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The Story of Google Code Search and How it Worked

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Although it went out of commission only a few days ago, Google Code Search was once the pet project of a team of Google interns in the Summer of 2006.  In an Official Google Blog entry from October 14, 2011, aptly titled "A fall sweep," Google...

0 replies - 3083 views - 01/23/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Project spotlight: Pull down to refresh ( like the official Twitter client )

Hey all, and welcome to a new category of Programmer XR called: Project spotlight!

0 replies - 2597 views - 08/20/11 by Mark Mooibroek in News

Questions to Resolve While Writing Data Synchronization Code

My home laptop fell a few days ago and the power button stopped working until I got new parts shipped and replaced. Everything went back to normal or so I thought until I opened Google Chrome on another system I was using, and found that the bookmarks I...

1 replies - 2369 views - 07/09/11 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

How Oracle’s Ellison Drove a Java advocate to .NET/C#…

My $0.02 worth of opinion on how all the Oracle shennanigans are impacting my development focus choice. You don’t know me. Larry Ellison certainly doesn’t know me. I am a nobody. A typically esoteric strange developer coder type nobody. But still a nobody...

17 replies - 5913 views - 10/26/10 by Anonymous in Articles

Process, Agile, and Projecting: Your Way Isn't the Only Way

I remember a topic my childhood pastor would revisit from time to time: "gift projection". Without going deep into the subject, it's the tendency of people to assume that whatever giftings or callings they have are the same ones everyone else should...

0 replies - 8775 views - 09/22/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

SerfJ 0.3.0 released! A new MVC framework for REST applications

Last week a stable release of SerfJ has been launched. SerfJ is an acronym of Simple Ever REST Framework for Java. Its main purpose is to provide a lightweight MVC arquitechture based on REST-like URLs. It has a minimal configuration, you can make a J2EE...

0 replies - 963 views - 07/29/10 by Eduardo Yáñez P... in Announcements

Selecting Development Infrastructure

This week, I was tasked to create a development infrastructure with the following components:

14 replies - 8941 views - 08/06/09 by Nicolas Frankel in News

Win Your Copy: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

1 Introduction This is chapter does a nice job of introducing you to the book and giving you an idea of what to expect in the chapters that follow. While this book isn’t specifically for...

25 replies - 8244 views - 04/23/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

The chapters of “Clean Code” are grouped into three parts. As it says in the introduction, part one “describes the principles, patterns and practices of writing clean code.” Part two contains...

1 replies - 9848 views - 03/02/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Internal & External Releases

A recent post on InfoQ discusses a two part article by Israel Gat that argues in favor of internal vs external releases by decoupling the engineering aspects of a release from the marketing and sales aspects. By doing so, the engineering team can release...

0 replies - 3359 views - 02/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

JavaRebel 2.0 M1 Released

JavaRebel is a JVM plugin (-javaagent) that enables to reload changes made to Java class files on-the-fly, saving developers the time that it takes to redeploy an application or perform a container restart. It is a generic solution that works for Java EE and...

0 replies - 2657 views - 12/05/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Announcements

Galileo RIA Toolkit Release 1.0 Beta

Galileo RIA Toolkit Release 1.0 Beta is now available @ www.galileo-riaf.comWhat is Galileo?Galileo was created for software engineers looking for a Rich Internet Application development alternative to JavaScript-based frameworks, Adobe Flex, Microsoft...

8 replies - 3663 views - 10/29/08 by Marvin Warble in Announcements

Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g Go Production

This new version, several years in the making, include over 200 new featuresThis major new version integrates WebLogic Server 10.3 and offers key new features in support for Java EE 5.0 and RIA development with JSF. Including an extension to the JSF...

0 replies - 4702 views - 10/08/08 by Pieter Humphrey in Announcements

Rapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy

Utilizing both Maven and Groovy you can rapidly prototype web apps, and in this blog I'll walk you through exactly how to do that. First we are going to create a simple Maven web app project using the Maven Web App Archetype. If you don't have Maven installed...

1 replies - 14510 views - 08/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Can Automation Aid Manual Testing? An Interview with Jonathan Kohl

 Since 1998, Jonathan Kohl has worked on a variety of software development projects, mostly as a software tester. During that time he has developed many theories about the use of automation in testing.

0 replies - 5912 views - 04/07/08 by Bruce Daley in News