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Cloud Migration Tips #2: We Should Use the Cloud Because…

Welcome back to my blog series on deploying applications to the cloud. What’s the point of deploying an application to the cloud versus just hosting it in...

1 replies - 1223 views - 06/13/13 by Jim Hirschauer in Articles

10 Signs Services Are Accumulating Technical Debt

Your teams are busy building services and service enabled processes – great! – how do you know if these services are built at the appropriate level of...

0 replies - 5861 views - 06/13/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

Don’t Let Your DataMapper Streaming be Out of Control

Originally authored by Mariano Simone As Nicolas pointed out in “7 things you didn’t know about DataMapper“, it’s not a trivial task to map a big file...

0 replies - 762 views - 06/13/13 by Ross Mason in Articles

Call Response WebSockets in Play Framework

 I got a question from a Play user about implementing call/response WebSockets in Play Framework. This is not something that comes up that often, since it...

0 replies - 959 views - 06/13/13 by James Roper in Articles

Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 2

(Free Estimation Ebook)So now that you know why it’s so difficult to estimate what do you do when someone asks you for an estimate? Preconditions for...

0 replies - 635 views - 06/12/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Leverage the Service Refactoring Pattern

The Service Refactoring pattern facilitates changes in service logic and/or underlying service implementation while preserving existing consumer...

0 replies - 179 views - 06/12/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

Android Basic Action Bar Tutorial Series

Mark Allison, the author behind the awesome Styling Android blog, has just finished a five part series of introduction to Android Action Bar. I strongly...

0 replies - 591 views - 06/12/13 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Mockito - Extra Interfaces with Annotations and Static Methods

In the code I have quite recently came across a really bad piece of code that based on class casting in terms of performing some actions on objects. Of course...

0 replies - 158 views - 06/12/13 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

An Android Puzzler

Turn any image in your Android phone’s Gallery into a 3-difficulty level, drag & drop “touch” puzzle. Video:

0 replies - 1030 views - 06/12/13 by Tony Siciliani in Articles

Cloud Migration Tips #1: Cloud = Confusion

I get so many questions about cloud computing from friends, acquaintances and IT professionals alike. The non-technical folks usually have heard of “the...

0 replies - 1955 views - 06/12/13 by Jim Hirschauer in Articles

Coding: Increase Your Reading and Writing Speed

A teammate of mine recently expressed a desire for a shortcut for something we type often. I started looking into our shortcut options and came to a common...

0 replies - 4202 views - 06/12/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

Parsing Javascript in Javascript

Closures are a language feature which allow the programmer to inject static variables into a function’s scope, without the use of method parameters. E.g.:a =...

0 replies - 2193 views - 06/12/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles

Using jOOQ with Play Framework

For many users, it may be an obvious choice to use jOOQ along with Play Framework, leveraging simplicity and effectiveness in the Java world....

0 replies - 1629 views - 06/12/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Agile and Post-Its

For many, Agile projects and Post-Its are synonyms, and do you agree this is a misconception? This misconception has gone to such an extreme that, some...

0 replies - 2241 views - 06/11/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

5 Reasons for Writing a Blog - Reason 1

Why am I still blogging? The original purpose of my blog was to pave the way for my first book. But 5 years later I have realized that NOOP.NL has...

0 replies - 1838 views - 06/11/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles