Links & Reads from 2015 Week 51

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Reads:

• Android Wear: Dress things up with new designer watch faces
• Android on the desktop: Not really “good,” but better than you’d think
• Become A Morning Person in 7 Easy Steps
• The SMU-problem of messaging apps
• Refactoring Code to Load a Document

Java:

• Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy
• React.js and Spring Data REST
• A Cassandra and Spring Boot tutorial: Getting Started with KillrChat: An Example Data Model for Messaging
• Stream Processing With Spring, Kafka, Spark and Cassandra
• Benchmarking Streaming Computation Engines at Yahoo Engineering
• Java Annotated Monthly – December 2015

Clojure:

• Into the Land of Quil
• Clojure Design Patterns

JavaScript:

• RxJS is great. So why have I moved on?

Kotlin:

• Learn Kotlin with “Advent of Code”

New releases:

• Spring Data release train Gosling SR2 release
• Spring IO Platform 2.0.1.RELEASE

Nice stuff:

• Cycle.js – ‘a fully reactive JavaScript framework for Human-Computer Interaction’
• OWASP Dependency-Check Plugin
• Apollo – ‘Java libraries for writing composable microservices’ by Spotify
• Gizmo – ‘A Microservice Toolkit from The New York Times’
• css-protips – ‘a collection of tips to help take your CSS skills pro’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 50

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Reads:

• Fight Stress with Healthy Habits
• A Survey on Reactive Programming
• Rx glitches aren’t actually a problem
• Volkwagen and the Blame The Engineer Game

Java:

• Hibernate Logging Guide – Use the right config for development and production
• Presentation: Introducing RxJava into a Spring Boot REST API
• Spring Cloud Rest Client with Netflix Ribbon – Basics
• Introducing the official RethinkDB Java client driver
• Golo Truffle/Graal articles by Stefan Marr
• Local installation of standalone HBase and Apache Storm simple cluster
• How Apache Flink enables new streaming applications

Clojure:

• Clojure Destructuring

JavaScript:

• Building a cross-platform desktop app with NW.js, React & Flux

Rust:

• Build an API in Rust with JWT Authentication using Nickel.rs
• Go vs Node vs Rust vs Swift

Swift:

• Getting Started with Swift on Linux

R:

• What do we ask in stack overflow

Nice stuff:

• notejam – unified sample webapp examples implemented using different server-side web frameworks
• Gaffer – ‘A large-scale graph database’
• d3.compose – ‘Compose complex, data-driven visualizations from reusable charts and components with d3’
• vuvuzela – ‘Private messaging system that hides metadata’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 49

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Reads:

• The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity Methods
• Addicted to Distraction
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems
• Introduction to RAML
• Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
• Presentation: Stream Processing in Uber

Java:

• Spring @Component, @Service, @Repository, @Controller Difference
• Android Development Culture. The Document. #qualitymatters
• High-Concurrency HTTP Clients on the JVM
• 20 Java Interview Questions from Investment Banks
• Two decades of Java: A timeline of the notable events
• Spring Framework 5.0 Roadmap Update

JavaScript:

• Presentation: Debugging Node.js in Production by Netflix
• ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points
• Simplified JavaScript Jargon

Clojure:

• Why we picked Clojure
• An Introduction to ClojureScript
• Presentation: ClojureScript: Architecting for Scale

Ceylon:

• Dependency injection in Ceylon with Weld and Guice

Golang:

• Debugging Go programs with Delve

Swift:

• IBM’s Swift Response

Nice stuff:

• Frisby – ‘a REST API testing framework’
• sqlmap – ‘Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool’
• vertx-sisu – ‘Create Vert.x Modules and Verticles with dependency injection using Eclipse Sisu’
• Materialistic – ‘A material-design Hacker News Android reader’
• BrainDump – ‘a simple, powerful, and open note taking platfform’
• Lost Grid – ‘a powerful grid system built in PostCSS’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 48

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Reads:

• Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.
• Fitness Isn’t Just for the Wealthy: How to Stay Healthy on a Budget
• The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
• How 77 Metro Agencies Design the Letter ‘M’ for Their Transit Logo
• A suggestion to Open Source project maintainers
• Overview of Recommender Algorithms (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)
• The Doomsday Invention

Java:

• Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Improved Android Emulator And New Instant Run Feature
• Java: The Missing Features
• What are fibers and why should you care?
• Spring Boot with Gradle and resource filtering
• The 5 Java logging rules
• One and the Only One Reason to Customize IntelliJ IDEA Memory Settings

