Excelent tutorial for Apache Cassandra by Ronald Mathies of Sodeso.

• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1 (Installation)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 2 (Data model)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 3 (Data model 2)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 4 (Thrift Client)
• Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 5 (Thrift Client 2)

A bit sarcastic yet almost-always-true article written by James Gosling in 1990 (20 years ago), about politics in the software development industry.

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/resource/StandardsPhases.html

Enjoy!

A post by Martin Fowler that talks about a very common and used way of defining the domain layer and service layer in an application.

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

http://techdistrict.kirkk.com/2009/11/03/turtles-and-architecture/

http://techdistrict.kirkk.com/2009/12/15/architecture-all-the-way-down/

Thanks, Jorge!

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications.

It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers.

IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.

Further on: http://izpack.org

5 days of Wicket!

• Day 1 – Setting up the Project
• Day 2 – Writing the Tests
• Day 3 – Designing the backend
• Day 4 – Designing the Wicket components
• Day 5 – Putting it all together

Source: http://www.mysticcoders.com/blog/2009/03/09/5-days-of-wicket/

These are 2 amazing books I am reading right now.

• Head First Design Patterns

• Wicket In Action

I post here the Amazon links, feel free to use them.

Cheers…