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Markus Eisele04/26/11
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JavaOne 2011 NOT back to Moscone

Yesterday Oracle announced, what we all were expecting. JavaOne 2011 will be in the exact same place than the more or less disastrous 2010 version. It will be located in downtown San Francisco and takes place in parallel with Oracle OpenWorld. To be...

Rob Brooks-bilson04/25/11
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Building High Performance Applications with ColdFusion 9 and Ehcache 2.4

Building High Performance Applications with ColdFusion 9 and Ehcache 2.4 Take a look around at any high performance website such as Facebook or Twitter, and regardless of the operating system, application server, programming language or database it’s built...

Mark Needham04/25/11
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The ladder of inference

In Discussing the Undiscussable William Noonan describes the ladder of inference, a tool which can be used to help us achieve double loop learning with respect to our interactions with other people. Ladder of Inference helps people identify what information...

Patrick Debois04/25/11
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Devops: The War Is Over - if You Want It

Sam Farmer04/25/11
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CF Dude, What's in the cache?

Over the weekend I needed to see what was in my cache. I whipped up a quick script to list everything in cache and from there:

Kin Lane04/25/11
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Amazon Web Services Outage Impact

I wrote a post the other day on the Amazon outage, and half jokingly said Amazon Should Pull Plug Regularly to Show Which Companies Do Not Have It Together.

Constantin Alin04/24/11
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Turn a Java annotation into a CDI qualifier

A CDI qualifier is an annotation that itself is annotated with the @javax.inject.Qualifier meta-annotation. Per example, if you add the @Qualifier to the MyAnnotation (http://e-blog-java.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-java-annotation.html) you obtain a CDI...

Mark Needham04/24/11
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ThoughtWorks University: Things people found difficult

After six weeks ThoughtWorks University #21 finished on Thursday so I thought it’d be interesting to summarise some of the things that people seemed to find difficult over the course of TWU. The stack trace We were using Java for the duration of TWU and...

Krishna Kumar04/24/11
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Commented Out Code

This post at Visual Studio Magazine by Peter Vogel has invited a lot of contempt (via Rob Conery):

Rob Williams04/24/11
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Integration Tests: Avoiding False Dichotomies

Integration testing is getting a lot of attention right now as Arquillian starts to emerge from the cocoon and the Forge videos get tweeted up. The last guys to attempt to tell us what an integration test was (as they were claiming to be the Prometheans who...

Constantin Alin04/23/11
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Define a producer field or method

A producer method or field is annotated with the javax.enterprise.inject.Produces annotation.Define a producer fieldA producer field acts as a getter method and it is a simple alternative to a producer method. A producer field is declared by annotating a...

Mark Needham04/23/11
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Tech Leading: Initial Thoughts

As I mentioned in an earlier post I’ve been playing the role of tech lead on the project that we’ve been doing at ThoughtWorks University so I thought it’d be interesting to note down some of my observations so far. Out of the tech leads that I’ve...

Juan Grande04/23/11
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Solr Index Size Analysis

In this post I’m going to talk about a set of benchmarks that I’ve done with Solr. The goal behind it is to see how each parameter defined in the schema affects the size of the index and the performance of the system.

Brian Swartzfager04/23/11
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Defining Other Global Resources in Your Android Application

In my last post, I talked briefly about how the R.java file, a resource file located in the "gen" folder of your Android application project that is automatically generated and updated by Eclipse and serves as a resource map. My example code...

sandeep 04/23/11
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ColdFusion Builder 2.0 Start Page

ColdFusion Builder 2 Beta is out; you are either new or looking to know more about the newest features, and some HOW-TO information. With the new getting started experience, I’m sure you will spend more time exploring within ColdFusion Builder rather...