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Autonomous Cloud: The Self-Managing Future

One of the most anticipated trends is the autonomous cloud, where the management of cloud services is largely automated. Leveraging advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, autonomous clouds are capable of self-healing, self-configuring, and self-optimizing. They can predict and preemptively address potential issues, reducing the workload on IT teams and improving the reliability of services. As cloud infrastructure complexity grows, the value of such autonomous features will be increasingly critical in maintaining optimal performance and availability.

Beginner Intro to Real-Time Debugging for Mobile Apps: Tools and Techniques

May 23rd 2023, 12:25, by Michael Chukwube

Do you often spend hours hunting down bugs in your mobile app only to discover a missed debugging step? You're not alone. Debugging can be a frustrating and time-consuming aspect of mobile app development.

What if you could troubleshoot and resolve issues in your mobile app as they arise without the hassle of prolonged and intricate debugging sessions? Enter real-time debugging - the solution that enables developers to enhance the speed and efficiency of the debugging process.

MongoDB: 5 Syntactic Weirdnesses to Keep in Mind

May 23rd 2023, 09:18, by Alec Noller

People like to complain about MongoDB. For instance, maybe they feel that it ruined their social network, or any number of other less recent complaints. The debate gets so heated, though, that sometimes valid criticisms - and nothing is above criticism - are dismissed as bandwagon hatred. It's a problem that Slava Kim seems very aware of in this recent blog post on some of the syntactic weirdnesses of MongoDB. It's not bashing, Kim stresses. For developers to effectively use any technology, they need to understand the "sharp edges."

Kim goes into detail for each warning, covering five general areas:

Monetizing Mods: What we Learned from Valve and 'Skyrim'

May 23rd 2023, 09:16, by moel, Moe Long

There's an old adage, "the best things in life aren't free." However, in the gaming community, this notion is completely upended. Mods are incredibly prevalent in the gaming world, and usually come at no cost. These normally free downloads change the original and unaltered, or vanilla, game in various capacities. Mods can present minor tweaks, like "Half-Life 2: Update," or major overhauls such as "Half-Life 2: Cinematic Mod." Whether a mod manifests as simply improved eye candy, or an entirely different experience, there's usually one constant: it's free. Well, aside from the cost of the base game.

However, the modding dynamic was poised for upheaval when the always-innovative Valve added a paid mods feature to its signature Steam Workshop recently. An early paid mod for "Skyrim," a fishing mod, was removed quickly because it apparently employed assets from another mod. This coupled with an internet outrage prompted Valve to nix the idea entirely.

A Modern Alternative to Abstract Factory Filtered Dependencies

May 23rd 2023, 09:14, by Oren Eini

I've mentioned before that I really don't like the Abstract Factory pattern, and in particular, code like this:

static IGUIFactory CreateOsSpecificFactory()   {      string sysType = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["OS_TYPE"];      if (sysType == "Win")       {          return new WindowsFactory();      }       else       {          return new MacFactory();    }  }

One of the comments mentioned that this might not be ideal, but it is still better than:

Microsoft Releases Pricing Info for Surface Tablets, Taking Pre-Orders

May 23rd 2023, 09:03, by Allen Coin

Earlier today, the Microsoft Store updated with pricing information and details about the new Microsoft Surface tablets running Windows RT. We haven't yet seen pricing information about the Surface Pro, but today's update shows us details about three versions of the Surface running Windows RT, which is the low-end version of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

Options

There will be three options for the Surface tablet with Windows RT:

Microsoft Information Leaker 'Exiting the Game', But Not Without Spilling More Beans

May 23rd 2023, 09:02, by cjsmith

A reliable source of Microsoft-centric information leaks, MSnerd has announced he is exiting the arena. But before he goes, he's decided to answer any and all questions related to Microsoft and their place in the industry in a Q&A session on Reddit. Of particular interest are the topics of Silverlight and potential Windows Phone 'Apollo' upgrades for 1st and 2nd generation Windows Phone users.

Silverlight

Rumors have been swirling for some time now that Silverlight might be on its way out of the Microsoft product line. However, MSnerd says that Silverlight will continue to be utilized in three areas:

Microsoft Aims to Take Over IoT with Windows 10

May 23rd 2023, 08:57, by Alec Noller

Everybody's trying to get in on the big-money future of IoT, and now "everybody" includes Microsoft with Windows 10. Larry Dignan at ZDNet put together a look at Windows 10's role in IoT - as it's been described by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo, at least - which suggests that the new OS will be a central platform for IoT systems of all types. Specifically:

Windows will be able to run on everything from sensors to wearables to whatever computing shift emerges.

