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First day of WWDC passed away, it was quite new experience for me. I omitted all WWDC news, there are tons of that, Most of them you probably know (iPhone4, Safari 5, iOS4 etc.) and that you don’t know are under NDA so I cannot write about that.

• 73 000 purchases of Wired iPad App.
• Lots of noise about Apple HTML5 demo page which in fact is not so standard.
• Deadlines mechanics by Seth Godin
• Google adds some features: Spelling correction in Google Suggest, now searching through mobile will return mobile apps, new look of google homepage.
• Are you interested in Google Guice dependency injection framework, TSS puts some links you can start with.
• Google Maps preview in Gmail and Buzz, that’s really nice feature.
• Google continues to release Google I/O videos: Geo, Wave, Google APIs
• Interesting AOP usage to simplify on/off features in our projects (in Polish) [Google Translate].
• Sonatype introduce a series of webinars about Maven.

Sitting at the Hotel, jet lag woke me up, so I start reading articles from my “to be read” pile.

1. Facebook’s Culture Problem May Be Fatal – The Conversation -> Bruce Nussbaum wrote article about problem with Facebook privacy, I totally agree with him, and currently I think about quiting Facebook. Worth to read how public is our private profile.
2. Corpus Adamicum – BDD-style Testing For IPhone Projects -> Are you writing iPhone app, and you want to wrtite test for yours application, I know that it is hard, but maybe Cedar will help you with that. Here is iPhone project which is fully test driven with Cedar. Adam Milligan shows how he manage to do this by following some rules. Must read for iPhone developers. I have to look more deeply into Cedar and iPhone app unit tests as well.
3. Realtime search for Hadoop – scalable log data management with hadoop part 3 -> Nice article about Lucene(finally they moved to Solr to get sharding for free) and Hadoop integration for large 30TB amount of log files storing and fast (2-3 seconds) quering. I found “reducing memory requirements” part really interesting, it will be helpful in future projects.
4. Suspending Judgement -> very inspiring article about false judgements, how to avoid them, how this judgement influence our lives. Must read article.

Why C&W? It is easy. California has great Cheese & Wine.

• Scale at Facebook – video from QCon 2010 – Aditya Agarwal talks about difficulties spotted at Facebook, with all part solutions which gave birth to Cassandra.
• Digg v4 preview by Kevin Rose.
• Google I/O video continued <business> and <android>.
• ObjectiveC support plugin for Eclipse … closing doors
• Video from G8 -> Steve Jobs on Flash.

• The Fastes Super Computer on The Earth – BBC top500.
• I put them yesterday, but google provide nice list about GWT and AppEngine.
• Steve Jobs opens D8 conference – there is a lot of interesting stuff.
• Mozilla Labs introduced sudosocial.me – it is for building a stream publishing platform.
• Google Reader added new function which is folder and tag renaming.
• MongoDB basics

• Dispora – the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network is raising rapidly, but is this Facebook cure?
• GTAC 2010 call for attendance and proposals has just started.
• Funny pictures as fake Apple response to Adobe ads, but in fact Apple respond in different way.
• Really nice Clojure presentation.
• YourKit Java Profiler 9.0 was released.
• Java Express issue 6 availablein English.
• Finally Django 1.2 was released.
• Open Code Review
• 10 Steve Jobs golden lessons
• Automating business processes with Google Apps Script.