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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun. Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five years while he worked at Sun. This departure comes just four months after two JRuby developers left Sun, citing the uncertainty surrounding the Oracle acquisition as their reason.

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:44 +0000

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today. In an effort to compete with the iPhone, Motorola joined forces with Google and Verizon. Will the 'Force' be strong enough in the Droid? Well, since Motorola has to pay a fee to Lucasfilm just to use the term "Droid", they better get some 'Force' out of the deal. ...

Mark Thomas on Apache Tomcat 7

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:47:25 +0000

A lot has been happening at Apache recently. The Subversion project joined the list of Apache projects and the White House has begun using Drupal, which is based on Apache's Lucene text search engine. Apache also celebrated its 10 year anniversary at ApacheCon2009. However, the biggest news was probably the timeframe announcement for Apache Tomcat version 7. According to Jim Jagielski,...

Social Computing: Let the Bots Talk!

peter.neubauer.myopenid.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:08 +0000

With connected devices, JavaScript enabled web sites and the extensibility of the XMPP protocol, we are at the beginning of a new breed of applications that are operating in the social context of their owners. Google Wave is just the first well known application doing other-than-chatting things on top of XMPP.References Reference: Social Computing...

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

DaveMBush — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:53:49 +0000

“Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product (programs) that will operate in some environment (operating systems on hardware assemblies). Like any other craft, computer programming has spawned a body of wisdom, most of which isn’t taught at universities or in certification classes. Most...

What Hadoop is Good At

riho — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:25:08 +0000

Hadoop is getting more popular these days. Lets look at what it is good at and what not.The Map/Reduce Programming modelMap/Reduce offers a different programming model for handling concurrency than the traditional multi-thread model. James Sugrue

What I Miss in Java

shyamseshadri — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:18:49 +0000

So I finally got some time to sit down and write, after being knee deep in work the past month or two. And without a doubt, I wanted to write about what has been heckling and annoying me over the past month. I am an ardent defender of Java as a good language, especially defending it from Misko day in and day out, but even I will agree that it does suck at times. So today, Java, the gloves are...

Writing Your Own JUnit Extensions Using @Rule

mathieucarbou — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:47:02 +0000

I was surprised to see how many hidden and undocumented features Junit has. In the new release (4.7) you have access to a lot of interesting stuff (still in development for some). One that is really interesting is @Rule.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well. uSocial says companies can improve audiences by buying a bunch of views rather than getting them organically. They claim that this 'seed method' can spur even more traffic. Prices start at $127 for 5,000 views.

Apache Celebrates 10 Years

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:45 +0000

In just ten years, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has become a prominent beacon of open source development. At the ApacheCon 2009 conference this week, Apache is celebrating ten years of operation with 65 projects under its wing, 33 projects in the Apache Incubator, and over two dozen codebases in the Apache Labs. The official anniversary date was in March during a convention in...

Exclusive Interview: Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward

nbharti78 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:42 +0000

In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward talks about some of his recent work driving Flex adoption at large companies such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and SalesForce.com. James describes how he helped open and extend SaleForce's CRM application platform to support the deployment of Flex apps on the cloud. He also talks about some of the new and interesting...

Testing GWT Libraries With Selenium and Maven

mraible — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:29:15 +0000

On Tuesday, I wrote about Running Hosted Mode in GWT Libraries. Today I added an additional module to our project to run Selenium tests against our GWT library. In the process, I discovered some things I needed to modify in my GWT library's pom.xml. James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's Competition Commissioner reprimanded Oracle for making no effort to address concerns about owning MySQL, the worlds fastest growing open source database. Since Oracle hasn't budged on its intentions to keep MySQL as part of the deal, the...

Writing a RESTful and Comet Based PubSub Application Using Atmosphere in Less Than 10 Lines

jfarcand — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:32:44 +0000

Writing a publisher/subscriber (PubSub) is quite simple with Atmosphere using the atmosphere-jersey module. The main idea here is to use Comet for suspending the response when a client subscribe to a topic, and use REST for publishing messages to the those suspended responses. First, let’s bind our application to the root uri using the @path annotation Subtitle: ...

Turtles and Architecture

kirkk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:27:58 +0000

The story of software architecture reminds me of the following story. James Sugrue