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Mahout 0.3: Open Source Machine Learning
The need for machine-learning techniques like clustering, collaborative filtering, and categorization has steadily increased the last decade along with the number of solutions needing quick and efficient algorithms to transform vast amounts of raw data into relevant information. Apache Mount 0.3 has been announced on March, adding more functionality, stability and performance.
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Should We Define SOA Non-Principles?
In addition to well established principles and anti-principles, Steve Jones’ new post introduces the notion of non-principles of an SOA implementation and explains why they are important.
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Scooter Framework; Java Made CRUD And Simple
The Scooter framework has been inspired by the simplicity of use exhibited in ROR. The framework presents an alternative for developing Java web apps using Struts, Spring and Hibernate, with a CRUD generator and the ActiveRecord as key features. The intent of the Scooter is that XML editing and annotations are not required, and that only basic knowledge in Servlet/JSP and JDK1.4 is necessary.
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Improving the Performance of Web Applications with Google’s Native Client
In order to increase the performance of CPU-intensive web applications, Google is developing Native Client, a browser technology used to run native code. Unlike Netscape’s NPAPI or Microsoft’s ActiveX plug-in technologies, Native Client runs in a double sandbox prohibiting access to the underlying operating system.
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SpringSource Acquires RabbitMQ
VMware business unit SpringSource announced today that it had acquired Rabbit Technologies. Rabbit Technologies is the primary sponsor of the open source RabbitMQ messaging system.
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Reactions and Consequences of the iPhone Developer License Change
There is a report saying that Apple has changed the iPhone Developer License to prohibit applications written in other languages than Objective-C, C or C++ or accessing the API “through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool”. Reactions abound and this change is likely to have rippling effects across the industry.
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James Gosling Resigns from Oracle
"Father of Java" James Gosling has announced that he resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd).
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InfoQ Feature Set: What Do You Want To See?
What’s next for InfoQ? What are some of the areas we should be focusing on feature wise? We'd like to ask you where you’d like the site to go from a feature-set perspective. InfoQ is still lagging behind many of the world-class media sites out there. We may not be the New York Times, but with your help we'll have the will and the way to get there!
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GWT Roundup: A Roadmap and Related Projects
Some of the GWT projects currently under development are: data-backed widgets, collapsible panels, logging, form validation, sounds and graphics. Some of the GWT related projects that have been updated lately are: Smart GWT, GWT Designer, Gilead, and Raphael GWT.
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Useful Helpers for Applications Deployed on Google App Engine
Some of the later helper frameworks and tools for applications written for Google App Engine are: SimpleDS and Objectify - two persistence frameworks, Kotori – a JUnit runner, Apple Guice – a case study GWT application, and Engine Watch – a GAE monitoring application for Android devices.
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The End of an Era: Scala Community Arrives, Java Deprecated
It was recently announced that InfoQ is creating a new Operations community. In addition to that, another major change which has been in the works for the last few months at InfoQ is the conversion of the Java community to the Scala community. InfoQ spoke with a prominent Scala expert and members of the former InfoQ Java editorial team to learn more about this change and why it was made.
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Business Rules Management - the Missing Link?
A new discussion in the blogosphere is bringing up the question of whether business rules should be used to dynamically guide business process execution.
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MongoDB Growing Up: Release 1.4 and Commercial Support by 10gen
Shortly after the 1.4 release of MongoDB (from "humongous") on March 25th, its creator Dwight Merriman (former CEO/CTO of DoubleClick) announced that 10gen, the company behind the open-source document database will offer commercial training and support for the product. InfoQ spoke with Merriman about MongoDB, its features, applicability and place in the community of NoSQL databases.
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Media Annotations Working Group Publishes Drafts
The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has recently posted drafts of its Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 and API for Media Resource 1.0 efforts. They have also updated the Use Cases document to reflect some of the intentions of these projects. The basic goal of the Working Group is to produce an API and domain model for handling the explosion of media content on the Web.
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The 4 KiB Sector Performance Issue
If using HDDs from Western Digital (WD) with the string "EARS" in the model name, poor performance may have been encountered. Normally HDDs store data with a sector size of 512 bytes; WD's Advanced Format Technology uses 4096 byte sectors. Alignment of data on disk is essential to get the best performance. It's also only a matter of time until other vendors ship disks with non-512-bytes sectors.