Meet This Year's Top Committers

May 23rd 2023, 08:48, by James Sugrue

Today we complete our trilogy of interviews with the Individual Eclipse Community Awards nominees with the Top Committer nominees.

The award is to recognize an Eclipse committer who best exemplifies support for the community through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs and other forums.

This year's Top Committer nominees are:

MaxScale for the Rest of Us, Part 3: Install and Configure MaxScale

May 23rd 2023, 08:44, by Anders Karlsson

This third post in this series of blogs about MaxScale is finally getting where you want to go: Install and configure MaxScale. The first blog in this series was an overview of what MaxScale is and the second about how to set up a Cluster of MariaDB servers, using MariaDB Replication, for MaxScale to access. But now it's time to introduce MaxScale.

If you skipped the second post as you already know how to set up MariaDB with Replication and all that, be remineded that I will use the same Linux server setup as outlined there even for the MaxScale server and for a client to do some testing, and I recommend you stick with that for now (for MariaDB itself you can use any relevant setup you want, MaxSCale doesn't really care, but MaxScale is pretty new and has still not been tested on that many platforms, so try to stick to the CentOS 6.5 setup I propose.

MapReduce Algorithms: Understanding Data Joins, Part II

May 23rd 2023, 08:40, by Bill Bejeck

It's been awhile since I last posted, and like last time I took a big break, I was taking some classes on Coursera. This time it was Functional Programming Principals in Scala and Principles of Reactive Programming. I found both of them to be great courses and would recommend taking either one if you have the time. In this post we resume our series on implementing the algorithms found in Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, this time covering map-side joins. As we can guess from the name, map-side joins join data exclusively during the mapping phase and completely skip the reducing phase. In the last post on data joins we covered reduce side joins. Reduce-side joins are easy to implement, but have the drawback that all data is sent across the network to the reducers. Map-side joins offer substantial gains in performance since we are avoiding the cost of sending data across the network. However, unlike reduce-side joins, map-side joins require very specific criteria be met. Today we will discuss the requirements for map-side joins and how we can implement them.

Map-Side Join Conditions

To take advantage of map-side joins our data must meet one of following criteria:

Easy Microdata in WordPress

May 23rd 2023, 08:36, by John Esposito

HTML5 is making huge strides toward the semantic web -- and the semantic standards defined by the Google/Bing/Yahoo-backed schema.org are probably prudent standards to follow.

But if we're talking prudence, practicality, and semantics, then we're probably talking CMS too -- not that coding isn't unremitting joy, of course, but there isn't really much point to coding semantics when you're using a CMS to manage content anyway.

Making A Good Thing Even Better: Google Open Source WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler

May 23rd 2023, 08:18, by James Sugrue

Back in September, when Google announced they were to make the Instantiations tool suite free for all, I thought things couldn't get better than this for Java developers. Well I was wrong, today Google trumped that announcement with their latest plan to open source both WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler. Google is donating the source and the IP for both of these former products to the open source community through the Eclipse Foundation, and creating two new Eclipse projects. All in all, this is a value of more than $5 million dollars worth of code and IP.

For those unfamiliar with the products, WindowBuilder provides the best available Java GUI Designer available, integrated into Eclipse allowing you to build Swing, SWT, RCP and GWT interfaces. CodePro Profiler helps you to identify performance issues in your Java code.

The Magic Testing Challenge: Part 2

May 23rd 2023, 08:13, by Thomas Mauch

My last article raised an interesting discussion whether you should see tests more as documentation or more as specification. I agree that they can contribute to both of them, but I still think tests are just - tests...

There were also complaints about my statement that testing often becomes tedious work which nobody likes. Also here I agree, that techniques like TDD can help you to structure your code and make sure you code exactly what is needed by writing the tests, but the result of the process will still be a class which needs to be tested somehow.

Lock free message passing algorithms with Groovy++

May 23rd 2023, 08:07, by Alex Tkachman

Last time we talked about implementation of functional queues with Groovy++ Today we will use these queues to implement several algorithms for processing of asynchronious messages. You can find source code and more examples in the Groovy++ distro

What we want to do is to implement simplified actor, the object which sequentially process asynchroniously coming messages. There are two types of actors

Live-updated Apple Announcement Coverage

May 23rd 2023, 08:05, by Allen Coin

Apple is expected to make a big announcement today, holding a special press event that has generated a lot of buzz in the past few weeks.

