Best of this Week Summary 11 January - 24 January 2010

• An overview of Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). This is an architectural style that makes a clear distinction between commands that change the application state and queries that expose the application state.
  


• Four myths about code comments.
  


• Interesting look at Stack Overflow's network configuration, including how they handle failover.
  


• The European Commission has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
  


• The history of Javascript in a slideshare presentation, including some more low level specifics like comparision (=== vs ==), anonymous functions, inheritance etc.
  

Best of this Week Summary 30 November - 06 December 2009

• A top 10 of SOA myths revisited.
  


• Google is slowly pulling the plug on Gears (mainly used as offline browser storage) in favor of HTML5; see the posts for a bunch of reasons. Google: "We're continuing to support Gears so that nothing breaks for sites that use it. But we expect developers to use HTML5 for these features moving forward as it's a standards-based approach that will be available across all browsers."
  


• A couple of interesting Java topics found during Devoxx 2009: Kanban, Spring-ActionScript (Spring-Flex integration), and a couple of technologies to detect and prevent coding errors before they actually happen.
  


• True or false: if the comments are ugly, the code is ugly? I agree: if your comments are sloppy, you very likely also will be in the actual code?
  Don't forget to read the referenced "three rules" C post.