Best of this Week Summary 14 June - 20 June 2010

• A short comparison between Wicket and Rails.
  


• "A step by step guide of how to develop a simple web application using Google's Web Toolkit (GWT) for the rich client and Spring as the back – end, server side framework: GWT 2, Spring 3, JPA2, Hibernate 3.5. The sample web application will provide functionality to make CRUD (Create Retrieve Update Delete) operations to a database. For the data access layer we will use JPA over Hibernate and for a database we will use Hypersonic. Of course you can change the configuration and use whatever you like. We will deploy the web application to an Apache – Tomcat instance."
  


• Nice bunch of steps on how to setup an Android project that works in Eclipse and builds via Ant on the commandline. Anybody got a Maven variant of this?
  


• This might be the reason why the iPad and iPhone (< iPhone 4) don't support multitasking right now: there's no swap.
  On a side note: Objective-C (programming language for iPhone+iPad) has entered the programming language top 10, up from 45! Not really suprising with 200K+ apps in its app stores and Apple's Mac OSX share increasing. Java still on top but decreasing.
  

Best of this Week Summary 28 April - 04 May 2008

• Nice overview on how Dutch social network Hyves (> 5M users) uses Gentoo.
  


• An explanation how to setup soapUI with Maven for automated SOAP testing.
  


• Interesting rumor is that Twitter might be moving away from using Ruby on Rails; it might move to PHP or Java. The potential reason for switching is most likely scalability. Their system has to support about 3 million messages a day and has over a million users (march 2008 numbers).
  


• Springsource (the guys from Spring) introduced their beta Application Platform (aka S2AP). Summarizing: "an application platform, built on OSGi, that can resolve Spring bean references by looking up services through OSGi - all of the capabilities OSGi provides, without the headache of deployment. And it would be able to deploy .WAR files through the use of a Tomcat (or servlet container) service."