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What I Miss in Java So I finally got some time to sit down and write, after being knee deep in work the past month or two. And without a doubt, I wanted to write about what has been heckling and annoying me over the past month. I am an ardent defender of Java as a good language, especially defending it from Misko day in and day out, but even I will agree that it does suck at times. 10 Things I Hate About Agile Development! Agile development. Love it or hate it, there's no doubt that it's here to stay. I've enjoyed a great deal of success thanks to agile software development and agile project management methods, but here are 10 things I hate about Agile! 1. Saying you're doing Agile just cos you're doing daily stand-ups.
WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by , an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks posted 220 cables, some redacted to protect diplomatic sources, in the first installment of the archive on its Web site on Sunday. The disclosure of the cables is sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict. Secretary of State and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. A statement from the White House on Sunday said: “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.”
Typology of Rich Client Technologies Chances are, if you are an software architect and need to make applications available over the network, you are asking yourself what client technology to use. In this article, I will try to list the solutions used previously and then elaborate on the solutions available today. History Google Chrome Developer Tools for Eclipse Users We recently announced the availability of developer tools for Google Chrome. We are now releasing ChromeDevTools, which enables JavaScript debugging using Eclipse. You can set breakpoints, inspect variables and evaluate expressions all from within Eclipse.
What Hadoop is Good At Hadoop is getting more popular these days. Lets look at what it is good at and what not. The Map/Reduce Programming model Map/Reduce offers a different programming model for handling concurrency than the traditional multi-thread model. Multi-thread programming model allows multiple processing units (with different execution logic) to access the shared set of data. To maintain data integrity, each processing units co-ordinate their access to the shared data by using Locks, Semaphores.
What does Using filesort mean in MySQL? March 5, 2009 by Baron Schwartz27 Comments If you were interviewing to work at Percona, and I asked you “what does Using filesort mean in EXPLAIN,” what would you say? I have asked this question in a bunch of interviews so far, with smart people, and not one person has gotten it right. U.S. agencies warn unauthorized employees not to look at WikiLeaks The Department of Defense and Library of Congress have blocked access to WikiLeaks from their computers. The documents are still considered classified, a government memo saysAny unauthorized federal workers looking at them, at home or on the job, could be punished"The security and safekeeping of classified material" is a top priority, the memo says Washington (CNN) -- Unauthorized federal workers and contractors have been warned not to attempt to read the classified documents on WikiLeaks on either government or personal computers. The White House Office of Management and Budget sent a memo Friday afternoon forbidding unauthorized federal government employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites using computers or devices like BlackBerrys and smart phones. The memo does allow for reading of articles about the cables on media sites. "This is principally about protecting government IT systems," Mack said.
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google Google users in Hong Kong hold a banner saying, "Say no to Internet censorship: Google, well done!" Google says hackers from China got into its Gmail systemBruce Schneier says hackers exploited feature put into system at behest of U.S. governmentWhen governments get access to private communications, they invite abuse, he saysGovernment surveillance and control of Internet are flourishing, he says Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World." Read more of his writing at (CNN) -- Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering.
Session data management in Flex Remoting If you are using Flex Remoting to communicate with Java classes on the server, you might want to maintain instance of an object across a user session. For example you might want to store the User object after successful authentication of a user. BlazeDS provides class named FlexContext. Please visit the BlazeDS Developer guide at this URL for more details on FlexContext class and session data management.
E.U. requirements may force Oracle to drop Sun deal I thought you guys are concerned about the future of Java and MySQL. So why not be concerned about the state of SUN. Or are you just resistant to this deal because it's Oracle acquiring SUN? Cassandra NoSQL Database an Apache Top Level Project After Facebook made the Cassandra project open source in 2008, the highly scalable, non-relational distributed database proved its mettle at other companies including Cisco, Digg, and Rackspace. Now the well-known NoSQL database has proven itself as an active Apache project with enough training to graduate from the incubator. The board recently approved a resolution to adopt Cassandra as a Top Level Project. The new "Apache Cassandra" should serve as another example of a high-profile, non-relational data solution and success story Cassandra was born out of Facebook's need to store reverse indices of Facebook messages that users send and receive while communicating with their friends. The solution needed to scale incrementally while remaining cost effective.
Why WikiLeaks’ latest document dump makes everyone in journalism — and the public — a winner For some, WikiLeaks’ recent dump of diplomatic cables seems to make an excellent case for why traditional journalism still matters. Others, however, suggest that the widespread condemnation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a sign of a toothless legacy media that can’t do its own work — and a triumph for new forms of journalism. The truth is, though, that everyone here is a winner — traditional media and non-traditional journalism and, most importantly, the public. Much of this conversation has come out of a discussion about the comparison between the Pentagon Papers’ combined 7,000 pages of documents and WikiLeaks’ 251,000 or so diplomatic cables. And as Mediaite summed up in an excellent post after this summer’s WikiLeaked release of AfPak documents, that comparison is both fair to make and overly simplistic.