Rumors abound about what Apple will announce, with popular speculation that two new iPhones will be revealed -- the iPhone 5S, the successor to the current-gen iPhone, and the cheaper iPhone 5C, an economical version of the iPhone meant to compete with Samsung in emerging markets.

[LIVESTREAM] Day 2 of Google I/O, Channel 3

May 23rd 2023, 08:04, by N A

Google I/O got off to a great start yesterday with some incredible insights on what Google has in store for its developers. Here's the live stream of Google I/O for Channel 3. Check out Channel 1 and 2, and get the full schedule here.

All times are in PDT.

[LIVESTREAM] Day 2 of Google I/O, Channel 2

May 23rd 2023, 08:04, by N A

Google I/O got off to a great start yesterday with some incredible insights on what Google has in store for its developers. Here's the live stream of Google I/O for Channel 2. Check out Channel 1 and 3, and get the full schedule here.

All times are in PDT.

[LIVESTREAM] Day 2 of Google I/O, Channel 1

May 23rd 2023, 08:03, by N A

Google I/O got off to a great start yesterday with some incredible insights on what Google has in store for its developers. Here's the live stream of Google I/O for Channel 1. Check out Channel 2 and 3, and get the full schedule here.

All times are in PDT.

Interviews from the ALM Forum: Like SETI@home, but For Your Builds

May 23rd 2023, 08:00, by John Esposito

Check out John's interview with Dave West at the ALM Forum as well

Remember SETI@home -- the screensaver that uses your idle CPU cycles to find an extraterrestrial needle in a radio-noise haystack?

Leave us a Comment: What Are You Working On?

May 23rd 2023, 07:50, by Alec Noller

Developers have a tendency to work a lot. Maybe your job is a grueling nine-to-five torture that you can't wait to quit, or maybe it's a dream come true, just the best day ever, every day. Either way, there's a good chance that you go home and keep working on something of your own. You know, like:

A weird IoT device that texts you when your dog is asleep
A load testing tool for Kafka clusters hosted on AWS
A clock that lets you know when you're going to die.
Some other productive and creative endeavor:

Kinect SDK - resources for developers

May 23rd 2023, 07:33, by Denzel D.

The official Kinect SDK is here, so there shouldn't be any problems with incompatible frameworks and libraries on Windows systems. That being said, there are already a couple of interesting resources that I would say are important for developers who just start Kinect development, and for those that were already working with it (e.g. with OpenNI or OpenKinect).

Binaries/Toolkits/Samples

Documentation

Videos

Projects

NOTE: More resources/links will be added as those appear. If you have something to add, leave a link in the comments section below.

Keeping in Touch With EclipseCon 2009

May 23rd 2023, 07:24, by James Sugrue

There's only one weekend left until we get to EclipseCon 2009 - and I can't wait! You'll have already seen what talks I'm looking forward to. We'll have lots of coverage of the conference here at EclipseZone. Another really easy way to follow the conference is by using Twitter to follow EclipseCon people. All you need to do to find these people is head over to the EclipseCon Birds Nest. There's four different ways to partipate - as a standard
follower, as a speaker, an exhibitor or an attendee.

There's going to be a Twitter monitor in the lounge area for people to watch what people are saying about the conference. Twittervision - how cool is that?! Ian Skerrett is also planning a tweetup on Sunday night.

Over the last few weeks I've become a Twitter addict myself - it's a great way to keep in touch with the latest goings on. (If you want to follow me, just go to my profile as dzonejames.)

In other EclipseCon news, Sun Microsystems have become a Gold Sponsor for the conference. They will be showing their Eclipse support for JavaFX, GlassFish and Solaris. It's good to see Sun there.

If you haven't registered yet, there's still time for advance registration, ending today. Make sure to use your DZone coupon to get 10% off, using the DZONE10 code. Otherwise you can register on site.

So, if you want to stay in the loop for EclipseCon, become part of the Birds Nest , follow me around on Twitter and keep visiting EclipseZone.

