The best articles and links to interesting posts for technical team leaders building sophisticated websites, applications and mobile apps.
Think about: software architecture, hardware architecture, design, programming, frameworks, scalability, performance, quality assurance, security, resolving issues, fixing bugs and Android.
And lastly: a couple of summaries on Thomas Kurian's keynote of last week's JavaOne 2010 on Oracle's plans with Java, and a summary of the General Technical Session regarding the future of Java SE, EE and embedded.
Interesting (sort of inside) view on how Google controls what's shipped with Android on mobile phones, how smart their usage of open source is, and why Android probably got such a big momentum quickly. The controls are: private branches, closed review process, speed of evolution of the platform versions, incomplete public source code, gated development community, anti-fragmentation agreement, private roadmap and Android trademark.
Atomiq could be handy tool to check for duplicate code in Java, C#, VB.Net, ASPX, Ruby, Python, C, C++, ActionScript and XAML. A related similar tool is the Copy Paste Detector in PMD.
Nice: "HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on. Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed."
A "series of (currently 5) articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive next-generation type-safe dependency injection as well as robust context management for Java EE. Led by Gavin King, JSR 299 aims to synthesize the best-of-breed features from solutions like Seam, Guice and Spring while adding many useful innovations of its own".
Why ACID is hard to scale. and an argument that NoSQL/NoACID is the lazy way around these difficulties. Here's a post considering the performance argument for switching to a NoSQL database.
Great interesting series on the progress of converting the native code BBC News iPhone/iPad app to a web app using HTML5.
I'm a professional software designer/architect/developer/software engineer with over 25 years of experience. For many years I've been a Technical Team Lead for complex software engineering projects. My main area of focus is Java/Kotlin microservice architectures and related challenges (design, scalability, performance etcetera). Currently Kotlin has got a lot of my attention. I will be posting lessons learned, and lessons that I'll be learning during the coming years :-)
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