Four short links: 31 December 2010
Updated: 2010-12-31 11:26:23
The Joy of Stats -- Hans Rosling's BBC documentary on statistics, available to watch online. Best Tech Writing of 2010 -- I need a mass "add these to Instapaper" button. (via Hacker News) Google Shared Spaces: Why We Made It (Pamela Fox) -- came out of what people were trying to do with Google Wave. The Great Delicious Exodus...

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Submit a Unity game to Kongregate by Feb. 15, 2011 and you can win $10,000!
Kongregate is now finally open for Unity games! To celebrate, we’ve teamed up to bring you a development contest with prizes totaling $25,000! You are free to create any type of game developed with Unity that you choose so be creative [...]
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You might have noticed our blog is quiet. Adaptive Path takes off the last two weeks of the year, resting up in order to attack the new year refreshed and rejuvenated. I’m breaking our radio silence to remind you that this is the final week for our “Register Now, Save Big” 2011 events promotion. We [...]
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A disgusted Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee (EC) after failing to incite the rest of the committee to spit in Oracle’s eye and hold the Java SE7 spec hostage until Oracle capitulated and gave Apache’s open source Harmony project a TCK license for Java SE.
Instead of a mutiny, the EC meekly rubberstamped the Oracle-submitted spec last week. Only Apache and Google, which has got a vested interest in Harmony, voted against it.
As a result, Apache is pulling its people out of all JSRs and says it “will refuse any renewal of our JCP membership and, of course, our EC position.”read more
On December 8th, Adaptive Path hosted an event about Smart Things. You know…real, physical things that we use…only smarter and tricked out with information and stuff. The things that will make the glorious-ubiquitous-connected future come into being. And be awesome. The event was a conversation on the themes in Mike Kuniavsky‘s recently released book, Smart [...]
GlassFish, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. Learn how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy them on GlassFish v3 running locally and then deploy it using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures.
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist at Oracle, will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In addition he will talk about what Java EE currently offers for the cloud and the future directions in Java EE 7 in relation to cloud.read more
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Adaptive Path has a lending library for its employees and interns to use. The San Francisco Library has been around for about four years and we have 488 books in the collection, plus periodicals. I am the Librarian for the San Francisco Library; our other studios are working on creating libraries of their own. The [...]
Java Enterprise Edition is the most dominating platform for the enterprise applications. Hence stronger presence of Java EE as PaaS will support Cloud Adoption. Some of the players are discussed in this article.
Ever since the beginning of this century a comparison between the platform capabilities of Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) and Microsoft .NET has been a common discussion when choosing an enterprise platforms.
With the advent of Cloud, Microsoft has taken a lead with the Windows Azure PaaS (Platform as a Service).
Many key decision makers for cloud enablement now have questions on how good an equivalent Java EE platform could be.read more