RSS Digest: Week Ending 25-Jun-2011

Java

Top 5 free Java ebooks
http://www.mkyong.com/featured/top-5-free-java-ebooks/

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

How to upload your artifacts to Maven Central?
http://www.codinginahurry.com/2011/04/24/how-to-upload-your-artifacts-to-maven-central/

A Method for Reducing Contention and Overhead in Worker Queues for Multithreaded Java Applications
http://today.java.net/article/2011/06/14/method-reducing-contention-and-overhead-worker-queues-
multithreaded-java-applications

Garbage collection with Automatic Resource Management in Java 7
http://javawithswaranga.blogspot.com/2011/06/garbage-collection-with-automatic.html

Java Heaps and Garbage Collection with some Zazz
http://codedependents.com/2011/06/10/java-heaps-and-garbage-collection-with-some-zazz/


Unix

Efficiently Navigating Directories on UNIX
http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2011/06/efficiently-navigating-directories-on.html


Technology

Palicomp Phoenix i5 Z68 Warrior review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/368095/palicomp-phoenix-i5-z68-warrior

RSS Digest: Week Ending 10-Jun-2011

Java

Java SE 6 Update 26 is released!
http://blogs.oracle.com/javase/entry/java_se_6_update_26

Moving to OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 Reference Implementation
http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the


Technology

Google Publishes C++, Go, Java and Scala Performance Benchmarks
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/cpp-go-java-scala-performance-benchmark.php

Windows 8: could it be more than lipstick on a pig?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/367813/windows-8-could-it-be-more-than-lipstick-on-a-pig

Apple Introduces iCloud
http://www.apple.com/uk/pr/library/2011/06/06icloud.html

New Version of iOS Includes Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Twitter Integration Among 200 New Features
http://www.apple.com/uk/pr/library/2011/06/06ios.html

Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition 2TB
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/storage-appliances/367861/iomega-home-media-network-hard-drive-cloud-edition-2tb

Will 10 GigE Finally Go Big in HPC?
http://insidehpc.com/2011/06/08/will-10-gige-finally-go-big-in-hpc/

RSS Digest: Week Ending 03-Jun-2011

Java

Quick(er)sort, Parallelism, and Fork/Join in JDK7
http://www.deftitlenil.com/2011/04/blog-post_05.html


Technology

Comparison of Protobuff, Thrift, Avro, etc
http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/05/27/serialization-comparison/

Chillblast Fusion Tranquillity review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/367696/chillblast-fusion-tranquillity/specifications