Best of this Week Summary 06 July - 12 July 2009

• Pretty high impact news: The W3C standards organisation has decided to let XHTML 2 go in favor of HTML 5. XHTML 2 was a "cleaner and better-architected version of HTML" but not backwards compatible with the current HTML standards and current browsers. Incrementally improving the current standards is what is headed for now. W3C is already involved in HTML 5.
  


• YourKit described for finding Java memory leaks. Free for opensource projects, otherwise commercial licensing.
  


• Interesting piece on Twitter's evolving architecture presented during QCon London 2009, addressing:
  
  
  
  • Caching
    
  
  
  • Message queuing
    
  
  
  • Memcached client
    
  
  All slides can be found here.
  


• Of course the big news this week was Google's announcement of its Chrome OS. A quick bunch of FAQs from Google can be found here. Why Google Chrome? Well, why not? And finally, a funny reason why a within-seconds bootup time is a disadvantage ;) Couldn't agree more :)
  


• Virtual Javascript keyboard (API) such that different languages can be used as input, without the need for a special fysically present keyboard (e.g for arabic letters)).
  


• 10 criteria that can be used to determine whether a product has good code generation support.