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Arul Kumaran10/21/10
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Get Noticed by Building an Online Persona

Employers are realizing that what people do online can actually prove their value as potential hires. It shows that you are passionate about what you do. It shows that you would like to help others. It can also show that you know your stuff. I often find my...

Mark Needham10/21/10
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Distributed Agile: Physical Story Wall Still Useful

When I started working on my current project there was no physical story wall, instead the whole project was being tracked on Mingle. The current state of the Mingle story wall was sometimes visible on a shared monitor and sometimes wasn't, depending on...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/10
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IntelliJ Android IDE Going Open

JetBrains just announce that they'd be making the Android IDE plugin available in the free edition of IntelliJ IDEA 10 saying, "Yes, you’ve read it correctly.

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/10
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Open Source BPM - An Interview With The BonitaSoft CEO

Business Process Management software adoption is increasing among companies of all sizes. This means opportunities for developers who can customize BPM packages for their company's unique applications. The Bonita Open Solution is one example of a...

adam bien10/20/10
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Trouble With Crippled Java EE 6 APIs in Maven Repository And The Solution

If you try to load the javax.persistence.EntityManager class coming from standard java.net Repository you will get the following Exception:

Alex Collins10/20/10
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Maven 3 released

In case you haven't noticed, Apache have released their much-anticipated update to the outstanding project management and build tool, Maven.

James Sugrue10/20/10
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Debugging Android: Using DDMS To Look Under The Hood

While working on an Android application recently, I ran into some problems, and was finding it difficult to work out what was actually going on in the emulator. As I'm using Appcelerator for my app development, I didn't have the luxury of using the built in...

Loiane Groner10/20/10
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Tutorial: Linked/Cascading ExtJS Combo Boxes using Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5

This post will walk you through how to implement ExtJS linked/cascading/nested combo boxes using Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5. I am going to use the classic linked combo boxes: state and cities. In this example, I am going to use States and Cities from...

Jay Fields10/20/10
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Clojure: Another Testing Framework - Expectations

Once upon a time I wrote Expectations for Ruby. I wanted a simple testing framework that allowed me to specify my test with the least amount of code.Now that I'm spending the majority of my time in Clojure, I decided to create a version of Expectations for...

Matt Stine10/19/10
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Automated Browser Testing: What's in Your Toolkit?

It's been awhile since we've had a good poll here on Agile Zone, so here's a question for you: What do you use for automated browser testing? I'm in the midst of preparing several talks for the upcoming Rich Web...

Sebastian Herold10/19/10
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Spring 3 WebMVC - Optional Path Variables

Introduction To bind requests to controller methods via request pattern, Spring WebMVC's REST-feature is a perfect choice. Take a request like http://example.domain/houses/213234 and you can easily bind it to a controller method via annotation and bind path...

Yohan Liyanage10/19/10
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Know the JVM Series – 1 – The Uncaught Exception Handler

The Java API, backed by the JVM provides tons of features and facilities to Java developers, which could be used to get things done easily for certain specific scenarios. However, these features are often overlooked by developers, mainly due to the lack of...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/10
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Better CDI/JSF/XHTML Validation in JBoss Tools 3.2 1st Beta

The Helios (Eclipse 3.6)-based version of JBoss Tools is now entering the beta stages, so the addition of new features after today's release will be minimized. This release has focused on stabilization by adding numerous bugfixes and optimizations to the...

Jorge Ramon10/19/10
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Using Backgrounds and Borders in BlackBerry Super Apps

The use of field background colors and rounded borders is a great way to enhance the user experience in your BlackBerry applications. Let’s examine how to create a screen with a nice linear background, and a rounded border for the region that contains...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/10
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