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Andy Gibson05/04/11
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Understanding Nested Conversations

I had a bit of epiphany on the subject of nested conversations the other day when I was thinking about them and thought I’d share. I think nested conversations have been a little misunderstood with people unsure of how to use them, myself included, but I...

Sandeep Bhandari05/04/11
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How To Send HTTP Post Request in Java

A POST request can be used for multiple purposes on the web. It can be used for performing the Create or Update operations for various resources. The most common usage of a POST request is in the form of a FORM on an HTML page.

Jakub Holý05/04/11
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How stateless can you go?

I’ve attended an Oslo Coding Dojo named “How stateless can you go?” lead by Thomas K. Nilsson. The goal was to write a toString() method for a tree structure printing nodes with proper indentation w.r.t. their depth and then to make it as stateless...

Markus Eisele05/04/11
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You should not have any other @ManagedBean beside @Named.

Provocative title, I know. But this is what my mind came up with, reading about @EdBurns latest survey where the JSF EG asks the community: "Should we deprecate Managed Beans in #JSF 2.2?". Seeing the first intermediate direction from today, it's...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/11
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New Frontiers in Search: Interview with Yammer Search Architect

DZone caught up with Boris Aleksandrovsky, a Search Architect at Yammer, this week to talk about his intriguing specialization in search, machine learning, data analysis, and neuroscience. Boris helped implement the real-time search system in Yammer's...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/11
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Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse

Is it surprising news? You'll have to decide. Oracle is now proposing that the Hudson open source CI Engine, which was recently gutted when many contributors chose to join the Jenkins fork after a trademark dispute, should have it's governance and IP...

Mark Mooibroek05/04/11
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Android app development 101: Preparing environment part 2

This is the second part of 2 posts. During these posts you will learn how to set up your windows environment for Android app development. In the first part ( located here: part 1 ) we downloaded & installed Java / the Android SDK and Eclipse. This post...

Avi Kapuya05/04/11
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VMware, CloudFoundry and the Bottle Deposit Scam

VMware recently announced their CloudFoundry initiative, an Open-Platform-as-a-Service for Spring, Ruby and Node.js applications. This is great news for cloud users and a major milestone in the industry. Most cloud providers create their own (closed) IaaS,...

Krishna Kumar05/03/11
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Improving Programming Productivity

Paul Homer has a post listing several ways in which you can waste your time while programming. Much of the waste comes from lack of thought about how to write code, primarily because people jump directly from specs into coding without thinking about how...

Antonio Goncalves05/03/11
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Injection with CDI (Part I)

After writing a post about how to bootstrap CDI in your environment and giving you some tips about

James Sugrue05/03/11
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Java Inventor: Making Learning Java Fun

Java Inventor introduces itself as an IDE for education, that makes rich Java development and deployment easy for anyone. It promises to reduce the learning curve for Java developers. With these great aims, I spoke with Jeff Martin, the man behind it all, to...

Constantin Alin05/03/11
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How to upload with Postlet Applet in Java

Postlet is a Java applet used for uploading files to web servers. It supports multiple file uploadusing a nice and easy to use design. Postlet provide 4 main features: • File progress bar • Error checking • Easy selection and upload of multiple...

Mitch Pronschinske05/03/11
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Mobile Code Portability the Focus of Adobe 2011 Release Train

Adobe has its ear to the ground when it comes to it's core user base of developers and designers. They know that figuring out how to develop and design applications for smartphones (and now tablets as well) can involve a steep learning curve. They also...

Arnon Rotem-gal-oz05/03/11
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Amazon’s EC2 & EBS outage

Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve probably heard, if not felt Amazon’s outage (you can read more about it all over the web, e.g. Cade Metz at the register or Julianne Pepitone at CNN money, [edit Apr26] Todd Hoff ‘s list of posts on th

Adam Warski05/03/11
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DI in Scala: Cake Pattern pros & cons

I’ve been looking at alternatives for java-style DI and DI containers which would use pure Scala; a promising candidate is the Cake Pattern (see my earlier blog post for information on how the Cake Pattern works). FP enthusiast also claim that they...