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Pedro Newsletter 02.06.2010

Posted in java by pedro | Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 12:48 am

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

Posted in java by pedro | Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm

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.

Posted in java by pedro | Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 10:53 pm

Really brilliant response from Adobe to Apple.
Open source solution to easily add in app settings to iPhone apps.
Interview with IBM engineer about apache arise.
UITableView explained with video.
Steam on mac, that’s awesome.
Common git usage explained.
Google I/O is comming and probably Android 2.2 (Froyo) will be released, but there is also bad news that two main developers from android team left Google.

Posted in java by pedro | Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 11:53 pm

Google I/O predictions.
Gmail contextual gadgets – available 4 all developers.
One of the Javarsovia 2010 talk was accepted.
Amazon S3 has great durability, and now if you don’t need such durability you can use REDUCED_REDUDANCY storage class for lower price, that’s awesome. See Werner Vogels blog post.
Microsoft sued Salesforce for severals patents which are so obvious and general. So maybe patent idea is stupid?
Google I/O – lots of news
- Google Buzz API
- Google I/O keynote part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6
- Google Maps API Premier v3
- Google Wave for Google Apps domain.
- Google Site Search auto complete.
- And today days brief.
- New Google Calendar look&fill.
- Google Storage for Developers – thats really awesome.
- Google Latitude API.
- Google Font Directory with API.
- Google App Engine for Business.
And also from Google I/O but I’m really excited about that is that Spring, VMWare and Google make very close collaboration to make Spring Portfolio and Google App engine working together really easy. Now I wonder what Oracle will do, because for VMware it is third cloud platform (Amazon EC2 (CloudFoundry), SalesForce and GAE).