An interesting presentation by Helena Edelson (@helenaedelson)
Lambda Architecture with Spark, Streaming, Kafka, Cassandra, Akka, Scala
2015-04-10
2015-04-10 Friday - Experimenting with Grails 3.0.1
This afternoon I'm spending time becoming familiar with Grails (current version is 3.0.1)
2015-04-09
2015-04-09 Thursday - Martin Odersky Scala Days Keynote
This year, Scala Days was held in San Francisco March 16th-18th.
Martin Odersky's presentation from his keynote is available here.
Martin Odersky's presentation from his keynote is available here.
2015-04-09 Thursday - Sparx Enterprise Architect 12
I've been a long-time user of the most excellent Sparx Enterprise Architect tool - and recently upgraded to Sparx Enterprise Architect 12 - and must say, I find it to be a pleasant surprise and significant improvement over previous versions: Fast, Crisp, Elegant.
You'll notice in the Project Browser window (in the upper right-hand corner) - there is now support for doing iPhone and Android Wireframes.
I've just sent an inquiry to Sparx to request permission to develop some training programs (to offer my clients, and publicly) - and to prepare some short free video tutorials that I could upload to YouTube in the near future.
You'll notice in the Project Browser window (in the upper right-hand corner) - there is now support for doing iPhone and Android Wireframes.
I've just sent an inquiry to Sparx to request permission to develop some training programs (to offer my clients, and publicly) - and to prepare some short free video tutorials that I could upload to YouTube in the near future.
2015-04-09 Thursday - Apache Qpid AMQP Messaging
Today I'm spending some time exploring Apache Qpid's AMQP messaging features
2015-04-09 Thursday - Java SE 8 Lambda Quick Start
I happened to come across this excellent tutorial today in the Oracle Learning Library:
Java SE 8: Lambda Quick Start
This is an excellent introduction for developers to help them understand the benefit of Java SE 8 Lambda expression features.
Based on my experience leading Java code reviews over the last 5 years for large corporations - I would estimate that those companies could achieve at least a 20-30% reduction in the size of their code bases by the judicious adoption of Java SE 8 Lambda expression capabilities.
Java SE 8: Lambda Quick Start
This is an excellent introduction for developers to help them understand the benefit of Java SE 8 Lambda expression features.
Based on my experience leading Java code reviews over the last 5 years for large corporations - I would estimate that those companies could achieve at least a 20-30% reduction in the size of their code bases by the judicious adoption of Java SE 8 Lambda expression capabilities.
2015-04-02
2015-04-02 Thursday - PostgreSQL 9.4 JSON Support
I'm experimenting with the JSON support features in PostgreSQL 9.4 - this post is a placeholder for interesting things I want to remember.
PostgreSQL JSON related blog posts by others:
PostgreSQL JSON related blog posts by others:
- Andrew Dunstan's presenttation: PostgreSQL 9.4 and JSON
- Michael Paquier: Indexing JSON data with jsonb data type
- Robert Haas: Parallel Sequential Scan for PostgreSQL 9.5
PostgreSQL documentation links:
- JSON Functions and Operators
- What's New in PostgreSQL 9.4: JSON Binary JSON storage
- What's New in PostgreSQL 9.3: JSON: Additional functionality
- What's New in PostgreSQL 9.2: JSON datatype
2015-04-02 Thursday - PHP 7.0 aka PHPNG (Next Generation)
I'm doing a bit of background reading this afternoon - to refresh myself with the current state / future direction of PHP. Over the years I've created a few web sites, tools, and frameworks with PHP for my own internal use (e.g. a portfolio analysis web application, a rapid application development framework, CRUD/DTO modules emitted by a general purpose polyglot code generator).
http://php.net/manual/en/appendices.php
https://wiki.php.net/phpng
Dmitry Stogov's presentation: PHPNG A New Core for PHP7
Some noteable discussions of the PHPNG performance improvements...
https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_70
https://github.com/php/
https://github.com/php/php-src
There's a potential opportunity that might involve some PHP related architecture work - so this is a placeholder for some of my reading today:
http://php.net/manual/en/appendices.php
https://wiki.php.net/phpng
Dmitry Stogov's presentation: PHPNG A New Core for PHP7
Some noteable discussions of the PHPNG performance improvements...
- http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/1455aesx7r/phpng-%04refactored-php-engine-with-big-performance-improvement
- https://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/php-5-7-twice-as-fast/
- https://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/phpng-hhvm-performance/
- https://community.centminmod.com/threads/php-5-7-almost-2x-times-faster-than-php-5-6.888/
https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_70
https://github.com/php/
https://github.com/php/php-src
2015-04-02 Thursday - Visual Studio 2015 pricing
I noted that the pricing for Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise is much better than the previous Ultimate pricing...
https://www.visualstudio.com/products/vs-2015-product-editions
There will be three main editions: Community, Professional w/MSDN, and Enterprise w/MSDN
https://www.visualstudio.com/products/vs-2015-product-editions
There will be three main editions: Community, Professional w/MSDN, and Enterprise w/MSDN
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