a bit better than it gets credit for. In this article I want to talk about ...
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Good notes on why Vista is actually better than XP (I agree mostly), good notes on how Microsoft can improve, and finally notes on what Apple has done to improve (making apps smaller and faster instead of more bloated? genius!)
AnkhSVN 2.0 - free Subversion integration with Visual Studio (1)
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The guys over on the AnkhSVN team have acquired new members and burnt the midnight oil to deliver a great 2.0 release with: Subversion 1.5 merge & tracking support Wizards to help step through tasks like merging Now s a source code control package (SCC) for smoother, faster integration Pending changes window providing change summary Much easier to get up and running with the source Despite all these great features it's absolutely free and still ...
Another Microsoft Developer Falls Victim to Framework Myopia (2)
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Recently a Microsoft developer posted a blog entry detailing a very negative experience he had with the iPhone SDK, Cocoa, and Xcode. MS developers allowing their first impression to taint their view of Mac programming is common, but easily corrected
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cb160 said:
Another great post from this .Net and Cocoa developer.
Google Code Blog: Protocol Buffers, our serialized structured data, released as Open Source (32)
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By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsOne of the core pieces of infrastructure at Google is something called Protocol Buffers. We are really pleased to be open sourcing the system, but what are these buffers?Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write ...
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Razzu said:
You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages.
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Haidong said:
Man, this is BIG!!!I used it all the time and it's really great
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cb160 said:
Looks good - I wonder if it wil take off. There's a great example of the builder pattern in the Java Tutorial:Person john = Person.newBuilder() .setId(1234) .setName("John Doe") .setEmail("jdoe@example.com") .addPhone( Person.PhoneNumber.newBuilder() .setNumber("555-4321") .setType(Person.PhoneType.HOME)) .build();Nice!
New Article: Scaling Your Java EE Applications (5)
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Getting Java applications to scale requires an intimate understanding of the application, the JVM, and the underlying hardware. Wang Yu presents some surprising results of Java application scalability based on his experiences in a performance laboratory.
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Nice Article - ignore the EE bit - it's relevant for all Java applications.Nice bit on memcached vs coherence.
Trip Report: June 2008 ISO C++ Standards Meeting (3)
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The ISO C++ committee met in Sophia Antipolis, France on June 6-14. You can find the minutes here (note that these cover only the whole-group sessions, not the breakout technical sessions where we spend most of the week). Here’s a summary of what we did, with links to the relevant papers to read for more details, and information about upcoming meetings. Highlights: Complete C++0x draft coming in September The biggest goal entering this meeting was ...
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N2670 Minimal support for garbage collection and reachability!Well, what happened to 'The progammer knows best how to manage memory'!
Further with Spring RCP (1)
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In addition to Getting Started with Spring RCP, I've now also written Getting Further with Spring RCP. It's pretty interesting what Spring RCP can do for your Swing applications. This part covers Spring RCP dialogs, the Form Builder, and rules based validation, with this result: I'm looking forward to getting even further with it...
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cb160 said:
Not sure what I think of Spring RCP - but Geertjan's article give an excellent overview.
Brad Abrams : WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live (10)
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A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern". Over the last few months our P&P team has been working with industry leaders and the product teams in Microsoft to develop an sample application and a framework for building composite applications in WPF. If you are looking at building a WPF business focused application, you should really check this out.. all the documentation, source code and even unit tests are included! ...
Controlling Banshee over D-Bus (2)
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I needed to be able to control Banshee from another application, and it turns out it has a lovely D-Bus API. Skip to the next song*: import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "/org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController") banshee.Next(False) # use banshee.Previous(False) to skip back one song Start Banshee playing (this works even if Banshee isn’t running; D-Bus starts it up!): import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "/org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine") # note PlayerEngine, not PlaybackController banshee.Play() # use ...
Microsoft, Now Loving Hadoop (10)
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Last week, OStatic noted the rumor, first reported by VentureBeat, that Microsoft intended to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset for $100 million. Lo and behold, Microsoft and Powerset are confirming today that an acquisition agreement has been signed. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but the rumored $100 million figure was in line with valuations put on Powerset based on its early financing. Powerset’s search technology uses the open-source, cluster-based ...
Compass 2.1.0 M1 Released (1)
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Compass version 2.1.0 M1 released. The release includes several features including a much improved XSEM support (namespace xpath, better stax integration, jdom integration), Dynamic mappings removal and additions, JSEM - JSON to Search Engine Mapping support, and Collocated integration and distributed search with GigaSpaces. It also includes several bug fixes (with the important ones backported to 2.0 branch). Enjoy!.
John Robbins' Blog : More on Regular Expressions (2)
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The always enjoyable Jeff Atwood wrote an excellent discussion about regular expressions that everyone should read. Having seen many times where a developer will write a full blown parser instead of a regular expression, it's critical every developer spend a little time learning regular expressions. It goes without saying that the more code you write the more bugs you have. Regular expressions aren't too hard, but like anything else us developers deal with, you do ...
