IBM joins Oracle on OpenJDK

http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_java_7_the_end

Today, IBM took the pragmatic decision to end hostilities over Apache Harmony and move on. This is clearly a good choice for IBM, and probably the best we could hope for Java. It does mean that Apache Harmony is effectively dead.

But frankly, Sun, now Oracle, have got away with murder.

Whether the Apache Software Foundation can stomach staying in the JCP is, I would say, still an open question. Let's hope the deal that was cut is really positive. Because it really is time for the Java industry to move on.

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Deploying Clojure Services with Crane

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/10/11/deploying-clojure-services-with-crane.html

Crane is useful for deploying any kind of service and has many built-in capabilities.

The model is simple - use Crane as a library, define functions, and use Crane will call those functions as targets.  Use Crane's conf and cred capabilities to get all the configuration and credentials required to write your deploy functions in deploy.clj.

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Vintage Victors For a Cure 2010

Our Second Annual Vintage Victors for a Cure was a huge success.  The event  raised over $17,000 for the MCG Foundation- Breast Cancer Prevention Coalition.  125 residents and MCG guests attended our dinner and donated actively to our “mega” raffle, silent auction and live auction.  All of our auction items, raffle prizes and golf prizes were donated by our very talented residents and our area businesses.  28 Hole sponsors also helped us exceed last years results by 64%.

 96 Golfers competed on our beautiful Mount Vintage Golf Course in a Captain’s Choice Scramble.

             First Place winners were the team of Judy and Joe Ward, Ashley Rose and Jerry Horak with a net 54

 Longest Drive for Men was won by John Wehner and Longest Drive for Women  was won by Ashley Rose.

A few pictures are shown below.  To see additional winners and to view photos of the event please visit Diane’s Photo Album

 

Vintage Victors for a Cure 2010

 

Carl and Patty

 

Silent Auction

 

Second Place

 

First Place

 

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Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit - (37signals)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2603-heres-what-weve-learned-about-doing-ui-for-mobile-web-apps-with-html5

Browser-based mobile apps clearly have the potential to offer user experience that is on-par with native apps. Of course designing that kind of experience is going to require more than emerging mark-up and style techniques—it’s not going to be enough to just serve a mobile stylesheet for your app. Offering a native-worthy mobile experience requires you to rethink the UI of your app and deliver it within an environment where touch is the rule.

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a better memoize for Clojure

Excellent article discussing issues with concurrency and caching:

http://kotka.de/blog/2010/03/memoize_done_right.html

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Learning Clojure with Google App Engine and Emacs

This article has some good notes, with links, about GAE and Clojure...

http://pseudofish.com/blog/2010/09/18/learning-clojure-with-google-app-engine-and-emacs/

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Bellarmine Reunion

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Android & iPhone App Design: Is it twice the work?

http://johnnyholland.org/2010/09/06/android-iphone-app-design-is-it-twice-the-work/

So we’re back to the dilemma: do designers have to do twice the work to create native apps for the iPhone and Android?  Based on my recent analysis, I came to this conclusion: the app definition and concept phases would be very similar regardless of platform, but the app refinement and production phases would require adaptions to create full-fledged native apps for each platform.

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ClojureDocs - summary of Clojure functions by category

Nicely done:

http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure Core

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DBMS Musings: The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/problems-with-acid-and-how-to-fix-them.html

Our objective in this post is to explain why ACID is hard to scale. At the same time, we argue that NoSQL/NoACID is the lazy way around these difficulties---it would be better if the particular problems that make ACID hard to scale could be overcome. This is obviously a hard problem, but we have a few new ideas about where to begin.

The full paper is here:  

http://db.cs.yale.edu/determinism-vldb10.pdf

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