Lucene 3.6 Gets Query Time Joining
A very handy new feature called 'query time joining' is coming to Lucene sooner than anticipated. While it was confirmed last month that... more »
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PyPy 1.8 Improves Performance, Maintains Business As Usual
PyPy 1.8 has arrived, and brings with it a number of bug fixes and performance and memory improvements over the previous release.
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Get Smart...Paddy Power Technology Series
Paddy Power are hosting a John Smart seminar in Dublin, Ireland. John Ferguson Smart is CEO of Wakaleo Consulting, a company that... more »
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Per Aspera ad ACTA–Worse than SOPA and PIPA?
According to news magazines, people worldwide are more and more against ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is intended to... more »
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InfoQ: Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM
Microsoft has detailed Windows 8 for ARM: architected for low power consumption, apps that can only target WinRT, restricted desktop that... more »
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So I Was Wrong: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Will Share Core
Matt Lacey provides his insight on the recent announcement that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will share the Windows NT kernel.
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Windows 8: The Facts About ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack
With the announcement that Microsoft will release the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29 in Barcelona, Jeremy Likness breaks down... more »
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Broad NoSQL Adoption in 2012?
The SQL / NoSQL debate continues with Couchbase releasing the results of an industry-wide survey tracking the potential development of... more »
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DomainWatch Offers Google App Security
The author suggests that organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications are often faced with the tension that comes... more »
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iOS More Crashtastic Than Android
It seems Android apps crash significantly less often than those running on iOS, according to a recent study from Crittercism.
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Resin Java App Server Deployments Growing
The Resin application server has been experiencing strong growth over the past 12 months; seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k... more »
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Last Java EE 7 JSR filed with WebSocket API
JSR 356 just about made the cut for Java EE 7 specifications, bringing a Java API for WebSocket. More details within.
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A stronger testing pyramid
You might know Mike Cohn's testing pyramid. Here is an improved version of this pyramid! Harden the pyramid adding new key information... more »
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Why Webkit is the New IE6 (The Trap of Vendor Prefixes)
Several browser reps came together on a CSS WG list to discuss the implementation of vendor prefixes. The main part to be aware of is... more »
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This Week in Spring, February 7th, 2012
This Week in Spring, February 7th, 2012
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UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Pressured with tight deadlines, application developers do not have the luxury of keeping completely up-to-date with all of the latest... more »
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CSS Variables Spec Draft
Systems like Sass and Less are partly popular because they let us use variables when building our CSS but a draft proposal for... more »
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New Apache Lucene Site!
Our core algorithms along with the Solr search server power applications the world over, ranging from mobile devices to sites like... more »
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The Big Data Era
A blog comment on a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece which appeared Jan 30, 2012.
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Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors
An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working... more »
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Save Camera Captures in Media Library for Windows Phone
This simple tutorial will show you how to save pictures taken with your camera phone directly to the Media Library to help save storage... more »
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Detailed Overview of Chrome for Android
If you have an Android 4.0 device, go to the Market and download it so you can try it yourself. Chrome for Android is a big step for the... more »
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Thanks, Jeff
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A short post on Jeff Atwood as he steps down from Stack Exchange.
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HeapAudit: JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World
HeapAudit is not a monitoring tool, but rather an engineering tool that collects actionable data – information sufficient for directly... more »
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4 New HTTP Status Codes On The Way? (428, 429, 431 and 511)
The IETF has approved this draft standard for additional HTTP status codes as a 'Proposed Standard'. They're codes 428, 429, 431, and 511... more »
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