S#arp

Possibly something to evaluate: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/SharpLiteTheBasics.aspx

Great post on .NET performance

Good pointer, good actionnable pointers!, can be found here.The reference section is good too!

Ten tests to add to the basic list when using cloud computing

Ten tests for software applications in the cloud list, well, 10 tests. I particularly like the tests under the "performance" umbrella:

• profile that is more challenging than the average performance profile
• Service provisioning/de-provisioning testing
• Distributed cloud testing
• Multi-tenancy testing 
• Graceful degradation testing
• Connected/disconnected operations testing
• Cloud portability testing 

Videos: HTML 5 and JavaScript

Very interesting videos: HTML5, JavaScript

Usefull tools

http://java.dzone.com/articles/unit-testing-spring-mockito-0 list a few tools I did not know about but seem worth exploring:

• Maven Enforcer
• Logback
• Mockito
• Powermock

REST with Spring

Nice collection of posts on using Spring: http://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-series/

Google App Engine: cloud is not just hardware

More and more it becomes obvious that the cloud aspect of infrastructure will blur the distinction between what the application architecture has to take into account as a precondition and what it has to handle in its scope. This post from DZone is a great illustration on how taking the cloud into account is paramount to a successful project. You don't deal with it: you lose money; take it into account and you're as easily profitable.

Cloud Automation with Chef

I've stumbled on this Slideshare presentation on using Chef to automate cloud. This presentation is basically a how to guide that should be "required reading" before even considering using Cloud.

You can find it here