Links & reads from 2013 Week 7

This week Derek Sivers asks us whether it’s all about who we know; talk on Ember.js is on the rise; Spring and JPA related topics are here as well; the Chromebook inventor spoke his mind; and more… Enjoy reading (and check out the regular expression crossword)!

Reads:

• It’s all who you know?
• Why Discourse uses Ember.js
• Eclipse Workspace Tips
• Google Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
• The Past, Present and Future of GIS: PostGIS 2.0 Is Here!
• How To Write The Perfect Bug Report
• A regular crossword
• Transparent Compilation
• Google Fails the Turing Test
• Migrate Spring MVC servlet.xml to Java Config
• The ghost who codes: how anonymity is killing your programming career
• Inventing Chromebook
• How I work with Postgres – psql, My PostgreSQL Admin
• WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
• Monetize Your Happiness
• Spring Data release train Arora available
• Redshift: PostgreSQL-like in the Cloud (Benchmark)
• Ember 1.0 RC announced
• HN discussion on Ember.js or Angular.js?
• EasyCriteria 2.0 – JPA Criteria should be easy
• Solve the Problems Your Parents Have
• Spring Bean names
• Is your PaaS composable or contextual? (Hint: the answer matters)
• Scans reveal intricate brain wiring
• A video from FOSDEM on LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base
• And slides from FOSDEM on PostgreSQL as a Schemaless Database

Links:

• Fugu – ‘Procedural geometry with Lua.’
• Euphony – a web-based MIDI player and visualizer