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Micro Services: The Curse of Code Duplication

A common approach we’ve been taking on some of the applications I’ve worked on recently is to decompose the system we’re building into smaller micro...

0 replies - 4014 views - 11/29/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

The Well-Grounded Java Developer Book Review

 After finishing Core HTML5 Canvas, I dived into the next book on my list: The Well-Grounded Java Developer by Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg. I've known...

0 replies - 5071 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Raible in Articles

A New Bill of Rights for the Enterprise Cloud Buyer

As we approach the close of the fourth quarter, many of you will be evaluating the investments your company has made in the way of cloud computing and will...

0 replies - 2166 views - 11/29/12 by Eric Berg in Articles

Don't be a Scholar, Be an Engineer

Many software developers I know seem obsessed with learning new technologies, even some of them use this is as a scale to measure how much progress they've...

2 replies - 6966 views - 11/28/12 by Yazan Jaber in Articles

Summary of Devoxx 2012

 Devoxx topped off a crazy two months of conferences. I've heard people talk about the conference season in the past, and been slightly (OK, very)...

0 replies - 279 views - 11/28/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Dogfooding Windows 8: I Tell All

The other day I read an article about Windows 8 and “six long-term Windows 8 users tell all.” The premise? Several columnists over at ZDNet had...

4 replies - 2889 views - 11/28/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Modern Android UI Patterns

 In the latest Android Design in Action Roman Nurik (watch in YouTube) did a great roundup of UI design patterns that have not yet made their way to...

0 replies - 5413 views - 11/28/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Video: Trying the WSO2 ESB 4.5.0

The following quick webinar is an introduction to the WSO's popular enterprise integration tool.  The presentation was given by Miyuru Wanninayaka, a...

0 replies - 1494 views - 11/28/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Measuring Software

A while back I read Making Software – it made me disappointed at the state of academic research into the practice of developing software. I just read...

0 replies - 4701 views - 11/28/12 by David Green in Articles

Be Part Of the Java Advent Calendar: 24 Days Of Java

This weekend Attila Balazs from the Transylvania Java User Group contacted me to tell me about his latest idea - the Java Advent Calendar. That's 24 articles...

0 replies - 2015 views - 11/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

A CSV Connector for WSO2 BAM

I’ve worked on a small tool to publish your spreadsheets (after converting to CSVs of course!) to WSO2 BAM. The cool thing is you can publish 1 (or 1000s)...

0 replies - 1707 views - 11/27/12 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles

JDK 8: State of the Collections

Here’s the latest publication by Brian Goetz, Oracle’s project lead for JSR 335, a.k.a. Project Lambda. Here’s a nice example showing new collection...

0 replies - 3559 views - 11/27/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Maven, SBT and Modularisation

Let me revisit the Maven to SBT post, and expand on the modularisation of Akka applications. I will also outline the Akka AMQP addition, which allows you to...

0 replies - 1970 views - 11/27/12 by Jan Machacek in Articles

Notes on Defining the Enterprise Service Bus

A thing to know about ESB is that there is not perfect definition for it. The scope and role may vary depending on the needs. One of the most important...

0 replies - 2688 views - 11/26/12 by Cristian Chiovari in Articles

Inspections are not Optional

Every developer is aware that code inspections are possible, some might have experienced the usefulness of code inspections, however, the fact is that...

0 replies - 3513 views - 11/26/12 by Dalip Mahal in Articles