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Jared Richardson09/22/10
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Process, Agile, and Projecting: Your Way Isn't the Only Way

I remember a topic my childhood pastor would revisit from time to time: "gift projection". Without going deep into the subject, it's the tendency of people to assume that whatever giftings or callings they have are the same ones everyone else should...

Mitch Pronschinske09/22/10
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Uniscala Granite: A Wicket/db4o/Scala Web Stack

Interested members of the Scala community are apparently knocking down Sustainable Software Pty's door to find out about their new innovative web framework, which isn't even ready for release yet. The Sustainable Software Blog was obliged to quench the...

Alexander Radzin09/22/10
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Sending delayed JMS Messages

Very often I have had to implement features that have to do something asynchronously in a minute, day, or at 5PM next Monday. Every time I did this, I implemented some serialization mechanism (typically based on DB) and some scheduled task that runs...

Ekkehard Gentz09/22/10
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Enterprise and Mobile Development

If you’re following my blogs from last years, you know that I’m developing in the domain of Enterprise Applications – in reality I’m designing and developing Enterprise Business Applications much longer then blogging about: will be around 30 years

Israel Gat09/22/10
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Making code reviews not suck

Not all Agile teams practice strong code reviews, but one of the original Agile practices (sort of long forgotten, it seems) of paired programming was all about code review. As such, I thought I’d cross-post these two videos going over what one RedMonk...

Mike Christianson09/22/10
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Notes on Java’s Date class

Every so often I get myself confused about Java’s often-obtuse handling of dates and timezones. So, for my future self’s benefit, here are some reminder notes… Please leave a comment if you have corrections or additional tips! (And, preemptively,...

Peter Pilgrim09/22/10
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JavaOne 2010 Alternative JVM Languages including JavaFX

You probably are already aware that JavaFX Script is no longer to be developed, by Oracle Corporation, beyond JavaFX 1.3.1 release. This is a cost-benefit decision and purely pragmatic business decision. JavaFX is now re-branded to Java API, in order it is...

Andy Gibson09/22/10
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CDI Conversations Part 2

This article will look at using the Conversation scope defined in JSR 299 (Java Contexts and Dependency Injection), and released as part of Java EE 6. For now, we’ll stick to non-data driven examples as we explore the ins and outs of the Conversation...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/10
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eXo Platform 3.0 Unleashed at JavaOne

It wouldn't be JavaOne without a slew of Java-related announcements. One of many interesting open source project announcements was the release of eXo Platform 3.0, which includes social application development tools and the GateIn portal framework. The...

Giorgio Sironi09/21/10
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Why a Pomodoro helps you getting in the zone

A Frequently Asked Question about the Pomodoro Technique is the following:When I enter the zone, I get really focused and efficient: I can code a Unix implementation from scratch if you then leave me at the keyboard for a while. I don't want to be...

Mitch Pronschinske09/21/10
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JavaOne Review: Is Google Missed?

This year's JavaOne is missing at least six sessions due to the Google's boycott of the Oracle conference. Attendees won't get to see the presentation by Joshua Bloch, the well-known author of "Effective Java", and they will also miss out on some...

Shekhar Gulati09/21/10
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CheckThread - A Static Analysis Tool For Catching Java Concurrency Bugs

A few days back, I was browsing the web and found an interesting open source framework called Che

James Sugrue09/21/10
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JavaFX Rebooted: The Roadmap For Oracle's Alternative Approach

The big news at JavaOne so far has been the decision to ditch JavaFX Script and use a Java API for creating JavaFX applications instead. The big advantage of this is that JavaFX will be embeddable into Swing through it's embeddable web browser component,...

adam bien09/21/10
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JavaOne Day 0-1: GlassFish, NetBeans, Java FX: Short Summary

Good sessions, no marketing so far.JavaOne Keynote was surprising (with a "bit" of Intel marketing): Glassfish and NetBeans (Roadmaps) were presented by Oracle guys (not former Sun employees).

Jakub Holý09/21/10
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The Power of Batching or Speeding JDBC by 100

We all know that one coarse-grained operation is more efficient than a number of fine-grained ones when communicating over the network boundary but until recently I haven’t realized how big that difference may be. While performing a simple query...