Pragmatic Programmer Issues – pietrowski.info

Today I start with funny anti-Apple movie, now we should wait for Apple lovers response.

• Limits of Agile by InfoQ.
• Properties of good unit tests – check how many properties your test have.
• New version of PrimeFaces was released – as always plenty of components were added.
• Android 2D game engine – AndEngine.
• Good point about Spring Roo.
• Google continue buying, now it buys MetaWeb so we have another big player (after facebook) in semantic web future.
• Just for fun -check which kind of programmers you are.
• Cedric released JCommander 1.1.
• Spring WebFlow 2.1.1 was released.
• iPhone antenna buzz. David Pogue wrote article which in my opinion is worth to read.
• Spring Roo 1.1.0M2 was released.
• Spring AMQP 1.0.0M1 was released.

• Finally GWT have much much better serialization support.
• Google translation toolkit, it works for wikipedia it should work for you also.
• Examples of Lambdas in Java (as current state of development). Great work it looks promising.
• Great iPhone App, now you can prepare for Euro 2012.
• Reduce Redundancy Storage – now accessible from AWS console.
• Misko Havery JavaScript presentation.
• Amazon Simple Storage new version comes with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) integration.
• GreenHopper 5.1 Atlassian presentation.
• iPhone Data Protection.

• Yahoo Query Language in detailed article.
• Maven JavaFX compiler plugin 1.0b2 was released.
• Finally Scala 2.8.0 was released. Congratulations!
• 97 things every software architect should know is for free.
• Cassandra model cheat sheet.
• Top 10 Performance Problems, check it, probably your current problem is there.
• And one more cheat sheet – Clojure.

From where the tetris blocks come from?

• CLR already gets tail recursion optimization, now I want that on JVM (probably Java 10 will have it ).
• Google Apps Market gets more application build on top the standard of Google Apps, and that it is power of Cloud.
• Profiling application with VisualVM – really nice introduction. And of course VisualVM is very powerful application.
• Amazon released new instance type. The cluster compute instance is dedicated for high performance computing application, so if you need power you can use pair of quad core Intel “Nehalem” X5570 processor witg 23Gb RAM and 1690GB local storage. You can read more on official amazon blog.
• Great command line parsing library from Cedric. JCommander. BTW there are plenty of comments so I suppose all the java command line libraries are mentioned.