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I just found this video on reddit.com, Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier.

I've got a number of videos available on Safari. These videos are available a la carte or (I feel preferably) as part of the all-you-can-eat buffet-style monthly subscription.

I've been trying all sorts of things to make Facebook interesting. Some of you will know that I was super sick (puking my brains out) in China in early January this year. This left me bed ridden and bored for 3 days. Out of utter desperation and having exhausted all the news sites and comics books and tech journals - I turned to Facebook, the anus of the internet. I like my friends/family, but if I'm honest I just don't care *that* much about everything that's going on. Who does, really, after all if they're your friends you'll hear about the important stuff eventually, anyway... So I've never been a really good Facebook user. A lot of the people I know on Facebook through a shared passion for technology. This makes keeping up with them a worthy endeavour because I might learn about some interesting facet of the technology world. I figured Facebook was as good an outlet as anything. So I've added them, but I wasn't doing a good job in keeping up to date until January. Since January, I've been taking a new approach, however, to expand the scope of the content on Facebook. I've started "friending" perfect strangers or casual acquaintances. Anybody who "friend request"s me I accept. Some requesters are spammers, of course, but as often as not it's someone who knows me via the books, blogs, conferences, twitter, etc. It's a small world, after all.

An interesting thread emerged on Twitter today regarding ways to explore a problem: REPL or Unit tests? Michael Nygard (@mtnygard) said:

I just made the jump to JDK 7 on OSX. I know, I know, I'm very behind, but when it comes to JDK iterations, I'm always a little behind. I guess I'm just more cowardly as I age... :) Anyway, just made the jump. This is the first release of Java on OSX that Oracle - and not Apple - is supporitng. To make it happen, simply grab the OSX JDK from the Oracle Java SE Development Kit 7 Downloads page. Once it's downloaded, double click the downloaded bundle and just follow the prompt.. there might have been two prompts, but I'd be surprised if there was, it went so quickly!

We're giving away bags 'o swag! To get some, just follow the instructions on the SpringSource Bag o' Swag website! Oh, did I mention that you could also win a free ticket to SpringOne2GX 2013? Don't delay, act now! We've given away a lot of cool stuff, already!

I just found this amazing graphic visualizing the Hadoop ecosystem in Datameer on the Cloudera blog.

I'm going to be doing a webinar for SpringSource on March 14th, 2013, called Multi Client Development with Spring (and Spring MVC). The webinar will feature an introduction to Spring MVC's basic component model, as well as the principles of REST. Once we've introduced Spring's REST support, we'll look at how to take your application to your users by building clients that your users want to use with Spring Mobile, Spring Android, and HTML5.

We've all seen Matt Raible's awesome talk comparing web frameworks with each other. He routinely gives this talk, often updating it as new technologies emerge. More often than not, Spring MVC and Grails emerge as leaders. These sorts of talks of course never have a conclusive winner, but, as I say, more often than not, Grails and Spring MVC emerge near - or at - the top of the stack in terms of community, ease of use, lines of code, performance, features, etc.

TL;DR: In your Spring MVC controller handler method, make sure that the BindingResult argument is immediately after the command or model argument.

Today I was fortunate enough to learn from Dr. Nic as he introduced his open source utility, bosh-boostrap, which makes shortwork of the chores of setting up and deploying BOSH and Cloud Foundry on AWS. Largely, the steps are reproduced and available on his tutorial which he's put online online.