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Rare Uses of a "ControlFlowException"

Control flows are a “relict” from imperative programming, which has leaked into various other programming paradigms, including Java’s object oriented...

3 replies - 1727 views - 04/29/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles

DataBoss Review

I've managed to get my hands on a copy of Luis Majano's DataBoss and wanted to post some thoughts on it.Although DataBoss is the work of the ColdBox...

0 replies - 561 views - 04/28/13 by John Whish in Articles

Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a...

0 replies - 6486 views - 04/28/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles

First look at Learning Play! Framework 2

I have always wanted to learn and use Play Framework and there have been previous attempts which I have blogged before, but recently I have got an opportunity...

0 replies - 2632 views - 04/26/13 by Mohamed Sanaulla in Articles

Book Review: Beginning Scala (David Pollak)

Firstly, sorry it has been so long since last blog post.  Life is busy when you have two children.  I decided to try and learn Scala in 2013 and...

0 replies - 1662 views - 04/26/13 by Alex Staveley in Articles

Scrum as an Impediment to Agility

As I’m working with smaller and more agile projects, I’m increasingly seeing the classic way that Scrum is executed as more of an impediment to agility...

0 replies - 5025 views - 04/25/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

Ten Reasons Why CASE Tool Programming is Harder Than, say, Game Programming

Looking at the graphical output of a CASE tool like AgileJ StructureViews, the 2d picture it creates, while informational, is somewhat tame compared...

0 replies - 1595 views - 04/25/13 by Paul Wells in Articles

Package your classes by Feature and not by Layers

Most of the enterprise Java applications share some similarities in their design. Mostly the packaging of these applications are driven by the framework...

1 replies - 244 views - 04/25/13 by Manu PK in Articles

A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development

Some of you probably already get this… some of you might even disagree… but unless you are building software as a hobby… chances are, you building...

0 replies - 1437 views - 04/24/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Dev of the Week: Lakshan Perera

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

2 replies - 7080 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

A Case Study: A JavaFX Widget Framework API

A prototype of a widget container Building a better mousetrap In short I want to revisit the idea of a cross platform widget framework using JavaFX. In...

0 replies - 1847 views - 04/24/13 by Carl Dea in Articles

Going Dawkins on God Objects.*

Meet the enemy. Steaming stinking jungle crushing all about you, insects infesting the air, strange grunts shuddering in the foliage, you pause deep in...

0 replies - 1282 views - 04/24/13 by Edmund Kirwan in Articles

Pair Programming and a Grass-Roots Movement

Originally authored by Aaron Wagner I wanted to take a few minutes to share some thoughts and experiences about pair programming. I'm going to start from...

0 replies - 3582 views - 04/24/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Modularity Still Utterly Elusive, Decades Later

Quick, when was Modula 2 created (by the legendary Niklaus Wirth)? Did you guess 1977? Bet not. Was having a discussion this morning with Kenan on a range...

0 replies - 2425 views - 04/24/13 by Rob Williams in Articles

More Reasons to Update to Java 7

In Java SE 7 Update 21 Release and more, Tori Wieldt pointed out that "Oracle has released three updates to Java" this past week: Java 6 Update 45, Java 7...

0 replies - 2564 views - 04/24/13 by Dustin Marx in Articles