JXSE and Equinox Tutorial, Part 3: Introducing the JP2P Container

May 23rd 2023, 07:20, by Kees Pieters

Abstract

It has been a while since the first and second posts of this series, but a lot has happened in the past few months, most notably the fact that the code from eclipselabs is going to be ported to Project Chaupal which will (eventually) be(come) the OSGI implementation of the JXTA specs. As a result, I decided to rename the packages and make the architecture as clean as possible prior to the change.
- This tutorial will cover some of the features which are already available, and can help to make the development of JXTA applications in Eclipse/Equinox a bit easier.

JXSE and Equinox Tutorial, Part 2

May 23rd 2023, 07:20, by Kees Pieters

JXSE and Equinox Tutorial, Part 2

NOTE: As of January 2015, you can integrate JXTA in OSGI through an update site. The WIKI At chaupal.org gives detailed instructions on how to use the new 2.8.x JXSE bundles for OSGI.Many of the features covered here are implemented by default.

Abstract

In the first post of this series, we covered the quickest way to get JXSE 2.7x working in Equinox and, with some considerations, probably other OSGI frameworks as well. The approach aimed to get the same functionality as you would get by using the jar file in a regular JAVA setting, but as I demonstrated, Equinox does have the benefit of allowing multiple JXSE instances to run simultaneously, which is a great benefit when developing JXSE applications.

In this second tutorial, we will cover some ways of improving the functionality by severing the dependency on the 4.2x version of Jetty (which has just released it's 9.0 version!) and we will introduce some basic tools to visualize the properties and functions of JXSE. This will improve the development cycle of JXSE applications even more.

JXSE and Equinox Tutorial, Part 1

May 23rd 2023, 07:19, by Kees Pieters

Abstract

NOTE: As of January 2015, you can integrate JXTA in OSGI through an update site. The WIKI At chaupal.org gives detailed instructions on how to use the new 2.8.x JXSE bundles for OSGI.

This extended series of tutorials will cover the various ways that the JAVA P2P framework JXSE (formerly popularly known as JXTA, and currently the most up-to-date JAVA implementation of the JXTA specifications) can be made to work with Equinox (the engine on which Eclipse runs). It would be tempting to replace Equinox with OSGI, and indeed many of the issues covered here will work fine with alternative OSGI implementations such as Apache Felix or Knopflerfish, but I will concentrate on Equinox because it will allow us to do a few things with JXSE that requires a bit more handwork on other OSGI platforms. Besides this, I have tested the code on Equinox alone, so I don't want to get ahead of myself. This tutorial is work in progress, so the document will be re-edited a few times.

This tutorial not meant to cover the principles behind P2P in general, and JXTA/JXSE in particular. If you are interested in this, I'd recommend the (free) book Practical Jxta II by Jérôme Verstrynge, or to go through the online manuals for JXTA 2.5, JXSE 2.6 and 2.7. This first tutorial is aimed to get you started with JXSE 2.7x in an Equinox environment. The reader is expected to have a good understanding on developing plugins with the Eclipse IDE. If you are new to Eclipse I would advise you to read the excellent articles on developing plugins by Lars Vogel and brush up on OSGI and Equinox while you're at it.

JFXtras RadialMenu for NetBeans RCP (Part 2)

May 23rd 2023, 07:08, by Sean Phillips

this article is part 2 of a tutorial that will walk through adapting an open source javafx radialmenu ( http://jfxtras.org/ ) to replace the netbeans platform system menu. it will build upon both previous tutorials and part 1 that demonstrate complete replacements for the default netbeans swing components using javafx. code examples will feature netbeans platform, javafx and css.

part 1 of the article walks through some of the code upgrades necessary for the task. as of this article's writing the open-source jfxtras radialmenu needed a few upgrades to act as a system menu replacement for a netbeans platform rcp. part 2 will show the specific algorithm and code to then utilize the upgraded radialmenu as described. when complete you should be able to produce a slick radial system menu like this:

JetBrains Releases YouTrack 1.0

May 23rd 2023, 07:07, by Jura Gorohovsky

Keyboard-centric bug and issue tracker YouTrack 1.0 that we have previously announced has been finally released to the general public!

You can download YouTrack as a JAR or WAR distribution, evaluate it for 60 days, and choose between two editions:

JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 5 (Cover Flow Effect)

May 23rd 2023, 07:02, by Ariya Hidayat

[editor's note: be sure to check out part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ]

in the fifth part of this javascript kinetic scrolling tutorial, a demo of the attractive cover flow effect (commonly found in some apple products) using the deadly combination of kinetic scrolling and css 3-d will be shown. the entire logic is implemented in ~200 lines of javascript code.

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