Links & Reads – 2017 #1

Enjoy reading and exploring! After a break, here’s the first one for 2017!

Long(er) reads:

• Chaos Engineering
• Why Recursive Data Structures?
• How Terrible Code Gets Written by Perfectly Sane People

Java links:

• Refactoring Towards Expressive REST APIs: Let Your Code Be Your Guide
• 20 Spring Framework Best Practices
• Java SE 8, 9 and Beyond [Slides]
• Introduction to Spring Reactor

JavaScript links:

• Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript

Kotlin links:

• Introducing Kotlin support in Spring Framework 5.0
• Kotlin: Ready for Production

New releases:

• lichess 1.0 – ‘the forever free, adless and open source chess server’ with a Scala back-end

Nice stuff:

• Zazu – ‘A fully extensible and open source launcher for hackers, creators and dabblers’
• Inferno – ‘An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces’ (Related: Introducing Inferno 1.0)
• Klipse – ‘A simple client-side code evaluator pluggable on any web page’
• alacritty – ‘A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator’
• javaslang-circuitbreaker – ” (Related: A javaslang-circuitbreaker Spring Boot demo)

Links & Reads from 2015 week 1

What happened during the first week of 2015? Which read-worthy articles and blog-posts were published? Which handy projects were mentioned? Read on!

Reads:

• I just launched my first product of 2015
• Why Deleting Sensitive Information From Github Doesn’t Save You (related: The GHTorrent project)
• How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

#Java:

• BDD Testing with Cucumber, Java and JUnit
• Spring retry – ways to integrate with your project
• First Step with Spring Boot and Elasticsearch
• SSL / TLS REST Server – Client with Spring and TomEE
• Asynchronous Programming at Netflix
• Apache Mesos : Writing your own distributed framework
• Eventual Consistency in Concurrent Data Structures

#JavaScript:

• Creating Objects Without Prototypes
• All About Angular 2.0
• Concurrency, part 2: Patterns for Asynchronous Methods

#Clojure:

• Sequences – Inside Clojure

#Scala:

• Introduction to Spark & Cassandra

Links:

• Databricks Spark Knowledge Base
• Apex – ‘HTTP web applications for Vert.x’
• cljsbuild-ui – ‘A user interface for the ClojureScript Compiler’
• Databound – ‘Provides Javascript a simple API to the Ruby on Rails CRUD’
• aja.js – ‘Ajax without XML : Asynchronous Javascript and JavaScript/JSON(P)’
• NChat – pure JS chat server and client
• Genson – ‘a fast & modular Java <> Json library’

Links & reads from 2014 Week 1

First one for this year! Enjoy reading and exploring!

Reads:

• “Vacations are for the weak”
• Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
• React: Another Level of Indirection (related: Facebook’s React vs AngularJS: A Closer Look)
• Give your clojure workflow more flow
• Doing Query using Sequences in Clojure
• Parkour – Idiomatic Clojure for Map Reduce
• Introducing PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure
• Clojure 2013 Year in Review
• This year in Scala (2013)
• Map of the DOM in relation to HTML and JavaScript
• Tidal – mini language for live coding pattern

Links:

• 12 Free eBooks On R Programming
• PigPen – Map-Reduce for Clojure by Netflix
• parkour – Map-Reduce in idiomatic Clojure
• convnetjs – ‘Deep Learning in Javascript. Train Convolutional Neural Networks (or ordinary ones) in your browser’

Links & reads from 2013 Week 1

First, some music. Let it play

https://soundcloud.com/orkidea/orkidea-the-piano-mix-2012

and let’s get it on.

Reads:

• SOLID principles: are they enough for OO?
• Almost everything you need to know to enter mobile game development on 2013

Links:

• jQuery jKit – a handy jQuery based UI toolkit
• Elusive Icons – 270 icons optimized for Twitter Bootstrap
• sparky.js – organize your structure, but don’t feel forced to use a MVC solution
• game-icons – about a thousand free to use vector icons
• Junior – a iOS native-lookish HTML5 Front-End Framework

As the first week of the year, it’s reasonable not to have a lot of new articles and announcements.