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Ego Depletion

On the recommendation of Mike Jones I’ve been reading through Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow in which the first part of the book covers our two...

0 replies - 3050 views - 06/06/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

10 More 'Most Useful' iPhone Tips (Part 1)

Maybe you recall my 10 Most useful iPhone tips series: 10 Most useful iPhone Dev tips (Part 1) and 10 Most useful iPhone Dev tips (Part 2). Today, after yet...

0 replies - 2426 views - 06/06/13 by Łukasz Budnik in Articles

Mapping Enums Done Right With @Convert in JPA 2.1

If you ever worked with Java enums in JPA you are definitely aware of their limitations and traps. Usingenum as a property of your @Entity is...

0 replies - 1459 views - 06/06/13 by James Sugrue in Articles

Using Square Retrofit REST Client with POJO

Another helpful resource when using Retrofit, JSON to POJO In your maven...

0 replies - 2651 views - 06/05/13 by Tim Spann in Articles

Ruby, Python, Java, C and Programmer Happiness

“Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.” - Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Not everyone might agree, but as a Rubyist I think Matz achieved his...

0 replies - 4683 views - 06/05/13 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

Android to Windows Phone 8: Local Data

Over the past several weeks I’ve been posting about how to work with local data in Windows Phone apps if you’re an Android developer today. I want to...

0 replies - 1223 views - 06/05/13 by Adam Grocholski in Articles

The Wrong Way to do Agile: Team Structure

The Wrong way to do Agile: Team Structure from Paper Dog Video on Vimeo.Meet Chet Rong.  He is the world's WORST agile coach.  You should watch this...

0 replies - 2957 views - 06/05/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Wrong Way to do Agile: Specifications

The Wrong way to do Agile: Specifications from Paper Dog Video on Vimeo.It's Chet Rong again.  The world's WORST agile coach.  You should watch this...

0 replies - 2329 views - 06/05/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

JBoss BPM Sneak Preview - BPMN2 Process Designer in the Cloud

Cloud Enabled BPMN2 Process Designer There is an upcoming released at Red Hat of the new JBoss BPM product, something expected to...

0 replies - 2545 views - 06/04/13 by Eric D. Schabell in Articles

A Good, Lazy Way to Write Tests

Testing. I’ve been thinking a lot about testing recently. As part of code reviews I’ve done for various projects, I’ve seen thousands of lines of...

1 replies - 2868 views - 06/04/13 by Steve Chaloner in Articles

Groovy Goodness: Customize Log Variable Name with Log AST Annotations

To add logging to a class with Groovy is easy. We apply one of the logging AST transformations and we get a variable in our class named log. We can invoke...

0 replies - 2792 views - 06/04/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

An Overview of the Java API for WebSocket

The Java API for WebSocket (JSR 356) is one of the key parts of Java EE 7. It allows Java developers to write Java HTML5/WebSocket applications with a simple,...

0 replies - 3156 views - 06/04/13 by Reza Rahman in Articles

The History of Programming Languages Infographic [from Veracode]

 This post comes from Patrick Moran at the New Relic Blog. New Relic celebrates the idea of a “nerd economy” — the idea that developers and...

3 replies - 8158 views - 06/04/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (June 4)

“I Don’t Want to be a Douchebag,” says Rich, Still-Working Ex-FacebookerAnd he has kids.  That’s another reason why this guy, with over $65...

0 replies - 4665 views - 06/04/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Modularity in Spring Configuration

The following goes into more detail what I already ranted about in one of my previous post. In legacy Spring applications I have to develop new features...

0 replies - 2246 views - 06/04/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles