Flud Backup: A decentralized backup “service” with a very cool FAQ.
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Mar 08
CouchDB built on Erlang
CouchDB: The interesting thing is that CouchDB automatically provides the REST front end that you tend to build on top of Java object stores like JBoss Cache or Coherence — An even more interesting thing is that it’s built on Erlang. This project gets more interesting every time I hear about it — it binds a REST API to your data and behavior, it is automatically replicated with no SPOF and it is built on the best massive concurrency platform available at the moment! Now I just have to check it out myself (and refresh my very rusty Erlang skills).
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Mar 08
Twitter in Plain English
Twitter in Plain English — I’ve been using Twitter for some time and I think it’s great. But it’s a bit hard to explain its worth, which this (creative!) video did wonderfully! Follow me at http://twitter.com/ekabanov.
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Mar 08
iPaper
iPaper: iPaper is a document viewer built for the modern web. It’s the first full-featured viewer that runs in a web page with no additional software. — Software as a service is really picking up. Why hope that the user has slow and inconvenient Adobe Reader installed when you can convert any PDF (and any document at all) to a format comfortably viewable with a Flash-based viewer provided by a third-party? This also shows just how important Flash has become, lately it’s fueling a lot of the “web 2.0″ innovation. I wonder if Sun will be able to catch up with Consumer JRE and JavaFX?
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Mar 08
J2EE Post Mortem
Is J2EE Dead?: And now I have to admit, the compile, build, deploy cycle of a standard J2EE application seems unbelievably daunting. — yes, Brian, J2EE is dead. And if it isn’t it should be! But that doesn’t mean that Java isn’t agile enough for web development. Maybe you should try e.g. Wicket with Guice and JavaRebel and then come back and complain. Or just as well Grails or RIFE, or JBoss Seam? Even just running JavaRebel with your legacy app will make a world of difference! And if you notice that SOA doesn’t come in any of those things that’s because SOA is just another monster for vendors to sell.