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Message Queues at Salesforce

Learn the best practices for queuing algorithms and optimizations from the pros at Salesforce.com. Dashboards, Reports, Batch Apex, Bulk API and many...

0 replies - 1183 views - 01/09/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Clojure: Expectations Warn On State Change During Test Runs

 While writing tests it can be easy to accidentally change any global state that exists in your application. I've previously written about Redefining...

0 replies - 1665 views - 01/09/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

"Please Login to Your Facebook Account" - Behind a Data Mining Scam

So someone sends you a link to the latest Gangnam parody / cat meme / man jumping on frozen pool video and the link looks something like...

0 replies - 2653 views - 01/08/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Dabbling in Home Automation

A Swedish colleague of mine once told me that Clas Ohslon is termed a “husband kindergarten” by Swedish woman and I have to admit that if I’m ever nearby...

0 replies - 1942 views - 01/08/13 by Gareth Llewellyn in Articles

Gazzang Predicts This Will Be the Year of Big Data

SOA World magazine points to a 2013 prediction from Gazzang, a company dealing with Linux data security. Gazzang reckons that 2013 will be the year...

0 replies - 1025 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

How to register an OSGI service

  For this , I will use a code segment from wso2 appfactory. The necessary code should be written inside the activate method which usually resides...

0 replies - 1057 views - 01/08/13 by Achala Chathura... in Articles

Dart: An Algorithm to Unindent Code

Have you ever had to write an algorithm to unindent a block of code consistently? Figuring out the maximum amount of whitespace among all the lines and then...

0 replies - 2365 views - 01/07/13 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

Finding ways to use bash command line history shortcuts

A couple of months ago I wrote about a bunch of command line history shortcuts that Phil had taught me and after recently coming across Peteris Krumins’...

0 replies - 2486 views - 01/07/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work on WP8

 The following video is presented by Matthias Shapiro. As of January 5, 2013 Google Maps doesn't load on my Windows Phone 8 device. Google has...

0 replies - 3292 views - 01/07/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Be Careful With Cache Managers

If you are using spring and JPA, it is very likely that you utilize ehcache (or another cache provider). And you do that in two separate scenarios: JPA 2nd...

0 replies - 4226 views - 01/07/13 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Neo4j: Embracing the Sub Graph

 In May I wrote a blog post explaining how I’d been designing a neo4j graph by thinking about what questions I wanted to answer about the data. In the...

0 replies - 1249 views - 01/07/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

SwitchYard - Service Monitoring

The SwitchYard 1.0 release could be just around the corner, so if you're a fan of the JBoss stack of open source tooling, check this one out. SwitchYard -...

0 replies - 790 views - 01/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Clojure: Expectations Before Run Hook

The expectations library now supports calling an arbitrary number of custom functions before the test suite is run. There are several reasons that you...

0 replies - 1159 views - 01/07/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

Generic Exceptions in Java

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 6 weeks since I last blogged. I still need to write up a review on Plumbr, after seeing it in action at Devoxx, but to...

1 replies - 4340 views - 01/07/13 by Steve Chaloner in Articles

Injecting Guice managed object into JSF View Scoped bean

In previous post, I demonstrate how to integrate JSF with Guice and MyBatis. However, my friend experiences some problem when he is using view scoped...

0 replies - 1445 views - 01/07/13 by Boris Lam in Articles