September 04, 2013

DevNews #58 – The London Eye – of Sauron

34 minutes

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Note – I accidentally named Don Coleman our “Director of Development” when in fact, his official title is “Director of Consulting”… Duly noted. Ken Rimple

A nice, involved, deep tutorial on building a fantasy football league manager using AngularJS.

Vert.X has really come into its own – a great article by JavaWorld on version 2.0.

Duck, wait for the flash – here is Spring Scala. Now you can not only host scala-based Spring Beans, but define your bean contexts in a handy DSL ala the JavaConfig variant.

Spock (a groovy-based JUnit behavior-driven testing engine) keeps impressing Ken – he saw an ‘old()’ method that blew his mind. Several hours later, he got up and posted a link to this Blog article on mrhaki.

How about an Arduino networking board that can communicate up to more than a thousand meters! Wow! The boards are to be mesh-network capable too.

Since they’re both Spring Geeks, Sujan and Ken spend time discussing this 2011 article on the corner cases around transactional testing in Spring.

Somebody, go over and poke Progressive Enhancement with a stick. Is it dead yet? Maybe… Read Tom Dale’s take on the subject.

The link we’ve been waiting for – in London, a lens was formed by a building’s curved windowed surface that MELTED A CAR – well a bit. Read this fascinating verge article on it.

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