We talk about a good REST tutorial using HATEOAS, how Capchas have been hacked by a machine learning system, the Jboss Forge project, and more.

Links

• A great presentation by Jon Sondow on the Netflix Asgard Project- a Grails application server that deploys to AWS. Highlights include:
  • Obama for America used it to keep its sites rolling and alive
  • Used to be Netflix Application Console
  • It is only one of the open source projects on Netflix's GitHub page.
  • Reasons not to just use the AWS console include - you can hide the keys, customize the deployment model, automate workflow, log changes, and more.
  • Also check out youtube.com/theasgardshow - a regular Q&A show they archive on YouTube.
• The Oboe.js Async Ajax Processing Project -Oboe.js's makes web applications faster by wrapping https's request-response model with a progressively streamed interface. It glues a transport that sits somewhere between streaming and downloading onto to a JSON parser that sits somewhere between SAX and DOM. It is small enough to be a micro-library, doesn't have any external dependencies and doesn't care which other libraries you need it to speak to.
• Is Rubinius X going to push Ruby into the fully functional and async I/O future? - Ken found this by reading a tweet : "Erik Meijer @headinthebox - rubini.us/2013/10/15/int…. Just use Scala. You are wasting your life." Ouch. Reading through we found Rubinius X. Very interesting goals for the future of Ruby. Now how will JRuby and MRI deal with the changes?
• Akka persistence is coming.
• We had to peel Sujan off the ceiling on this one... Apple patent on Touch typing / Multi-touch upheld!!! - Um, what??? We just started to LIKE Android phones!
• Python 3.4 is out - Most of the new packages added directly reflect what’s going on in the software dev world right now including Async I/O, but also including data science research APIs in math, statistics, etc...
• The Free Lunch is Over, Again: Distributed Systems presentation by Andry Gross, Principal Architect at Basho (makers of Riak) is a great read about the future of multi-core distributed programming and how it is taking shape right now.
• I sure hope this is legit: Over 500 free programming books on GitHub - we had fun reading this one on writing unmaintainable code.

Topic List

• Newly OSS’d project Precog: advanced analyics for NoSql
• Angularjs vs Knockout- a great multi-page post comparing a number of features.
• Beyond map/reduce - it's not just about that Google whitepaper.
• 10 reasons to use AngularJS
• Cloud provider Nirvanix shuts down
• An open letter to the community - OpenStack’s future depends on embracing Amazon. Now.
• Hack time! Developing iOS Games on Ruby

The links

Sponsored by Haydle - ask, answer and rate answers to your company's questions, Data I/O 2013 a conference featuring a variety of technologies and techniques for dealing with large-scale and sophisticated data, and Chariot Education Services, providing training in Java, Spring, Maven/Nexus, Groovy/Grails, Hibernate, Map/Reduce and more.

• Codio: A Web IDE (Javascript / HTML, CSS, etc.) that also has support for Parse now
• How about new, more powerful Arduinos, hackahz? - one from Intel, the next is 100x faster than current Arduinos on a Texas Instruments chip.
• The robot overlords have a steed... - Be afraid, be very afraid
• Another IaaS cloud player - Verizon gets into the game.
• Rubinius 2.0 (Ruby implemented in Ruby) - 2.0 will soon implement Ruby 2.1 -
• Eclipse Virgo - Glyn Normington stepping down - but guess who may be taking over the project lead at Project Gemini? Dmitry Sklyut. We quote: “The plan is for Dmitry Sklyut to take over the project leadership of Gemini Blueprint. He has been voted as a committer so far. Then each of Virgo's Gemini dependencies will have a (non-dormant) project lead. Original source article on InfoQ.
• Sauce Labs creates BrowserSwarm - tests across a range of browsers in the cloud, right from your GitHub account.

In this episode, we discuss the StrangeLoop 2013 conference.

Susan McPherson has always had a foot in the non-profit world. With a number of years in a board position on Business Council for Peace, and working with Fabian Cousteau to help people to understand the importance of the oceans, but at Fenton, she was able to start helping corporations use tools that NGOs normally bring to advance the public good.

Our interview begins by defining Corporate Social Responsibility, discussing how technology companies are adopting CSR missions to both improve the environment and their bottom lines. We discuss B Corporations, how companies best implement CSR plans, and avoiding greenwashing by being authentic in your goals.

You can find out more about Susan's work at her twitter address, @susanmcp1.

Or,

"I can't stand a standing desk, but I can chase a running VM..."

This episode is light on iOS, heavy on Java and Javascript, and covers some large-scale processing and machine learning articles to boot.

Topics

• Ain't it good to be right? Nice article on how the JVM still rules - and polyglot is king. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java
• Speaking of Java, how about some new tools and the direction of the VM? http://jaxenter.com/java-performance-tool-makes-shock-reappearance-48123.html
• Build a Sweet AngularJS Photo Slider - 2 parts - Lukas Reubbelke - http://onehungrymind.com/build-sweet-photo-slider-angularjs-animate/ and http://onehungrymind.com/build-sweet-angularjs-photo-slider-pt-2-ngtouch/
• Two articles from Year of Moo. First, an absolutely extensive article on testing in AngularJS - http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/09/advanced-testing-and-debugging-in-angularjs.html, and second, coverage of the animation APIs in 1.2 http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/08/remastered-animation-in-angularjs-1-2.html
• Learning materials: A free, comprehensive textbook on Machine Learning - http://ciml.info/
• Collection of Bootstrap tutorials. http://vidinterest.com/playlist/enbeeone3/bootstrap-3-video-tutorials
• Oracle announces in-memory database with 100x greater query performance: http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-promises-100x-faster-queries-with-new-in-memory-option-for-databases-7000020996
• Stir Desk - Kinetic desk: http://www.stirworks.com/