Peter ___04/11/11
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Viewing hprof From Android With JVisualVM

Add an additional permission to your app <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /> to your manifestCreate hprof protected void onDestroy() {super.onDestroy();try {Debug.dumpHprofData(“/sdcard/data.hprof”);}...

Bas De Nooijer04/10/11
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Solr update performance

When I started working with Solr I issued updates just like I was used to do with databases: a single command followed by a commit. Later I discovered this was far from optimal, and started using different update strategies. To demonstrate the differences...

Terrence Ryan04/09/11
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Some Things About MappedSuperClass in ColdFusion 9.0.1

I was fooling around with inheritance in super classes in ColdFusion 9.0.1. I was trying to add that whole dynamic/static inheritance thing to Apptacular so you can add on to an Apptacular application without having to worry about changes being ...

Liran Zelkha04/08/11
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The "NewSQL" Market Breakdown

Matt Aslett from the 451 group created a term called “NewSQL”. On the definition of NewSQL, Aslett writes: “NewSQL” is our shorthand for the various new scalable/high performance SQL database vendors. We have previously referred to these products as...

Lynda Moulton04/08/11
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Where and How Can You Look for Good Enterprise Search Interface Design?

Designing an enterprise search interface that employees will use on their intranet is challenging in any circumstance. But starting from nothing more than verbal comments or even a written specification is really hard. However, conversations about what is...

Slim Ouertani04/08/11
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Osgi, security on the fly

Recently, I got a question on how to disallow bundles to call System.exit method and shutdown the full system. The first solution is to do with an old static java applications : Delegates security to osgi framework : java -jar framework.jar -init...

Ricky Ho04/08/11
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Scalable System Design

Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously.This one covers general considerations....

Michael Sahota04/08/11
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Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture

The rise of anemic Scrum was noted to dismay among the Agile community and in particular by “Uncle Bob” Martin who coined the fifth Agile manifesto value of Craftsmanship over Crap(Execution). This gave rise to the much needed community of Software...

Christoph Pater04/08/11
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Basic Eclipse Setup for TDD

Today I like to share my basic setup for TDD with Eclipse.

Constantin Alin04/08/11
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How to redirect Ant output to a JTextArea

If you need to capture an Ant script output and resend it to an JTextArea (or similar components), you can try a few solutions. For my purposes I solved this task by writing a new logger that extends the DefaultLogger and overwrite the buildFinished, ...

Markus Eisele04/08/11
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Running RichFaces 4.0.0.Final Showcase on WebLogic Server

A very short notice: RichFaces 4.0.0.Final is running smoothly on WebLogic server 10.3.4.0. Need a brief howto? Here you are:

Robert Diana04/08/11
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On Product Design And Expectations

For whatever reason, more business and product design concepts have been bothering me. As is typical, Seth Godin writes a timely post that gets my brain moving. Things are different this time, this time he wrote two. His posts and my recent rant on...

Prashant Deva04/08/11
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Verifying Lazy Loading behavior of code

A lot of times I write code that is supposed to do lazy loading. However it is tough to actually verify if in fact the lazy loading is taking place or did my code just load the entire set of data instead. With traditional debugging tools it would take a...

Niels Matthijs04/07/11
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One Man Show Development

Being a web developer is not for the unadventurous, unless you're lucky enough to be able to evolve with the industry naturally. If you want to be stuck doing the same job over and over again for 10 years in a row, it might be better to try a different...

Giorgio Sironi04/07/11
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The measures of programming

80 rows and 25 columns were the measures of one of the most popular VGA text modes in the 1980s and 90s. Today we have far more powerful graphic cards, which render several megapixels every second, on our 24" monitors.Yet I would argue that a typical...