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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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SpringSource Releases Apache Tomcat based tc Server Spring Edition
[source: IndicThreads  ] 
 SpringSource has released tc Server Spring Edition, which claims to be the best place to build and run Spring applications. tc Server Spring Edition provides a lightweight platform for running modern applications and is said to be suited for the virtualized datacenter as well as private and public cloud environments.
Based on the popular Apache Tomcat [...]
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Six Things VCs Look For in An Investment
[source: JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL ]
As a serial entrepreneur, I learned a lot of lessons from things that didn?t work. These lessons later on shaped my ideas on what would be needed to build a successful startup company. When I became a VC, I realized that these same lessons could be applied to helping evaluate the many businesses that I was getting to see. Whilst the following criteria are by no means a guarantee of success, or the only criteria that you should think about, I do believe they can be very helpful.
So in no particular order, here is a list of six questions that I learned to ask to validate my own startup ideas, that now shape what I look for in an investment. I hope this list will help you validate your idea:read more
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2010 Turing Award Goes To Microsoft's Thacker
[source: JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL ]
This morning I read in the WSJ about the Turing award for this year given to Charles Thacker. I must admit I did not now much about Charles Thacker, he being mostly from the hardware side of the business.
For those not familiar with this award, it is the highest honor given to contributions in computer science. Some call it the equivalent of a Nobel prize. It comes with a check of $250K and a citation. The late Dr. Ted Codd, pioneer of relational database theory received it back in 1981. The late Jim Gray got it in 1998 for his pioneering work on the ?ACID properties of a database? and here is a short article by Mike Stonebraker on why Gray got it. Charles Bachman got it way back in 1973 for inventing the concept of a DBMS based on his work on IDS which became IDMS in Cullinet.read more
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Spring in Action, Second Edition
In this second edition, Spring in Action has been completely updated to cover the exciting new features of Spring 2.0. The book begins by introducing you to the core concepts of Spring and then quickly launches into a hands-on exploration of the framework.
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Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action
Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by-feature through the two libraries. First, you will use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you will dig into Prototype's elegant and sparse syntax. This book is written for web developers with a working knowledge of JavaScript.
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