RSS Digest: Week Ending 17-Dec-2010

Java

Joshua Bloch: Performance Anxiety on Performance Unpredictability, Its Measurement and Benchmarking
http://theholyjava.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/joshua-bloch-performance-anxiety-on-unpredictability/


Programming

Things Every Programmer Should Know
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2010/12/things-every-programmer-should-know.html

Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/ranking-programming-languages.php

6.094 Introduction to MATLAB
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-094-introduction-to-matlab-january-iap-2010/

Freeware for generating UMLs
http://www.aviyehuda.com/2010/04/freeware-for-generating-umls/


Film

The best films of 2010, by Philip French
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/12/philip-french-2010-best-films


Other

Microsoft releases H.264 Firefox add-on for Windows 7
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-releases-H-264-Firefox-add-on-for-Windows-7-1154242.html

Wikileaks
http://xkcd.com/834/

RSS Digest: Week Ending 10-Dec-2010

Java

What's New in IntelliJ IDEA 10
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/index.html

Is the JCP dead?
http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/is_the_jcp_dead

Java SE 7/8 passed
http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/java_se_7_8_passed

Java SE 6 Update 23
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u23releasenotes-191058.html

Enum tricks: hierarchical data structure
http://java.dzone.com/articles/enum-tricks-hierarchical-data

Six JDK Classes You Think You Know
http://jnb.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbDec2010.html

Google AI Challenge: Languages Used by the Best Programmers
http://www.r-chart.com/2010/12/google-ai-challenge-languages-used-by.html

Algorithm Performance
http://www.drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/228500262


Technology

Next-gen iPad prepped for April launch
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/363412/next-gen-ipad-prepped-for-april-launch

Slimmed-down iPad to feature two cameras
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/363517/slimmed-down-ipad-to-feature-two-cameras

Synology Diskstation DS110
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/storage-appliances/363400/synology-diskstation-ds110

Laser weapon lasts for 6 hours
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/12/laser-weapon-lasts-for-6-hours.html

The Anonymous group is taking aim at the wrong target
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/10/internet-wikileaks-anonymous

RSS Digest: Week Ending 03-Dec-2010

Java

Java's System.identityHashCode
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2010/11/javas-systemidentityhashcode.html

Java for HPC (High-Performance Computing)
http://www.dzone.com/links/r/why_java_is_increasingly_being_used_for_hpc_highp.html

Using a PipedInputstream and PipedOutputstream
http://www.certpal.com/blogs/2010/11/using-a-pipedinputstream-and-pipedoutputstream/

Java Fast Sockets: Enabling high-speed Java communications on high performance clusters
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/java-fast-sockets-enabling-high-speed-java-communications-on-high-performance-clusters/1327

Fast Sockets, An Interprocess Communication Library
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/fastSockets.html

Java Performance Tuning: Tips November 2010
http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/newtips120.shtml


Technology

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/hard-disks/363226/western-digital-caviar-green-3tb

Programmer Competency Matrix
http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-competency-matrix.html

WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-cables-data