Best of this Week Summary 28 July - 03 August 2008

• Introduction from google on OAuth and why you should/might want to use oAuth, including a few examples.
  


• A bit more than a week ago (July 20th to be exact), Amazon's S3 had a big outage of several hours, affecting many (startup) websites. Here's the explanation why, from Amazon. The short story: message corruption in server-to-server communication.
  


• In this blog I of course also take care of the starting software engineer :-), so here's ten concepts every software engineer should know.
  


• MySpace is now also supporting OpenID.
  


• Finally, Sun introduced the JavaFX preview SDK. Official announcement here. Below a screenshot of the demo application:
  
  
• In case you're not using it yet, definitely worth checking out this opensource LGPL static Java analyzing tool Findbugs.