Smart Electronic Sportswear Being Developed by MC10 and Reebok
Stretchable silicon electronics that offer the computing power of rigid chips could make their way into Reebok’s athletic apparel shortly. The company and MC10, a start up maker of flexible electronics, are working together to develop sportswear that incorporates electronics to monitor athletes’ health and performance during training and rehabilitation.
Finally a Java framework made by Web developers. Discover a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. Play focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures.
J2EE Is Dead – Completely Dead
…So J2EE is dead, but Java EE 6 rocks.
Things Every Programmer Should Know
The collection is intended simply to contain multiple and varied perspectives on what it is that contributors to the project feel programmers should know. This can be anything from code-focused advice to culture, from algorithm usage to agile thinking, from implementation know-how to professionalism, from style to substance, etc.
INS2: Australia develops first smartchip for pain
The Implantable Neuro Sensing and Stimulation (INS2) device is considered the first miniature smartchip for treating chronic pain. Its very small size, along with other key features, allows the smartchip to manage pain better in humans.
Why the new JavaFX makes sense
It’s been a long time I’m not posting but just changed job and relocated abroad, so no time for the blog.
SocialAuth – Java Library for seamless authentication for oAuth and OpenID providers
Eclipse Makes Available New Release of Eclipse Virgo
Using «Federated Login for Google Account Users» in your application
Introducing CQ 5.4, an early sneak-peek.
The way we write software these days
Why Java is being used for high-performance computing
Goodbye SOAP – Welcome JSON REST
Being bad to your customers is bad for business
Ok this week I didn’t have much time for reading the net, however here are some interesting links
5 things you didn’t know about … Apache Maven
La libertà non ha prezzo: come liberarsi di GMail (Italian)
Announcing Amino, a new UI toolkit for Desktop Java
Oracle and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Java Innovation Through OpenJDK
Oracle’s strategy is now clear
IBM and Oracle to Collaborate on OpenJDK
Maven Dependecy JAR Configuration
During these weeks I was too busy for contributing the weekly link. Here it is one for this week 🙂
Maven is good, but needs some love
…But Maven needs a proper and clean environment…
Functional Programming Concepts in JDK 7 | Javalobby
Kent Beck’s Test Driven Development Screencasts
Following the recommendations of Corey Haines, Michael Guterl, James Martin and Michael Hunger I decided to get Kent Beck’s screencasts on Test Driven Development which have been published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
Testing REST Web Services With JPA and Spring
REST Web Services can be particularly difficult to test, with the need for networking, a web container, multiple threads and transaction management creating extra complexity beyond your standard unit test. In this article I demonstrate patterns designed to address this complexity while enabling complete testing of your REST web service stack.
Oracle shuts down open source test servers
No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas
No. One word, a complete sentence. We all learned to say it around our first birthday, so why do we have such a hard time saying it now when it comes to our work?
Every meeting is an opportunity. Why waste your first one?
5 things you didn’t know about … Java Database Connectivity
JDBC is more than a background player in database connectivity. The more you know about it, the more efficient your RDBMS interactions will be.
Have you upgraded your Java 1.6_21 to Java 1.6_21?
Selenium 2/Web Driver – the land where Page Objects are king!
Here is an hibernate configuration file that works under WSAD/Websphere with an Oracle9i. Just remember to fix datasource and default_schema.
