2012-02-28 Tuesday: Big Data

A new book on 'Big Data, Principles and best practices of scalable real-time data systems is under development (as of Jan 2012) at Manning Publications. You can read the chapters as they are developed for free online: http://www.manning.com/marz/

2011-12-01 Thursday - Bayeux Protocol

I'm exploring some potential design ideas leveraging server-side JavaScript, and so have started compiling a list of articles and resources to review::

http://nodejs.org/


Standard ECMA-262ECMAScript Language SpecificationEdition 5.1 (June 2011)
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm


Bayeux Protocol -- Bayeux 1.0.0
http://svn.cometd.org/trunk/bayeux/bayeux.html

Introduction to Bayeux Protocol (HTTP Publish-Subscribe) 
http://blogs.oracle.com/slc/entry/introduction_to_bayeux_protoco

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet. 

http://cometd.org/
http://cometd.org/documentation

http://code.google.com/p/cometd/
http://code.google.com/p/cometd/wiki/BayeuxCometdDocumentation

CometD.NET is a C# client library for the Bayeux protocol
https://github.com/Oyatel/CometD.NET

http://cometdaily.com/

V8 JavaScript Engine
http://code.google.com/p/v8/

2011-11-11 Friday - Apache Tika MD5 and SHA1 errors

So I was very interested to see the announcement  from the Apache Software Foundation regarding the release of Apache Tika 1.0
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces19


However, when I attempted to verify the MD5 and SHA1 values for the .jar on the download page, the values did not match the published/expected values. 

I've created a bug in the project's Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-783

2011-10-24 Monday - Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

MSDN: What's New in VIsual Studio 11 Developer Preview


MSDN: Visual C# Developer Center

MSDN Developer Samples

Most Recent CodePlex Releases

2011-10-10 Monday - Interesting Links

A few interesting things that I'm come across recently:



Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a15c3ce9-f58f-42b7-8668-53f6cdc2cd83
Web Essentials
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6ed4c78f-a23e-49ad-b5fd-369af0c2107f
Regex Editor
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/55c24bf1-2636-4f94-831d-28db8505ce00



Google Dart Language specification
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/index.html
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf

Google's email: The Future of Javascript
http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj



Craig Dickson's JavaOne 2011 presentation: Dead-Simple Deployment: Headache-Free Java Web Applications in the Cloud
http://craigsdickson.com/post/dead-simple-deployment-headache-free-java-web-applications-in-the-cloud-slideshare/

Apache Commons IO 2.1 released
http://commons.apache.org/io/upgradeto2_1.html