Best of this Week Summary 5 April - 11 April 2010

• Google recently released SkipFish, a free, open source, fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool/scanner. "It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments."
  
  


• Great, lessons learned/experiences/comparison on using Wicket and GWT. Definitely also check the comments.
  


• Tim O'Reilly's interesting attempt on defining the internet operating system. What is it, what does it do etc.
  


• Seven tips on how to make your API more successful from NPR's Director of Application Development.
  


• Five myths about old developers (40+?) debunked.
  


• A interesting comparison between Oracle Coherence & GigaSpaces XAP from about a year ago. More feedback also here. OC and GX are two of the largest Java data/computing grid solutions.
  


• And yes it's true, James "Java" Gosling has also left Oracle, after Jonathan Schwartz already did earlier.