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Jim Moscater09/29/11
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Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!!

Interested in being a major player in one of the largest developer communities on the web? Do you have a knack for finding and sharing awesome developer content? Do you want to be a recognized name in your space and a major driver of discussions and knowledge...

Juhani Lehtimaki09/29/11
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GigBeat - an example of great Android design

I ran into GigBeat, a free Android app for tracking gigs, a while ago. The user experience of the app was so impressive that I decided to write an article about it to share the knowledge and experience. This app is truly a great example of good mobile...

Jason Hull09/29/11
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Netflix, Qwikster, and the Potential Failure of Search UX

Yesterday, Netflix announced the separation of its DVD-by-mail division into a new entity called Qwikster. The new company will have a separate website and focus entirely on mail delivery of DVD and video game rentals. It also will, in a few weeks, have a...

Dawn Cannan09/29/11
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What do you mean, don't submit bugs?

Of all of my "aha!" moments in transitioning from a waterfall-style QA person to an agile tester, the one I am about to talk about is *definitely* in the top 3. Top 5, most .... *Definitely* top 10. :)I have to give my credit to Janet Gregory,...

Gordon Dickens09/28/11
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Buzzing the Cloud with CloudBees and Roo

Looking to try out CloudBees for your Spring application? Here is how you can get started quickly with CloudBees Run@Cloud platform.

Jakub Holý09/28/11
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Inspect Your Webapp in a Live Environment Interactively with GroovyConsole

Have you ever needed to check the state of your webapp’s objects/Session/.. to find out why the hell something doesn’t work or have you had to learn a weird 3rd party API that is only available on the server? Then you were doomed … until the...

Ken Rimple09/28/11
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Keeping and showing Jetty JSP source

FYI... Did you know that you can keep the generated source files for your JSPs when running Jetty from maven? Just add this to your web.xml file:

Roger Hughes09/28/11
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Using Spring Interceptors in your MVC Webapp

I thought that it was time to take a look at Spring’s MVC interceptor mechanism, which has been around for a good number of years and is a really useful tool. A Spring Interceptor does what it says on the tin: intercepts an incoming HTTP request before...

Michael Mccandless09/28/11
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Lucene's SearcherManager simplifies reopen with threads

Modern computers have wonderful hardware concurrency, within and across CPU cores, RAM and IO resources, which means your typical server-based search application should use multiple threads to fully utilize all resources. For searching, this usually means...

Jens Schauder09/27/11
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Embrace Your Legacy Code. But Only Once

If you have to deal with legacy code (and we all do) one of the standard techniques to deal with it is to hide it behind a layer of abstraction. While this is a valid pattern that helps in many cases, it comes with its own anti pattern. I call it Legacy in...

Roger Hughes09/27/11
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Adding SLF4J to your Maven Project

In yesterday’s blog, I documented the various bits of the Maven POM file created for a ‘Spring MVC Project’ using one of Spring’s project templates. In that POM file you may have noticed a reference to an slf4j-api artefact and comment to the...

Constantin Alin09/27/11
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Removing entries from a HashMap

There are a few solutions for looping a HashMap, but one of the most elegant looks like below:

Rob Williams09/27/11
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Few Random Reflections on Agile

The ten year mark just passed on the Agile Manifesto. It brought out quite a lot of commentary from the Tribe Elders, and frankly, most of it was depressingly insipid. It reached something of a crescendo for me reading Jim Highsmith‘s piece in Dr. Dobbs,...

Mark Needham09/27/11
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Scala: Replacing a trait with a fake one for testing

We recently wanted to replace a trait mixed into one of our classes with a fake version to make it easier to test but forgot how exactly to do that! The class is roughly like this:trait Foo { def foo : String = "real foo" } class Mark extends Foo...