Best of this Week Summary 2 August - 8 August 2010

• How to utilize Externalization (faster, less flexible) for high performance applications instead of Serialization (slower, more flexible).
  


• A bunch of pros and cons of Wicket.
  


• An extensive tutorial on how to work with XML, JSON and Google's protocol buffers within Android applications. It shows how to "develop a Web service that converts CSV data into XML, JSON, and protocol-buffers formats. Then you'll build a sample Android application that can pull the data from the Web service in any of these formats and parse it for display to the user". Assumes Froyo 2.2. Also shows a short comparison in performance between the three protocols.
  


• A five part introduction to HTML5 focusing on the mobile web.
  


• Highlights from Black Hat and Defcon 2010. That means security stuff :).
  
  


• A list of (mostly obvious) performance problems identified at Zappos, Monster etc.
  


• A pretty comprehensive overview of Java code obfuscating including these types: name, strings, code and flow, incremental, watermarking etc.