Something about Amazon fire you should know

Fire

http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/fire

I don’t comment on Apple products or development here, but I’m absolutely fascinated by the Amazon Fire announcement today, and it has nothing to do with the iPad. Lost in the “Is it an iPad Killer?” hype is the audacious introduction of the Silk browser. Under the guise of increasing speed (on WiFi…

More news on mongodb.... Now monitoring too...

10gen - MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS)

http://www.10gen.com/mongodb-monitoring-service

MongoDB Monitoring Service is a publicly available SaaS solution for proactive monitoring of your MongoDB cluster. MMS’s web interface features charts, custom dashboards, and automated alerting; and since it runs in the cloud, MMS requires minimal setup and configuration. Within minutes your devops …

This is good news. Please spread the word

Marketing SMS, calls ban imposed; 100 SMS cap comes into effect

http://www.bgr.in/2011/09/27/marketing-sms-calls-ban-imposed-100-sms-cap-comes-into-effect/

By: Rajat Agraw­al | Sep 27th, 2011 at 11:24AM

Come on... Einstein is also wrong now! Naah...

Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment at CERN

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/09/neutrinos-travel-faster-than-light.html

"We tried to find all pos­si­ble expla­na­tions for this," said report author Anto­nio Ered­i­ta­to of the Opera col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Web sockets rock! I guess you knew that already.

CometD 2.4.0 WebSocket Benchmarks | Webtide Blogs

http://webtide.intalio.com/2011/09/cometd-2-4-0-websocket-benchmarks/

Slightly more than one year has passed since the last CometD 2 benchmarks, and more than three years since the CometD 1 benchmark. During this year we have done a lot of work on CometD, both by adding features and by continuously improving performance and stability to make it faster and more scalabl…

Sencha is getting really serious about using it as the chosen mobile app development platform. Now cloud services for syncing data on the cloud for backup and sharing... And image resizing as well.... Hmmm... Have to check out the pricing though.

Sencha.io Sync Open Beta and App Contest Extension

http://www.sencha.com/blog/senchaio-sync-open-beta-and-app-contest-extension/#date:18:00

Sep­tem­ber 19, 2011 | Aditya Ban­sod

Some really cool photos under water. Although some of them don't feel real, others are really good!

Showcase of Fabulous Underwater Photography

http://www.noupe.com/photography/showcase-of-fabulous-underwater-photography.html

When in search of inspi­ra­tion, one recipe that tends to always pro­duce suc­cess­ful results is to look at the world around you in a dif­fer­ent light, so to speak. This flipped per­spec­tive can often lead our think­ing and cre­ative process­es out of the box, as we see things dif­fer­ent­ly than we nor­mal­ly would. Pho­tog­ra­phers are fan­tas­tic at doing this with a sim­ple loca­tion change. By tak­ing their sub­jects and sub­merg­ing them in water, or seek­ing them out under the sea, pho­tog­ra­phers make some truly stun­ning cap­tures.

Enjoy the free app of the day!

Amazon Appstore now available for Android users in India

http://www.bgr.in/2011/09/20/amazon-appstore-now-available-for-android-users-in-india/

Ama­zon App­store is now avail­able for Android users in India. If you own an Android smart­phone or a tablet then you sim­ply gotta hit this link to get start­ed with the Ama­zon App­store. You can down­load thou­sands of free apps from there. Stay tuned in as we’ll be post­ing our views on this store short­ly!

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Wicket - IDE Support

Last week I restarted checking out the Wicket framework. I specifically looked for IDE support. I started off by checking out
-  Eclipse support: And I found WicketBench. I set it up and initially hit upon some problems. Wicket Bench is supposed to use jetty as the web container automatically but somehow it does not come with a internal jetty jar when installed. This seemed strange to me but I never the less went ahead and provided a jetty jar (took the latest) of my own. Again ran into problems. I figured out later that WicketBench works with Jetty 5.x version and later versions are not supported. Again something which I felt was not right. After sorting that out, I was able to start with doing some development. I used there unit testing model and was initially impressed with the ability to run pages independently. This is still a good feature. But then again when I wanted to run the entire application in one go, I could not find any simple way of doing it. I did not want to write selenium tests to just do some wicket research, hence don't know whether that can solve the problem. Even if it does, I still feel there is merit in providing a simple way to launch the entire app in one go and somehow I could not find any. That sort of sealed the deal with my wicketbench expedition. I decided that it is not good enough
- Netbeans support: The next obvious IDE to look at was Netbeans (I don't yet intend to pay any money for the IDE). Netbeans seemed to have a decent support for Wicket. It does not provide the capability to test single pages (like WicketBench) but testing out the application using tomcat is pretty simple. It provides you linking between html based wicket ids and java components in the java page. Also there seems to some effort to improve support on html palette for wicket components. These sound promising. I found myself pretty much happy for now.
As of today at least, I feel the support for Wicket is far better in Netbeans than in Eclipse.