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/