JavaScript:

• From Karma to Mocha, with a taste of jsdom
• Must See JavaScript Dev Tools That Put Other Dev Tools to Shame
• Configuring Babel 6
• Six Things You Should Know About WordPress Moving to JavaScript

New releases:

• Polymer Starter Kit 1.2.0 release
• Hugo v0.15 release
• Apache Maven JDeps Plugin 3.0.0 release
• Apache Kafka 0.9 release

Nice stuff:

• Perfect – Server-side swift
• fasthttp – ‘Fast HTTP package for Go’
• Macaron – ‘a high productive and modular web framework in Go’
• RobotJS – ‘Node.js Desktop Automation’
• labella.js – ‘Placing labels on a timeline without overlap’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 47

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Reads:

• Remote
• Be Lazy
• How Does In-Flight Wi-Fi Really Work?
• Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay
• Global Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker by Netflix

Java:

• Notes from developerWorks Technology: Top Java tutorials from 2015
• JUnit Lambda – The Prototype
• Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8

JavaScript:

• new Fn(…) vs. Object.create(P)
• Closures are not magic
• Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
• DOM Tips and Techniques: Parent, Child, and Siblings

Clojure:

• The End of Dynamic Languages

Elm:

• Phoenix with Elm
• Compilers as Assistants

New releases:

• Spring Boot 1.3.0 release
• Aurelia Beta 1 release

Nice stuff:

• OpenTraffic – ‘a free, global traffic speed data set linked to OpenStreetMap’
• Tupelo – ‘Making Clojure Even Sweeter’
• Mala – ‘Clojurescript UI with Om, Async and Garden’
• Mist – ‘A distributed, tag-based pub-sub service for modern web applications and container-driven cloud’
• gnatsd – ‘High Performance Golang Server for NATS, the cloud native messaging system’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 46

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Reads:

• A 360 Degree View Of The Entire Netflix Stack
• Introducing PaaSTA: An Open, Distributed, Platform as a Service
• Hello World: Meet CockroachDB, the Resilient SQL Database
• The “modern” workplace doesn’t just make us lonely, it can make us physically ill
• Deep Learning in a Single File for Smart Devices

Java:

• Java Annotated Monthly – November 2015
• Maven Central Now Mirrored by Google
• Spring Boot Remote Shell
• Presentation: Frege, a Haskell for the JVM by Dierk König
• JavaOne 2015: Under The Hood Of Project Jigsaw
• Retryable operations

Clojure:

• SOLID Principles in Clojure

Golang:

• My Go IDE in a Container — Google Cloud Platform
• Six years of Go

JavaScript:

• Top 10 ES6 Features Every Busy JavaScript Developer Must Know
• A collection of simple tips to help up your jQuery game

New releases:

• Onyx 0.8.0 release
• Clojure 1.8.0-RC1 release

Nice stuff:

• TensorFlow – ‘an Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence’
• Veles – ‘distributed platform for rapid Deep learning application development’
• Leaf – ‘Open Machine Intelligence Framework’
• Apache Calcite – ‘The foundation for your next high-performance database’
• Oden – ‘a LISP-inspired language with static typing that compiles to native code using Go’
• Enlive – ‘a selector-based templating library for Clojure’

Links & Reads from 2015 Week 45

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Reads:

• What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?
• Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing
• Facebook’s code quality problem
• Presentation: How to make your code sustainable
• The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
• Some Architectural Design Concepts For Redis
• PostgreSQL Locking Revealed

Java:

• A comparison of Microservices Frameworks
• Synchronized java.util.HashMap vs. java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
• The Java Deserialization Bug

Go:

• Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB
• Implementing a BDD Workflow in Go

Elixir:

• Elixir is not Ruby
• Phoenix with Elm (a six part blog series)

New releases:

• Kotlin Language 1.0 Beta release
• Spring IO Platform 2.0.0.RC1 release
• Fedora 23 release

Nice stuff:

• Flutter – build native mobile apps (Android and iOS) with Dart (related: Flutter style guide)
• Irmin – ‘Git-like distributed, branchable storage’
• Jug – R package for creating web APIs
• Shortuuid – ‘Go library that generates concise, unambiguous, URL-safe UUIDs’
• react-native-nw-react-calculator – ‘Mobile, desktop and website Apps with the same code’
• WOPR – ‘a simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics’
• Trix – ‘rich text editor for everyday writing’
• Parallec – ‘Fast Parallel Async HTTP/SSH/TCP/Ping Client Java Library’ by eBay