Good Reading
SOA Using Open Source Software
Here is a interesting presentation on how to build a SOA platform using open source technologies for an educational institution.
You can download the presentation from here.
The architecture snapshot.
Java SE Monitoring and Management Guide
The Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE platform) 6 features utilities that allow you to monitor and manage the performance of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) and the Java applications that are running in it.
The Java SE Monitoring and Management Guide describes those monitoring and management utilities.
Good Read: 10 Must Have VS Add-Ins
10 must have VS add-ins.
TestDriven.NET
GhostDoc
Paster
CodeKeep
PInvoke.NET
VSWindowManager PowerToy
WSContractFirst
VSMouseBindings
CopySourceAsHTML
Cache Visualizer
Read from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300778.aspx
Also, 10 must have tools
NUnit to write unit tests
NDoc to create code documentation
NAnt to build your solutions
CodeSmith to generate code
FxCop to police your code
Snippet Compiler to compile small bits of code
Two different switcher tools, the ASP.NET Version Switcher and the Visual Studio .NET Project Converter
Regulator to build […]
Good Read: Java Web Application Frameworks Comparison
This is a good comparison by Matt Raible for various frameworks, available here.
The frameworks compared are
Struts 1
Spring MVC
Struts 2
Tapestry
JSF
Stripes and Wicket
Good Read: MapReduce - Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
This is a good paper to read at http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
Quoted from the abstract
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated […]
Good Read: Apache Hadoop Benchmark
Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark
Quoted
One of Yahoo’s Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim Gray, specifies the input data (10 billion 100 byte records), […]
Eclipse Mylyn: A Good Read
Here are 2 articles that you should read if you are using Eclipse with Mylyn
Mylyn 2.0, Part 1: Integrated task management
Mylyn 2.0, Part 2: Automated context management
Quoted from the article,
Mylyn (formerly called Mylar) enhances productivity by seamlessly integrating tasks into Eclipse and automatically managing the context of those tasks as you work. Mylyn Project […]
Service Oriented Architectures (SoA) for convergent Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs)
Here are 2 papers describing how to applying SOA in SDP for telecom operators.
The papers
Review the important enabling role that Web Services technologies play in an SOA implementation;
State of the Art in the Service Layer architecture (IMS 3GPP, ETSI/TISPAN, OMA OSE);
See how a Service Oriented Architecture (SoA) can change the way new services are […]
Ajax Patterns
For developers sometimes we program AJAX based web applications without having a clearer picture of the methodologies or patterns that we have applied. There is a list good reference patterns available at http://ajaxpatterns.org/Patterns if you want to have a thorough understanding of AJAX.
As quoted from the website, these pattern(s) are the building blocks of Ajax […]