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Nick Boldt01/04/11
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Using Git like CVS

Tonight I moved the http://rainbowcinemas.ca sources from phpeclipse and CVS to PDT and Git. Below are some gotchas and tips for initial repo creation, how to keep the central remote copy up to date, and how to work around complaints about updating master...

James Sugrue01/04/11
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Did Anyone Notice Java's App Store Was Dead?

It looks like there's one less app store to worry about for developers. Java Warehouse looks to be another dead project. I didn't realise that the project had been canned until I read Kirill Grouchnikov's tweet about it: Follow any link through and you'll be...

Giorgio Sironi01/04/11
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These are not the buzzwords you're looking for

Sometimes you come across expressons which are commonly used in the Agile community, but which lack a formal or straightforward definition.I have to say that in the Agile and eXtreme Programming community the scenario is often much better: Test-Driven...

Torbjörn Gannholm01/04/11
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Your Assumptions are Dangerous, You Know Too Much

I have just completed a rather unremarkable piece of code. The system was designed to allow this type of addition, so it just took a couple of hours or three to write the code and touch up the parts to selectively enable the functionality by user.Then a...

Krishna Kumar01/04/11
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Highly Skilled People Versus The Markets

Dan Ariely writes about a meeting with a locksmith:

Jakub Holý01/04/11
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Creating Dynamic EMF Models From XSDs and Loading its Instances From XML as SDOs

This post describes how to read a dynamic EMF model from a set of XML schema files (XSDs) and how to use that model to transform XMLs to SDO DataObjects or EMF EObjects, all this in a stand-alone environment.

Ken Rimple01/03/11
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Roo Flex add-on is ALIVE!

It's always good to ask.  The Roo Flex add-on had been incompatible with Roo 1.1.0, and I've been working on the rich web chapter.  I had checked in with Jeremy Grelle, the lead on the Spring Flex Integration framework, and he let me know that he got...

Ted Neward01/03/11
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Tech Predictions, 2011 Edition

Long-time readers of this blog know what’s coming next: it’s time for Ted to prognosticate on what the coming year of tech will bring us. But I believe strongly in accountability, even in my offered-up-for-free predictions, so one of the traditions of...

Kai Tödter01/03/11
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Dynamic modular Web Applications with Vaadin and OSGi

I am a big fan of both OSGi and GWT (Google Web Toolkit). Unfortunately these two technologies don’t fit together very well. When you want to run OSGi on the server, RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) is one proven approach to go. While I like RAP a lot, you have...

Gordon Dickens01/03/11
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Simple Spring Social for Twitter Friends

The Spring Social project provides us developers with an easy way to interact with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & TripIt via the familiar Template objects we have used. Spring has provided Templates for convenient interaction with JDBC, REST, Hibernate,...

Nicolas Frankel01/03/11
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Tread Carefully With Entities Equality

I’ve barely begun Scala and I learned plenty of facts on Java (see previous article on a javac compiler quirk). Now, I’ve come upon another interesting point, this time completely unrelated to the compiler. It’s strange because now that I’ve...

Munish Gogna01/02/11
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Maven - Creating a Jar From Contents of Another Jar File

Recently I came across a situation where I had to create a jar file with similar contents as of some other available jar. As using maven we cannot copy one jar file within another and also I didn't want to reinvent the wheel again so here is how I...

Mitch Pronschinske01/01/11
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Realtime Search With Lucene at Twitter

Presented by Michael Busch, Search Engineer, Twitter Abstract: Lucene has for a while already a nice feature that we call "Near-realtime search"...

Jakub Holý01/01/11
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Implementing a JAX-WS Web Service Accessing its Input as XML Source

Sometimes you may want to create a JAX-WS webservice with its input defined by a proper, structured XSD yet accessing the input as raw XML object and not as POJOs produced by JAXB, similarly as with a JAX-RPC webservice having input of the type...

Gordon Dickens12/31/10
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Ignoring Files in Git

Quick tip on setting up files to be ignored for your system. 1. Execute the command setting the location of your system level ignore filegit config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore2. Edit the Global Git Ignore File: ~/.gitignore

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