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Giorgio Sironi10/26/10
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INVEST in user stories

User stories are the basic units of work for Agile methodologies. They describe features to implement in a system and are one of the primary artifact generated before coding a prototype.Stories are usually written on a 3"x5" card in the format:

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/10
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JSR-314 Disbanded With a Gap in Succession

Jay Balunas, a core JBoss developer and project lead for RichFaces blogged today about Red Hat's concern over the disbanding of the JSF expert group, under the JCP specification JSR-314, by Oracle. Balunas said on the JBoss developer blog that,...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/10
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GUIdancer Code Injected Into Eclipse Acceptance Testing Project

A newly proposed Eclipse project called Jubula is being developed under the premise that automated acceptance tests are just as important as project code. The tool will focus on helping developers and testers generate acceptance tests that adhere to best...

Shlomi Ben-haim10/25/10
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No License Violations Allowed!

The JFrog team just came back from JavaOne a couple of weeks ago, at which we've demonstrated some of Artifactory's 2.3 coolest features under the slogan: "What You Build Is What You GET!". Most of the attraction naturally went to the...

James Sugrue10/25/10
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Do You Want Apple to Share Their JDK Source? Sign The Petition

A petition has been created to encourage Apple to contribute their source for Java on the Mac to the OpenJDK project. This would be an excellent resolution, as it gives the Open JDK project a kickstart in targetting Mac OSX, rather than having to start from...

Rocky Jaiswal10/25/10
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Working With Git

A video blog / screencast to help you get started with Git.

Mark Needham10/25/10
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Feedback Loops: Overcompensating

One of the things that I've noticed while working with various colleagues over the last few years is that the more experienced ones are much more skilled at making slight adjustments to their approach based on feedback that they receive from the...

Pete Carapetyan10/25/10
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OSGi Players To Watch

Any veteran developer knows that integration and maintenence is where all the time and money goes, writing a simple module can be a few days work once the requirements and interfaces are set in stone. Modularity (OSGi) promises to eliminate much of that...

Alex Collins10/23/10
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Android Basics Refresher

Covering the fundamentals of the hottest platform in mobile right now. Reading through my Android notes today, I realised the quick-read format might be useful to others. Although fellow zoneleader James has been featuring some excellent articles on Android,...

Yohan Liyanage10/23/10
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Know the JVM Series: Shutdown Hooks

In this article of the Know the JVM Series, we will be looking at yet another feature that is offered by the JVM, which is not very well known. Shutdown Hooks are a special construct that allow developers to plug in a piece of code to be executed when the...

Ian Skerrett10/22/10
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Dear Oracle, Get a Clue

Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing.

Matt Stine10/22/10
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To Selenese or not to Test? That Seems to be the Question.

We had a very good turnout for the Automated Browser Testing Poll this week. Before I get into my musings about what happened, here's a quick summary of the results. With 304 total votes counted:- 58% of respondents are using some variant of Selenium, with...

James Sugrue10/22/10
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Java on Mac OSX: The Ball is in Oracle's Court

In response to an email voicing concerns from a developer at Portico Systems, Steve Jobs commented on the news that Java will be deprecated on Mac OSX

adam bien10/22/10
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How To Choose A Java EE Application Server? (Mail Of The Week)

"...I'm trying to come up with an architectural philosophy for my company with respect to the selection of COTS or Open-Source tools (mainly app server and messaging middleware)..." "...Also, I remember you...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/10
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Azul's Zing Benchmarks - Way Better Than Native JVMs

Update: Terracotta emailed me some clarification on some comments made by Azul below about their BigMemory technology:"The response times (cache operation latencies) Terracotta sees in its tests are fractions of milliseconds. Their benchmark delivers...