Singning Security and Testing on Java ME
An explanation on benefits of certification on the Java platform
Bits, Bytes, and Blobs
An introduction and review of best practices for dealing with binary data in Ruby. This will include examples with binary memcached, Open Sound Control, AMQP, and others. Presentation by Brian Mitchell at RubyConf 2009.
Connecting The Clouds: Integrating Google App Engine for Java with Force.com
In this session we will outline how to connect the Salesforce SOAP Web Services API to Google App Engine for Java. The project includes an open source Web Service Client that has been completely ported to App Engine. This client is designed for high performance and will work with Force.com …
Griffon Cast – Episode 2
In this second episode of the Griffon Screencast project, we explore Convention over Configuration, Installing Griffon on both Mac OS/X and Windows and finish up with a discussion about threading concepts. Source code
SQL vs NoSQL Panel
SQL vs NoSQL Panel at the November 2009 OpenSQLCamp in Portland, Oregon. Moderated by Ronald Bradford of http://42sql.com SQL: Brian Aker – Drizzle; Monty Widenius – MariaDB; Selena Deckelmann – PostgreSQL NoSQL: Eric Evans – Cassandra; Mike Dirolf – MongoDB, Mike Miller – CouchDB
Just For Fun: Rediscovering Coding as a Hobby
Remember when you started using Ruby? That time when it was fun to tinker with things, write little amusing programs, explore new things. A time that you didn’t worry about the quality of garbage collectors or what lambda syntax is the best. Back when coding was more fun and less …