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Mitch Pronschinske02/01/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/1/13)

No JCache for Java EE7, but the UK high court did just rule that programming languages are uncopyrightable.

Mitch Pronschinske01/31/13
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Building an Asynchronous Communication Layer w/ XMPP, Ruby, Javascript

Although XMPP is most often used as a chat protocol, it can also provide a robust asynchronous communication channel in other application scenarios.

Mitch Pronschinske01/31/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/31/13)

Some people are surprised by the Java 7 update and its "silent" removal of Java 6. Plus Bob Martin responds to Ted Neward's posts about software craftsman elitism. Rounding out the humor section, we have a graph correlating Internet Explorer Market Share vs Murder Rates.

Mitch Pronschinske01/30/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/30/13)

Neal Ford thinks functional programming is coming to all mainstream languages and he has a tutorial to prepare Java folks. Also, key leaders at 10gen and PuppetLabs sound off on their respective niches - NoSQL and DevOps.

Mitch Pronschinske01/29/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/29/13)

A Rails vulnerability gets patch, the community begins voting for the name of the next Eclipse release, and the Ouya Android gaming console is out in the wild.

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want to Miss! (1/28/13)

Stack Overflow stats on language popularity and the job market, Groovy reached 2.1, Apple did the right thing, and US immigration law could be improving. All of these stories plus 5 Tips to Optimize SSL, interactive Knockout.js tutorials, and 'the funnies'.

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/25/13)

Not a great day for Open Source, and some more Maven dumping, but cheer up! There's a new version of Jersey out and a new version of MySQL coming! Plus the best 404 page ever.

Mitch Pronschinske01/23/13
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Streaming APIs: JSON vs XML and REST is King

Streaming APIs are becoming more popular because of the low latency they provide. What are the common protocols and data formats of these APIs? To find out I did a simple search on APIhub, the largest repository I found for streaming APIs. Here were the results of the 104 APIs that came up…

Mitch Pronschinske01/23/13
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API Integration With SoundCloud

Learn how to use the Soundcloud API with their JavaScript SDK. It makes things a lot easier. And Soundcloud is a great option if you want to add any music selections into your site infrastructure.

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/13
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The Strangest APIs

There are some weird APIs out there. That's what Craig Neslage found out when he looked through APIhub - a giant hub for APIs similar to ProgrammableWeb. Let me give you an idea of the weird level we're talking about here...

Mitch Pronschinske01/16/13
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VMware's RabbitMQ vs. LinkedIn's Kafka

IT consultant Stuart Charlton had a rich analysis on these two technologies from VMware (RabbitMQ) and LinkedIn (Kafka). It suggest when you should use Kafka, when you should use RabbitMQ, what both are good at, and what neither are good at.

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/13
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Graph Search: A Sign of Things to Come

It seems like we've been speculating for such a long time that Facebook would release its own smartphone. And while we're still waiting to see that after years of rumors, today it's a surprise to many that Mark Zuckerberg called a press conference today and introduced Graph Search.

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/13
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RabbitMQ: Turn it Up to 11

Pushing RabbitMQ's scaling limits at myYearbook.com has provided good insight in how to scale RabbitMQ clusters while avoiding RabbitMQ's common pitfalls.

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/13
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Curated List of The Best and Worst Practices of APIs

I've gathered together a substantial list of useful resources for the best and worst practices when it comes to building an API. Hope you find this curated list very bookmarkable!

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/13
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API Product Management

Is Product Management different when your product is an API? How do the key people in the API value chain set the tone for product management of APIs? Strategic and tactical considerations for planning, building, and evolving an API to make direct and indirect users successful.