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TL;DR It has been an awesome year full traveling (roughly 20 states), POCs for the clients and the prospects, training (including public classes) and conference talks. While I am already looking forward to 2016, here is a quick recap of my 2015 with Hazelcast. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.2 1/6/2015 Added Groovy Puzzlers Video link from SpringOne 2GX v1.1 12/31/2015 Added Atlanta JUG video link v1.0 12/29/2015 Initial blog post Into 2015 has been a helluva of a year for me, which started off with a new job: the Solutions Architect in Hazelcast - Open Source In-Memory Data Grid company. In addition to travelling to over 20 states, I had numerous opportunities to share my programming experience and how to develop and deploy the distributed systems. I enjoyed the conference talks, blog posts, and podcasts (1, 2, 3 in Russian). ...

TL;DR When I talk to the developers about Hazelcast, many of them ask how Hazelcast is different from NOSQL databases, and particularly from MongoDB. In this blog post, I will try to answer this question once and for all. Introduction MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind. Instead of storing your data in tables and rows as you would with a relational database, in MongoDB you store JSON-like documents with a dynamic schema. In short, MongoDB is an NOSQL data store, primarily concerned with storing/persisting and retrieving schema-free data. ...

TL;DR This April, I’m going to deliver half-day workshop «Ground-up Introduction To In-Memory Data» at Code PaLOUsa conference in Louisville, KY. You’re an architect or a developer with years of experience creating amazing applications. You’ve just been assigned to a gasp low latency project! Because you’re an expert, you’re expected to master a new In-Memory caching/data technology and be productive from day 1. You feel completely lost as you open the JAR files. Not only that, but you have to contend with new topologies and data stores like NoSQL or Hadoop. ...

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. — Wayne Dyer TL;DR Monday, December 15, I’m staring my new role as Solutions Architect at Hazelcast. I’ve had a great time at Farata Systems over the past 4 years and 3 months. It was my first workplace in US, and it was incredible place to work. During that period, I learned so many technologies, tools, frameworks and even languages so I can say with confidence that it was quite a ride! ...

New achievement unlocked - I’m going to deliver the talk at JavaOne 2013! This year I will be talking about very demanding and interesting topic for me - about integration Java and JavaScript. Here is quick abstract of my [BOF5793] session: "" There is a perception in the Java community that JavaScript is a second-rate interpreted language whose main purpose is to make Web pages a little prettier. But JavaScript is actually a powerful, flexible, dynamically typed language. And today the language has been experiencing a revival driven by the interest in HTML5. Nashorn is a modern JavaScript engine available on the JVM, and it’s already included with JDK8 builds. This presentation is about building polyglot applications with Java and JavaScript. "" ...

It will not likely that you will start developing an enterprise HTML5 applications without using one of the JavaScript frameworks. One of the most feature-complete frameworks is ExtJS from Sencha, but its learning curve is a bit steep. Our company, Farata Systems, has developed an open source software Clear Toolkit for ExtJS. Clear Toolkit includes an Eclipse plugin called Clear Data Builder (CDB). It is a productivity tool - a code generator - that can create a CRUD application for you in no time. This application will have HTML/JavaScript/ExtJS client and Java-based server. In this article, you will learn how jumpstart development of such Web applications. ...

Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.2 11/9/2016 Explained JVMPlatformVersion for Java 9 v1.1 11/8/2016 Added Java 9 command v1.0 01/19/2013 Initial blog post Apple announced to remove Java Preferences app from Mac OS X. Details could be found here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5493). Let’s try to fix it. Generally, Java applications will use the JAVA_HOME environment variable to pick a JDK. ...

Last tuesday I delivered presentation at Princeton JUG «WebSockets: The Current State of the Most Valuable HTML5 API». + HTML5 specification includes WebSockets, a new communication protocol for the Web. It’s becoming the best choice for building real-time Web applications. I did an overview of the servers (including upcoming JavaEE 7 RI - Glassfish 4) and frameworks that support WebSockets and showed some use cases where WebSockets shine. At the end we had short conversation about various approaches for the server- and client-side implementations of WebSockets that can be used in the Web applications today. ...

For some reasons, I’m using desktop as temporary storage of files - downloaded from internet, in-progress documents, screenshots and code snippets. Time after time I create screencasts and I need to have clean desktop. First, I tried to find available solution and have found Desktop Curtain. I don’t need all this fanciness (different desktop wallpapers, customization) so $2.99 is overkill for me and for this taks. So, I decide to create my own solution with help of shell and Alfred. Googled for Mac OS X command and I created simple script what I wrapped after as Alfred Extension. You can download Alfred Extension for my Dropbox. To use it you need to have Alfred PowerPack purchased. Cheers

Usage automatic build tools for dependency management is best practice in Java world and usage of tools such as Maven has been proven by the years. But what if utilize existing Maven knowledge of Java dependencies management for JavaScript projects. Hopefully, some Java and JVM frameworks (like Grails or Play2) provided their own way of dealing with static resources. But in most common situations, you don’t have lot of options for deployment your application. To read the full post, surf on over to the Farata Systems Blog: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/index.php/using-webjars-for-assets-management-in-javascript-projects/ ...