Best of this Week Summary 23 August - 29 August 2010

• Basic best practices and optimization techniques for JBoss EAP 4.3 Production Environments.
  


• A tutorial in which you will "create Pingstream, a small notification tool that uses PHP (sorry ;), jQuery and RSS to communicate over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a set of XML technologies designed to support presence and real-time-communications functionality."
  


• Asynchronouse method invocation with Spring 3.0 tutorial with example code via annotiations. Full task and scheduling reference here.
  


• Good list of REST API anti-patterns.
  


• And another set of anti-patterns, this time for Apache Hadoop. Also includes best practices.
  


• Pretty funky: researchers developed misco, a mobile framework of MapReduce in Python (sorry again :) that can be handled by a server farm/cloud comprised of smartphones (e.g Nokia N95)."
  
  
  

Best of this Week Summary 31 May - 08 June April 2008

• Interesting article on how to do estimates with Use Cases.
  


• The Google Ajax APIs will be available via cached versions for faster load times, stored at Google's servers. Hmmm, doubt that you want to depend on that...
  


• An insight in Google's datacenters. Definitely worth reading. Google's core software consists of: GFS, BigTable and MapReduce.
  


• The OpenAjax Alliance has created a set of papers "as a guide to help Web developers and IT managers understand and evaluate Ajax, define a successful Ajax strategy, and become familiar the important role OpenAjax plays in the development of the Ajax market". This one is an interesting one as it describes Ajax for mobile devides. On the other hand, browsers like Opera can already handle (some form) of regular Ajax, so is it worth making the distinction?
  

Best of this Week Summary 07 January - 13 January 2008

• The DataPortability.org is a quite recently started organisation that is trying to define the end-to-end data portability of identity, making use of existing technologies (like RSS, OpenID etc) as much as possible. Biggies that joined this organisation already are for example Google, Facebook and Plaxo.
  


• Great article on the motivations and issues on the apparent move to the new web development platforms and architectures like PHP, Ruby, RoR, REST and WOA. Also includes a simple example how you can really quickly create a RoR application and use its auto-generated REST API.
  


• Nice story/blog of a (Ror) webapp Pulse (it is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business -- your cash) that was built in one month. Includes tools used etc. They used Basecamp to communicate and collaborate between teammembers during the project.
  


• Here's a good bunch of Javascript optimalisation tips for IE from Cyra Richardson, Senior Program Manager Lead on the IE team.
  


• Impressive stats on the data Google processes using MapReduce technologies for their indexing and searching.
  


• Short piece on how The Burton Group sees REST might be replacing SOA. Interesting is the example that explains how REST requires a different way of thinking (though I don't agree you should completely let the OO mindset go):
  Quote: "A REST application to turn on and off the lights in your building will require you to design a URI for every light bulb and then you send it on/off messages," [...] "It's not like I have a single service that manages all my light bulbs. It's a very different approach to designing a system. And it's going to be really hard for developers to get their hands around it."