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It could be a joke if someone tell us that PHP would be one of developing languages for mobiles, but the impossible is nothing for Android: http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3904261/Build-Your-First-P...

Answer: Google :) I'm really amazed what's going on at Android technology - last few weeks I look at it closer, thinking about become an developer after regular job time (but now I'm really confused if I shouldn't look for full time job - it's so brilliant technology). Yesterday I have looked at some blogs and found something what is a revolution in developing for mobiles: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/. Developing with Idea plugin, or Eclipse is great, but this tool seems to be so simple to use, that market share of Android should get a huge impact.

If you work with Lucene search or Solr, you probably would be interested in http://www.lucidimagination.com/Downloads/LucidGaze-for-Lucene - this is very useful monitoring tool, which most important features are:
* AnalysisStats: Analyzers, TokenFilters, TokenStreams, and Tokenizers, and which were used to produce the TokenStream for particular field
* DocumentStats: Number of documents indexed, as well as fields in the index

It's nice library which allows Hibernate to use geolocalization data - with few simple criteria queries you can search e.g. events in proximity of some place.

Some examples from their tutorial:

private List find(String wktFilter){
WKTReader fromText = new WKTReader();
Geometry filter = null;
try{
filter = fromText.read(wktFilter);
} catch(ParseException e){
throw new RuntimeException("Not a WKT String:" + wktFilter);
}
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();

On http://slides.html5rocks.com/ you can watch in well prepared presentation some features of incoming html5. Everybody should know that new era is coming, and a lot of new features would be to learn. I wish that Wicket would be ready to all these new features soon :).
Most of this presentation is visible in Chrome, some effects in Firefox.

I nearly every project I'm involved I use Spring, some time ago I have decribed migration from Spring to Guice, but so far I wasn't any chance to use it in any new project. I have still strong feeling that Guice have a power, and as a prove that these feelings aren't fool and naive, you can read the someone else point of view and thinks Guice beats the Spring:

Linux isn't commonly used desktop system yet, even as it is free of charge, with quite user friendly installer, great GUI - people still use Windows OSes for surfing. People don't know what is good :) My personal opinion is that entertainment industry can "dig the grave" faster for Windows, than any flunny Compiz L&F.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/08/10/failure-of-linux-to-grab-1-percent-o...

"Patents make a lot of sense in many industries; they are needed to protect the designs of industrial equipment, pharmaceutical formulations, biotechnology products and methods, biomedical devices, consumer products (toothpaste, shampoo, contact lenses, etc.), advanced materials & composites, and of course, widgets (lighting fixtures & elements, batteries, toys, tools, etc.). But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They don’t foster innovation, they inhibit it. That’s because things change rapidly in this industry.

I found this two entries very informative, even if they are quite short. I think they are good pros for using Scala, could be useful when you want to convince someone to Scala.

http://warpedjavaguy.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-scala-is-too-complex-c...
http://blog.fogus.me/2010/08/06/martinodersky-take5-tolist/

Tired of writing private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(SomeClass.class);? So you probably already use Live templates - if not try to type in Java Editor sout that press Tab, or Ctrl+J than find psvm - really cool, but there is some hints to learn anyway.
Let see our logger example:
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(SomeClass.class);

We want to have a Live Template called log which will type this into our Java code, so:
1) in settings find Live Templates, than press Add...