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Mitch Pronschinske02/09/11
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Search and UX: Audio Interview

In this inaugral issue of DZone's Solr and Lucene focused podcast series, we get a chance to talk with Stefan Olafsson, a lead developer for the Twigkit...

Shekhar Gulati02/09/11
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Generics and Covariant Overriding breaks backward compatibility-- How to fix it?

Generics and Covariant Overriding are very useful features which were added to Java 5. Generics allows a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety whereas Covariant overriding allows changing the method...

Steven Lott02/09/11
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Unit Test Case, Subject Matter Experts and Requirements

Here's a typical "I don't like TDD" question: the topic is "Does TDD really work for complex projects?"Part of the question focused on the difficulty of preparing test cases that cover the requirements. In particular, there was some...

Senthil Kumar02/09/11
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Video Training – Windows Phone 7 Development series for Android Developers

MSDev has released the new videos on Windows Phone 7 for Android Developers which helps the Android developers to kick start the Windows Phone 7 Development . The series includes 8 Videos and is presented by Nancy Strickland and Bill Lodin .

Jakub Holý02/09/11
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Manually restoring raw partclone partition image to a VMWare

This post sums up how to manually restore a partition backup create by Clonezilla (using partclone) into a VMware virtual machine, which can be then either executed or its (virtual) disk mounted. The difficult points are “manual” and “partition...

Sivaprasadreddy...02/09/11
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Java Coding Best Practices: Better Search Implementation

In web applications searching for information based on the selected criteria and displaying the results is a very common requirement. Suppose we need to search users based on their name. The end user will enter the username in the textbox and hit the search...

James Sugrue02/09/11
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Prediction #5: Open source ALM tools continue to gain market share, give the development manager a migraine

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog. Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile Zone.

Peter ___02/09/11
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Why Jetwick moved from Solr to ElasticSearch

I like both technologies Solr and ElasticSearch and a lot work is going into both. So, let me explain why I choose to migrate from Solr to ElasticSearch (ES). What is elastic?

Loiane Groner02/09/11
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Introduction to iBatis (MyBatis), An alternative to Hibernate and JDBC

I started to write a new article series about iBatis/MyBatis. This is the first article and it will walk you through what is iBatis/MyBatis and why you should use it.

Andy Gibson02/09/11
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Shrinkwrap DSLs Makes Building Config Files Easy

If you’ve used Shrinkwrap you might have noticed that creating configuration files can be a bit of a burden requiring you to manually build XML configuration files yourself as strings. This article shows how the DSLs being added to Shrinkwrap will make...

Mitch Pronschinske02/08/11
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Strategies Against Architecture & Interactions Over Processes and Tools

Building an effective, elegant, and enduring architecture requires a strong vision and smart people who can implement it. The interaction between developers is just as important as the coding process. Kevlin Henney's two talks at the 2010 Norwegian...

Alex Tkachman02/08/11
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Groovy++ in action: how to make $5000 in one hour

Groovy is a great programming language. It is highly expressive, non-verbose and allows to avoid a lot of boilerplate code. I has very good libraries and perfectly integrates with Java and any other JVM languages. It is widely spread, has perfect IDE support...

Gordon Dickens02/08/11
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Sending Beans as XML with JmsTemplate

We often want to send XML via web services. We may already have the schema or annotated JAXB2 classes configured in our application. What if we want to send the same format via JMS? By default Spring JMS is configured to send & receive objects...

Cedric Beust02/08/11
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Are Your Unit Tests Talking to Each Other Behind Your Back?

As you have heard and read many times, unit tests should be isolated from each other. In other words, each test method should be self contained and not rely on any state other than the one it created and initialized (typically with an @BeforeMethod...

Tim O'brien02/08/11
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New Service to Search for Artifacts in Maven Central

Sonatype is pleased to announce the availability of http://mavencentral.sonatype.com, a new website for searching the artifacts in the Maven Central Repository.